Eddie Halliwell

Despite just turning 26, Eddie Halliwell is firmly established as one of the most exciting DJs in the world. He was been crowned Mixmag's World Number 1 DJ for a second time and, earlier this year, was voted 17th in the 2005 World DJ Mag Top 100 Poll. Unbelievably passionate about music, he infects the crowd with his energy, captivating them with his highly visual performances (his interaction with the crowd has to be seen to be believed), and jaw-dropping turntable trickery. He really is a true DJ.

Eddie has become arguably the most in-demand DJ in the U.K. this year, receiving rave reviews and selling out arenas for his sets at Creamfields, Global Gathering, Colourfest (Scotland), and Escape into the Park (Wales). He spun an unbelievable fourth Radio 1 Essential Mix, and sold out a second BOSH! Live U.K. tour and a Pioneer 909 tour, all while hosting his Radio 1 show. He mixed a compilation for Ministry of Sound entitled Judgement Euphoria and mixed his long-awaited Mixmag follow-up to the legendary Bosh CDs, Fire It Up!!

The year has also seen a considerable rise in demand for Eddie internationally. He has had two tours of East Asia, a recent tour of Australia and New Zealand alongside Fatboy Slim, monthly visits to the U.S.A., and numerous visits to South America, Europe, Canada, Russia, Dubai, and Egypt. He was one of only a handful of DJs asked to play two sets at the infamous Dance Valley, debuting at the Skol Beats Festival (Brazil), Trance Energy (Holland), Mysteryland (Belgium), and at the Malaysian Grand Prix alongside Felix Da Housecat. He has also enjoyed an astonishing fourth season as resident at Judgement Sundays and embarked on his first season with Cream at Amnesia alongside Paul Van Dyk and Tiesto.

In August 2004 Eddie debuted at Homelands and completed his third live Radio 1 Essential Mix alongside Paul Oakenfold at Cream @ Amnesia. This was an experience Eddie particularly relished as it marked his first official duties as a new Radio 1 resident, having won this coveted position following his previous Essential mixes (May and August 2003) with a series of outstanding guest mixes on Judge Jules & Pete Tong's regular weekend shows. Earlier, in May of 2004, Eddie hosted his first show as part of the Radio 1 residency.

Brought up in Wigan in northwest England, Eddie held residencies in 2002 at both Goodgreef (Mixmag Club of the Year 2003 & Runner-Up 2004) and Gatecrasher. Now he is a headliner at both clubs and makes regular appearances at Slinky, Inside Out, Cream, Godskitchen, The Gallery, Passion, Serious, and Garlands. In 2004 Eddie was chosen to play the closing set in the main arena at Creamfields (the previous year he was the only DJ to feature in two arenas, headlining the Frantic/Nukleuz tent as well as the Cream main arena). Eddie has also performed at Tidy Events (Tidy Weekender & Magna) and Gatecrasher Summer Sound System, where he headlined the second arena in 2002.

Eddie has spent nearly a decade honing his skills on the decks. Having caught the DJing bug at 15, he was too young for clubs so channeled his creative energies into a Music Technology course where he learned some of his now-renowned hip-hop scratches. His ability to adapt these to fit over other music genres has earned him not only respect among fellow DJs but also admiration from stunned crowds. When Eddie is in front of the mixer he creates energy and new sounds with rapid cutups and warped effects--and it's not just the dance floor that loves this mind-boggling trickery. Eddie is now working alongside leading audio manufacture Pioneer to help develop the next generation of DJ technology.

Although the true Eddie experience can only be gained in a club, he has mixed one disc of Gatecrasher Residents Transmission for Mixmag (the world's biggest dance-music and clubbing magazine) and mixed two massive cover mount CDs in his own name. Forging an exciting, new, tough sound combing tech-trance and hard-dance elements, the first CD, BOSH!, was one of the most successful Mixmag CDs to date. In 2003 clubbers demanded a follow-up, so Next Level BOSH! was born. Then, at the end of 2004, Mixmag and Eddie linked up to put on five massive BOSH Live events around the U.K., an unprecedented move for the magazine. Due to further public demand, Eddie recently mixed his third Mixmag CD, Fire It Up!

In an unprecedented time frame, Eddie has firmly established himself as one of the most talked about and fastest-rising DJs in the world. With early 2006 dates confirmed at Cream (Amnesia, Ibiza), an astonishing fifth year as Judgement Sunday resident, and visits to South Africa, Uruguay, the U.S.A., Brazil, Bahrain, Spain, Sweden, and Poland, combined with a Fire It Up U.K. tour, it looks like the whole world will be screaming "Eddie, Eddie, Eddie!"