Colours Pres. Switch Disco
Colours Presents: SWITCH DISCO
Friday November 27th - Magnet House
9pm Until Late
- LIMITED ONLINE TIX. MORE AVAIL AT THE DOOR -
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With a shared 20 years of club experience under their belt, legendary mash-up duo Switch Disco are no strangers to creating unmissable dancefloor moments. Having built an eye-watering following on video platforms YouTube and TikTok for their irreverent mixes and pristine blends, Dan Creasy and Nikos Kalogerias quickly grew from well-respected club favourites to household names — a status only further intensified by their BRIT award nominated, Platinum selling Robert Miles ‘Children’-sampling track ‘React’ featuring Ella Henderson, which reached #4 in the UK singles chart, 10 weeks in the top 10 and earned a slew of plays on BBC Radio 1, ITV’s Love Island and has over 200 million global streams to date. Though many of this duo’s followers recognise them standing side-by-side in front of a neon-illuminated, white wall delivering their signature, daring mash-ups — this year sees Switch Disco lean in hard with new music promised to be dropped throughout the year, and they are also doing what they do best and hitting the road, with their return to an all-summer-long residency at Ibiza Rocks, a summer residency in Zante and appearances at festivals and other big venues both in the UK and Europe; meaning fans have even more opportunity to catch mash-up magic from Switch Disco in 2024.
Having first begun work as a duo in 2012, Switch Disco spent the best part of the next decade gradually building their profile in club circuits across the UK and Greece. But it was during lockdown, in their kitchen in Basingstoke, that the pair decided to switch things up - as it were. Like many artists unable to play in-person shows, Dan and Nikos turned to social media — with a vision to demonstrate how they create the discernible mash-ups that had earned them a modest following of partygoers; bridging the gap between the work they had been doing behind the booth for years and a new, online audience. The pair now have over 1 million followers on TikTok, giving them new ground on which to sow the seeds of their vision — in their own words “it took 15 years to make it overnight.”
Both motivated by a mutual, insatiable desire to keep moving forward and honing their craft — the pair met while acting as residents in a nightclub in Greece. Nikos, who grew up in Greece under the tutelage of his musician father, landed his first residency when he was just 13 years old — after being handed a pair of decks by a bar owner who had taken note of his patron’s appreciation of the young house aficionado’s selections. Dan on the other hand, who had fallen in love with dance music via UKG tape packs from the likes of DJ EZ (whom would later use Dan’s garage mash-ups in his legendary mixes) in his teens, first cut his teeth playing at house parties while at music college. In 2011, after sharing a Summer together in Greece, Nikos moved to London and began playing alongside Dan more regularly — the pair quickly discovered that they shared a musical telepathy, able to predict what each other would be lining up as the next track in what can only be described as the ultimate b2b synchronicity. And so, with a shared drive to push themselves as far as possible, Switch Disco the duo was born.
More recently the pair have not only reconvened a bumper tour schedule, making stops everywhere from Miami to Croatia, but turned their attention to the studio; releasing four new knockout singles via Relentless Records since there 2023 smash hit ‘React’ with Ella Henderson. The most recent release being ‘SLEEP TONIGHT (THIS IS THE LIFE), an interpolation of Amy Macdonald’s global smash ‘This is the life’.