User:Bunglehaze/Leigh Godson

Leigh Godson is a popular Hard House and Hard Trance DJ from Sheffield, UK. Known primarily for his high pace and melodic breaks Leigh is known to include a variety of genres into his set with the onus being on creating the right sound rather than sticking to a particular style, his playstyle has been formed from many years of playing out and from his years as a dancer in the UK club scene.

Starting as a stage dancer at one of the UK's most popular Rave nights, Pleasuredome he has been involved in the dance music scene since 1991 and has incorporated the many different genres he has been involved in to his setlist, from early rave and happy hardcore through to trance and nu-nrg made most famous by the late great Tony de Vit. Tony's legacy firmly lives on through Leigh's music and he is quoted as the biggest inspiration in Leigh's DJ'ing career along with more recent producers such as Andy Farley and Nick Sentience.

Early career
Dancer at the following:

Pleasuredome (skegness)  - 1991-1994 Vibealite (mansfield)    - 1994-1994 Sugar Cubes (lincoln)    - 1996-1997 Rise (sheffield)         - 1998-1999 Gatecrasher (sheffield)  - 1998-2001 Sundissential(birmingham) - 1998-2000

Leigh began DJ'ing in 1997, originally with happy hardcore/rave and techno back in Lincoln, after meeting the promoter of Rise in 2001 at their new night at sugar cubes in Lincoln his attention turned to hard house (then nu-nrg) which encompassed the energy of his earlier musical preference but with a gritty edge. His first inspiration to this new music was a fellow DJ TimTom, this is where he got his first taste of nu-nrg and as a result of Tony de Vit's music.

Nu-nrg sprang up for the UK's many gay clubs but was quickly adopted by the dance music masses, with hard beats and a mixture of a techno and rave sound he knew it would be popular and honed his skills behind the decks to get playing in many of the clubs around the country, using his contacts from his days as a dancer he found it easy to get work initially small scale but later commanding larger crowds and headline sets.

Clubs and nights
Over the years Leigh has turned his hand at many clubs/nights, here is just a selection of the few (others missing due to a bad clubbing memory)

Sugar Cubes (lincoln) Pleasuredome (Skegness) Relentless (Birminham) Hoover (Sheffield) The Arches (Sheffield) Eat Your Words (Hull) Reproductions (Hull) Farmyard Party (Helmsley) Raveitup (Spalding) Xstatic (sheffield) Zoolu (Sheffield)