Damian and Tom

Tom (The Hat) and Damian (The Duke) have been messing about with music for many, many years. Tom spent his formative years trying to be the first person to buy every hot record each week according to the NME and searching out the new young gunslingers at his local indie toilet venue before a hazy night at Glastonbury lead him to spend a night dancing, dancing, dancing in the dance tent to electronic music. He had been djing at friend’s parties and his local pub off and on using the latest technology, such as stopping and starting a cassette player, but a new found love of raving lead to buying a pair of turntables and an obsessive desire for vinyl began.

Meanwhile, Damian was living the rock ‘n’ roll dream as the lead singer of much loved legends of the rock scene – Let It Bleed. Ah the hazy days of a van load of sweaty rockers or playing as heavy as possible in the local working men’s club. For some reason Britain wasn’t ready to be dominated Let It Bleed and the sweaty van wasn’t best for keeping on good terms with your band matess

Fast forward a few years and Tom is still playing to his dedicated audience of one, the warm up dj for his girlfriend’s nights out and LIB had shrunk to just two, becoming Residuel in the process. A meeting of minds took place over a many a lunchtime chinwag and Tom somehow blagged his way into the Bestival DJ final, only to be robbed (by Da Bank!) at the last minute, but a fuse had been lit and Headfunk was born. For the first of their parties it was ‘The Hat’ djing and ‘The Duke’ as chief rabble rouser. Moving venues for the next party they began djing back to back and the madness notched up a peg or two. During the downtime between parties they recorded the now legendary Headfunk Radio pod cast and were noticed by Vectis Radio, who realized the world needed to feel the Headfunk love vibrations at least once a weekk