Tom Golden
House
Manchester, United Kingdom
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About
Tom took his first steps into DJing properly when he put on a one off night called Homegrown in his home town of Northwich back in July 2000. The night was run alongside two of his friends (both DJs) Adam B & Nathan Landry. Shortly after the night they were contacted by Levi's and Mixmag to play alongside Tom Stephan on the 'Levis Student House Party Tour', which took in Leeds, Newcastle and Sankeys Soap in Manchester, this gave them a taste of what Djing out to crowds was like and they loved it.
In 2002 Tom and the other two lads set up www.homegrown-music.com as a base to promote themselves as DJs. The site has grown immensely over four years and is know internationally for its 'Homegrown Hotmix' concept in which two guest DJs per month supply mixes for people to stream and download, previous guests have included Jazzanova, Miss Kitten, Mylo, Tom Stephan, Justin Martin, Natural Rhythm, Mazi, Tony Thomas and many more underground DJs . In the 4 years in has been running the site has received over 8 million hits. Tom also runs a weekly radio show called 'Homegrown Radio' (took him a long time to think that one up) which started in 2005 and airs weekly on Pulseradio.net as well as having a dedicated website (www.homegrown-radio.com) where people can download and podcast each weeks show.
Djing wise Tom has been playing out for the last 7 years all over the UK and across Europe, in this time he has held down 5 residences including a weekly residency at Manchester night 'Landed' back in 2003. Each week he was warming up for the legendary Hacienda resident Graeme Park as well as many other top-notch names, doing the warm up slot enabled Tom to gain invaluable experience into building a vibe up from nothing, which is something he still enjoys doing today. Over the last 4 years Tom has worked hard at getting the Homegrown name known and this has shown in the amount of gigs and places he has traveled to and played at, with the parties getting better and better each time. Notable gigs in the UK have included Tribal Sessions at Sankeys Soap, The Masque Theatre in Liverpool, The Gallery at Turnmills in London and doing various summer parties down at the Bomb in Nottingham. As well as the UK Tom has ventured abroad on numerous occasions and played at some amazing parties, the highlights of which were playing at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia 2005 (on top of a fort!), playing at the awesome Cova Den Xoroi in Menorca (set in a cliff top cave ), a tour of Belgium in 2005 and a week long tour of Croatia and Montenegro in Summer 2006 (playing in bombed out hotels, parties on remote islands and lots of good times!) . Tom is also resident at the Zagreb Film Festival in Croatia where he plays each night of the festival during a week in October, each year gets bigger and better with over 2000 people attending the nightly events. In late 2005 Tom was approached by Manchester night Stylus to join the team as a promoter and resident which he duly did and has since warmed up for the likes of Phil Weeks, Joey Youngman, The Littlemen, Jason Hodges, Kenny Hawkes and Jay Tripwire to name a few.
The logical progression to the studio started for Tom in late 2003 when he joined Adam to learn the ropes. The two of them produced 'Homegrown Headz' in Jan 2004 and it was released in May 2005 on Midlands based label Lost My Dog, gaining excellent reviews from DJ Mag, I-DJ and lots a good reactions from DJs. In June 2005 they released the amusingly titled 'Honey I've Lost My Panties' EP on Southside Shuffle which also received excellent reviews and reactions .
"I've lapped up everything these guys have released in their short career. These four trippy little buggers are evidence there is more yet to come. From the jazzy, bendy "VR Nightz" to the twisted tech-ery of "Light Em Up", it's like a Midlands house version of MFF. Excellent stuff" - I-DJ MAGAZINE 2005
200 7 looks set to be another good year for Tom with some excellent parties and guest DJs planned for Stylus, lots of European adventures in the pipeline, producing and promoting the weekly radio show and of course finding time to making some beats again!
