GIGS &
STAGE
HISTORY
Eleven Summer Bashes across Route 66 Raceway, Tinley Park and Toyota Park, topping out at fifty thousand in Joliet in 1999. Thirteen Halloween Bashes and eleven Jingle Bashes at Allstate Arena. First place in Vegas. Three weeks in Japan. Multiple years in the Bears' DJ chair. Receipts below.
Selected gigs
| Date | Venue | City | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-NOW | Mixmaster Throwdown | Chicago | Promotions crew, ongoing |
| 1999-2009 | B96 Summer Bash | Route 66 Raceway, Tinley Park, Toyota Park | 11 years. 50K at Route 66 Raceway, 1999 |
| 1999-2011 | B96 Halloween Bash | Allstate Arena | 25K per show, 13 years |
| 2001-2011 | B96 Jingle Bash | Allstate Arena | 25K per show, 11 years |
| 2001-2011 | B96 Street Mix | Chicago Radio | 1,100+ mixes aired |
| 2001 | Super DJ Spin-Off | Las Vegas, NV | First Place, RA Nightclub at Luxor |
| 2002 + 2003 | City Night Club | Cancun · Spring Break | Spring break resident |
| 2009 | Armed Forces Tour | Japan | 3-week U.S. military entertainment tour |
| 2010+ | AMP Radio | Los Angeles, CA | West coast Top 40 |
| MULTI-YEAR | Chicago Bears | Soldier Field | Exclusive event DJ |
| VARIOUS | Kanye / JT / BEP / LMFAO | National | Support / opening sets |
The room scale
Add up the headline shows and it clears half a million people in the room, on top of 1.3 million a week on Chicago radio for a decade. Summer Bash ran eleven years across Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Tinley Park and Toyota Park, and the 1999 Joliet show drew fifty thousand. Halloween Bash and Jingle Bash ran twenty-five thousand at Allstate Arena. The Super DJ Spin-Off in 2001 was a national bracket. He won it.
Booking
Clubs, festivals, residencies, corporate shows and brand events go through the booking page. Chicago based, plays anywhere. The DJ and live guitar set is on the table when the room can take it.
Press
Same channel for press, podcasts and interviews. Subjects he goes deep on: the early Chicago dance scene, the B96 years, Euro and progressive house getting a foothold in the Midwest, and dropping the DJ Smurf name for his own. The discography backs it up.