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DJ PAULETTE. BIOGRAPHY

THE CATEGORY IS … AWARD WINNING …

Winner of the DJ Mag Top 100 Lifetime Achievement Award (November 2022) and the Keychange (PRS) Inspiration Award (Sound City April 2023), DJ Paulette is a highly regarded DJ across the UK and Europe, born and raised in (and still resident of) Manchester. Over a 30-year career, she has scaled the heights of dance music fame and hedonism playing disco, house and techno to huge crowds and in cool underground basements. She is a dj who is renowned for consistently ‘smashing’ every set she plays. One of two women to have a regular monthly residency at the Hacienda, she went on to have residencies at Heaven and Ministry of Sound, before serving successful stints in Paris and Ibiza. She has a keen talent for reinvention and replicating excellence. She is known for her monthly radio shows with Reform Radio, Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM and has a Global Residency show produced in collaboration with The Radio Department that can be found on Apple Music. She is a regular presenter stand in for AFRODEUTSCHE and Craig Charles on BBC 6 Music.

This year she played an iconic B2B with The Blessed Madonna, closing the massive Homobloc party at Warehouse Project. She shone consistently throughout 2023 with her sets at Faith at 93 Feet East, Trade at The Egg, HeSheThey at Ministry of Sound, Kaiku in Helsinki, Corsica Studios, Blitz Club in Munich, San Remo, Stonebridge and Greenpeace at Glastonbury , Bugged Out at Drumsheds , Glitterbonx at Hi Ibiza and Defected in Malta amongst many more. While last year she played headline sets at Beams in London, Warehouse Project – Glitterbox, Homobloc and Hacienda, in the NYC Downlow for Block 9 at Glastonbury, Beatherder, Brixton Disco Festival, Worldwide Festival in Sete, Mighty Hoopla, Horsemeat Disco in Berlin, Kelburn Garden Party, The National Theatre River Stage, Gilles Peterson’s stage for All Points East, Brighton Pride, Glitterbox at Hi Ibiza, Flow Festival in Finland, Homoelectric, Feel It at Omeara and Fatboy Slim’s Weekender ‘All Back to Minehead’ whilst There is much more to come for 2024!

Aside from dj’ing Paulette is an events and exhibition curator and a regular contributor to radio shows as diverse as Jamz Supernova on 6Music, Radcliffe and Maconie , Afrodeutsche’s ‘The People’s Party’, Craig Charles’ Funk And Soul Show, Amy Lame, Anamatronic’s ‘Dance Devotion’, Eats Everything’s ‘Edible Beats’. She sits on the Regional Committee for the Musicians’ Union and is a Power Up mentor for shesaidso. Her debut book ‘Welcome To The Club: The life and lessons of a black woman DJ’ is published in January 2024 by Manchester University Press.

Gilles Peterson – Instagram –

Paulette was certainly a force to be reckoned with behind the decks teaching Norman and I a lesson or 10…. great to see Paulette is still roaming the planet with her box of musical delights and all-round goodness… seeing her spinning at @weoutherefest was one of the highlights for me… she’ll be spinning at many of next summer’s festivals – make sure you catch her if you can!

The Guardian – November 2019:

“And it’s a testament to Mancunian hardiness that hundreds brave the arctic conditions to cavort to local hero DJ Paulette doling out fruity house numbers on an alfresco terrace”. Gabriel Szatan

She featured in and contributed to:

Resident Advisor – Exchange EX 464 DJ Paulette

Straight No Chaser #100

Sweet Harmony: Rave Today – exhibition handbook (Saatchi Gallery – September 2019)

Sweet Harmony: Rave Today – exhibition Manchester (Mayfield Depot – December 2019)

Generation W (hardback book)

Classic Album Sundays’ – Classic Albums By Women (book)

BBC Radio 6 – mix and interview Mary Anne Hobbes

BBC Radio 4 – Saturday Live

BBC News – Inside Track (TV)

Xfm – Humans Of Manchester with Clint Boon

Cosmodelica – Worldwide FM

909 Originals – interview

Stamp The Wax – mix and interview

MN2S – Lucky Seven – track selection

David Oldham – The Great And The Good (photo exhibition)

For 2019 she continued her full time dj schedule appearing at Parklife, Bluedot Festival, Manchester International Festival, The River Stage at the National Theatre, We Out Here Festival and the Soho House group appearing at The Ned Pool Party and White City House in August. She flexed her political muscles for Suffragette City at The Refuge, Extinction Rebellion (Deansgate) and R3 Sound System – No To Trump, No to Boris, No to Farage – Trafalgar Square (December 2019).

Voted in the Red Bull – 10 Manchester DJs you should know – 2019, Manchester Evening News ‘Top 5 Women in the Manchester Music Industry 2018’ (February 2018) and one of A-Magazine’s ‘Manchester Women Of The Year 2018’ (March 2018) – Paulette released the ‘Sheroes’ EP in June 2018 on Black Riot Records with her production partner, Chris Massey (Sprechen Records, Electriks). More than 6,000 visitors passed through the doors of her HOMEBIRD exhibition / gallery interruption, on show at The Lowry Art Gallery from September 22 until Oct 14, 2018. She currently holds a monthly, 2 hour mix show (jacking to deep house, tech house and techno) on the ARIAS winning, Reform Radio – a show which has hosted guest mixes from Bonzai Bonner, James Curd, DJ Cosmo, Norman Jay MBE, Marcia Carr. Weekends are spent dj’ing for The Refuge / Electriks / Homoelectric / Homobloc, Albert’s Schloss / Albert Hall, La Discotheque, YES, National Theatre, Manchester International Festival, HOME, Parklife, Hidden, Cultureplex and a select few of the very best bars in Manchester. No matter whether she entertains as a resident or guest, Paulette consistently keeps her dancefloors at home and away as lit as possible.

www.djpaulette.co.uk/homebird

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS5v-PwSgVFXO32KAEYH61xyeTIp-LCTN

February 2019 she featured on:

Red Bull Online – 10 DJs who should be on your radar https://djpaulette.co.uk/article/sheroes-red-bull-list-10-manchester-djs-who-should-be-on-your-radar/

Vice Magazine (Ageism in Dance Music feature – https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/9kpa7e/the-rave-gap-how-uk-nightlife-still-struggles-with-ageism ) featured

The i-Paper – https://djpaulette.co.uk/clubbing/video-the-i-paper-women-who-refuse-to-be-written-out-of-90s-rave/

whilst last year she appeared on the cover of Intern magazine and has also been featured in i-D / Vice, The I-Paper, The Skinny, Dazed and Confused, PRS Weekly and the Manchester Evening News.

2020’s highlights are already shimmering as she joins the line ups for Homoelectric in Manchester in February and Honey Dijon’s ‘Full Fantasy’ party at Corsica Studios, Flesh In Tension – Leeds, Dekmantel Selectors in August in and there’s some news in London and Brighton too.

LINKS

REFORM RADIO – www.reformradio.co.uk

www.facebook.com/djpaulette

Tweets by DJPAULETTE

www.mixcloud.com/DJPAULETTE

www.soundcloud.com/DJPAULETTE

www.instagram.com/dj_paulette1

www.residentadvisor.net/profile/djpaulette

REFORM RADIO

Bronze Award Winner for Best Online Radio Station at The ARIAS 2017

Represented (non-exclusive) by Luca Carluccio at MN2S Booking Agency.