How to book me, and what I will ask you back

Most bookings start with four emails that could have been one. This is the one.

What I play

Six formats, and a set is normally one of them.

• An opening set, one to two hours, for a room that is still arriving. Slow, warm, drums early.
• Peak-time organic house and tribal, one to two hours. The main event.
• Tribal drum and bass, one to two hours, for a late room that can take it.
• A closing or sunrise set, one to two hours. The last thing anyone hears. I did the official closing set at Soul Revolution in 2024 and it is the set I care most about getting right.
• Ecstatic dance, three to four hours. The long one, the whole arc from slow to fast to slow. Four years of these.
• An Awaken event, by arrangement. A curated stage or a takeover rather than a single set, through the events brand I run.

If you have a room that does not fit any of those, describe it anyway.

What I bring

A djembe, USBs, headphones. The djembe and my voice are played live over the set, so you will hear me hit a drum and sing, which is the thing that separates what I do from a laptop and a playlist.

What you need to supply

A DJ setup I can plug into, and two spare channels on the desk: one for the drum, one for the microphone. That is the only unusual requirement. A written spec is available if your sound engineer wants one.

Where I am

The Midlands. I travel, and I have played from the Himalayan foothills to Indonesia and Mexico, so distance is a conversation rather than a problem.

Why there is no price on this page

Because every booking is different and I price every one myself. A three-hour ecstatic dance set in a village hall and a closing set for a festival of several thousand are not the same job and should not have the same number next to them. The form asks for your budget if you have one.

Tell me honestly and I will tell you honestly whether it works. You will not be made to feel small for a low number.

What I will ask you

The booking form asks nine things, and they are the nine things I would otherwise ask by email over the following week:

1. Your name.
2. An email address.
3. The event or festival.
4. The date, or a rough window if you do not have one yet.
5. The city, or the stage if it is a festival.
6. What you have in mind, from the list above, or a description if it is none of them.
7. How long the slot is.
8. Your budget, if you have one.
9. Anything else. This is where the odd rooms live.

It goes to bookings@weareawaken.co.uk and you will hear back within a couple of days. When it gets to a call, it is me on the call, not somebody speaking for me.

What makes a yes likely

A real date. A room you can describe. Honesty about the budget. And a floor that is going to be sober, because that is the room I am built for and the one I am best in. If your event has a bar, I will still talk to you, but I will ask what the floor is like at eleven, and I will believe your answer.