DJ Xander

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My Story

Grown up from a music loving and playing family, my father a legend in his home town since the sixties playing guitar and bass in Rock n Roll, Mod and later country bands, and my grandfather played Jazz organ in the army. I play drums, I had one lesson at high school! I first started in an Air Training Corps marching band as a snare drummer and percussion in the high school band in my teens in Northwich. Moving to a full drum kit in the millennium, I joined the bands Badaxe (punk/blues), Kid Klumsy (punk rock/pop metal) and Radial Uproar (rock covers). I was busy in the Coalville scene organising gigs, assisting festivals and roadying for local bands and photographing live and promo shoots.

My first radio experience began with best friend, Tom Bakewell, when guesting on his show at Loughborough Hospital station, Radio Carrilon. We then briefly hosted a rock show on the short lived community station, Ashby Radio, on local FM, ironically dismissed for wearing a t- shirt with a swear on it!

My first show. I was invited to host a show at Castle Rock High School, NWL Radio, named ‘The Launch Pad’ in the summer of 2008 after organising a local popular festival, Heather Music Festival. The show became a success and allowed for specialising in unsigned bands and gradually including new music from the mainstream rock and metal scene. I also added a regular co-host, best friend Tina Bass. At the same time I found a long lost station by the name of TotalRock, who had been powering Download Festival Radio that year. I got involved with the stations online image by creating all the modern social media outlets and became Social Media Manager. In Winter 2009 my show gained a slot at the newly created local Coalville community station, Hermitage FM, but instead I moved to London and joined TotalRock. Tina went solo at Hermitage FM and we both continued the ‘TLP’ brand independently. At TotalRock, I assisted the studio rebuild on Denmark Street, produced Mad Maz’s ‘Anarachy on the Airwaves’, helped initiate and run team projects with regular fill in slots across the schedule along side ‘TLP’ and the Thursday ‘Metal Lunchbox’ slots. I also became a contributor for webzine Pure Rawk. In early 2011 a massive change came by moving to Aarhus, Denmark. This unfortunately led to radio work being put on hold but opened up a step into PR, working with local group IIIrd Alternative and assisting album promo for Born of Osiris. I was also invited over to webzine Metal Talk as contributor and Social Media Advisor. And Now. In 2014 I returned to the UK to my families hometown of Spalding, and to TotalRock with the Friday Hell Drive slot. Soon moving to Nottingham, a second show was started with two slots, Bands Over Breakfast, due to the high output of content from the thriving local scene (this is now streamlined into the daily morning show). This gave me opportunity to up TotalRocks festival coverage output with better equipment and I began promoting once again, under the TotalRock banner I started the TotalRock Takeover, with the aim of uniting the displaced music scene taking over the cities venues and clubs one by one with a little self indulgence of forming one off bands playing my favourite albums with different local musicians, which I named ‘Project X’. I also have the pleasure of judging for the local Metal 2 The Masses competition and helping the winners, Raised by Owls, with PR at Bloodstock Open Air.