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Nathan Coles
Hello Nathan, thanks bunch for taking part in this Interview for Audiation Magazine. You are most notarially recognised, along with Terry Francis as the stalwart behind Wiggle. For our readers could you give us 3 facts about Nathan Coles?
1. I have become pretty handy at making Sushi over the last few years and have self taught myself, as it's our families favourite food and i really enjoy it.
2. I started a new villa rentals, sales and concierge company last year, called loveibizavillas.com and we have and amazing selection on beautiful places all over the island. Im really enjoying getting my teeth into something new and feel very excited about it's future.
3. I love playing tennis and used to do a bit of coaching in my younger years, helping out my tennis coach at the time.
How did you get into the art of DJ’in? Who were your influences?
I've always loved my music and I bought a pair of belt driven turntables and a mixer from a friend of mine when I was in my teens. It was really difficult to mix on them, but it gave me the taste and it was only when I started organising my own parties, that i really started to concentrate on wanting to get good enough to play at my own parties. I learn't a few tricks watching Mr C dj at his house, when we started doing parties together. He showed me that you didn't need to touch the turntables and that you just used the pitch control to sync the beats and thats how I mix to this day.
Your DJ career has taken you to play at some incredible venues across the world. What was it like playing for crowd in a different country for the 1st time?
It was a hell of a buzz getting invited to play abroad for the first time and that gig turned into one hell of an adventure. I got invited to play on the Greek Island of Rhodes by my longtime friend and production partner David Coker. He was helping a rich Persian playboy organise a beach party and David got myself and my old mate Liam Foley aka Don Smoke along to dj also. We couldn't believe our luck and they even gave us our own car and neither of us had a licence. It was 1991 and we were playing alongside Judge Jules and the whole thing turned into one disaster after another. The beach party got stopped before it had even started by the police, as they hadn't been payed off properly, so we moved the speakers inside the club next to the beach and carries on the party. We had a good time, but the promoter must have lost a fortune and to cut a long story short, we all had to leave the Island quickly, as the local mafia weren't happy with the whole situation and me and my friend Liam ended up getting a boat to Italy, where we managed to blag a dj gig together in Florence