Your
privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we
provide this notice explaining our online information practices
and the choices you can make about the way your information is
collected and used.
This applies to all information
collected or submitted to us via the website and/or by email
correspondence. Most instances of interaction with Sparkle are
- applying to join our roster, making requests for professional
information, making bookings for performers or commissioning
design work.
COOKIES
& TRACKING
We absolutely collect
no cookies or write cookies to your machine in any way or run
any sort of intrusive tracking software other than our page hit
counters - used purely for our own statistical analysis. We receive
and record IP addresses from our web booking forms - these are
recorded in case of need to block malicious users of our booking
forms. Please also see notes re third party websites and
advertisers below.
HOW
WE USE INFORMATION
We use the information
you provide about yourself when placing an order for services
or making a booking only to complete that order. We do not share
this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary
to complete that order or as required by statute
By joining our roster,
all artists and suppliers agree to the disclosure of such information
about themselves as the agency deems appropriate for the purposes
of progressing enquiries for services or performance bookings.
This includes the publishing of professional (not private) information
about them and their activities in print and electronic form.
DATA
SECURITY
To prevent unauthorized
access our websites are hosted with reputable leading ISPs,
we maintain proprietry firewalls on our own PC's and maintain
appropriate physical and electronic safeguard to protect data
within our office. All our PC's run the latest anti-virus
software, security updates, and have active virus protection and incoming and outgoing
email virus scanning.
PROTECTING
THE YOUNG
Protecting the privacy
of the very young is especially important. For that reason no
part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 16.
Our own content and specific advertising is business-like and
does not contain "adult" material and is not written
in a manner which would should cause children or their parents
concern. However, please be aware that some third party link
sites and served adverts may contain inappropriate references
- see note below.
THIRD
PARTY LINKS & ADVERTISING
This website may provide
links to third-party websites. Any such links are provided solely
as a convenience to our visitors. Sparkle has no control over
these websites or their content and does not assume any responsibility
or liability for these websites. If you access any of the
third-party websites linked to our website, you do so at your
own risk - most are music or industry orientated but may occasionally
contain strong language, adult humour or references to alternative
cultures, including drug use. Sparkle Agency in no way
condones or encourages the sale, possession or misuse of drugs,
but recognises the freedom of the individual to express their
own views on third-party websites, views which some persons may find
disagreeable!
This website carries
third party advertising - in most instances the advertisers are
known to us and advertise products and services appropriate to
this site, however from time to time we do use banner exchange
and served advertising. We do not knowingly feature any
adult or gambling advertsing however Sparkle Agency has no direct
control over remotely served advertising content or the products
and services which may be offered and does not assume any responsibility
or liability for these advertisments or the products and services
represented thereon, although as a policy we instruct all adserver
partners to disbar serving adverts for adult, gambling and similar
services.
It is very likely that
some third party websites and remotely served advertising may
use cookies when you click through to them.
VIRUSES
AND SPAM
We hate and destest spam
- we get bombarded with masses of it (about 100+ spam mails per
day) so we know how it feels. We do not use indiscriminate
e-mail marketing lists, web harvesting, or purchased mailing
lists.
We are a reputable commercial
organisation and of course we need to market and advertise to
thrive and survive, however this is conducted responsibly and
manually targeted to specific individual commercial organisations
such as venues, promoters, club nights and event management organisations
and existing customers/organisations who have previously contacted
us and shown an interest in our services, where we genuinely
believe our services and artists will be of real interest. So
if we send you an email it's because either you sent us one to
enquire about our services, or you are subscribed to one of the
commercial industry promotion companies that we use from time
to time, or you opted into our mailing list. We don't send weekly
newsletters filled with inconsequential trivia for the sake of
it, but hope you will benefit from our communicating an occasional
refresher of our services, updated rosters or notify you of any
major changes to our services, as you would expect any professional
organisation to do for their valued customers.
Anyone not wishing to
receive future information from us can simply be removed from
our mailing lists forever by replying to any e-mail with the
word UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject line.
Our inbound and outbound
hosted mail servers, hosted web servers, and PCs are protected
by commercial standard virus checking software, firewalls, anti-phishing,
and anti-malware systems.
Sparkle
Artist & DJ Agency is home to some of the world's top DJ/music
professionals and entertainment performers. From clublands
favourite global DJ's and live PA's, to cabaret and circus performers,
and skilled mainstream resident/contract club DJ/hosts.
We
are a registered, and long established entertainment booking
and artist/event services business with a high reputation in
the industry. The agency is headed up by founder/Director Spike
Hull, an entertainment professional with over 30 years as a DJ,
promoter, artist manager and booking agent, and an in-depth knowledge
of music culture and technology and the entertainment industry
generally, as well as commercial and financial acumen.
We
have some of the best selections of DJs, musicians, vocalists,
live acts, professional dancers, and promo staff available anywhere
- go to the relevent page to read profiles on, watch, listen,
enquire, and book our headline DJs, polished accompaniement musicans,
renowned vocalists, mind boggling magicians, beautiful / handsome
dancers and stuning cabaret performers.
We
have a wide range of acts from different music styles and spectrums
ranging from funky, electro, house, techno, hard dance, trance,
progressive, rnb, urban, soulful DJs, as well as those skilled
personailty DJ/hosts that form the backbone of the mainstream
nightclub entertainment available for season contracts or residencies.
Our
live acts roster continues to expand and features saxophonists,
trumpet players, bongo, and traditional and electronic percussionists
that play with some of the most famous DJs and musicians of the
day.
Our dance roster features
male and female freestyle and choreographed performers in all
all types of dance routines from glitzy showgirls to large Riverdance-style
Irish dancing shows, cultural dance troupes performing dances
from China, Hong, Kong, India, Poland, and samba style Brazilian
dancers from the carnival parades of Rio, as well as street dance
and modern dance troupes such as the IT girls, doing amazing
things with music, light, ribbons, aerial skills martial arts
and all sorts of break dancing, crumbling and electro boddy-popping.
Look no further for bhangra dancers, bollywood dancers, thai
dancers, flamenco, roller dance teams, ballroom dancers, lion
dancers, jive dancers, line dancers and burlesque cabaret acts.
We
have an absolutely fabulous selection of Burlesque dancers and
acts , including a spectacular Dita Von Teese tribute and our
wonderful Ooh La Las who perform a fabulous 40s sailor girl routine
among many others, or Gwendoline L'amour fan-dancer extraordinaire.
OURBACKGROUND
Sparkle Agency was established
back in the early 1990s - when our Agency Director, anticipating
that his own DJ career would only continue for a few years more
due to a recurring hearing problem still had the desire to be
very involved in the dance music industry, as well as having
the contacts to help others progress in their performing careers.
This coupled with the emergence of new digital music formats
and communication technology all fused together in an idea for
a new type of online DJ agency.
So Sparkle became the
World's very first web-based DJ agency. Admittedly there
was a lot of thumb twiddling going on for a couple of years before
the web became more widely known and used, but this gave us ample
opportunity to try things out, develop our roster and improve
our exposure. Our vision proved extremely successful, demonstrating
to the dance music community and booking industry.what could
be achieved in the new media and setting the industry standard.
Through that and various other firsts, we earned a reputation
for innovation and much of the ideas that we introduced are now
common practice throughout the DJ and indeed othere areas of
entertainment booking and promotion.
Many years on, and now
encompassing a much wider spectrum of entertainment, we are established
as one of UK's leading international DJ and artist bookers with
particular expertise in the dance music market. We continue to
explore new ideas and we thrive on being on the leading edge
(and often the bleeding edge) of the booking industry. 2011 is
no exception as we celebrate our 18th birthday with the launch
of our new iPhone/iPad/Tablet/Smartphone website and a brand
new Sparkle logo which we hope will become just as familiar as
our old one. We also pride ourselves on our ethical booking
policy and reliability record, and we value and encourage long-term
booking relationships and many of our customers return to book
time and again and over the years some have become firm friends
- we hope you will too.
ARTIST
& INDUSTRY SERVICES
Sparkle
are not just an artist or DJ booking agency - we also offer a
range of services to help performers, DJs, musicians, bands,
performers, venues, promoters and the music industry generally.
We have drawn together a range of resources that we hope you
find useful, including our legendary Sparkle Design Studio which
has been creating eye-candy flyers, posters, artist profiles
and CD art for over 12 years and is used extensively by leisure,
fashion and small businesses as well as the music industry.
Oh,
we almost forget to tell you, we also have a digital download
music store featuring the latest dance music tracks!