Jimmy Green
After buying records since the age of 8 at car boots sales across Northampton with his grandfather, Jimmy Green realised at the tender age of 10 that Hip Hop was the world's best music. He was bought Public Enemy's second LP "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" by his dad on tape, and then bought the Beastie Boys first LP. By the time "Three Feet High and Rising" came out by De La Soul, Jimmy was hooked on Hip Hop for life. He started to make his own music in 1994 on a two track amplifier tape type thing, and started mixing records together on turntables in 1995. Since then he has spent all of his money on records, only saving a few meagre pounds to foolishly squander on food and heat.
He DJed all the way through college on a bi-weekly funk and hip hop radio programme and at various parties and "clubs" (if that's the right term), and started putting on his own nights with the legendary Mark Leggatt in 1997. He played at the Jazz Club in Bedford from 98-99, and then started afresh in Ipswich, working as a High School teacher of English.
His involvement with the Stupid Fresh nights in Ipswich alongside the pretty damn solid and funky DJ Paulo and reggae loving dreadlock sporting Sam have
resulted in more local gigs, often reached with the help of Ben and Simon Askew, who not only are two of his best friends but also end up (sometimes
grudgingly) ferrying him about (he can't drive).
Somewhat unsurprisingly, given his incredibly blinkered view of the world (if it isn't music related then I couldn't care less), he is single. But ladies, he has a 3,000 strong collection of vinyl records, so look out when "Madman Jim" is out! He'll bore you with obscure details of Premier remixes from 1992! He'll chastise you for being too jiggy!
He really needs to get out more.