01/01/2026
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩AAAAAANNIEEEEEE MAAAAC!!!!!
Happy new year!!! I’m taking the time to reflect on my highlights of 2025. This was definitely up there!
Not gonna lie, I actually shed a tear after meeting Annie! 😭😭 she was lovely and warm and real and had a lovely energy about her.
When I heard was going to be DJing at camp bestival last summerI was determined to meet her. 😅
Annie is the reason I became a DJ…. I didn’t think I liked house music until I heard Annie’s show on Radio 1. Growing up I listened to RnB, hip hop and alt moody artists like bjork, Radiohead, massive attack, lamb, & goldfrapp. I thought I didn’t like house music.
But when I heard Annie’s radio 1 show in the early 2000’s I became hooked! She blended genres and played really exciting and uplifting music that always made me want to dance. Her mashups and mini mixes from guest DJs really inspired me. My best mate Rach and I used to go to her Annie Mac presents nights in venues like KOKO in Camden and would always be there for her sets at bestival.
I’d always wanted to have a career in music so around 2011 I took the leap and enrolled in a DJing course in Thornton heath whilst working part time in London. Soon after we moved back to the IOW and I entered s competition for IOW DJs to play at Bestival (when it was still on the island) I got through to the Live finals which were at . At the time I was using serato scratch and control vinyls on my technics 1210’s. I came 2nd that night so I didn’t get to play at bestival sad times… 😭 but it was still an amazing start for me. And fast forward 12 years or so in a full circle moment, Robby made my dreams come true by booking me to DJ at Camp Bestival and allowing me to meet my idol! And my best mate Rach was with me too (which was a special treat coz she lives in Thailand now)
You can also see Jamie in these photos…. also has a special place for Annie on his journey into music. So it was so cool for her to take the time to have photos with us.
And I had to choose Mele’s version of Pasilda for the soundtrack coz it always reminds me of Annie. 🥳
LOVE HER! 💓💓