Angel began her DJ career way back in 1991. One of the original female DJs in the UK who helped break the stereotype of what was once considered a uniquely male vocation, Angel has earned her place in the UK house scene’s hall of fame.
 
Rewind to 1983 age sixteen with a fake ID and the desire to dance Angel became a regular on Nottingham's underground club scene. The selection of jazz-funk, electro and soul was light years away from anything she’d heard before. After many years as the proverbial club-diva Angel decided she fancied a shot on the other side of the decks. She borrowed some turntables, bought some vinyl and spent the next three months teaching herself to mix. She delivered her first mix-tape to renowned club promoter James Bailie. On the strength of that mix he booked her to play at Nottingham's Venus on New Years Eve 1991, the rest, so they say, is history! 

It's hard to list the achievements of a DJ with more than thirty years in the industry but headlining top clubs like Hacienda, Shindig, Lakota, Pacha...  and playing on line-ups with legends like Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries, Todd Terry... and her residency at Stafford’s Swoon rank highly in Angel’s repertoire, as does traveling the world, delivering her dynamic mix of groovy House. 

As well as being a respected DJ, Angel has a history of releases under her belt on labels like Nervous, IIT, LTBH, Seamless, Lapsus and her own label Ocata Records. She's also released three albums under her chill out alter ego  Venus In Motion.

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Spirit Power: The Best of Johnny Marr out now
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Johnny Marr started his career with The Smiths, beginning an amazing history as one of the most influential songwriters and guitarists in British independent music. His subsequent creative journey has seen him at the heart of The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse and The Cribs, as well as working with The Pretenders, Talking Heads, The Avalanches, and the musician and composer Hans Zimmer - with whom he recorded the score and soundtrack for the most recent James Bond film, No Time To Die, including the title track created with Billie Eilish.
 
Over the course of the last decade, Marr’s solo career has given rise to four UK Top Ten albums - The Messenger (2013), Playland (2014), Call The Comet (2018), Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (2022), and soon a career-spanning book, Marr’s Guitars. The full measure of this extraordinarily fertile period is captured on his latest offering, Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny Marr, a major new collection curated by Marr encompassing songs from his first 10 years as a solo artist, a scattering of stand-alone singles and two incendiary new cuts, Somewhere and The Answer. 
 
Spirit Power presents a composite portrait of an artist with no less a complete ideology than the celebrated co-travellers who inspired him along the way. It’s a body of work that mirrors Marr’s unquenchable life force, breadth of musicality, and above all, his love of melody.

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