A transcript excerpt of a Whole Man Academy podcast episode featuring DJ Mark Knight. The guest discusses his background (working-class upbringing, grandfather's advice), passion for records and DJing, career highlights (national DJ, label head), experiences playing small rooms to stadiums, touring anecdotes (Croatia, Ibiza), and balancing touring with family life.
Who was mad about buying records and talking about records and playing records?
What's it like when you are DJing in one of those super clubs or stadiums up in front of thousands of people?
Whole Man Academy. Well, my granddad was a painting decorator and he said to me, mark, he said, Life is 80% preparation and 20% execution.
The whole Man Academy podcast. Mark Knight was national DJ producer, award winner, head honcho at Turham Records. He's a dad, probably most importantly, just.
Still a normal guy from Mason. That bit has never changed. I remember it being so cold, I couldn't pick up my trowel and I was like, I actually want to do something else. I'm very driven. If I'm going to do something, I want to do it to the absolute best of my ability. Can you afford to live life, you know, by the medium of music? And if I'm in control of my destiny, you know, that puts me on the front foot because I've only got two answers to myself. Then individually, you can be good, you can. As a team, you can be unstoppable. You were playing to five people. Now if you put one wrong record on, they're just going to go in.
Pasha in Ibiza in front of me, thousands of people with, you know, with that entire club bouncing.
If I can keep these five people to stay, then keeping 50,000 people to stay, piece of piece DJ and live that lifestyle and be a dad, because you're a bloke and you're set in your ways and you do things that you. How you do it.
Living quiet life of desperation.
Can I get between Bogaty and Lithuania? Yes, of course I can. Well, I'll do it. The whole thing's founded on ridiculous fucking principles. It won't work, it will fail. I've been to Croatia, I shit you not, 30 times. You know, you talked about Abici earlier. I actually played with him the first time he ever did a gig. Right, look, mate, well done to you, what you're doing with the. With the Whole Man Academy. That's really cool, mate. Congrats.
Right, I'll get my boots. Where are we? Where are we going?
Well, I'm going to go now because you put the wrong record on.
