International superstar DJ John Digweed and BBC Radio Six stalwart Craig Charles are headlining the seven-hour event.
By yesterday, more than 600 tickets had already been sold, meaning that less than 200 were left, with organisers are expecting a sell-out.
The event, called ‘Togetherness’, is being hosted by Together Parties.
Warren Le Sueur, one half of the Jersey Live organising duo, said he was looking forward to the big night.
‘It is is very exciting and tickets are selling really well,’ he said.
‘We have under 200 left and we have seen a big spike over the last week.’
‘He is constantly gigging all around the world to huge crowds. It has been three years since he was last here.
‘It is great for the people here to see huge artists but sometimes it is not easy and it can be a struggle to attract big artists here when there are, let’s say, more exotic locations to play. It is the same with Jersey Live.’
Tickets for Togetherness are still available online by visiting Eventbrite.com and searching for ‘John Digweed’.
John Digweed
Age: 48 Hometown: Hastings
Famous for: Tracks such as ‘Heaven Scent’ and ‘For What You Dream Of’ with Nick Muir
Mini-bio: The legendary DJ has been active for around 22 years after his breakthrough in 1993 and has since developed a famous relationship with Welsh DJ Sasha. He runs a record label, Bedrock, with Nick Muir, with whom he has recorded the Top 40 hits ‘Heaven Scent’ and ‘For What You Dream Of’.
Craig Charles
Age: 50
Hometown: Liverpool
Famous for: BBC Radio Six presenter, actor in Coronation Street and Red Dwarf
Mini-bio: Actor, host and broadcaster Craig Charles has starred in television shows such as Red Dwarf and Coronation Street and hosted Robot Wars but, musically, he is famed for being a resident DJ on the BBC Radio Six Saturday prime-time Funk and Soul Show. Charles has DJ’d internationally at venues such as Space in Ibiza but also, and perhaps more notably, the veteran music maestro has been a regular fixture at Jersey Live in recent years.
THE hotly anticipated return of a world-famous DJ to the Island is now just one sleep away.
John Digweed is back this Saturday and he will be gracing the decks at the Grand Hotel once again.
This type of event is definitely something that Jersey needs on a more regular basis at the weekend.
Everyone who goes out clubbing will know how commercialised the Island’s nightlife has become.
You go to the same old clubs and are subjected to the the same sound that you hear every weekend, with a 2 am finish to top it off. Where is the variety?
This will be an event that people will talk about because it is a different experience for Islanders, who will be treated to the sounds of a world-class DJ at a great venue, as opposed to the same local DJs playing the same commercial music in the same places.
Although it’s £30 for a ticket, people will be getting more value for their money at this event.
It is new to Jersey nightlife and it is bringing a better clubbing experience to Islanders in a fresh environment.
Techno music is rapidly growing each year, with events being held all over the globe, and Digweed has been a part of that scene for many years.
This superstar DJ is guaranteed to put on a show to remember.
A MUSIC trio who have been tipped to become a household name in the near future will be headlining the first in a run of events hosted by a St Helier club over the coming year.
Electronic DJ group the Disciples will be headlining Rojo’s Shake It event on Saturday 28 February ahead of a run of club nights organised by the town venue over the course of 2015 in the build-up to a final event at Fort Regent in the summer.
Event organiser J-P Anquetil said he believed that the group had the potential to become as big as chart-toppers Clean Bandit and Disclosure and was delighted to have secured them for the gig.
‘I am really excited to get them over,’ he said. ‘We have been working with their agents for quite some time.
‘They have an album out in the summer and they going on to bigger and better things. They are special because they make, sing and record all their tracks themselves. I think they will be a household name soon.’
The trio’s track ‘They Don’t Know’ was recently named BBC Radio One’s Track of the Day and it has now been bumped up to the B-list on the radio station’s playlist.
That means that the song sits next to releases by world-famous artists such as Kanye West and Imagine Dragons as well as Jersey Live favourites The Prodigy in terms of the priority given to songs played on the station.
The group, who describe their genre as simply ‘Disciples’, are expected to attract a big crowd at Rojo’s first Shake It event of the year. And Anquetil said the nights were designed to target a younger audience.
‘What we are trying to do with the Shake It nights over the course of this year is appeal to people in their early to mid-20s,’ he said.
‘We are trying to attract artists before they get too big, and it is so hard to attract the big-name artists like Clean Bandit and Disclosure. But I honestly think these guys will be as big as Clean Bandit.
‘We have some other artists lined up for the Shake It Nights such as Blonde, who have been around for years but have become pretty famous recently. We want to do one night a month leading up to a big event for up to 2,000 people at Fort Regent on 1 August.’
To listen to the Disciples’ latest tracks, visit soundcloud.com and search for ‘Disciples’.
SAT 7 FEBRUARY
- The Green Rooster: Backbeat [figure caption=”Backbeat will be performing at The Green Rooster” title=”DSC_6847″ align=”none” url=”/?attachment_id=1122393″ id=”1122393″ align=”right”]
- The Inn: Megan
- Kitty OSheas: Kevin Pallot
- Soleil: Northern Soul & Motown with DJ Rex
- The Star: Western Promise
- Trafalgar Hotel: The Riffs
- Troubadour: The Cryptics
FRI 13 FEBRUARY
- The Inn: Megan
- Kitty OSheas: Luke Scrambo Jarvis
- The Star: The Pirate Party Brigade
- Trafalgar Hotel: Jim & Mark
SAT 14 FEBRUARY
- The Green Rooster: Backbeat
- The Inn: Matt Holcroft
- Kitty OSheas: Run for Cover
- Soleil: Northern Soul & Motown with DJ Rex
- Trafalgar Hotel: John & Yoko
