In 2015 Simon decided to take his DJing from being a hobby and turn it into something far more serious by entering the Mardi Gras Spin-Off DJ competition. After being selected as one of eight finalists - and the challenge of then playing a tight ten minute set on the final night of the competition, also broadcast on OX Live radio - Simon was selected as a winner which saw him immediately go on to
play on the 2015 Mardi Gras Sunset Cruise. Simon has since become a resident DJ at the very venue that hosted the event that he won - Oxford Street’s iconic Stonewall Hotel - and can be regularly heard there playing the freshest commercial, vocal, progressive and electro house. Other noted local venues including Arq Sydney, Kinselas Hotel and Beresford Sundays are also regular hosts to Simon’s sets. In May 2015, Simon played alongside Sydney legend DJ Sveta at the ‘YES to Equality’ party hosted by Sydney Queer Irish on the historic night of the Irish marriage equality referendum. Later in 2015 he also entertained the corporate world, playing for the Ogilvy Public Relations Melbourne Cup party. With a lifelong love of music and a background in Engineering, Simon revels in DJing as both an artistic and technical pursuit, with the enjoyment of the audience always the foremost priority, whether it be cruisy deep house for evening cocktails or floor-shaking club anthems that get the crowd’s hands in the air in the small hours of the morning.
