Special Minisode: The Legally Speaking Podcast Live Lounge - Powered by Lost Rhythms

0:00Adam Guy:Welcome to the Legally Speaking podcast. I'm delighted to be joined by Lost Rhythms. Please introduce yourselves. Good evening, Frankie and the one and only Adam Guy. And the reason we're doing this podcast is because we have started a new initiative on the show, very much part of our entertainment side of what we're trying to do. And we do a live lounge which broadcasts across LinkedIn, YouTube, you name it. And I want to kind of start really with the story of how, Adam, you and I got connected through the legal world and then sort of go into a little bit about both your backgrounds and journeys and, you know, some of the exciting things we've got planned for the Live Lands in the future.

0:40Adam Guy:So, Adam, do you want to tell a bit of the story?

0:42Frankie Gioia:Yeah, absolutely. So we met in Ibiza on the lawyer's retreat, which is Justine and Kate and Kirstie. But the reason why I was invited, because obviously I DJ, but I also work in interiors, interior design. So I do the two combined as a career. And we fitted out Hive Risk's new office. So obviously then you get close to the customer and then you have a DJ. And they were organizing the lawyer's retreat and asked me to go over to Ibiza to DJ. So obviously I said yes. And then I met your good self. Yeah.

1:20Adam Guy:And then Frankie, could you maybe tell the story of Lost Rhythms and a bit of how you both got connected as well? Well, me and Adam, we've been friends now for probably, what do you say, about 20 years? I'd say, well, when we went to Amsterdam that time, what was it, 21?

1:36Frankie Gioia:Yeah, 22 years.

1:38Adam Guy:Yeah, 20 odd years. And during the early years, I was fortunate enough to be playing at a fantastic residency in Liverpool at a club called Garland's and occasionally I'd cross over to Manchester and kind of that's how me and Adam bonded really with obviously friendship and music and we were both obviously crossing over I was occasionally playing in Manchester Adam was coming over to Liverpool to DJ so we just hit it off really and we've been friends ever since and we're starting to do several projects together really

2:14Frankie Gioia:which is Lost Rhythms So we've been DJing for combined years, probably 60. So I've been DJing 30 years. So I started at 14 in my bedroom. Over that time, we've DJed all over the world. Ibiza, Marbella, Tenerife, Hamburg, Sweden, mainly in the UK, all the festivals and stuff like that. But we've come together now to combine what we do as the Lost Rhythms. so the mean that Lost Rhythms basically why we picked that name is we thought right we'll come up with an idea of all the older tunes that we used to play in the noughties that weren't really mainstream but were good at the time is kind of bring them back re-rub them, remix them and bring them back to life if that makes sense.

3:09Frankie Gioia:Guilty Pleasures yeah so that could be anything from your 70s disco hits to up front purple disco machine disco uh roger sanchez anything in between anything that's good oh yes yeah no and it's it's been tremendous and i mean you sort of glossed

3:27Adam Guy:over there but you you've done some pretty big stuff with some some big names do you want to just tell us a little bit more frankie a bit about your sort of background and some of the big stuff you've been involved in yeah early on really i think um kind of in the infancy of my dj career I was invited to enter a competition. Fortunately, I won that competition. And then the floodgates opened, really. So from starting off DJing for friends or in the local pub, I always remember, actually, this is quite a funny story. So the first gig I had in a pub, it was the Heron Hounds. And you know those big, chunky ashtrays?

4:03Adam Guy:A friend of mine, she had a whip round and got everyone to throw in their change for me. So I got a bit of pocket money. But no, it all happened pretty quick, really, in terms of DJing. In my opinion, I think it was probably the best club in the country, or one of them anyway, in Garland. It was a gay club, but it was something special. You know, the atmosphere was just electric. And that was my first real residency in my early 20s. And I was playing there every Friday, and the night was peach. And yeah, just DJing alongside the best DJs in the country and in Europe. up so it was a learning curve great experience and then occasionally i i would be asked to dj or warm up for um the residents on a saturday dave and huey and as adam i'm sure will agree that you know you that's where you really i think learn your craft as a dj not playing the peak time music but warming up so no bangers just set the tone set the tempo yeah so um yeah that was you know briefly my kind of my entry really to playing at some, you know, in club land.

5:11Adam Guy:And then throughout the years, as Adam said, we've been fortunate enough to be playing at some of the biggest, well, playing alongside the best DJs and for the biggest brands. And now, you know, throughout the years, we've decided to go one step further and promote our own events. And that's what I've been doing, you know, for the last maybe, what, 10, 15 years really. And Adam's the same.

5:34Frankie Gioia:yeah yeah well a bit of an interesting fact here but when i was 20 how old was that must have been 20 23 24 dj with calvin harris and he'd had a a tune that had come out so he was getting quite big i think it was acceptable in the 80s or something like that born in the 80s remember the first yeah i remember that so i got booked on the same lineup at club north in manchester and he's actually called Adam and I DJed with him then, not sports room since but yeah and along the way I've DJed with the Swedish House Mafia, Davy Guetta, Roger Sanchez, probably most of the big ones really, Mark Knight, Tool Room Records, those are the defected DJs.

6:17Frankie Gioia:I coincide obviously my DJ life with obviously working in the interior design side I think so quite creative at the same time.

6:26Adam Guy:And that's what I want to sort of touch on briefly with you both and then we'll talk briefly about the Legally Speaking Live Lounge with Lost Rhythms, because there's lots of people, lawyers, that have passions outside of work, and I'm sure they'd like to pursue them more. And you both are in demanding jobs, doing your sort of demanding job, but still being able to sort of balance your passions. So tell us, and with families as well. So any sort of things you would say to that that might inspire people that just haven't picked up that passion? It may not be DJing, maybe something else, but you two are doing it.

6:55Frankie Gioia:Well, to be honest with you, I mean, when I started, I started DJing when I was 14, getting to a point where I could, or I got good when I was at school and I learned and it's easier to learn when you're a kid. And I learned how to DJ, scratch, all that type. So when I was 18 and old enough to go into a club, I started to DJ in clubs and nightclubs and stuff. And I got a job at Selfridges in the Trafford Centre. And I was working in the shop, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Armani, all that type of stuff. and there was a DJ, they had a DJ in the store at the time. So I started being a DJ for Selfridges and doing the fashion shows and stuff like that.

7:33Frankie Gioia:And then how I started was me and my friend were quite popular in the store. Obviously, everybody knew us. And they had 500 staff between the two, Selfridges, Manchester and Trafford. We did a staff party in a club in Manchester and we sold it out. And that was a start for me. And then we got asked to promote some other events in the Manchester Centre. and then the next events that we promoted the biggest club night in manchester called two and that's how i met frankie asked me to go and dj and then i ended up being resident and then it was kind of snowballed from there so i just dj'd at the time for probably about four or five years and then my daughter was born and i thought right it was like famine or feast really i could have made it was hard work to just to just dj because it's some weeks it's it's like famine or feast so one week you've got a load of money and next week you've got a cancellation like oh my god no regular income so i thought right well my friend works in sales as a account manager for a stationary company and he got me a job with him because i thought i'd seen him in his company car suit and i thought i fancy a bit of that and then from that point i've kind of done the same i've done them both it's quite demanding if i'm honest but i love music and now because i work during the week that's my main concern obviously but then i can pick and choose what gigs i do so i can pick the best ones and we're still in demand at 44 years old um yeah so it's difficult as we've just come from work to get here yeah and rushed around a little bit and we've got kids and all that type of stuff so it is hard work and i've got a wife who's not too happy about me going out every weekend working in a perfect world i wouldn't have to do that but we do it because we love it i

9:14Adam Guy:think don't we yeah anything you'd say to that frankie and how you balance it yeah i have to say you know we both as you mentioned we've both got demanding jobs i've got a background in logistics i'm a uk operations manager so i have to go out visiting customers solving problems logistical problems but you know what now we're talking about it and when i when i think about it i still have the same enthusiasm now as what i did you know 25 years ago and to a certain degree it's our release you know after after a hard day's work hard day's graft you know just put the music on and you know when you're playing in a club or you're playing in front of a crowd might be you know a few hundred it might be a few thousand honestly rob you forget about everything else yeah the energy isn't it energy breeds energy i always find that and it's incredible okay before we look to close then let's talk a little bit about lost rhythms moving forwards you know we're excited here on the league's being podcast to be collaborating with you've launched a live lounge what what can people expect from that from you guys and i guess looking ahead with the lost rooms yeah well so we i'm a

10:21Frankie Gioia:resident dj at the adored events and we've got some gigs coming up so we can give some free tickets away if anybody would like some and what we've got coming up we've got some releases that are coming out on Martin Eiching's label, which is Martin Eiching, if you Google him, is a big producer and DJ from Toolroom Records and he set his own label up called Nowhere Records and we've got some releases out on that label. We've made some remixes of some older tracks. We're just waiting to get cleared from the lady that originally sang them. They're very good and so we're hoping that that would come to light at some point.

10:57Frankie Gioia:So we've got loads of stuff here, we've got a few gigs going up we play at the boogie town festival we just done that a few weeks ago uh down in london that was great we played with shapeshifters norman jay disco express and on the main stage ub40 cool and the gang sister sledge who else was on there billy ocean i love him absolutely love him and my daughter i took my daughter with me she's my daughter's 18 and got to meet billy ocean who's chatting to him and what a guy he was. But yeah, we've got a lot of good stuff coming up. Mainly these weekly podcasts, live streams that we're going to do in its infancy, obviously a few little teething problems there and there, but I thought it was pretty good that.

11:39Frankie Gioia:Yeah, absolutely. And Frankie, from you, before we close,

11:42Adam Guy:anything else to add on that or any thoughts about Lost Rhythms generally moving forward? Just exciting times, really. You know, it's a new project that me and Adam we've been talking about now for a while and um too long so we've had like five years and then we're just doing it now yeah for me it's um it's getting our heads together and getting in into the studio and hopefully producing some new material adding our creativity and um like i said earlier you know some guilty pleasure tracks that we're going to release or hoping to release as long as we get the clearance and um yeah off the back of a busy summer hopefully um you know heading into So, you know, Q4, we're hoping for some more gigs together.

12:25Adam Guy:And, yeah, exciting times, really. So watch this space.

12:28Frankie Gioia:Yeah, we've just been booked for Dubai, New Year's Eve as well. So we're playing at the rooftop overlooking the Burj Khalifa.

12:34Adam Guy:That'll be special. Folks who are following the show know we're also launching Courtside Conversations, which is going to be happening in Dubai in 2026. Well, listen, it's been great to collaborate with you. We're very excited about the Leeds Speaking Live Lounge, powered by Lost Rhythms in the coming weeks and months. So definitely check that out.

12:50Frankie Gioia:I can probably just go to find Lost Rhythms or to get in touch with yourselves. Well, to be honest with you, we've not actually set up an Instagram yet, but my Instagram handle is geyser underscore music. That's G-U-Y-Z-A underscore music. So all my stuff and Frankie's stuff is on there. And your Instagram handle is? F-G-I-O 24. So all our SoundCloud links and all our music links are on our Instagram pages on the link tree. and then obviously Facebook, Adam Guy, Facebook, Frankie Gio. Yep, G-I-O-I-A. Yeah, so you can catch us if you want any music, all free music, free downloadable mixes. They're all on there.

13:30Frankie Gioia:So yeah, get us added.

13:32Adam Guy:There we go. So I just need to say thanks so much once again. And from all of us here on the League's Bean podcast, very exciting times, lots of things going on. So keep in touch and get in touch. If you want to suggest a song or you want to collaborate with us, please do get in touch. But for now, over and out.