Sonny has been at the heart of the underground dance music scene since the early Hip Hop days of 1983. He is the man responsible for putting on Shrewsbury’s very first rave & club events back in ’89-93 & was Shropshire’s very first actual ‘Mixing DJ’. In the early 90’s, using various DJ pseudonyms, Sonny performed at many of UK’s premier rave events in including Amnesia, Perception, Vision (38,000 people), Pandemonium, Shelleys & Kinetic in Stoke & the Eclipse in Coventry, playing alongside the likes of The Prodigy, Orbital, Carl Cox, Sasha, Fabio & Grooverider.

Sonny also held prestigious residencies at various club nights in Manchester, London, Stoke & a mid-week residency with Sasha in Birmingham. In 1992 Sonny opened Bassment Records, Shrewsbury’s very first underground record shop, & then in ‘93 this all culminated with a 3 month DJ tour of Australia.