Pilgrim - One of the most original, hard working DJ's there is on the old skool scene at present is one of the original DJ's from the very beginning when it all first started. "I've been DJ'ing since 1987 when back then, I was a hip-hop scratch DJ using 2 copies of the same record to do loads of trick stuff like using my nose, knees or elbows to work the cross fader and generally scratching the records up beyond recognition. After a while the music in hip-hop started to change to slow gangster rap whilst at the same time the rave scene started to grow. As I got more used to the rave sound, I liked what I heard as the music was uplifting, energetic and everyone into the music seemed so happy, which is what hip-hop used to have so at that point, that's when I started switched over to what is now known as hardcore."

Pilgrim's major break into the hardcore scene came in 1991 when he landed a residency at Quest in Wolverhampton, voted the number 1 club night in the whole of the country by the ravers choice, and from the back of that became a household name playing at the countries top all-nighters such as Fantazia, Vision, Amnesia House, Tribal Gathering, and club venues all over the country, still keeping his unique style of using 2 copies of the same record and playing them both at the same time to make the track sound like a remix.

"About the back end of 94, the music style changed and split into happy hardcore and drum and bass so I decided to stick with the happier side of hardcore but after a while the music went silly as it seemed to be speeded up rip off versions of all the old classics and then came all the chipmunks and the silly cartoon themes, so I kind of lost interest in the whole thing and took a back seat from it all until about 1998 when I started playing out more sets of the old original tunes from back in 91. Not long after that I hooked up with the guys from Flashback as they too, were ex old skool ravers, and started to put on small parties totally dedicated to the old skool sound." Since then the old skool scene has once again become massive with all-nighters and club nights all over the country dedicated to the music and once again, Pilgrim can be seen spinning the old classics at most of them.