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Name: Patrick Bateman

Show: Lo Fi Hi Fi

When are you on?
I’m on air on the first Thursday of the month from 6pm to 8pm.

What type of music can we expect to hear on your show?
Mash up, everything from hard electro through to older 50s and 60s stuff. A few of my own remixes come next year.

How did you discover this music?
Partly through going to Lo Fi hi Fi and my own obsessive compulsion to not sleep and read about things on the internet all night!

How long have you been DJ’ing?
About six months – I’ve come a long way!

How did you start DJ’ing?
Some of my mates were running the Lo Fi Hi Fi night at the Cavern. When they left we asked if we could take it over and they agreed.

Can we find you DJ’ing anywhere other than on Phonic FM?
I do the Lo Fi Hi Fi nights at the Cavern.
I also do my own night called Invasion of the Record Snatchers at the Amber Rooms every other Thursday. It harks back to the drive in B-movie era. We play old American B-movies from the 50s and 60s, couple that with music of the period and have a high school hop feel to it. When it’s really busy it’s amazing; it’s nice to see people dancing like their parents.

What was has been your most embarrassing DJ’ing moment?
Probably just cutting out a song, being a bit more drunk than I though I was and tearing off a song!

What has been your best DJ’ing moment?
DJ’ing at the Lo Fi Hi Fi v FYC night. We had 15 minutes sets and three minutes into my set the whole stage was packed with people dancing and going crazy it was wicked, definitely a pinnacle moment.

Who is your favourite artist?
I really like sebastiAn.

What is you all time favourite album?
Velvet Underground and Nico and their album of the same name.

Where do you shop for music?
I don’t, I steal it all of the internet.

Name: Ollie Fosdike

Show: Lo Fi Hi Fi

When are you on?
From 6pm to 8pm every other Thursday.

What type of music can we expect to hear on your show?
Techno, electro, punk, indie electro, underground, old and new with a vibrant style.

How did you discover this music?
When I was about nine or 10 I listened to the top 40 and I just progressed through. As more people lent me CDs and stuff I progressed more and more into more alternative indie electro music. I found it that way really.

How long have you been DJ’ing?
About two years.

How did you start DJ’ing?
We run a club night at the Cavern called Lo Fi Hi Fi and we heard bout Phonic FM setting up and went to the meetings. They wanted more people doing club nights and guitar based music and gave us a show.

Can we find DJ’ing anywhere other than on Phonic FM?
Yeah I play at Lo Fi Hi Fi nights at the Cavern.

What was has been your most embarrassing DJ’ing moment?
Any time I’ve accidentally cut off the sound, it happened a few times.

What has been your best DJ’ing moment?
Once some world champion break-dancers from Korea came down came down as part of the Vibraphonic festival. They came into the cavern after their show and we had loads of people break-dancing in the Cavern, it was amazing.

Who is your favourite artist?
At the moment I’m listening to Sunshine Underground and Die! Die! Die! They change quite a lot. I’m quite into my new music, unsigned band that kind of thing.

What is you all time favourite album?
The Die! Die! Die! Debut album called Die! Die! Die!

Where do you shop for music?
I like Oxfam record shops, general CD places and online, anywhere really.

Name: Jamie Rio

Show: Lo Fi Hi Fi

When are you on?
I am on from 6pm to 8pm on the first Thursday of the month.

What type of music can we expect to hear on your show?
Up and coming alternative, anything that’s going make people dance, anything that people can move to, shake it to, anything that will get people going.

How did you discover this music?
By going to Lo Fi Hi Fi nights. But I’ve always had a love for guitar bands.

How long have you been DJ’ing?
About two years.

How did you start DJ’ing?
My fiends used to run Lo Fi Hi Fi. When they left university we asked if we could carry it on.

Can we find you DJ’ing anywhere other than on Phonic FM?
Yeah, I play at the Lo Fi Hi Fi nights at the Cavern.

What was has been your most embarrassing DJ’ing moment?
Pressing the queue button instead of the play button then having to hold the queue button down for three and a half minutes to play the whole song.

What has been your best DJ’ing moment?
The Freshers Ball – it was amazing. We played the Freshers Ball last year. It was incredible cause we were on the stage in front of 1000 people just doing what we wanted. It was a complete shock to all of us it was really surreal. We were like “Why are we here!”

Who is your favourite artist?
Erol Alkam. He’s the one who started the indie disco revival making remixes of guitar tracks and making them dance tracks not just guitar tracks. He’s one of the best in his field.

What is you all time favourite album?
General Disarray and Box of secrets by Blood Red Shoes.

Where do you shop for music?
Solo, Martian and Elusive Records. Elusive is a really good record shop in McCoy’s arcade I get all my vinyl from there.