Chris Byrne – A Legendary DJ Journey Since 1977
Chris began his DJ career back in 1977 at a private country club nitespot in Out Rawcliffe, near Blackpool. Spinning through the vibrant disco and punk era, he was part of a cultural shift that defined a generation of nightlife. By the early 1980s, Chris had moved on to weddings and private functions, fine-tuning his craft and building a reputation for knowing exactly how to move a crowd.
In 1987, Chris landed his first professional residency at The Hop in his hometown of Burnley. DJing every Thursday through Sunday night, he held the residency for four unforgettable years. The Hop became legendary—thanks in no small part to Chris—packing out every night with an electric atmosphere. Back then, most venues closed at 11pm, but The Hop had a rare midnight license. If you didn’t arrive by 10:30, you’d likely be stuck in a queue that wrapped halfway around the car park.
Since then, Chris has truly taken Burnley and the North West by storm, spinning at iconic venues such as:
• Blush Nightclub (Keighley)
• Club XPO (Burnley)
• Yorke House (Burnley)
• The Platinum Lounge (Todmorden)
• The Royal (Bury)
• S77 (Bury)
• Shifters (Burnley)
• Park View (Burnley)
• Bojangles Nightclub (Burnley)
• Bees Knees (Accrington)
• Paradise Island (Burnley)
• Calamity Jane (Burnley)
• The Plane Tree (Burnley)
• Inside Out (Burnley)
From 1994 to 2003, Chris held a long-standing and highly popular residency at The Red Lion, one of Burnley’s biggest and busiest pubs at the time. In 2003, he moved on to become the resident DJ at the state-of-the-art nightclub X-S, which later became Fusion (now the defunct Mode Nightclub). During this period, Chris shared the stage with world-renowned DJs including Scott Bond, Rob Tissera, John Kelly, Paul Taylor, Judge Jules, Pete Tong, Brandon Block, Jurgen Vries, and Guy Ornadel, to name just a few.
Chris's talent was recognized on air as well, with three of his mixes featured on Rock FM’s Mark Freejack's Floorfillers Friday Show in the 2000s.
Today, Chris still packs dance floors every weekend as the resident DJ at The Swan in Burnley. He also headlines six sell-out, themed Christmas party nights every December at the stunning Burnley Mechanics Theatre.
After nearly five decades behind the decks, Chris’s passion remains as strong as ever.
“All I ever wanted to do,” says Chris, “is make people dance by giving them the music they want.”

A professional DJ since the 70’s, Paul has become an international club legend with his RETRO HOUSE nights.

Since those early days in the UK, Paul has built up a reputation as the dj who is passionate about his music - knowing exactly what the people want and getting the dance floor buzzing. 

His philosophy to keep close to his audience has been an unequivocal success. Involved in the creation of the dance outfit Loveland in the early 90’s achieving four top thirty hits in the nationals and dance music record of the year in 1994 with the seminal "Let the music lift you up". Loveland also remixed and reproduced over 60 tracks for other artists from D Ream, Barbara Tucker, D Mob to Lulu.

Recently the newly formed Rox & Taylor received huge critical acclaim for the remix of Red Hot Chilli peppers ‘ Otherside’. 

Having released numerous Retro compilation albums, his residency in Pacha Ibiza sparked the release of the Pacha Classics album; a huge success on a worldwide scale and the biggest selling album in Ibiza. 

Much has been written about this enigma of a man who developed from a teen DJ on the decks in Burnley to an internationally recognised icon.

Retro straplines:
WE CALL IT RETRO
PIONEERS OF THE CLASSIC HOUSE SOUND
THE UK'S LONGEST LIVING DANCE BRAND
THE ONE AND ONLY RETRO


Darren Crxss been a major player in the club scene since the late 90's in that time has mastered many genres and styles of  music. He is possibly one the north's leaders in providing passion filled and inspiring Dj sets on some of the hottest dance floors, His energy filled sets are layered with a cool blend of pianos, organs , groovy baselines and uplifting vocals. Influenced by DJ/Producers: Eats Everything, Danny Bond, Paul Sirrell, Mark Knight, Leftwing & Kody, Franky Rizardo and Patrick Topping to name but a few. He started his DJ career playing in the bars and clubs of Majorca and has rapidly progressed to some of the best club nights and venues in the uk not to mention a residency in Ayia Napa's 3000 capacity 'Castle Club' in Ayala Napa, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Sander Kleinenberg, John Kelly, Nick Raffery, Lisa Pin Up, Sandy Rivera, Rob Tissera, Lee Haslem, Jim Shaft Ryan, Filthy Rich, Judge Jules, Scott Bond, Doorly,  Matt Hardwick, world class live acts "Pav Percussion" & "The Lovely Laura on Sax". Currently holds a Saturday night residency at the infamous Bar Fibre (Leeds) which holds the best bar in Leeds trophy.

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