Biography:
Combine Steve Nichols' bangin' music with his charged-up energy behind the decks and you've got a recipe for absolute mayhem on the dancefloor. With extensive experience across Australia and the UK this international superstar is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after DJs in the country.
His innovative sound crosses the hard dance spectrum, from funk to trance to pumping hard house. With a growing preference for hard, uplifting trance, his sets are always played to perfection and guaranteed to get the crowd stompin' and sweaty!Industry leaders have described Steve's
performances as "... wicked trance, going into harder territories before blending into lovely hard house rhythms ... loved the build-up and the mixing is superb ... could really take you on a dancefloor journey...".

Steve had his first taste of what the electronic world had to offer in April '95. Eight mind-blowing hours spent in a Brisbane club single-handedly changed the way he looked at music and the dance scene. The desire to be the person who created that energy and atmosphere was too strong to resist ... and with the purchase of turntables soon after, the adventure began! Steve's DJing career quickly progressed from the bedroom to house parties to clubs and raves. Then in 1998, a six-month stint in the United States took him to a whole new level. Developing and diversifying his talent, Steve sent clubbers into a frenzy at venues like The Hideaway in Winter Park, Colorado, and Bourbon Street in Auburn, Alabama.

In '99 came the move to London, which saw Steve secure his place among the world's DJing elite. Scoring regular guest slots at club nights such as 24/7, Emigration, Fahrenhite, Fevah, Pickle, Provocation, Qwench, Random, Solid Sunday, Turmoil, Twisted and XLR8, at venues that have included Heaven and The Ministry of Sound, Steve just kept getting bigger and better.
During this time, he regularly played alongside the likes of Nick Sentience, BK, Phil Reynolds (including a memorable back2back set), Steve Blake, Justine Bourne, Steve Hill, Andy Farley, Stimulant DJs, James Lawson, Tidy Boys, Paul Glazby, Lab 4 and Ed Real.

Steve is now based in Australia but makes regular trips back to the UK for events that include Frantic (Camden Palace), Sunday School (Hanover Grand), Heat (Turnmills) and Hard House Academy at Brixton Academy. Production work is also on the agenda for the bi annual trips.
Since arriving back in Australia Steve has secured residencies at Frantic Sydney, Progress Sydney (monthly) and Altitude Melbourne. Coupled with this Steve has headlined nights for Hard Kandy, BassStation, Frantic Melbourne, Bubble, System 6 (Brisbane & Adelaide), Ultraworld 20, The Gathering (NZ), Fevah (NZ) and many more.

With seven years experience firing up clubbers across the globe, Steve has started utilising this knowledge in the production of his own music. To date he has completed a number of tracks in collaboration with KeLSTa, Ali Wilson, James Lawson & Steve Hill (as NHL Project out now on Tripoli Trax), Brad Thatcher and Yoshi.

Reviews:
"…Steve Nichols stepped up next taking the crowd to another level and, apart from a slight technical hitch that was sorted swiftly by the boys on stage, played another phat set indicative of a fine international..." - Ultraworld 20 Adelaide Feb 2002 (inthemix.com.au)

"…Steve Nichols (Frantic) was not about to let anyone go just yet. Like the pied piper of Hamelin, he lead us on in terms that can only be understood by those that were captured by the mysterious melodies…one after the other. You know when a DJ has been a successful closer when the dance floor still seems lost amongst the shuffling feet! And lost they were in more ways than one! Definitely a great way to follow Phil and an even better way to say good night…" - Frantic Sydney May 2002 (clubber.tv)

"…Not to put pressure on the man, but every time I have seen Steve Nichols play a set, it has been awesome, and this night was noooo different! A nice hard trancey set that pumped from beginning to end, with just enough R & R in between. And Just when you thought he might let up and give you a breather, out of the electronic depths comes a build up that brings you right back to where you started and keeps you pedalling along that windy road to… wherever it is that Steve was taking you… - Frantic Sydney June 2002 (clubber.tv)

"…I couldn't help but jump straight onto the dance floor as Steve played some favourites and some fantastic new ones that wouldn't let my legs stop jumping. Steve's set was definitely a perfect infectious foreplay to K90, and a regrettable farewell. Steve will be missed, not only by me, but by the legion of fans that he has managed to triumphantly transfix in such a short time, as he heads over to London for a couple of months…may the force be with you Steve and come back soon!!" - Hard Dance Nation Sydney July 2002 (clubber.tv)

"…Steve Nichols fucking rocks! Homegrown world class talent, he's played just about everywhere good hard dance is played and cut it with the best. And now he lives here in Melbourne. How good is that? Tonight Nichols has a hard job to do: He started with the crowd in a sweaty frenzy and had to deliver them up to Sentience in the same state. What to do? Go hard my son! And so he did, ripping out some absolutely banging tracks from all corners of the genre. Kicking off (or thereabouts) with "Devastation" (Ali Williams & Matt Smallwood), slipping in Carl Nicholson & James Lawson's "Times Like These", he turns it up notch by notch but continues with the trancey flavour that has dominated the night. Lots of uplift to keep the crowd pumped, and a bit of funk to boot. Nichols looks like he's having as much of a good time as Hill did, and why not? The crowd's just going nuts. An excellent set by Nichols fer sure, which delivered us to Sentience just the way the headmaster ordered… - Frantic Melbourne July 2003 (inthemix.com.au)