Steven: One of the highlights of my career was interviewing them on our show. We've just recently finished a five and a half year stint at Kiss FM in London, hosting our own radio show called The Saturday Night Invasion. We introduced The Sharp Session which was the last thirty minutes of the two-hour show where we interviewed the likes of Carl Cox, Junior Jack, Boy George, Basement Jaxx, Dannii Minogue, The Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim, David Morales. And when it came to them (PSB) releasing the Pop Art album, I said I'd love to get you on the show and they said they'd love to do it because they listen to the show. I am a huge fan, so I was like oh my God, where do you start? It was supposed to be a thirty-minute interview covering their career and basically it ended up being a fifty-minute special covering their career from the moment they met in 1981 through to their current album being release. That was a real highlight of what we've achieved and it was great fun.
So from a personal point of view I would love to still work with them. I think I can answer on behalf of George, and say David Bowie. We're lucky to have worked with some of the biggest names ever in the industry. Recently doing George Michael again has been a real highlight because it was real, it's going down really well.
George: He already said David Bowie. There is also Michael Jackson, which has never happened but that would be good. It might never happen now, but of course he if delivers some good material then it would be nice to do.
RS: In addition to working with the big names, you also work with up and coming artists like Kenne. How did that remix come about?
Steven: We met Kenne by the pool at the Winter Music Conference in 2001 and we exchanged cards. He's always liked what we've done, so he sent an eMail a few months ago and said I would love you to do a remix of my new song and it was as simple as that. It's one of the quite exciting, fresh things we've done recently. We've been playing it out here in the clubs and it's going down really well. We really funked it up big time with big fat funky baselines and lots of stuff that's been going on here in the UK at the moment. We were quite pleased to do something from America again because we haven't really done much American stuff for a while. We did it for him and I think he wants to do the next one as well. We've checked out his website and he's wearing a little bit of makeup and looks quite camp, so he looks really good to me.
RS: He mentioned the radio show. How did you program radio shows differently than your club sets?
George: With radio you're not actually looking at the floor so you can push the boundaries in a sense. There might be some records that sound great on the radio and definitely have to be exposed but might now work in our set. In a live set, you start lighter and build up to a more harder set. Breaking new material, you realize that some records are going to be bigger than others, but they still have to be exposed to the radio audience because they want to hear the new stuff that's coming out. It was still very much Sharp, as we wouldn't ever play a record if we were just asked to play it or to plug it as a favor. The amount of records you get sent when you do a radio show is insane and if you get a hundred a week you might want to play ten of them so you've just got to be honest and say, this is really not our thing. I'd say probably fifty percent will end up in our set, but the other fifty will be records we actually genuinely like. Depending on what set you're doing, beginning, middle or end set of a club, you can't just play them because you've played them on the radio.
RS: Well speaking about your club sets, I noticed you're doing Anarchy and Royal House right now, what's the difference between those two clubs?
George: Anarchy is basically a straight night and in the main room there's hard house DJs like Andy Farley, Lisa Pinup, Anne Savage, BK, all the big, big hard house names. Our rooms is the Sharp funky punk room. That's at a venue called The Fridge, which is one of the biggest venues, holding about two and a half thousand people. Royal House is basically something we've created a few years ago that we started doing it upstairs at Heaven, and that's it's a six-hour set for myself which has become a four-hour set with another DJ that we particularly want to choose for the night that plays house. The difference is we're not actually just booked as DJs, we're actually the promoter as well alongside Craig Orange who actually owns the venues.
