1. What do you get up to in the week when you are not djing or in the studio?

I am always busy doing something or other from Monday right up to when I dj on Friday night. My husband Peter is always shouting at me "get off that bloody computer!" as everytime he sees me I am always on it. I must admit I don't get started to about 12 in the afternoon each day but then carry on working to around 2am in the morning. Halve the day is taken up with chatting to the clubbers on sites like DSI/myspace and just very recently bebo and facebook. The rest of the time is chatting to my agent and promoters as well as dealing with other projects like personally arranging everything to do with my tours, producing tunes, doing photos, updating my web sites, arranging flights and editing tunes for my sets which takes ages, since i got cubase on my laptop I can change each tune I buy to exactly how I personally like it to play out. My only time off really is Sunday from about 2pm till the evening. I usually get home from djing at 7am have a few hours sleep then go down the pub for the rest of the day.

2. What did you used to work as before taking up Djing full time?

I did a bit of extra work for t.v and films as well as being a model. I modelled for a car bill poster campaign, a Nescafe advert and because I am dark skinned I even did a t.v commercial for Arab country dressed up as one of their ladies (I had to learn the words in Arabic which was not good as I did the job after a night out clubbing and my brain was not working to good!). But before that I was a page 3 model (what am I like! :-) appearing in the sun newspaper a good few times and in the Daily star calendar twice. I even modelled for a few book covers with Gerry Halliwell who was a fellow model at the time too before she was in the spice girls.

3. Did you fall in love with hard house straight away or was it a natural progression from other genres?

Yes it was a natural progression really only because of the clubs I played. I started my career at clubs like Pusha and Miss Moneypennys which were not really into the harder sound but I was naughty as always did push the tempo and basslines and got into trouble for it. It was not until I got my residency at Freedom Bagleys in London that I was aloud to let rip and not worry about how tough I played. This style has always been in my heart as I think I am a bit of party animal deep down and like music hard to stomp to!

4. What makes Polysexual such a special gig for you?

Air is a brilliant venue but what makes this event really special for me are the clubbers that always attend as they are just so friendly. Even though I live quite far away I know so many people from playing at Polysexual that I really look forward to seeing everybody each time I spin (can't wait to come back up on Nov 1st as know it is going to be a fantastic party!)

5. Can you remember your first ever gig, how did you feel before getting on the decks?

Well there are two stories, my first gig and my first proper gig! The first venue I played at I was not really even a dj. I used to hang around a record shop all the time to buy tunes that I heard every weekend while clubbing. I got to speak to a dj of a local club as saw him every week buying my tunes and he said he was going on holiday and would I like to fill in for him. At the time I had just bought my decks to only play my tunes I bought and never thought of being dj as a profession. He convinced me to do it saying it was only a small crowd but when I got there it there was about 800 people! I really did not know what i was doing and was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick on the decks! Afterwards I said I would never do it again as I was not ready and it really put me off and also I thought working behind those decks got in the way of my partying (maybe that is why I felt sick as tried to combine the two that night :-) About a year later when I felt more confident I started to make mixes and hand them out and got my first professional gig, it was for a party put on by the T.V programme "Euro trash". I got this by going to a club called Pushca every week and the door person was helping to arrange the party who had my mix. This event was a bit rubbish but my first gig that I count as the one that kicked off my career (they same people that gave me my dj name) was for Pusha in London, I got this by going clubbing there every week and handing out my mixes to the promoters.

6. In your career you have had some amazing gigs, tell us about your best ever one.

My favourites were always the festivals/tidy weekender and larger events but recently I have been putting on my own "god save the queen" tours and there is just something so special when you are a part of the night that I just can't explain. The adrenaline and everything about the night is just such a kick that I think they have now become my best djing experiences ever, which is a lot after 12 years of spinning!

7. Over the years who has been your biggest musical influence?

Honestly I have never had any. As a dj you have to trust your instincts, when ever as a dj I am listening to a tune and think "will this work" I go back to my clubbing days and take off my dj hat and listen to the tune as a clubber. I try and go back to when I was once one of the people on the dancefloor and think what made my legs want to stomp. So really my only influences is my memories from being a die hard clubber.

8.Can you explain the Lisa Pinup sound in less than 5 words?

Uplifting, pumpin, bouncy, twisted & fun!

9. Tell us a fact about yourself that nobody else knows.

My life is an open book, I am rubbish at keeping secrets and think everyone knows everything about me!

10. I recently saw some promo for the new Tidy Girls EP that you are involved in, tell us more about that?

I know, how exciting! I never thought I would be doing another tidy girls EP 12 years later but here it is and we had so much fun doing it. My track is called ?DJs Request? and is it so me, really pumping but very tongue and cheek. When you are a dj, you always get asked requests for tunes so I come up with this idea for the vocal "So dj do you take requests". It has this massive really hard off beat bassline when the tune comes in and i do see people smile when they hear the words and it is great I see people singing along to it on the dancefloor.

11. What gives you inspiration for your highly acclaimed God Save The Queen Tour?

Well people always think of me as being a bit girly, but I have a split personality and am tom boy also at heart (when I was little my favourite pastime was digging holes in the garden fighting boys and keeping creepy crawlies in jars! :-) So for a tour I thought lets show the other side of me and do a punk rock theme. So I had a mohawk hair style and It was also great to get everyone else involved dressing up. Also the union looked good for the decor and it was fun making the theme tune using a line for one of the sex pistols tunes "god save the queen" Its only in the very initial stages at the moment (idea came to me while pissed down the pub last Sunday!) but I think I might be doing a totally different tour next year, so watch this space!

12. I have noticed that you always have a lovely tan, where is your fave holiday location?

I'm a bit trashy really and love anywhere with Brits on holiday! Love Ayia Napa, Ibiza, Benidorm and Gran Canaria. The only exotic places I looking into going next year is Las Vega for a few days then going to stay on a Cowboy ranch by the Grand Canyon for a few days too (going horse back ridding in the Gran canyon, learn how to rope cattle and even staying in a tepee over night!) must admit my husband it not to keen on this as he cant horse ride, poor bastard as we are definitely going!

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