John Kelly

John Kelly has been DJ’ing since1985 and has been acclaimed as one of the top 30 DJ’s in the world every year since 1995. Based in Liverpool, John has played an integral role in the growth of dance scene from its early years, playing the first illegal raves and then owning his own club in 1989 with James Barton, later of Cream fame. John has played all the major clubs of the U.K, including a weekly residency at Ministry of Sound in 1998 and bi-monthly appearances at Cream, Gods Kitchen, Slinky, The Arches in Glasgow, Gatecrasher, Temple in Dublin and just about every other club in between over the last ten years. John has also been playing every major club in the clubbing Mecca of Ibiza for the past 7 years and was resident at the worlds biggest club night manumission and will be again in 2002. He had his own radio show on Parisian station radio F.G and has done many guest spots on BBC Radio 1 as well as many other local stations. John has done five CD mix compilations, his latest was Slinky’s Superclub DJ's and releases his exclusive CD's from his trust the DJ website www.djjohnkelly.com and has sold nearly half a million copies world wide. In terms of the journey John has been on since 1985, the best insight to this comes from the man himself: “My upbringing was a very musical one. I was brought up in Liverpool in the 1960s, and had six sisters – four of them teenagers. All our friends seemed to congregate at our place, and our house was always filled with music. My mother had fifteen siblings and over a hundred first cousins – can you imagine the amount of weddings and christenings? It was somebody’s birthday everyday. In our family there was always a party! The first time that I literally "disc-jockeyed" was probably beside a mantelpiece with my CD player. I built up a big collection of CDs at home and started playing them at my uncle's pub, the Bow and Arrow in Liverpool. There weren’t any CD mixers back then, so it was one-on, one-off! Soon after, I started to