Moving on from then, I started to promote my own gigs - setting them up and running them. I did this in numerous places in the UK including London, South Wales as well as Yorkshire. At one show in Yorkshire, I met a band called DissolvedIN who later became Lost Boys. These boys are something special - video below. The lead singer is fabulous and you may recognise him from the band on X Factor or being in Cheryl Cole's video recently.
I have so many of my best friends from the music industry, bands and techs. I like the respect that there is between the roadie and the lead singer - everyone is appreciated. There are always rumours that someone doesn't get on with someone, or someone stole this from someone's dressing room but, you get over it. I stole beer from Lil' Chris's dressing room in 2009, it doesn't hurt.
Now, with a toddler in tow, I don't go on tour. As much as I used to love travelling around in a van, going from hotel to hotel to venue to shabby backstage dressing rooms, it's something you can grow out of. Even a tour bus isn't that glamorous after a while and let's face it, it's never as glamorous as people think it is. I now DJ - the second best thing. I love DJing, seeing people dance and appreciate what you're doing.
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