Fergie started DJing 'Pumping Garage'
and 'Bouncy House' in his small bedroom in Larne Belfast in
Northern Ireland at the early age of 12. He played his first
club at the age of 14 called Airport 2000 standing on a milk
crate, shortly after his set he was thrown out by the police
for being too young. He later went on to exhaust Ireland's
club scene by the time he was 16.
It was at this time he was playing at The House night-club
in Larne Northern Ireland when he was heard by Tony de Vit
who was to play after him. Tony was amazed by the talent of
this young lad peering over the decks and asked him to play
a bit longer so he could listen. Shortly after Tony invited
Fergie to England to introduce him to the English club scene
where he played more clubs but still aspired for more...
Fergie has had radio experience in Ireland and in England
playing on Club FM Dublin, Cool FM Belfast and guested on
Kiss FM London a couple of times being interviewed and mixing
live.
In the summer of 1997 Fergie toured South Africa for 2 weeks
with the Vibe magazine playing in all the major cities. This
summer 1998, Fergie played in Ibiza for the first time at
Privilege, Space and Bora Bora. His talents were noticed by
many including Laurence Malice who immediately made Fergie
a regular Trade guest. The first major event Fergie headlined
was in November 1998, He toured most of Australia wowing crowds
in Sydney and Melbourne making them gag for more. March 1999
saw Fergies first Transatlantic tour, playing to huge crowds
on east coast of the US. Fergie stunned the clubbers of Atlanta,
New York and Philadelphia with his talent. At the age of 18
he was even to young to DRINK! In April 1999 Fergie soon returned
to Australia Touring the huge continent once again. He also
came 2nd in the 'Best International DJ awards- Melbourne 99'
to Frankie Knuckles beating Roger Sanchez at 3rd place...
Fergie is non-stop in the studio producing his new fresh
sound, his first track 'Ooh Sir' was available on the Trade
label early 1999 and sold out in 5 days. After the huge success
of his first track Fergie was approached to remix the Tamperers
new single 'Hammer to my heart'. Fergie's studio work started
to peak after the summer of 1999, with original tracks and
remix's on many well known record label's.
The end of 1999 saw Fergie's biggest achievement's pre-millennium.
Fergie was nominated as one of the 'Best up and coming DJ's
of 1999' by Muzik Magazine, then only 1 week later Fergie
was voted number 17, best DJ (in the UK) by a MixMag readers
poll. MixMag stated that the quotes written in by Fergies
fans were unbelievable!
After all the Millennium dust had settled there is one name
on everybody's lips, Fergie... In the first 2 months of 2000
Fergie released numerous other Tracks for Other well known
labels selling well into the thousands. Fergie then went on
to land a string of residences at Godskitchen and the all
new Super club born from Godskitchen CODE!
With Fergies first Dance compilation out on Nukleuz records
and front cover CD's on MixMag there is NO stopping the '
Larne Express' known as FERGIE. Fergie has Mixed a Second
Compilation for the Worldly acclaimed Music organisation DMC
namely 'Seven Live' and also has a string of Album deals with
The Ministry of Sound's Annual Series.
Fergie has signed a Single Deal with the chart topping label
Duty Free. His first single on Duty Free, Deception roared
in at Number 36 in the National Charts. This then created
a huge waive of remix enquiries for Virgin, Incentive and
other Majors.
2000 was definitely the year of the Fergster Al right, he
was nominated for the second year running at the Ericsson
Muzik Magazine awards for best New DJ. Fergie reached the
highest new entry in the DJ magazine Top 100 DJs in the World
at a staggering Number 8, flying past DJs Such as Danny Rampling,
Seb Fontaine, Tall Paul and Pete Tong. He was voted Number
2 in the Ministry Magazine Unofficial DJ poll and No 29 in
the Muzik Magazines Top 50 DJs Poll. To top the lot MixMag
announced that they considered Fergie to be the DJ of the
year, with comments in his cover issue like 'Superstar DJ
2000', 'This man is the Future' and 'Fergie is the most important
thing in clubland since God created legs'.
2001 the Story continues... Essential Mix time, not only
did Fergie do one of the first Essential mixes of 2001 the
team behind the Essential mix have scouted Fergie to be the
Official Essential mix DJ with live mixes in the bag from
Clubs Worldwide, Ibiza and The Huge UK Love Parade. Fergie
now has more involvement with Radio 1 than any other DJ in
the country without their own weekly Show.
Artist's Web Links
Fergie @ Lush in Ireland
Fergie @ Shine in Belfast,
Ireland on NYE
Fergie @ KEF in Aberdeen
Fergie @ Sunrise Festival
Fergie @ Sunrise Festival
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