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KRAFTY KUTS We’ve decided to do something a little bit new here at BN1 so as a feature we’re sending our roving reporter, man-abouttown and music manager Andy Hollis out and about to have a cup of tea with the great and the good of our wonderful city. As it’s a sit down, face-to-face format, we’ll be trying to reach places other interviews don’t reach and really find out the nitty gritty of what makes some of our most creative talents tick... BY ANDY HOLLIS
First up for a grilling was superstar DJ and forthcoming Glade Festival headline Krafty Kuts, otherwise known as Martin Reeves, to talk about taking his football coaching badges, kids and...Justin Bieber. Martin, I’ve just been looking through your back catalogue and current projects and you’ve done and do so much – iPhone apps, record label, DJ, remixer, producer – aren’t you exhausted?? Yes I am! I think we’ve pretty much covered everything. I ran a record shop, now I have a label and have played in over 60 countries......it’s been a pretty crazy last 15 years, I started out DJing at a club on Middle Street (now Sticky Mike’s) for £30 a night every Friday, then moved on to run a club night at Funky Buddah and it’s just gone on from there. I do try and take as many holidays as I can but I’ve got kids, so those can be even more tiring than the rest of the stuff! When you’ve got a family and you go on holiday, you tend to be in bed, exhausted, by 10pm. Your success has come about quite organically though? Yeah I’ve been lucky actually. If you do a massive, massive hit record that goes worldwide, your career is kind of over before it’s even begun. If you start at the very top like that, you can only go one way. I don’t want to get too big too suddenly because you end up writing more commercially to 8 bn1magazine.co.uk