Saoirse

Room 1 as a compass

Between the metal crates of fabric and a dancefloor that was still packed at ten in the morning, Saoirse understood that the club could last a lifetime. That epiphany, with Ricardo Villalobos at the helm during the London venue's tenth anniversary, pushed her to leave the 2:30 AM curfew of Dublin behind and build a career that today moves unapologetically between house, techno, garage, bass, and rave euphoria.

Raves, vinyl, and pirate radio

She grew up in the center of Dublin, the only child of a traditional musician mother who organized illegal parties in forests and on beaches. From a very young age, she listened to The Prodigy, Orbital, and Leftfield on cassette; by fourteen, she already had turntables, and between 2003 and 2006, she worked at Abbey Discs, the benchmark store for Irish dance music, while spinning hard house and trance and making her way through pirate radio stations until landing at RTÉ. Three seasons in Ibiza and the limitations of a small circuit did the rest: at 23, she moved to London, first with a position at Resident Advisor and later in the booths of Phonox, fabric, FOLD, and Adonis.

A record bag that refuses to choose

Her sets are both investigative and risky: they can start in tech house and end in jungle, jazz, or liquid bass. She held the first house-leaning residency on Rinse FM, with guests like Call Super, Sonja Moonear, Aurora Halal, or DJ Deeon, and later became a resident on BBC Radio 1, including an Essential Mix. She is a resident of Maricas in Barcelona and runs her own party trUst, where she has played alongside Spekki Webbu, Nicolas Lutz, or Eris Drew. In 2022, she played a three-hour closing set at Houghton and, with Moxie, Shanti Celeste, and Peach—the SASS quartet—extended a B2B at Glastonbury until dawn that has become almost legendary.

trUst, Body Movements, and the center of the floor

The pandemic gave her the studio. In 2021, she founded the label trUst Recordings and debuted with the Trust EP, followed by Two Bruised Egos, Mind Energy, and The Monogamous EP on Peach Discs. In 2023, she signed fabric presents Saoirse, a seventy-minute mix featuring her own exclusives and those of Shanti Celeste, and was the cover star of DJ Mag. As co-founder and musical director of Body Movements, the queer electronic festival in East London, she has brought that community to high-production venues, including an eleven-hour marathon at Printworks. Remixes for Fever Ray, Confidence Man, or Shanti Celeste and an eighty-minute RA Live at her own festival confirm that, two decades later, her dancefloor continues to expand.