SMURF 1980's Listening to Adam & The Ants which progressed into electro & hip hop - Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane and De La Soul. Heard 'acid house' for the first time on the radio in 1987 & 'house music' bring combined with hip hop to create hip house. Slowly drifted away from hip hop and started buying acid house and early techno records. 1990 Went to my first warehouse party on my own called Butterloggie in Middlesbrough. Over the year saw the likes of Nightmares On Waz, Lenny Dee, The Shamen, Guro Josh, Raze and local superstars of the time DJ Huey & MC Lee, Zero B 7 Hooligan X. 1991 Went to various big raves around the UK including Raindance, Fantazia, Holocaust, Time, Amnezia & the first Rezerection party's in Newcastle. Got my first turntables. 1992 Preferred the harder European techno/rave sound to all the UK breakbeats and piano's. Got my first turntables and started spending £50+ every week on new records. Played at a few party's around the North East of England, mainly pubs/house party's and in in my first club called 'Walkers' on New Years Eve. 1993 The European sound started to get faster and harder. 'Gabber' music coming from Rotterdam was my new love ! 1994 Played my first 'real gig' at Judgement Day in Whitley Bay, near Newcastle alongside my hero, Lenny Dee. 1994 - 1999 Played at all the UK's hardest clubs and party's, with a residency at Judgement Day in Newcastle & Nosebleed in Scotland. 1998 Produced my first trax on Amiga and had my first release on DJ Freaks UK label Hard Of Hearing (number 8, GGM v Extrement). Two trax released on the Killout Compilation's on Suburban Trash Records Germany and a release on Strike Records - Newcastle (UK) v Newcastle (Australia), which became a big hit and has since been repressed twice. 2000 Resident DJ at Resistance in Edinburgh. First booking outside the UK at the infamous Nordcore party in Hamburg, Germany. Also play in Italy at Underconstruction in Dylan. 'Spunkin Stoat Jizzm' included in 'Killout Trax volume 3', released in Germany. 2001 Play in Switzerland for the first time at Hellgate in Zurich. Also return to Nordcore in Germany. Play at the massive Hardcore Nation party in Milan, Italy. 2002 Play in Winnipeg, Canada. Invited to play on the Industrial Strength Europe European Tour. We travel around Europe in a camper van playing in Italy, Switzerland & Austria. Play at a massive party in Los Angeles USA on New Years Eve called Together As One. 2003 Play in France for the first time in a football stadium in Lille. Do a 10 hour oldksool set in Newcastle to celebrate 10 years of DJ'ing. Another party in Italy on December 26th. Get mentioned in the Billboard Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Music in the gabber section. 2004 First time in Belgium at the famous PORN party. First few small gig's in Holland. Get took off the dex after 10 minutes for playing hardcore techno at a big happy hardcore/makina party near Newcastle :). Back to Germany for Nordcore. Back to Los Angeles for a crazy party in a freak museum in Hollywood. Play at the worlds most famous and biggest hardcore party, Thunderdome, to 10,000 people in the small room at 7 in the morning ! 2005 International bookings almost every week including - Hellbound, Masters Of Hardcore, Megarave v Hellrasier, Multigroove, Beter Kom Je Neit, Nightmare In Rotterdam (Outdoors) and many many more ! Also see Kylie live ! First Smurfland party takes place in Holland. Around 800 people, mostly dressed as Smurf's turn up. Play 2 gigs in Holland and 1 in Germany on the same night. 2006 Play at the massive Masters Of Hardcore party on Holland for the first time. Take over running Judgement Day from Bass Generator with a new home in Scotland and bring many international artists to the UK/Scotland for the first time, including Endymion, D-Passion, Sonic Overkill, The Speedfreak, Peaky Pounder, Angerfist, Human Resource, Noisekick, Rob Gee, Stickhead, Art of Fighters and many more ! Many bookings in Holland, sometimes 2 in one night. Mix & compile 'Temple of Terror' CD released in Holland. Smurf mix on 'CSR Welcome To Terrorland' CD & DVD. 2007 GGM RAW records launched. 1 & 2 released. The first Smurf V Plague battle takes part in Holland at Hellraiser V Megarave. Play at the massive Fantazia party in Scotland. Big party's in Holland Masters Of Hardcore for a 2nd time. Another Smurfland party in Holland, one on Friday and another on Saturday. Play at the massive Decibel outdoor festival in Holland. Play at Nightmare In Italy. GGM Raw Records 2 released. Smurf mix on 'Noisekicks Birthday' CD. 2008 Continue to play out almost every weekend, big festivals such as Ground Zero in Holland, Masters Of Hardcore, Megarave. Party in Switzerland, Italy. First Regeneration V Judgement Day party's in Newcastle, Hardcore Heaven Weekender in England, raving Nightmare in Belgium. GGM Records 3 released. Smurf mix on 'Pure Terror' 2xCD & DVD on 'This Is Terror Records', Holland. 2009 Viktor Van Stroomf is born - Smurf's hardtechno/schranz/industrial alter-ego. Busy every weekend. Play at Ground Zero for the 2nd time. Belgium, Holland, Italy. Plague V Smurf 12" released on Canadian Speedcore Resistance & Plague V Smurf 2xCD & DVD released on This Is Terror'. 2010 'Christina Gets Wanked On' track gets played on BBC Radio 1 by Kutski. Viktor Van Stroomf plays a few times in Holland. Industrial and hardtechno/schranz sets + many bookings in the UK. Broke my first bone, stood on a bottle dancing to hardstyle! Many party's in Holland, Italy (Masters Of Hardcore, Number One), Germany, Belgium, UK. Smurfland returns to Holland for my birthday party. GGM Raw Records 4 released on vinyl. GGM Digital net label is born catering for all harder styles. 1: What is your greatest achievement as a deejay? Playing at Thunderdome at 2004. After collecting all of the CD's in the 90's never even expected to visit a Thunderdome party, never mind play at one. 2: How did you come up with your deejayname? Because I am small and blue, with a white helmet. When I first wanted to start DJ'ing in 1991, I was with my parents stuck in traffic. The Smurf TV theme tune came on the radio and I thought it was awfully jolly. I thought it would be funny if a DJ played this for his first track to make people laugh, so I thought, yeah, I will do this and become the DJ Smurf. 3: Do you have a special message to all people who read this? Thanks for all your support over the many years. I am very gratefull and will continue what I am doing until I am a gabber granddad. 4: What is your favourite headphone brand? Pioneer, but I have snapped so many of them when jumping about behind the turntables. 5: What do you like to drink during and after your deejayset? I try not to drink too much before I play, but during and after - white wine, jack daniels, vodka, bacardi, buckfast, lager, beer, sambuca, absinthe, ozo - Anything that is wet really I particularly like to drink from the furry cup.