Sparkle Artist & DJ Agency is home to some of the world's top DJ/music/cabaret
performers. From clublands favourite global DJ's and live
PA's, to cabaret and circus performers, and skilled mainstream
resident/contract club DJ/hosts.
If you are in the industry you've probably heard of most of them already, and know the name Sparkle Agency - but this will tell you a bit more about us.
What We Do
We are
a tax registered, and long established artist , DJ and entertainment booking and
event services business with a high reputation in the
industry.
The agency is headed up by Founder/Director Steve 'Spike' Hull,
an entertainment professional with over 30 years experience in performing, promotion, DJ/artist management. and booking. His in-depth knowledge of
music culture and technology, and the entertainment industry generally,
is complemented by a wide understanding of business matters gained from
a background in blue-chip financial, commercial and contract management.
We pride ourselves on our ethical booking policy and our second-to-none reliability record - a 14-year unbroken artist appearance record (it's probably longer than that but we weren't counting in those days). which as far as we know is unique in the UK industry and possibly the rest of the world too. We value and encourage long-term booking relationships and many of our customers return to book time and again and over the years some have become firm friends - we hope you will too.
We hope you will find our new website format the easiest to use yet , enabling you to quicky browse the roster, view the artist profiles, and book our amazing headline DJs, slick musicans, awesome vocalists, jaw-dropping magicians, stunning dancers and dazzling cabaret performers. Our online enquiry form HERE will allow us to give you the quickest response for your event or performer requirements.
Sparkle has some of the best DJs, musicians, vocalists, live acts, dancers, and promo staff available anywhere in the industry - we are incredibly selective about who we take onto our books, so expect to find only the most professional artists with exceptional performance skills here.
About Our Roster
We have a wide range of acts from different
popular music styles and spectrums ranging from funky, electro, house,
techno, hard dance, trance, progressive, rnb, urban, and soulful
DJs, some of the worlds most glamorous female DJs and club tours, and skilled
personailty DJ/hosts for mainstream
nightclub residencies and international season contracts.
Our live acts roster continues to expand
and features saxophonists, trumpet players, bongo, and traditional
and electronic percussionists that play with some of the most famous DJs on the planet
Our dancer roster features male and female
freestyle and choreographed performers in all all types of dance
routines from glitzy showgirls to large Riverdance-style Irish
dancing shows, cultural dance troupes performing dances from
China, Hong, Kong, India, Poland, and samba style Brazilian dancers
from the carnival parades of Rio, as well as street dance and
modern dance troupes doing amazing things
with music, light, ribbons, aerial skills martial arts and all
sorts of break dancing, crumbling and electro boddy-popping.
Look no further for bhangra dancers, bollywood dancers, thai
dancers, flamenco, roller dance teams, ballroom dancers, lion
dancers, jive dancers, line dancers and burlesque cabaret acts.
We have an absolutely fabulous selection
of Burlesque dancers and acts , including a spectacular Dita
Von Teese tribute and our wonderful Ooh La Las who perform a
fabulous 40s sailor girl routine among many others, or Gwendoline
L'amour fan-dancer extraordinaire.
We work regularly with corporate event managers, celebrity party organisers, brands and industry partners to create exciting entertainment packages for those occasions when the very best performers are required. We really can't speak too highly of our artists - they have been absolutely amazing over the years as brand ambassadors for us and our clients, their dedication and passion and ability to 'wow!' has been a major factor in the success of our agency brand, and we can't thank them enough.
Background & Industry Experience
Sparkle Agency was established
back in the early 1990s when our Agency Director realised his pro DJ career was coming to a premature and inevitable end due to a recurring hearing problem. He still had the desire to be involved in the DJ/ dance music industry, as well as having the contacts that could help others in their performing careers. His ideas about promoting other DJs coincided with the emergence of new digital music formats and the birth of the web and spread of personal email online communication all fused together in a vision for a new type of DJ agency - online.
So through a happy marriage of right idea, right time, and right technology Sparkle becamethe World's very first web-based DJ agency. True, we had to wait a couple of years before the internet became more widely understood and used before things started to move, but this gave us ample opportunity to try things out, develop our roster and improve our exposure. Our vision proved extremely successful, demonstrating to DJs, the music community and booking industry.what could be achieved in the new media and setting the industry standard. Through that and various other firsts, we earned a reputation for innovation, and most of the ideas that we pioneered are now common practice throughout entertainment booking and promotion.
Many years on, we have encompassed a much wider spectrum of entertainment. While are are firmly established as one of UK's leading international DJ and artist bookers with particular expertise in the dance music market, we continue to explore new ideas and we thrive on being on the leading edge (and often the bleeding edge) of the booking industry.
2012 was no exception, as we rolled out our new format website designed specifically for easy iPad/tablet viewing, our new dynamic Facebook FanPage as well as the introduction of QR technology on our printed and downloadable documents to enable those of you with scan functionality or apps on your mobile devices to quickly connect with us online. Not forgetting our BOOKINGFORMforFanPages app for Facebook launched in July which is proving very popular.
As we enter our 20th year of operation we continue to review and improve our agency - there's still plenty of surprises to come yet!
New Artists
We do take on experienced,exceptional artists from time to time. You'll find our current roster vacancies and our minimum requirements on our information page for new artists on our Facebook Page.
Artist, Promoter, and Industry Services
Sparkle
are not just a DJ and performer agency - we also offer
a range of services to help DJs, musicians, bands, performers,
venues, promoters and the music industry generally. We
have drawn together a range of resources that we hope you find
useful, including our legendary SparkleDESIGN studio which has
been creating eye-candy flyers, posters, artist profiles, bespoke and template websites and
CD art for over 12 years and is used by many in the music industry,
as well as customers in leisure, fashion and business generally.
If that
wasn't enough to keep us busy we also have a digital download
music store WeLiveforMusic featuring the hottest dance tracks and merchandise - why not take a look now, using the links below.
REGISTERED OFFICE:
21 MARNOCK HOUSE, KINGSWOOD ROAD, ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT TN2 4XP ENGLAND
Well
what can we say about this man that hasn't already been said
a million times before other than we are very proud to have a
true dance music legend aboard. Nicky, along with Paul Oakenfold
and Pete Tong was one of the founding fathers of the UK dance
scene, and exporter of the new Ibiza sound to an unsuspecting
and mainly grateful world. 15 years on and most of what we know
as the dance scene today has been built on the foundations of
the vision, perspiration and liberty-taking of these few. Rumour
has it they had quite a good time in the process too!
With roots in the mid 80's soul and warehouse scene Nicky's incredible DJ
journey from the DOO AT THE ZOO'S and SPECIAL BRANCH parties
to the championing of the Balearic sound and Ibiza scene through
to the opening of his legendary parties and clubs THE MILK BAR,
TRIP, SIN, MARS, VELVET UNDERGROUND in London and Ibiza and involvement
in all manner of apects of the scene and industry over the years
have been well documented in the many books on the history of
house.
These days
Nicky Holloway may be wiser, more reflective and more vertical
than back in the heady days of Ibiza superclubbing and UK Acid
House, but the hunger for playing great dance music is still
there, along with the performance talent that has headlined thousands
of events over the years and that amazing record collection stretching
across 25 years of dance music. This is the man that turned EuroDisney
into rave central in 1993, toured Spain, Australia, New Zealand,
France, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, America, Argentina, Russia,
Egypt, Greece, The Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, China,
Dubai, Bahrain, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, Malaysia,
Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Brazil, Denmark, Czech Republic,
Switzerland, Italy, Scotland & Kosovo while most of us were
still trying to find a party somewhere off the M25!
The first
BBC Radio 1 Ibiza Essential Mix came from none other than - yep
you guessed it (1995 Privilege)
Nickys' early
production credits include Beats Workin - Everyway But Loose,
Titty Twister - Pussy Blowout, Holloway & Co.- Voyager, Holloway
& Co.- I'll Do Anything To Make You Mine (Incredible), Sir
Real - Spirits High (White Label),NWA vs. Oasis - Wonderwall
(White Label), Beats Workin - Don't Keep Me Waiting (White Label),
Velvet Underpants - Where Is My Man (SL2), Beats Workin - Burn
Out Don't Fade Away (FFRR), Beats Workin - Sure Beats Workin
(FFRR).
Nicky freely
admits his increasing passion for his writing, producing and
remixing, with several projects always on the go (recent customers
include Jon Legend, Carl Cox and Gilles Peterson), is now taking
up valuable DJ time. Nevertheless he still finds time for a London
residency at the immense GUILTY PLEASURES events at KOKO (Camden
Palace), celebrity parties and his regular international forays always generate
the same buzz and fabwelcome from fans the world over each time
he rekindles the legend.
Nicky's latest
venture is a brand new club concept Desert Island Discos - a
concept as catchy as the name, you just can't keep a good man
down. Some of the worlds most famous DJ names have guested or
been spotted grooving at Nicky's intimate nights, with Nicky
returning the favour for the recent KISS FM 25 year celebrations
at the swanky settings of Londons skylounge The Paramount.
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