Anne Savage

Anne Savage

Anne Savage is a British hard dance DJ from Burnley, Lancashire. She is born in 1969 and is associated with hard house, hard trance, techno, breaks, deep house and euphoric house. Her work sits mainly within the UK hard dance scene, and she performs chiefly in England as well as internationally.

Career and residencies

Savage begins DJing in Italy, where her first residency is in Bolzano. Her first UK residency is at Legendary Angels in Burnley in 1993, where she plays alongside Carl Cox. That leads to further residencies at Vague and Ark in Leeds, and she also appears regularly at Club 051 in Liverpool during the mid-1990s. She plays for a wide range of club brands and events including Slinky, Golden, Storm, Progress, Sundissential, Tidy Trax and Inside Out in Glasgow.

Releases and recording aliases

She releases mix albums on Telstar, Tidy Trax and Ministry of Sound. As a recording artist on Tidy Trax, she puts out more than 20 tracks, including the best-known tracks I Need a Man and I Need You, both of which sell more than 50,000 copies. She also records as Destiny Angel for Automatic Records, with four releases under that name, and works as Northern Scum with Craig Burger Queen on productions and remixes. She teams up with BK for Instantly/Junglize on Nukleuz, with “Junglize” later played on Judge Jules’s Radio 1 show.

Groups and collaborations

Savage is one half of the Tidy Girls, alongside Lisa Lashes, and the wider project also includes Rachel Auburn and Lisa Pin-Up. She works with a number of other artists across her career, including Carl Cox and Goldie. She also tours South Africa with Goldie, Grace Jones and the Weather Girls in 1998 and 1999.

International work and media appearances

Her performances take her across Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere, including Italy, Ibiza, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Austria, Norway, Finland, Germany, Greece and Canada. In Canada, she builds a strong following in Toronto and performs for the British Embassy. She plays at the last party at The Millennium Dome on New Year’s Eve 2001, in front of an estimated 47,000 people, and later headlines the 5FM birthday concert in South Africa in 2002. Her work is also broadcast on CNN during the South African tour.

Broadcasting and television

Savage is heard on Radio 1 and records an Essential Mix for Pete Tong in March 2001. She appears in magazines including Ministry Magazine, M8 and Muzik, and is interviewed by KISS TV, MTV and Electric Circus. She also presents on Rapture TV. On television, she takes part in the Channel 4 docu-soap Faking It, where she mentors a classically trained musician in DJ technique and presentation, and she contributes to the BBC series Choice World Clubbing, filming a segment in Melbourne.

Education and background

She attends Westholme School in Blackburn, a private all-girls school. Her base in Burnley and her long association with hard dance make her a prominent figure in the British club scene.