Small Trees & Empire present. FLIP and FILL + HIXXY!

Schedule

Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 pm to Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 am

UTC+00:00

Location

THE EMPIRE | Middlesbrough, EN

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Small Trees returns to The Empire with another massive line up...Line Up - FLIP and FILLHIXXY+Andy hydesDan MacJoe SavKeil YoungNorthern lightsPaul Tracy Rob howard Spuddy--Doors 9pmTickets from £10+BF18+ - ID required as a condition of entry regardless of age--FLIP and FILL - Flip & Fill are a Manchester, England based electronic dance music duo, consisting of the producers/remixers, DJs Graham Turner and Mark Hall. They are signed to the All Around The World record label.
Having released tracks since 1999, they reached No. 34 in the UK Singles Chart in March 2001 with “True Love Never Dies”, based on a mash-up of “Airwave” by Rank 1 and Donna Williams’ “True Love Never Dies”, with re-recorded vocals by Kelly Llorenna. On its second release, it reached No. 7 in February 2002. In addition to Kelly Llorenna, Karen Parry has also provided vocals for the act, including on their 2002 No. 3 UK hit, “Shooting Star” recorded at Jiraffe house studio in Ashton-under-Lyne, featuring a currently unknown bassist that was recording else where in the studio at the time with his band Standfast. Jo James is another singer who provided vocals for their releases, “Field of Dreams” and a remix of the Whitney Houston hit “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”. They have also produced a remix of Ayumi Hamasaki’s song “July 1st” which peaked at No. 3 on Japan’s Oricon album chart.
HIXXY -Ian Hicks , better known by the stage name Hixxy or DJ Hixxy (born in Portsmouth in the UK ), is a composer and DJ music UK hardcore British . Hixxy is notably known for his publications in the series of compilations Bonkers . He also contributed to the Clubland albums, including the Clubland X-Treme Hardcore and Hardcore Til I Die compilations .
He began his DJ career with a musical composition called Toytown , released in 1996 , which was a huge success in the UK , subsequently ranked in the top 10 songs in the country. Some of his headlines include More & More , Together Forever , Sea of Love , and others.
The first official production of Hixxy was marketed, in 1994, in collaboration with Sunset Regime, a music called People’s Party . In 1995 he produced Toytown music with MC Sharkey (Essential Platinum), a music that continued to be aired in the box at the time. In 1996, React Records gave Hixxy the opportunity to record an album that would definitely start a new era in hardcore .
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