DJ Matthew Kays is a Colorado based disc jockey for concerts, festivals, nightclubs, and special events.

DJ Matthew Kays incites any crowd to dance regardless of their age group or preference of musical style. Matthew always flavors his sets with genre-bending delights yet sticks to the right format and sound for the moment. It is DJ Matthew Kays’ mission to share the love and connection that dance music is built on while bringing together musical styles that coexist but don’t often mix.

DJ Matthew Kays ran record stores, has been an on-air broadcaster for two radio stations and appeared as a guest mixer on others, promoted music events, has DJed at concerts and festivals with Grammy-award winning artists, and held the longest continuously running house and electronic dance music night in Fort Collins, CO which ran from 2003 to October, 2011.

After years of developing his skill of feeding energy to and getting energy fed back to him from the crowd, DJ Matthew Kays has become the man to call to make the kids dance.

    Indie blues rock band



“Waterford foursome Kodakid clearly did their homework before creating Shake Skin. It’s a sultry, swagger-drenched piece of indie blues-rock that could easily be a lost Black Keys number.” – Celina Murphy, Hot Press

“If this single [Shake Skin] is anything to go by, and if Kodakid can produce an album of the same quality, they could easily be one of the biggest things to come out of the Irish music scene in a long time.” – Deirdre Harrison, Golden Plec


    Formed late 2010 in Waterford, Ireland
    First single release, Pray, March 2011
    Second release, Low 7, July 2011
    TV3’s Apprentice/Irish Daily Mail/Hot Press competition: Chosen as one of Ireland’s top 10 Irish bands of 2011. 
    Supporting band compilation CD published with the Daily Mail on Sunday
    Brought to the UK to play main support to The Noisettes
    Performed on Ireland AM on TV3
    Third release, Shake Skin, February 2012
    Headlined Spraoi opening night, played Festival of Fires & Indiependence (‘generating one of the finest of indie 
    performances of the entire festival’ - Fintan Walsh, State Magazine)
    Fourth release, Portis, October 2012
    Portis received MRU’s single of the year award
    Album: Scheduled release date – Summer 2013


Airplay: 2FM (Jenny Huston, Dan Hegarty), Today FM (KC), Radio 1 (John Creedon), Beat FM (Rob O’Connor), WLR (Rick Whelan, Liam Merriman, Roddie Cleere), 96FM (Michael Carr), TV3 (Ireland AM, The Apprentice)

Videos: Shake Skin, February 2012. Portis, October 2012, both directed by IMTV award winning director, John Loftus



Kodakid are:


Kevin Power: Lead Vocals

Alex Soikans: Guitar

John Duignan: Backing Vocals & Bass

Tony Browne: Drums

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