Wed, 06 Jul 2022
Jane Fitz is a DJ, promoter and music journalist from east London. After making tapes and DJing at parties while still at school, she graduated to promoting her first parties when she was 21. Shake It Baby Shake It were ramshackle nights mixing soul, funk, beats and house, in equally ramshackle Camden studios in the early 90s. A few years later Jane moved to Hong Kong, where she learnt to beatmatch on her flatmate's decks and became a resident at the legendary Robot parties, playing underground house 12 stories above the city.
At the tail-end of the 90s Jane returned to London and, daunted by the prospect of starting over, started up Peg, a word-of-mouth underground house party that travelled across London's warehouses, recording studios, pubs, clubs, basements and rooftops for 10 years. While London fell out of, then back in love with house music, Peg stayed true to underground deep house when no other promoter would touch it. The party's reputation was built on its welcoming crowd and quality line-ups; guests included, Charles Webster, Chris Duckenfield, Brothers Vibe, Jimpster, Brawther, Jitterbug and Miles Sagnia – alongside the real heroes, the unknown and upcoming djs that P... More Biography
At the tail-end of the 90s Jane returned to London and, daunted by the prospect of starting over, started up Peg, a word-of-mouth underground house party that travelled across London's warehouses, recording studios, pubs, clubs, basements and rooftops for 10 years. While London fell out of, then back in love with house music, Peg stayed true to underground deep house when no other promoter would touch it. The party's reputation was built on its welcoming crowd and quality line-ups; guests included, Charles Webster, Chris Duckenfield, Brothers Vibe, Jimpster, Brawther, Jitterbug and Miles Sagnia – alongside the real heroes, the unknown and upcoming djs that P... More Biography