So I did the same, got a guitar for a tenner from a charity shop and practiced.Īfter a few years I wrote my first ever acoustic song and I started performing at open mic nights again. I’ve been playing for two years, I got my guitar in a charity shop’. I was like, ‘Wow you must have been playing since you were a kid’. Yes! I was actually inspired by a man at an open mic night. When I set a goal, I go for it and can’t stop. Then, four years ago, I said to myself, ‘As much as I love these nights, I’m not going to one until I can play the guitar. I would approach them like karaoke nights and would request songs but it wasn’t quite the same vibe. Then, when I got more time to myself again, I started doing open mic nights. That was around the early 2000s then careers centre stopped funding it, so I started working in insurance and I became a mum so took time away from music for a while.
It wasn’t normal for people to turn up with expensive equipment, also we were a pair of teenage girls so we weren’t sure if people were going to take us seriously but everyone we interviewed was really respectful and eager to be involved. What was so good back then was that people wanted to talk to us. We’d go to all the raves like The Coronet, SE1, Fabric, Mass and everywhere else and we’d interview the DJs and MCs, trying to get backstage to chat to everyone. It was sponsored by the career centre and we wanted it to be a show for people who were up from the night before. It was 7-9am, three days a week, hosted by me and my best mate Juliet Amani. Then, aged 18, I had the best job ever, I had my own radio show on Reverb Radio. Then when I was a teenager I’d go to karaoke on the pier in Brighton. Yeah since I was three, my parents would take us on holiday we’d do the talent shows. So you’ve been going to raves for a while now but your first tracks were out in 2020. I’ll go to other nights every now and again but D&B is where my heart beats. We spent 10 years going hard house and techno nights but then I went back to my true love – D&B. Once you fall in love with it that’s you for life. Like drum & bass, it attracts very loyal and very real fans So when I got a message from the Untidy Trax boss Lee Haslam asking if I wanted to work on a track, it was a no brainer. That’s where I met him and we went to loads of hard dance events together over the years.
When we met, I was 100% D&B and my friends dragged me to a hard house night. My husband was a massive hard house head. I’ve also just done a track with JMF which is on a harder type of vibe. He sent it over to me and it was like, ‘Wow!’ My husband is massively into house music and he listens to everything I do and he loves it. I’m on DJ Hybrid’s first ever house track which is coming out soon as a b side to the main D&B tune. Yeah I’d say it’s around 95% D&B but I am experimenting with other styles. You’ve been exclusively drum & bass since you first emerged but I see you’ve been doing some house tracks lately… In the month that she links up with DJ Hybrid for his first ever bass house tune, we called up Sammie Hall to find out more about her unique and inspiring journey so far. With plenty more names to add to that list as we groove deeper and deeper into 2022, Sammie’s star is set to rise even higher… And her impression will be felt beyond the confines of drum & bass. Singer / songwriter Sammie Hall has only just emerged in relatively recent times, yet she’s already made a huge impression on drum & bass.īreaking through in April 2020 on Macky Gee’s Down 2 Earth Musik, just as the lockdowns kicked in, Sammie has since gone on to front some serious fire on a whole plethora of hyper respected labels ranging from DJ SS’s foundation giants Formation Records to sleek, futuristic stylings of Overview and the skank happy Deep In The Jungle working with the likes of Sola, Wingz, Sili, Tobax, Ripple, Rowney and many other established and highly rated artists.