Steve Lawler
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Qatar People, Qatar Interviews|
Pure Productions gives you an excuse to make it back to Doha this September. Steve Lawler hits Doha with a heart-pounding show to dust off the Ramadan cobwebs in style on Sept. 25th. | |
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Designation: DJ
Date:
09/01/2009 | |
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“I’ve had some great parties in Dubai. Obviously it’s a very different scene (here) then anywhere else in the world, the rules and regulations are much tougher, but people want to party,” he said. “What fuels me is the energy in the music and the atmosphere I can create.”
He’s been creating atmosphere since he was a teenager. Starting with illegal parties and underground clubs in the UK, he’s been mixing beats and creating music since he was barely out of primary school.
“I stared collecting records at 16. First gig, one of my illegal parties, at 17. I started doing these things at an early age. I wanted to be a bit rebellious, but more importantly I wanted to play in front of an audience, but I was too
young to even get into a club myself, so I couldn’t play in clubs,” he said. “I just used to knock about with a bunch of kids who were into the same thing. We were a bit of a minority back then, but when you’re into the same music, the same things, you just find each other.”
For almost two decades he’s been finding other people who feel the same way about the music as he does.
“What changed was 19 years – technology moved on, I got older,” he said. “I started doing this as a hobby but then I realized there wasn’t anything else I wanted to do.”
Staying in the industry, and more importantly staying relevant and at the top of the DJ heap for longer than many of his listeners have been alive is no small accomplishment. But for Lawler, what keeps him going is simple.
“One thing and one thing only – the absolute love of music,” he said. “The industry can be hard sometimes, and traveling the way we do can be uncomfortable, but performing in front of an audience is addicting. Playing
music is as much in my heart now as it was when I first started buying records.”
What he does is take elements of the everyday and mix it to create something unique.
“I would describe it simply as house and techno it’s deep but with a lot of energy,” he said.
He’s a grittier DJ, inspired as he says by ‘vices’. And he says, playing in the deserts not going to affect that.
“The kind of music I like is more mysterious, more sexy,more deep, and that’s what you get when I play – it won't change from country to country.”
And that’s something that he thinks Doha’s craving.
Hopefully what I’ll do is whip them into a crazy frenzy without them even noticing. I’m going to play stuff you’ve never heard before and get you into a real party vibe,” he said. “I’m expecting a good reaction. I know I can work any crowd. Put me behind a DJ booth and it’s just what I do. That might sound egotistical but it’s one of the few things in my life I’m confident about.”
He hits the stage September 25th, Diplomatic Club Tent at 9:00 p.m. For more information, call 614-5946, or check out www.qatarhappening.com for updated details.
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