Gareth Emery

Stoked to release this record... without doubt the biggest ID in my sets over the past six months. This is LIONHEART and it’s the first proper single from the album Ashley Wallbridge and I made. Shout out to new vocalist PollyAnna who wrote us a killer song!

Miami is a town I have a few points to prove. It used to be where some of my greatest shows were. This was Ultra in 2012. But I didn’t do Miami Music Week the last two years. We just weren't getting the right venues offered, the right shows. “Gareth doesn't sell enough tickets in Miami" was the rather crushing message. I could have gone and moaned about how unfair the world is. But, nah. Instead, I though “Ok. Give us time. We’ll be back.” And we got to work on a little show called Laserface. Now it's time to bring that show to Miami in what's going to be a triumphant return to one of the world's greatest cities. Tickets are on sale now and I'm happy to report we sold more in the first hour than my last few club shows in Miami. Yes people, this is going to be one for the books. Full Laserface rig. Massive support line up. New album of music to play. It's worth a special trip to Miami. It's worth getting gouged for the crazily expensive hotels (hey, fit 4 in a room and it ain't so bad). It's even worth leaving Ultra early on Friday night ;). Let's do this, Miami. Gaz x

One day left to pre-register for Laserface Miami!

Laserface Miami! We’re bringing the full laser rig and a massive support line up. Even if you ain't planning on going to Miami Music Week, get a flight, jump in the car, do what you need to do: it'll be worth it.

We’re going big in 2019. More cities than ever before! First up: Seattle, at the incredible WAMU Theater on April 6th! Pre-registration open now, tickets on sale Feb 6th. More coming soon! Gaz xx

Kingdom United. A video about celebrating our unity in a divided world. Please let me know what you think!

Laserface 2019. Our first European show (finally!). Our first Asian show. A ton of new North American cities. Brand new cutting edge lasers added to the rig. And an album worth of new music to debut. BOOM. Request a show in your city in the comments, and tag any friends who need to see this. We’re still finalizing plans, so your voice matters. The more of you request a city, the more we’ll try and make it work. Finally, be sure to sign up so you can be the first to hear when we announce a show in your city. Game on. Gaz xx

So, after a decade of drink, drugs, late nights, and children, I clearly look far worse than I did ten years ago, but after days of searching, I finally found pictures that suggest the opposite. And the camera never lies. So objective achieved. I officially look better than I did ten years ago. (at least online. In real life I look haggard as f**k but who cares about real life when we have instagram and facebook?)

Boom! The incredible STANDERWICK remix of 'Take Everything' is here👊 What a tune 🙌

Standerwick you LEGEND! You have totally and utterly outdone my original mix. I am going to be playing your remix forever. ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE!!!

We made an unplugged version of Take Everything! This was shot in my studio, the room where we wrote the song in the first place, so it was amazing for it to come full circle. Hope you enjoy!

Been listening to trance for 20 years. It’s a beautifully varied genre. It comes in many different shapes and sizes. Fast, slow, melodic, dark, commercial, underground, etc. This variation is why I fucking love it. The fact our genre isn’t afraid to introduce new styles and change with the times. In fact, if trance hadn’t evolved, it would have died out a long time ago. Anyway, it’s a shame when I see fans of trance music getting so bitter over the definition of the genre. Who gives a shit? We ain’t the biggest style of dance music.... shouldn’t we be sticking together? Nobody gets to define it but you and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise 😬🙏🔥

Big thanks to my mate Armin van Buuren for selecting my new track with Emma Hewitt 'Take Everything' as his Tune Of The Week. I hope you like it!

Take Everything feat. Emma Hewitt is out today. Super proud of this record. I was nervous for the reaction which is often the case when you’ve put your heart and soul into a track but so far your feedback has been beautiful and I thank you for it. Listen in full at Spotify and tag your friends who need to hear it. Gaz x.

For ten years, you asked. And finally, we delivered. Yep, Emma Hewitt and I made a new record for you all and it comes out next week. I would like to ask you for a small favor - please pre-save this track to your Spotify account by following the link in the comments. Not only will this put you first in line to hear the track next week, but it’s one of the best ways you can support artists and Emma and I would be most grateful. Thank you! Gaz xx

True story... when I sit down at a piano some asshole still will occasionally say some variation of "Oh, the button pushing DJ is going to try and play a real instrument is he?" My response is usually some variation of this:

“If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your whole life.” Sorry, but that quote is absolute bullshit. Here’s the truth: If you love what you do, you’ll have to work extremely fucking hard. Harder than people who hate their jobs. Trust me, when I worked a mindless office job, my life was nice and easy. Having a job you love is not easy. You’ll sacrifice many things for your work. Friends, family, social life. But, loving your work allows you to experience the highest highs. To wake up every day feeling a sense of purpose. To know you impact other people in a positive way. And that makes all the hard work, pain, and sacrifice absolutely worthwhile.

The Laserface Dreamstate video is now live!

Feeling insanely grateful for one of my favorite shows of my entire career last Saturday. The atmosphere was just unreal - I had shivers down my spine multiple times with every time the crowd roared to another one of Nice Lasers insane laser drops. And y’know, I was pretty f*cking nervous going into this one. This was the hometown show. The one we had to get right. There was no room for error. Laserface is a big, complex beast anyway but doing it at a festival increases the amount of moving parts. There’s an awful lot that can go wrong. But sometimes, from the moment you get on stage, everything just comes together, and that was last night. It was just beautiful. For basically the whole 90 minutes I just experienced a profound sense of gratitude for the cards life has dealt me. When I dedicated the set to Sansa as I closed out with the song named after her and walked off stage, I was like: f*ck. How do we ever top this? Where to we go from here? Thank you to our incredible Laserface crew who put in an insane amount of work behind the scenes and somehow manage to raise the bar with every show, especially Anthony, Kassy and Andy. Thanks to our special guest Emma Hewitt for an incredible performance. Thanks to Dreamstate, Insomniac and Jeff Ryan for letting us take over the megastructure to do this. And most of all thanks to all of you who have supported us in this crazy dream to build the best show in dance music. Gaz xx

One more beautiful California winter sunset before Laserface SoCal.

We are making Laserface into the greatest laser show on earth. That’s our mission. Not everyone will “get” it and that’s OK. Good lasers are like a decent glass of wine. Not everyone can identify them. There are shows that just pile up a shit ton of lasers, which makes for a good photo, but has no sync to the music. That’s not us. Laserface looks decent in photos but in person, you can experience every single track having a perfectly synchronized laser show. Then there are festivals who scan the crowd with high powered lasers which would be illegal in the US or the UK. Whereas we still do crowd scanning in a safe, legal way which requires a lot more regulation including a dedicated Laser Safety Officer on every show. It’s worth it. Like I say, we’re making Laseface into the greatest laser show on earth. We aren’t there yet. But we will be. Show by show, we get a little better each time. It’s amazing to think the first show in New York was exactly one year ago. Much love to all of you who have supported us along the way. I hope you’ve seen the progress we’ve made since New York. We’re only just getting started! Gaz x.

Music videos are usually a drag. This video for U was actually a lot of fun, because Bo Bruce and I avoided most of the shoot, instead leaving these two beauties to travel all through the majestic desert for a week capturing all this amazing footage. My contribution involved showing up on the last day, pretended to record the song in a hotel room, getting drunk on some random whisky which was sponsoring the shoot, then f*cking off back to LA. (I had spent a good 18 months working on the album though, so I forgive myself). Either way it’s a gorgeous video that I can still watch and enjoy now. Like most of Drive it makes me want to get in a car and f*ck off into the desert for a bit.

Avicii's 'Without You', covered by Gareth Emery & Emma Hewitt at Laserface Las Vegas at The Pearl Theatre, Las Vegas, October 5th 2018.

I frequently get asked if I produce my own music. This is a way more complex topic than people generally realize but here’s the lowdown. Firstly, I don’t have anything against using engineers to polish up a track (even though I rarely do it myself). I mean, if an artist has written the melodies, the song, it’s no big deal having someone else work on the production. Did The Beatles produce their own music? Of course not. Now that’s very different to artists who can’t play a single note of music and simply buy ready-made tracks off the shelf.... which is basically taking someone else’s art and passing it off as your own. Me? On most of my good tracks I did *all* the production. Not because I’m against getting help, but because nobody else could do it how I wanted. I did all of: Concrete Angel. Sanctuary. Reckless. Mistral. Sansa. U. Tokyo. Long Way Home. Exposure. Metropolis. 
But I’ve done some tracks, mostly remixes, where I was running out of time and someone else to do the heavy lifting to finish my demos. Alex Sonata worked on my remix of Lost Frequencies. Craig Connelly on my remix of Ferry Corsten. In those cases I wrote the music. They’re still Emery tracks. They’re just tracks I wouldn’t have got finished otherwise. On the flip side, there are about 10 tracks in the Armada / Garuda catalog that I ghost produced for others back in the day. In all honesty I’d fucking love to find a permanent engineer to finish up my tracks. It would allow me to focus entirely on writing music and songs, rather than spending 4 hours tuning a hi-hat that nobody notices anyway, and I’d likely release more music as a result. But nobody else really nails it so for now, it’s me. Side-note: my fav person to collab with is Ashley Wallbridge . We think about music in absolutely the same way, and can both do every bit of the process. On balance, he’s the better engineer, and I’m probably a bit better at melodies, but together we’re a lethal fucking team. Except to see a shit load more records from us soon! Gaz x.