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John Ioannou - London

1) What is your name? (the one your parents gave you)

John Ioannou

2) Where are you from? Where are you living now?

From London and live in London

3) What language/s do you speak?

English and Greek

4) Dogs or Cats? Explain...

Dogs are cool cos they chase sticks and wag their tales but need a lot of looking after.

I envy cats cos they sleep all day and are quite independent but are total cunts cos they are scared of everything.

5) For you, what came first: paying to go to the club or breezing in for free?

Paying to go into the clubs when I was underage.

6) Which of these came first: DJ'ing or producing?

DJ'ing

7) What is your worst DJ experience? Explain.

Once when I was playing a b2b set with Paul Louth at Wire in 2000.

During our set someone knocked the table the decks were on mid-mix causing it to totally trainwreck and the extension lead the decks were connected to got trodden on twice causing it disconnect from the socket making the room go into silence.

And once I played a breaks tune that had too much bass for the soundsystem to handle and switched off the sound system automatically.... the crowd then started booing me cos they thought I was fucking around!

8) What is your best production experience? Why?

Not produced anything yet although Im quite keen to start learning.

9) When did you realize you'd "made it" - or have you?

Nowhere near it yet... I'll know I’ve made it when my mum reads in the newspapers that I'm dating Kylie Minogue or get a spoof role in a soap programme.

10) When touring/DJ'ing what is one thing you MUST bring? Why?

Your records

11) What is your musical guilty pleasure, come on, be honest... If you say Berlin or Madonna we won't laugh, we're all friends here! Heheheh...

Can’t think of any really.... I like stuff like Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

12) What is your favorite thing to cook?

Full fried English breakfast with extra black pudding :-)

13) At the nude beach... do you 'cover your shame' or do you go au naturel?

Go natural baby. I’m quite tanned and hate having the white bits. I’m sure I wouldn’t attempt to play frisbee or anything of the sort naked on the beach though!

14) Where can you find the most beautiful girls in the world? (please don't say "on the internet!")

Hopefully Poland as Im playing there in March

15) Explain the origins (or meaning) of the expression "your ass is grass!"

Probably means you have a hairy ass and it needs a shave/wax etc…

16) What's your stance: Vinyl or CD? Or the happy co-existence thereof?

Prefer vinyl, but happy for the co-exsistence of both. I just wish that clubs would actually fork out for a decent CD deck rather the cheap nad nasty ones with crap pitch controls

17) What is your favorite DJ mixer? (gear)

Allen & Heath - Xone 62 although the Pioneer DJM 600 is a close second.... I wish someone could make a mixer that was a cross between the two.

18) What is your favorite cartridge? Does it make that big of a difference?

Don’t really have a favourite.

19) If you could go back in history, where would you go and what would you do?

Back to the 60's and 70's and be a hippy and go to Woodstock and the like.

20) If you could ask us any question, what would it be?

Why the fascination with donkeys Marky??? Is there something you aren’t telling the world??

Marky’s response: Because donkeys are little angels without wings… J