Hi guys,

Cally & Juice + Brian M Vs McBunn have been nominated for 'Best Hard Dance DJ' & Shocker for 'Best MC' @ this years Hardcore Heaven awards.

If you think they deserve to win I'm sure they'd really appreciate your vote!

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BEST HARD DANCE DJ - Cally & Juice

BEST HARD DANCE DJ - Brian M Vs McBunn

BEST MC - Shocker

Escape Into The Park strives to improve year and year and after the immense amount of requests to get Bionic involved with the festival we thought this year it just had to be done. Now widely recognised as Wales' most popular Hardstyle event, it's reputation continues to grow. Here I sat down with one of Bionic's promoters and one half of Cally & Juice.....Cally.

EITP - Tell us when and how your brand came about……….

CALLY - Well Bionic is almost 9 years old so the when is quite easy to answer. As for the how, I used to run the hard dance department at Catapult 100% Vinyl, Brian M used to come in and buy tunes from me. He told me he was thinking of starting up his own event and a few people had told him it would be a good idea to get me involved as I had a lot of contacts and experience in the industry and was also DJing at the time. Back then there were a lot of politics in Cardiff and although myself and Mr Juice were gigging every weekend, Cardiff was one of the places we couldn’t get gigs because of these politics, so I was keen to start up this venture with Brian, which then meant we could play in my local area on a regular basis.

EITP - What would you say is your favourite memory from over the years?

CALLY - There have been so many. Many of the places I dreamed of DJing years ago have since become a reality. I think my favourite memory though is from playing at Swansea’s Escape Into The Park Festival in 2007. Every year it is our favourite date in the diary. Playing to so many of your home crowd is really an emotional experience. The Welsh crowd has to be the most frenzied and up for it crowd in the world and when you’re from Wales and you know so many of the people in the crowd, the atmosphere reaches fever pitch! Every year it gets better and last year was amazing but ’07 is the one for me that sticks in my head as the arena was at capacity from start to finish...and we were only playing the second hour!

EITP - What about your worst?

CALLY - Luckily there’s not many of these. I think I’d have to say the worst was playing at a festival at Coopers Field in Cardiff. As it was run in association with the council they couldn’t break their own rules on fly-posting, so the event was hardly promoted. The turn-out was awful and when we went on to play there were just 4 people in our arena. Rather than get all high and mighty though and storm off though, we played our asses off to the 4 people who were there and got plenty of cheering from them at the end, ha-ha. I think they appreciated the fact that whether it was 4 or 4,000 in that arena we still gave 110%.

EITP - If you were to assemble your dream line up, who would be in it?

CALLY - Good question, hmm...ok this would probably change if you asked me again but I’ll say The Prodigy (headlining), Headhunterz, Showtek, Activator, Technoboy, Pendulum live and us of course, lol.

EITP - What would be the most important thing you have learnt from being a promoter?

CALLY - Let people see that their ticket money has been well spent, in other words don’t skimp on production etc, and never ever cancel DJs to save some money (as many promoters do). In the history of Bionic only a handful of acts have ever not been able to make it and every time we replace them with someone of equal standing. When people come to our events they know they can expect what’s on the flyer, and more.

EITP - Tell us a funny story that has happened at one of your events……..

CALLY - I guess one of the funniest I can think of off the top of my head is when our host (MC) Shocker was about to introduce the next DJ, The Prophet. He began “ladies and gentlemen, one of hardstyle’s finest DJ’s, all the way from...” he then paused and realised he didn’t know where he was from, so he quickly turned to face him, saw his t-shirt, and spectacularly saved himself by saying “...Scantraxx Records!”. It was hilarious. Luckily the brand on his t-shir

Hey guys,

just a quick reminder of events that Bionic will be involved in over the next month...

16th May - Bionic Arena @ Hardcore Heaven Weekender
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...

24th May - Contact goes Bionic @ Overload at the Fort, Portsmouth
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...

5th June - Bionic @ Escapade Newport
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...

13th June - Bionic Vs Uproar Arena @ Escape Into The Park, Swansea
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...

we've also just arranged a 2nd tour to Leeds this year on the 1st of August for Oblivions 1st birthday. We'll be in the main room with tidy hosting room 2, Vibealite, Energy Rush & Known Fear hostings arena's 3 & 4. - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...

other tours confirmed but not announced yet so keep your eyes peeled & if your a promoter and interested in having Bionic involved then please e mail gavin@bionicevents.com