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For bookings please contact Will or Chloe
will@udjs.net – chloe@udjs.net
07958 439 581 / 07788 456 530

A Northern lad through and through, Matt’s friendly, smiling manner belies the hard-as-nails, uncompromising nature of his music. His sets are full of fast, fun-fuelled NRG and always have dance-floors full to the end.

Matt had been DJ’ing for several years before he made his real breakthrough in 2005, after sending Will Paterson (promoter of Frantic) a demo of tough, energetic filth. Matt soon received a booking to play for them in the Foyer at Hard House Academy.

It didn’t take me and the other Summit promoters long to see that Matt possessed a talent that needed to be put in front of clubbers. He has a great presence as a DJ, and is a full fire hard house DJ. His mixing is exceptionally tight, and the energy that he emits through his crowd interaction is definitely felt by the crowd. Summit will certainly be continuing with booking Matt at its future events – Jason, Summit

Other nights soon followed suit, and Matt began playing at events like Storm, Sundissential and Tasty. Residencies at Parlez Vous? in Bradford and Cyberkitten in the Midlands have secured him an even bigger fan base.

Matt has several tunes already out on leading labels such as Deprivation and Nosebleed and received brilliant feedback from his peers on his collaboration with Tom Parr; “Funky Music”. More of his productions are due to be released this year and are guaranteed to storm the charts. Another big achievement was to have his remix of Ewok’s “Go Back” released on the Tidy Bootlegs & Blags CD album in 2007.

Discography :

1. Matt Pickup & Booth vs Riggsy - Strange Morning (UFC 009)

2. Matt Pickup & Booth vs Riggsy - Don't Fuck with us (Unsigned)

3. Matt Pickup & Stuart M - Assassination (Unsigned)

4. Matt Pickup & Stuart M - House Rockin (Free Track with UFC)

5. Matt Pickup & Stuart M - Digital Warfare (UFC Recordings)

6. Matt Pickup & Stuart M - Enjoy the Ride(UFC Recordings)

7. Matt Pickup & Jon BW - Remember House(Unsigned)

8. Matt Pickup & Booth vs Digital Kid - Hit the Floor (unsigned)

9. Matt Pickup & Riggsy - Last Chance (UFC Recordings)

10. Matt Pickup & Stuart M - Antidote (Nosebleed)

11. Matt Pickup & Digital Kid - Espionage (Volatile NRG)

12. Ian M - Dreamer (Matt Pickup & Andy Rise Remix)

13. Matt Pickup & Jon BW - Beijing (Deprivation 19)

14. Pickup & Rise vs Tom Parr - Phycho (RiseUp Digital)

15. Matt Pickup & Tom Parr - Peer Pressure (Nosebleed)

16. Matt Pickup & Tom Parr - Funky Music (Oktane)

17. Matt Pickup, Dave the Elf & Riggsy - Elevate (Razor Recordings)

18. Matt Pickup, Dave the Elf & Riggsy - Feels like Monday (RiseUp Digital)

19. Matt Pickup, Dave the Elf & Riggsy - Vendetta (Sumo Training Recordings)

20. Little Jon & Tim Priestly - Rock the Beat ( Pickup & Rise vs Riggsy rework ) (Nukleuz)

21. Matt Pickup, Dave the Elf & Riggsy - Northern Soul (RiseUp Digital)

22. Pickup & Rise vs Ben Stevens - KoKo Pops (RiseUp Digital)

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO MATT PICKUP'S TRACKS

He runs 3 hard dance labels together with Andy Rise – "RiseUP Digital, “Hard Up Digital” & “Hard Up Funk”, with the first 3 tracks to be released hitting the top 20 downloads on Tidy Digital within 2 days of launching.

So far in 2008 Matt’s career has gone from strength to strength. Beginning at the Frantic NYE party and Goodgreef / Sundissential NYD, he and his b2b partner Andy Rise then played main room at Tidy Weekender and Ministry of Sound. They have now been signed as b2b duo “Pickup & Rise” to UDJs and have a host of big main room gigs lined up – including Koko in London - as well as more intimate events across the country.

The future looks very bright for Matt Pickup - having earned the respect of his fellow DJs he’s now setting his sights for the very top, and with the diary filling up fast it looks like he’s going to reach it...

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Music I listen to: Electro House, Dirty House, Hard Dance, Electro, Funky Techno

Places I visit: London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Leicester, Bradford, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Preston, Blackpool, Bolton, Blackburn, Northampton, Rochdale, Lincoln, Chester, Bury, Macclesfield, Milton Keynes

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Music : Hard House, Hardstyle and Hard Trance

341 photos! Transition - Phase 2 @ Kerbcrawler in Leeds (UK), Fri 24 Apr
Music : Club Classics, Electro House, Tech House, Hard House, Hard Trance, Trance, Psy-Trance and Electro

8893 photos! Tranz-mission 2009 @ Alexandra Palace in London (UK), Sat 11 Apr
Music : Club Classics, Hard House, Hardstyle, Hard Trance, Hardcore, Old Skool Hardcore, Liquid Drum and Bass, Jump Up Drum and Bass and Jungle

2095 photos! Euphoria presents the Hard Dance Awards 2009 powered by trackitdown.net @ Leeds Academy in Leeds (UK), Fri 27 Feb
Music : Hard Dance

1674 photos! Frantic Presents Timeless 7 "The Valentines Ball" @ The Forum in London (UK), Sat 14 Feb
Music : Hard House, Hardstyle and Hard Trance

290 photos! Steve O'Brady Tribute Night @ Hidden in London (UK), Fri 09 Jan
Music : Hard House and Hard Trance

898 photos! Frantic & Moondance Annual Payback Free Party @ Hidden in London (UK), Sat 03 Jan
Music : Old Skool House, Hard House, Hardstyle, Hard Trance and Drum and Bass

Daytime 1453 photos! Frantic Present Hard Disko NYD 2009! @ Ministry of Sound in London (UK), Thu 01 Jan
Music : Hard House, Hardstyle and Hard Trance

538 photos! Goodgreef NYD 09 - The Stars & Icons Ball @ Mission in Leeds (UK), Thu 01 Jan
Music : Hard Dance

NYE! 98 photos! New Years Eve at The Royal. Concept >> RealMadClubbers >> Krackalabooboo @ The Royal Hotel in Southend-on-Sea (UK), Wed 31 Dec 2008
Music : Club Classics, Funky House, Electro House, Old Skool House, Acid House, Hard House, Hard Trance, Trance, Electro, Minimal Techno, Electro Techno, Liquid Drum and Bass, Jazzy Drum and Bass, Jump Up Drum and Bass, Jungle and Dubstep