DJ Jeremy Healy is at the decks at The Venue in Barnstaple

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ADJ voted the Number One DJ by both The Face magazine and Mixmag is making his way to Barnstaple this weekend. London-based DJ and music producer Jeremy Healy, who has appeared at top club nights around the world and is the musical brains behind world-class designer fashion shows, visits The Venue this Friday for a night of dance floor fillers.

Jeremys music career started back in the Eighties when he formed Haysi Fantayzee, a British new wave band, with Kate Garner and Paul Caplin. The band achieved relative success with a couple of Top 40 hits most notably John Wayne Is Big Leggy, which reached number 11 in the UK Chart and number three in Germany.

I had begun sprouting dreadlocks, which got my group an article in The Face, and subsequently some demo time at the EMI studio, Jeremy explained. At this time I lived in West Hampstead with Kate and Paul, in a flat he owned. One night I wrote the lyrics for a silly song called John Wayne Is Big Leggy. I woke up everyone in the flat and announced Id written our first hit record. We made our demos, shopped them around, and somehow, with our deranged songs and strange looks, we landed our first record deal on my 20th birthday.

After Haysi Fantayzee split up in 1983, Jeremy started to DJ on a regular basis. Using London club The Circus as the venue to aid his influence on the capitals music scene, Jeremy emerged as one of the most popular DJs in the country.

Having played gigs to thousands of people in countless countries across the globe during the Eighties and Nineties, Jeremy quickly became one of the most sought-after DJs. As well as playing for legendary club nights such as Cream, Gatecrasher and Clockwork Orange, he made his name mixing several sell-out CD compilations for Fantasia.

An old friend of fashion designer John Galliano, Jeremy found himself with a much prettier crowd during fashion shows in Paris, New York and London where the supermodels strut their stuff to his music on the Galliano and Dior catwalks. Following the success of these shows he has acted as music collaborator for Versace, Jigsaw, Katherine Hamnett and Vivienne Westwood.

Jeremy Healy is at The Venue, Barnstaple on Friday, October 10, from 10pm. Entry: COST. Details: 01271 344217.

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