Why I moved to Melbourne from Sydney / the ups and downs 

In 2015 I had returned from living in London, I had been there for almost 2 years and wanted desperately to pursue music.  I was actually lucky enough to meet Mike Picket on my first weekend there at Peacha event.  

He was really nice and even invited me to play on a boat party that he was running that month, I was also going to be helping him with promo work something which came easy to me and I had been doing in Sydney.

On the day I had the 200 tickets on my person and was going to take them around to the locals hostels, I popped them down to make a coffee and within about 15 minutes they were gone (FYI don’t ever leave boat party tickets in hostel kitchens). 

Not only did I have to phone Mike and let him know what had happened I also had to let him know that I wasn’t able to play for the boat cruise due to the fact I had a been robbed 350 euros the night before from a bar job I was supposed to be taking. London really wasn’t the best place for me at this time I was basically ready to call it quits but something about living through such a nightmare really had me going so, I stayed. 

I found a new job, got sacked for not showing (bar job long story) or was hired randomly only to be told the company didn’t have the money to be hiring more staff (ALDO Shoes)

London was weird, heaps of people love living there but basically I only liked it because I made some amazing friends. My friends were a Swedish redhead name Kim, 2 irish men one named Ciran the other Riyan. We partied together lived on eachothers couches and did all sorts of crazy travelling things. 

I guess the main difference between London and Melbourne was that before moving to London I wasn’t getting really playing many places at all so it wasn’t a big deal when I jumped on the plane my chances of making it big there was much better than in Australia at the time.

The time when I got back to Sydney my mind was set on music and really learning how to mix properly and learn how to produce. 

From there I brought decks and entered into a DJ competition. 

After YS2016 I still needed a lot of work and pracacted everyday, yes, everyday for 6 months. At this stage I was playing in Ulladulla and at UTS. My style was everything from Trap to house, it didn’t flow and mad no sense half of the time. 

After being locked away with a boyfriend who didn’t listen to the music I played and a bunch of wanna be teenager ‘punks’ I finally freed myself from them and started my new life. 

I was travelling 6hrs round trip for a 4 hour boat party set, but I never complained, because for someone who at that point had lost a great deal of ‘friends’ I had gained something much much more valuable, my own self esteem and genuinely knew that all I ever wanted to do with my was create music and touch peoples souls with vibrations that would help them get through battles of life. 

I met a lot of new music people, heaps of men and women, all of them passionate about music and more amazing had time for me, lil’ol me! Who’d had thought someone living 3hrs from Sydney could have started to make their way into the music world – I suppose I have to admit, I kinda knew that there was light on the other side of what seemed at times like a hopeless situation. Within 6 months I knew everyone and had started to run my own parties. 

TBC

Yep, this was my first new city living experience..