Jon Kennedy

b. Stockport, Lancashire, England. This DJ/drummer was influenced by his parents' interest in music, notably the interesting mixture of Peter Frampton, David Essex, Kiss and AC/DC. He began his own personal journey into music in his teens, leading to his first experiences of hip-hop through Run-DMC and Tone-Loc. After pestering his father he managed to obtain a snare drum, and hard work doing a paper round enabled him to buy a full kit. Feeling restricted by the confines of formal drum lessons, Kennedy started to jam while listening to his favourite songs, a characteristic tha...