| Lottie Back ________________________________________________________________________________ It has been a great time for Lottie, winning the Best New DJ Prize at the Ericsson Muzik Awards in 1999, then grabbing a Top 50 spot in DJ Magazine's DJ Of The Year poll in one of only nine women in the chart of 100 DJ's. These came soon after she took first place in Ministry's Up & Coming DJ's list and a DJ Of The Month feature in Muzik Magazine. She's also been featured heavily in both the dance and lifestyle press, appearing in the likes of Mixmag, Seven, The Sunday Times, DJ, Club On, Jockey Slut, Time Out, Sky, Company and Elle and Nova. She's even modelled clothes in lads magazine Loaded, for the likes of Armani and Levi's. Lottie's talent was first spotted by the promoters of London's leading night The Gallery where in 1996 she was selected as their weekly resident (rated Tall Paul as his favourite DJ). Now days she has progressed onto her residency at London Calling - another Turnmills night - with Radio 1's Danny Rampling. Lottie also plays all over the UK at the likes of Basics in Leeds, The Bomb in Nottingham, Slam in Glasgow, Shindig in Newcastle, Underwater in London, Sugar in Leamington Spa, Boutique (various venues), The Ministry Of Sound (various venues), Passion in Coalville. She also proudly holds the title of being Bugged Out's 1st lady, an honour indeed to be so highly regarded at this legendary Liverpool club. Where Lottie shines as a DJ is in her quality if music and her and her insistence in only playing proper house. Spinning deep and tribal, through to tough and techy house with an added twisted disco and funky sound from UK and American labels, she is a consummate spinner. Combining her looks and talent was somewhat inevitable, although her insistence that music come first has strongly directed what media coverage she chooses. Entering the world of TV was a natural step for Lottie, presenting for MTV at Homelands (2000) and appearing on Channel 4's award winning Faking It show as a mentor to a classical musician who was trying to make it as a club DJ. The year of 2000 also had witnessed Lottie competing in the (live) Comic Relief DJ Battle on Radio 1, where she appeared as the only female contender. Beating former Underworld man Darren Emerson, she was just knocked out in the semi finals by the legendary Norman Cook. During her busy schedule in the UK, she has a series of international dates including Manumission, Subliminal (in Miami, New York and Ibeefa), Space and Pacha in Ibeefa plus guest spots in Venezuela, Italy, Monte Carlo, Ireland, Switzerland, Moscow, Canada, Brazil, Greece, Malta and Israel. The second half of 2000 also saw her promoting her live CD in Las Vegas, Chicago, St Louis, Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne. 2001 saw her featuring more in the USA, plus another tour in Australia in July and one in Asia later on in the year. Lottie can also be found co-hosting Missdemeanours with Virgin Record's Carline Prothero a phenomenally successful weekly club night at The End's AKA in London's Covent Garden - a night that has attracted high profile guests such as DJ Sneak, Cassius, Erick Morillo, Todd Terry and Deep Dish. Having recently appeared on the cover of March's Time Out's 25 Best Bar Joint's, Missdemeanours also hosts its own radio via The Ministry's live webcast. Lottie has also enjoyed numerous guest spots on Radio 1 and Kiss FM. Perhaps the biggest highlight of her career to date, Lottie has released her first mix CD, July 2000's second instalment of the Live series. The CD gave her total musical freedom, enabling Lottie to produce a mix compilation of her choice and style, whilst focusing her taste in deep house; being described as a musical knapsack of deep and dirty 'proper' house music by 7 Magazine. Watch out for her mix CD which was out on React in August 2001. Finally, her workload is further increased by a hectic production schedule for her own compositions including 'The Sound' on Duty Free Recordings and 'The Yob' with Trade DJ Malcolm Duffy on Remote. Others include 'Relax' by Robbie Rivera, and also Lottie's favourite track 'Happy Days' for Defected which came out in June `99. During 2000 she completed a remix of Junior Cartier's 'Women Beat Their Men' again with production partner Malcolm Duffy. Towards the end of that year she finished a remix of 'Walk Of Like' by Billie Piper on Innocent Records and her second solo single 'Bushroot' (on Duty Free Recordings) was released in December. So far Lottie has done a remix of 'Mountains' by Meeker on Darren Emerson's label Underwater, which came out in February and 'Salsoul Nugget' by M7S on FFRR which came out in March. Her remix of Desert's 'Lettin Ya Mind Go' on Futuregroove / Mute Records was out that year also. Her third release on Duty Free Recordings was aimed for release in October and became very regonised, and boosted her career that one stage further. |
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