Other Voices is thrilled to welcome to the fold once more, dj and radio presenter Annie MacManus AKA Annie Mac. Her Friday night show on BBC Radio One goes out to over a million people in the iconic role of ‘officially starting the weekend’. Hailing from Dublin Annie comes from a musical family including brother Davey who is the lead singer with Indie band The Crimea. Beginning her love of clubbing in college in Belfast she decided to get into radio and signed up for a post-graduate Masters at a college in Farnborough. With her Masters behind her she moved to London into a house with brother Davey and other members of his band, who were flying high in the charts. After a few years of living in Camden she worked for the student radio network SBN and, had her own residency as a dj at The Underworld in Camden.
Work experience at V2 label lead to a job as a radio plugger and at 23 years old her first job at the BBC as Steve Lamacq’s broadcast assistant. Meanwhile, Annie was presenting on the student radio network SBN ‘‘interviewing bands at The Barfly on her lunch break’.
Her debut on Radio 1 was doing an ident for Mike Davies punk show. Then in July 2004 she was given The Annie Mac Show. She was 26.
In tandem her repute as a club DJ had been growing. For fun she started DJing at after and house parties when living in Belfast. After a year on Radio 1 she started her ‘Annie Mac Presents’ showcases at a single room in Fabric (inaugural artists Mylo and Justice). From humble beginnings it has grown into what Mixmag have called ‘one of the biggest brands in clubland providing a platform for a generation of youthful, bass-driven, live-dance acts and making Annie herself one of the most in-demand club/festival DJs on the planet.’
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