Mike Skinner (DJ Set), Safiye, und Scarlett O'Malley

With Bristol widely considered the capital of British underground dance music, native Pearce was presented with the ideal environment in which to launch his career as a DJ; he quickly became a resident at the local club nights Ripsnorter and Scream, and was able to secure his first gigs on the continent off the back of that success. He didn’t really rise to any kind of mainstream prominence, though, until 2011, when he signed to Pets Records and released a well-received single, ‘Entrance Song’.

Since then, he’s been a regular fixture at some of the biggest venues and festivals in the dance world - think Creamfields, Fabric, The Warehouse Project, Space and DC10 - as well as crossing over into mainstream festival territory, packing out tents at Glastonbury, Bestival and Secret Garden Party. In addition, Pearce has produced Essential Mixes for BBC Radio 1 at the behest of Pete Tong, and was the first ever resident DJ at new London club XOYO. He’s remixed tracks for the likes of Chicken Lips, Four Tet, X-Press 2, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Jamie Jones, and count count a slew of awards to his name already, too: DJ Magazine’s ‘Best British DJ’ and ‘Best Breakthrough Producer’ among them, in 2012 and 2011 respectively.

Groove Armada, named after a 1970s disco, released four singles in their first year as a signed collective with songs such as “At the River” which featured a sample of “Old Cape Cod” originally by Patti Page, which would go on to be one of Groove Armada’s most well known tracks. They released their debut album “Northern Star” on March 9th 1998.

However, it wasn’t until they released their sophomore album “Vertigo” on May 24th 1999 that they earned themselves a silver record. It was also around this time that they released “At the River” as a single in its own right. “Vertigo” featured some of the duo’s biggest hits such as “I See You Baby”, which would go on to be used in Renault Megane and Ford Fiesta car commercials and then the song “”If Everybody Looked the Same” being used in the films, Gone in 60 Seconds and Miss Congeniality. The album went on to peak at number 23 in the UK Albums Chart too.

Their third album “Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)” released on September 10th 2001 shot up the charts to number 5 in the UK and number 8 in Australia. This album also features “Superstylin” which was a huge international hit for the duo, and earned the band a Grammy nomination.

The duo released a greatest hits album called “The Best of Groove Armada” in 2004, which ended their list of released with Pepper Records, before releasing “Soundboy Rock” on May 4th 2007, which was Groove Armada’s self proclaimed best album yet. The album after that, “Black Light” released on January 29th 2010, cited influences from Fleetwood Mac and Gary Numan.