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Bookings: matt@thepool-london.com 
Promos: promo@gregwilson.co.uk 
DJ Dates: https://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/upcoming-dj-dates/
Greg began DJing in 1975 and is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene. He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s majorly influential Legend, having originally started out in his hometown, New Brighton. A pioneer of mixing in the UK, he became the first ‘dance music’ specialist hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester’s now legendary Haçienda club in 1983. Greg was instrumental in breaking the new electronic, post-disco records coming out of New York, a sound he has dubbed ‘Electro-Funk’.

In 2003 he set up electrofunkroots, a website documenting this crucial era in the evolution of dance culture. After a two decade hiatus from the booth, he returned to DJing and soon welcomed bookings throughout Europe and, subsequently, worldwide.

Greg was the first DJ to mix live on British TV, putting together the first UK radio mixes of their type for Piccadilly 261 in Manchester and showing a certain Norman Cook (later Fatboy Slim) how to scratch.

Nominated by DJ Magazine for outstanding contribution, and also named amongst their top twenty remixers of all-time, Greg’s remix credits include Grace Jones, The XX, Groove Armada, Bryan Ferry, Confidence Man, Gilberto Gil and Simian Mobile Disco, whilst he’s edited tracks by A Guy Called Gerald, Talking Heads, O.M.D., Electronic, Imagination and Missy Elliot.

In January 2009 Greg’s reputation was further enhanced when his Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 received almost universal acclaim and was selected as one of 10 classics that spanned the show’s near 17 year history.

Greg’s Blog, ‘Being A DJ’, was launched in June 2010 for observations on various aspects of club culture now an online touchstone for an ever-increasing amount of dance enthusiasts and aficionados.

In August 2010 he co-curated areas at the inaugural Vintage Festival at Goodwood, which was named ‘Best New Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards.

He has produced a series of documentary podcasts, Time Capsule, Random Influences and Early 80’s Floorfillers, as well as the long-running blog series, Living To Music.

Greg has given talks on music and DJ culture at a number events at venues The Tate Gallery in Liverpool and London's Southbank and Institute Of Contemporary Arts, whilst in 2013 he was invited onto a panel alongside legendary figures Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder @ ADE in Amsterdam. 

In 2014 he unveiled the multi-media label Super Weird Substance, focusing on recording and live events. In 2015, the label released 8 vinyl singles, brought together in the 2 CD comp, 'Greg Wilson Presents Super Weird Substance'. September 2015 saw a memorable Festival No.6 Happening in Portmeirion and Greg rounded off the year with the Liverpool-based celebration of the 40th anniversary of his first club date in 1975 as well as being presented with DJ Magazine's Industry Icon award.

Greg launched his Credit To The Edit club collective at 2016's Festival No.6 and since then has taken it to Liverpool, Berlin, Brixton, Bethnal Green and finally back to Portmeirion for Festival No.6 2017.

2017 saw his label host the epic 14 Hour Super Weird Happening at Liverpool's Florrie, following a mixtape collaboration with Alan Moore, who also appeared at the Happening, whilst it also saw the digital release of The Super Weird Society's 'Gone With The Vibe', released the following year on the first Substance Select 12" vinyl alongside 'The Ghosts Of Watling Street', 'The Best Is Yet To Come' and 'Summer Came My Way'. 2018 also saw the release of Vol.3 in Greg's long-running Credit To The Edit compilation series.

After a handful of further releases, the label was put into hibernation with the onset of covid. Diversifying, ‘Greg Wilson’s Discotheque Archives’ was issued during 2020 lockdown as a limited run paperback, with more books, both Wilson’s own projects and by other authors, now planned.

Trailer Radio jumped onto the New York City scene faster than a redneck on a Nascar Ticket. Formed in October 2010, the New York City-based country band has spent the past year spreading its unique brand of blazing metro-twang around NYC and the tri-state area. Just a year later, the band was already playing music festivals, had garnered a rave review on alt-country blog No Depression, and served up its self-titled debut album featuring an eclectic mix of country, rock and blues. 

Trailer Radio is the brainchild of West Virginia native, Shannon Brown, who brings the authenticity of a modern-day Loretta Lynn to the group. Shannon explains:

"Because of the mountains in WV we could only pick up one radio station. They played a lot of country and rock, with a bunch of other stuff mixed in. You could also call in to buy a hunting dog or sell your guns on the air, but that's another story."

Growing up in a tiny coal mining town, it's not surprising that Shannon spent some time living in a trailer. What's more surprising, perhaps, is that she actually left and moved to New York City. After several years of performing in repertory theatres around the United States and Japan, Shannon wrote and performed a one-woman cabaret called "Moonshine Martinis", a comical look at the differences between city life and country life featuring country music from the sixties and seventies. The show ran at the Laurie Beechman Theater and Don't Tell Mama and was well received in the cabaret community.

In 2009, Shannon was introduced to guitarist/vocalist David Weiss, fresh from a year-long stint with the Alexis Suter band playing at Levon Helm's famed Midnight Ramble. David, an NYC native, has performed with Carlos Guitarlos of L.A.'s legendary Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs. David played guitar and contributed a song to Guitarlos' solo debut, "Straight from the Heart", which was chosen as one of Rolling Stone Magazine's Top Albums of 2003. 

David introduced Shannon to his writing partner, Joel Shelton, a trombonist who has performed with Elton John, Lou Rawls, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, and innumerable chamber and orchestral groups. Together Weiss and Shelton had written some as-yet unperformed country songs including "Football Widow" and "A Little Too Old (And A Lot Too Ugly)", a song that tells an oft-lived but little told tale of life in the musician trenches. These songs, along with Weiss' blues number, "11:59", laid the foundation for Trailer Radio's debut album which was produced by Shelton in the fall of 2011.

Mike Dvorkin, a veteran of the flourishing NYC country music scene, joined Trailer Radio on guitar. Mike has played with The Lonesome Prairie Dogs, Tammy Faye Starlite, Joey Fortuna, Sean Kershaw and others. Mike and David's highly complementary guitar approaches (Mike brings the rockabilly twang and country Telecaster licks, while David channels Keef and SRV in equal measure) give Shannon's vocals a warm and cohesive backing from which to launch her soaring vocals. 

Singer-songwriter, Joe Ongie, who has performed with Amy Mann and Minnie Driver, joined Trailer Radio on bass and background vocals. Joe, who boasts four solo albums of his own, brought two songs to the table: "Streets of Savannah", a sentimental ballad about yearning for a southern home, and "I'm Not Leavin', I'm Just Lookin'" a song about a woman who likes to flirt, over her boyfriend's objections.

East coast music veteran and North Carolina native, Kenny Soule, rounds out Trailer Radio's rhythm section on drums and background vocals. Kenny has played with North Carolina classic rockers Nantucket (Epic), power trio PKM (Polygram), funk purveyors DAG (Sony/Columbia), blues-rockers Walter Trout, Dave Fields, Popa Chubby and country-rock singer Mary McBride.

Trailer Radio, with its new car scent still intact, is hell bent on wailing and twanging its way into the hearts of millions, once the Northeast has fallen under its spell.	

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