Annie Mac

When you’re a mainstream radio DJ you have to reply to Tweets and texts, you have to stick to playlists and deal with Nick Grimmy Grimshaw as a Radio 1 wifey, so people may forget, or not even know, that you play a blinder of a set when left to your own devices. This is exactly what Annie Mac does, she smacks

Ocean Terminal is a small shopping centre in Edinburgh, a great place to avoid the tourists in town and get the Christmas shopping under way. Tonight however, Ocean Terminal shuts its shops and opens up as a dance floor, a raving ball in dedication to one of the country’s biggest DJs as she continues her tour

Her extensive knowledge of the music scene is second to none combining hits from the 60s through to tracks on NOW 54 cds.

She signals a friendly hello to onlookers, some of who have merely popped into the shop for a spot of afternoon bargain hunting – none the wiser that Mac has just entered the room to perform at the charity’s grassroots music festival: Oxjam.

While the Radio 1 favourite could easily pack out bigger venues due to her ever-growing popularity it was only right that she chose the grungy Rainbow to inject some life into those who are longing for brighter days already.

Eclecticism and ecstasy by the spoonful, Annie Mac brings the party to Liverpool once again. Getintothis’ Stephanie Heneghan loses her bearings. It’s the penultimate Chibuku of 2011 and far from winding down for the end of the year, tonight’s offering is as eclectic and exciting as always. The buzz in The

Up first at the gloriously extravagant Koko was Doorly, the ‘In New DJ’s We Trust’ protege who got his break back in 2008 when Pete Tong invited him to play Creamfields, and whose talent has ensured he hung around.