Leeroy Thornhill from Punk to Funk

12 Feb 2021
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ku-club-party-kohphangan-26-march-13 dj leeroy thornhill party phanganLeeroy Thornhill
Dj and Producer and famous for his earlier Mad-Man involvement with The Prodigy.


Leeroy is from Essex. Born October 8, 1968, Barking, Greater London.
He grew up in Rayne near Braintree in Essex, with a passion for football and James Brown!

Leeroy was a young punk and into punk music in his teenage years!
This interest was awaken because of his big sister's fascination with bands like The Buzzcocks and The Clash. He also went through a Mod period in his younger years.

Leeroy is a great dancer with incredible footwork. He has got some mad skills for the dance floors!
He picked up a lot of great moves from James Brown. ku-club-party-kohphangan-26-march-13 dj leeroy thornhill party phangan

 

He would listen and watch James Brown in action and eventually he created his own style of dance. 
He went through the breakdancing phase that swept the world in the mid-eighties with a smile and would regularly make his way out into the streets to breakdance with his mates.

Later on - in the early 90s Leeroy would be cruising the raves in Essex.
Leeroy being the big Rave fan of course also met his future companions in a local Rave Club.
At first he met Keith! The two of them became known as a little 'double-act', impressing the crowds with their unique dancing styles.

At the time when he joined The Prodigy - along with Keith Flint - they had both met Liam Howlett ALSO at a local Rave Club.
Both were dancers for the band's live show.

His dance style can be described as a 'technical running on the spot'.
The word on the street is that this style of dance has had a major influence in the development of the Melbourne Shuffle underground rave dance style, and thus Thornhill was interviewed for the underground dance documentary 'Melbourne Shuffler' to talk about his dancing.
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Leeroy spent 10 years with the Prodigy worldwide touring, live events, T.V and so on.

In the spring 2000 he decided to leave the Prodigy to focus on his own productions and re launch his DJ career!
The years before Prodigy he spent DJ’ing but after the Prodigy affair he never had much time to develop this skill.

Leeroy's DJing has brought him on roundabouts over all of Europe and Ireland and also extensively in USA.

Leeroys genre or style is a mix of tuff breaks, old skool samples and electro - known as Miami bass. 

ku-club-party-kohphangan-26-march-13 dj leeroy thornhill party phangan

A style Leeroy picked up while he was touring with the Prod in mid 90's Miami. This is basically a great mash up of Party breaks full of Funk to Rock the floor and heavy on the electro edge.

Production wise Leeroy has been a very busy boy remixing and producing lots of international talent.

His own band Flightcrank released the first album in March 2001.

He also began to work on solo materials.
He has released one EP called Dreamers under the pseudonym The Longman - obviously referring to his own height of about 2 meters! The single contains the following tracks: Dreamers, The Suspect, The Smoker, Rock It.

The Longman was a direct line through Leeroy’s Rave roots and back to the Funk.

”People often think of me as the dancer,” he says. ”They forget that I’m the only other member of the Prodigy that’s played keyboards on stage. I used to do ’Rock n’ Roll’ mid set so Liam could take a break. At one point he used to play percussion while I played keyboards.”ku-club-party-kohphangan-26-march-13 dj leeroy thornhill party phangan

Leeroy has been coming to Thailand for 8 years now but not before last December did he visit Koh PhanNgan.

Now he believes that this might be his favourite island of them all. It is still nice and chilled here he says, and he made some great friends here!

His performance in The Ku Club was his first official appearance on Phangan although he has been hanging out in the Air Lounge with his Russian mates for a few private parties there!

Which music did you bring with you for Phangan?
“I am really into many styles at the moment mainly bass music breaks, electro, glitch hop, drum n bass so I am playing a pretty mixed set!"
It all depends on the crowd response, he says.
"Although in the Air Lounge, with my mates, I play funk, and hip hop and oldskool party music!”

Do you find Koh Phangan to be a good place for your music?
‘Koh pangan has a good scene but like too many places the music is to samey, a bit commercial and to much four to the floor drums.
What I play seems to work in most of the places I go and a lot of people have said it was refreshing to hear some different music.”

You are very known from the Prodigy times, what do you feel is the best thing you ever been involved with or done?
“The band was an amazing experience and the best thing I’ve done!”
-  but also now I have played so many great gigs DJing on my own or with Smash Hifi – which is my new project with Marten Hoger.”
ku-club-party-kohphangan-26-march-13 leeroy thornhill dj party phanganTalking about new projects. What more can we expect from you in the near future?
“My newest project is the Smash Hifi !!

We hope to have our first album finished in the next few months.”

What do you hope to bring to the Phangan Parties?
“Something new!”

- and a rocking atmosphere! People are on Phangan to have a good time and dance and I hope I can make that happen."
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He hopes that when he leaves Phangan it will be with the satisfaction that the crowd had a good time enjoying his music!

When asked what he think he will be doing in 10 years from now the answer is; “who knows! As long as I am happy that is all that matters!

Leeroy is simply hoping to carry on enjoying life and to visit the few countries he still hasn’t been at yet!

He believes that some of the reasons for success in life are to work hard and believe in yourself!
Keep Smiling and Be Happy and Healthy – these are the most important things in life to him!!

His performance in the Ku Club was Wicked!
His appearance behind the decks in our Local Beach Club attracted many fans! Old Punks, new Funks, Techies, Jungle Lovers, the Drum 'n Bass crowd and even a few Trancers!

His vital and used-to-the-spotlight performance was a sure treat and it was an evening with Full Dance floor and a very sweet personal feeling to it!

His set was a clashing mix of old skool funky punk with Hip Hop delights and Tech beats that raised the roof on the new Club!

No one went dissapointed from the dance floor and everyone had the feeling that he was here as a personal favor to himself!
Thank you Leeroy - You Top Rocked and Wickedly Made the Crowd pleased in ways only a Leeroy could do it!!


Have a look at the Photo Gallery from that Night!
 

Feel free to purchase any of the photos if you see something you like!

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Leeroy Thornhill Ku Club Party March 16 2013

 


Keep an eye out for the Smash Hifi project in the near future! This is a good sounding project!

Leeroy is these days travelling non-stop and Phanganist wish him Good Luck on further RoundAbouts and Projects!!

Thank you for your Phangan Treats and Hope we will see you behind the decks in one of Phangan's venues soon again!!


 

 

 

 

 


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