Profile

Russ Richardson began his DJ career in 1991, when he started frequenting many nightclubs in Leeds, such as Warehouse & The Gallery.  He also attended at events like Phobia, Ark and  Kaos. During this time he met a number of people who were in the industry and before long Russ was ready to embark upon his DJ career. 

A chance meeting led Russ to playing a guest slot on a local  radio show whereupon he met DJ Wisdom (Jay’ Buddy’ Birch) who was running the North’s first weekly all-nighter in Leeds called U4ria.  Russ was invited to play a guest slot at U4ria, and before long was offered a residency where he played with the likes of Rob Tissera, DJ Sy, Steve Luigi ,Tony Walker, Stu Allen, Ewan Caewood.

Following this he played guest slots at the legendary Gallery and also played warm up sets for the legend that is Steve Luigi in Richard Simpson’s absence. He went on to become one of Leeds finest DJ’s, playing slots at the Exchange Bar as well as numerous other venues throughout the City. 

Russ also began working at The Listening Booth, the very shop where he first used to buy his tunes from.   Whilst there, he worked with Steve, Richard Simpson and Dean White, from which he gained valuable musical knowledge which led to jobs at Eastern Bloc and Racks of Wax, before moving to HMV in Leeds where he worked as a buyer.  Throughout this time Russ played various guest slots in & around Leeds at clubs such as Glasshouse, Casa Locos, and Back to Mine.

Various music projects followed with a number of releases on white label & unreleased work with Buckley.

By 2004, Russ took a break from the Leeds Club scene to concentrate on other projects, but he never lost his passion for DJ’ing.

Fast forward to 2006, when Russ received a call from Leeds Music Entrepreneur Jay ‘Buddy’ Birch.  Russ was offered and accepted a weekly residency at Opus in Manchester. 

In 2007, Russ was offered a weekly residency playing retro house at The Wide Awake Club, in Leeds.  Through this night, Russ met Jay’s business partner and friend Paddy Connell, which brings us up to the present day and his new residency at Retro Heaven which sees him playing alongside some of the biggest house DJ’s from the 90's, such as, Graeme Park, Allister Whitehead, Ian Ossia, Mark Holliday and K Klass to name but a few. 

With more Retro Heaven events on the agenda, the recent launch of the  Gallery Reunion nights not to mention other nights such as Sub Sessions, Russ is now established as one the North’s finest and most sought after DJ’s on the retro house scene today.

Russ has fast become a firm favourite of JBB, due to his music style and ability to please the crowd.  You can be guaranteed that Russ will rock any dance floor.

If you would like to book DJ Russ Richardson please contact JBB Entertainment Solutions on +44(0)113 226 6822 or +44(0)7939 737537. Alternatively, you can e-mail us at info@jbbentertainment.com