Profiles

Grant Smillie

Artist, DJ, Producer, Radio & TV Host, Record Label Owner

Bio:
Sleep When You’re Dead! Spend a day in the life of Grant Smillie and you will find out that he lives and breathes Electronic Music and sleep well... it’s over-rated! In the business of music there are not many that can compete with his CV as he covers all formats from TV, Radio, Production, Agency and Management.

Grant is best known as one of Australia’s household names DJ’s and one of our most in demand exports internationally with his electronic outfit TV ROCK. With partner in crime Ivan Gough, the TV ROCK duo have collected 2 ARIA awards and they still hold the record for the longest time in the Australian charts in the top 10 ever! TV ROCK has amassed twelve #1 positions on the ARIA club charts and 2 UK club chart #1’s as well as a UK top 20 for their 2009/10 hit ‘In The Air’.

Grant has been the host of Australia’s premiere dance music show ‘Novanation’ on the Nova network nationally for the past 5 years and also hosts the Neon Essential 10 on the Nova digital platform. In addition to his radio commitments, Grant recently joined the Channel [V] team as a weekly presenter on Club [V] reporting on all things dance related!

Grant’s frequent flyer points are the envy of most with over 200 flights last year testament to his hectic schedule as a DJ, Grant runs the record label Neon who dominated the charts in 2009 spending an impressive 23 weeks at the #1 spot in the ARIA club charts. 2010 has started off equally impressively with 4 of their singles hitting the #1 spot on the charts including the golden girl of Australian club music Zoe Badwi whom he also manages.

Other accolades and notable mentions for Grant include:

• He was the GQ DJ of the year in 2008
• Has been nominated twice for the Cleo Bachelor of the year 
• Is an international Pioneer Pro DJ ambassador 
• Has played private soiree’s for Prince, KISS, and Ferrari
• Was the pre-game entertainment at the AFL Grand Final with Jet
• Plus performed at the MTV Music Awards with Fergie and Good Charlotte to an audience in the tens of millions! 
• Owns and runs 360 agency booking artists such as Alex Dimitriades, Ruby Rose, Fuzzy,Denzal Park, Zoe Badwi, Andy Murphy and many more!