I was born and brought up in Glasgow and was brought up on music. I played the trumpet for a while in an orchestra, which was fun when I was young. And then of course, I started listening to Radio 1, and venturing into record stores, and then started buying vinyl, I got obsessed with it.
I must have been about 16, when I just decided to start making my own stuff in my spare time in my bedroom I was making all sorts of music, from little ambient things into full blown techno things to sort of band type things, and because I started going to The Arches a lot, I just became more obsessed in that sound of music, and started trying to make it myself.
Four years into doing that, luckily I got a break, and since then it’s been a good ten years of constant travelling all over the world to DJ and produce music.
My studio is in Busby, on south side of Glasgow. My mum and family live up that way, so I like to keep ties with being there. It gets me out of the house to work. Before I had a studio, I was producing music in one of my mum's rooms, when I moved out, I moved the studio into my own house, but now I've got a separate studio, it’s great.
Up until this year, I've been playing around twice a week in a different country. My first experience of travelling and DJ’ing and producing around South America was an eye opener. From only being in Tenerife on a fortnight’s holiday to travelling the way I have has been an incredible experience.
Playing North America is an eye opener as well, but going to places like Japan and Bali to play - it's otherworldly. I've been to strange places in the back end of Ukraine, where I thought my life was at risk, but I didn't care, I was just getting on with what I was there to do
One of the gigs I played in Columbia whilst I was in the middle of a set and having a great time, I looked round and a guy just stops dancing and puts his gun down beside me, and just carries on dancing. So I just got on with what I was doing.
But it's really been amazing travelling around the world. I've loved it. There was a point around 2014 where it was getting too much. I was doing three to four gigs a week, across four different countries and I reached a point where I had to take a break.
I was mentally all over the place, I was probably drinking too much as well, and just getting caught up in the party scene a lot and not sleeping properly. It was really getting tough and it was starting to change me a little bit.
So I took a break and reassessed the way I was conducting myself. I've learnt to be more professional, and get as much sleep as possible, and that's been great for me.
I still play in Glasgow. I play the Sub Club every year, and that's been great. And a sell out for the last six or seven years of doing it. It’s mental, and brilliant. I play The Galvanizers at SWG3 every year too, which I last played a couple of months ago – I think it's a magic venue.
I like to play in Glasgow maybe once to twice a year. No more than that. I think sometimes if you play somewhere too much it can become too repetitive for an audience and less special for me. But I absolutely love playing in Glasgow. It's right up there at the top of the list for me.
Celebrating 5 years on the scene and a brand new collaboration with Pioneer DJ, SKapade Studios present: The SKapade Show Live with Gary Beck giving a live audience Q&A session, The Poetry Club, SWG3, 30 January, For more information head to: skapade
