In 1998 Lee had become quite bored with the club scene and along with long time friend and DJ, Oliver John, (who had previously done some scratching for Lee on his MC Lethal records), decided to put on a night at Satchmo`s in Hanley.Wanting to play a broad selection of music that house had borrowed from was a big part of the music policy and the way they played it was another of the night's unique features.

Reckless, has been the most successful Friday club night that Stoke has seen. Bringing the holy trinity of hip hop to Stoke, Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, amongst other hip hop and house legends have been some of the most talked about nights in Stoke that Lee and Oliver have organised. This has obviously seen Lee with his longest running residency to date that he constantly enthuses about. With the Reckless music policy being so broad there’s never a dull moment.

Under the umbrella of Sexafonic Records, Lee and another producer Richard Lane (of Cleveland City Fame) started to record under various guises, the main one being Hi Fi Serious. Getting props from DJs as diverse as Fat Boy Slim, Felix Da Housecat, Roger Sanchez, Steve Lamaq and Pete Tong has seen Lee and Rich sign their Hi Fi Serious project to Gut Records. Still keeping their hand in with the more progressive side of things they have also been recording as Decepticons and Positano which has seen DJs such as Sasha championing their records and labels such as Strictly Rhythm releasing them.

After over thirteen years of recording and Sixteen of clubbing, Lee's enthusiasm for dance music is still as strong as ever. A varied path has seen him take in MCing, Djing, Record Producing/Remixing, Studio Managing, Running numerous Record Labels and Club Promoting so far. With Reckless going from strength to strength, the near future will see them putting on some of the biggest names in Hip Hop as well as entertaining their loyal regulars every Friday and Saturday.

Regular haunts included Introspective, Central Park, Schizophrenia and of course Shelley's Lazerdome. One Saturday night, in Shelleys, would see Lee and a friend hook up with a couple of other lads they recognised from college and together they would regularly hang out at one or other of the burgeoning club nights. Through this new circle of friends, Lee was introduced to local Stoke DJ, Daz Willott, who in turn introduced him to his employers at local dance music stockists Kaos Records where Lee began to help out on Saturdays and afternoons off. On one particular night, in need of a lift, Daz asked Lee to drive him to a new night, which was starting at the Leisurebowl, called Entropy. After a few weeks of this becoming a regular occurrence and fed up with twiddling his fingers in the DJ box, Lee was encouraged to pick up the mic and MC for Daz. This was received by both Daz and the promoters as a good idea which then escalated into them being a bit of a double act and Lee being dubbed with the name MC Lethal.

The next couple of years would see Lee and Daz establish Entropy as the Midlands and North West's premier rave night and their own profiles grew simultaneously as their Friday night sets at Entropy and Saturday night sets at Shelleys eventually grew to legendary status. Gradually they began to drift apart as Daz had various other new commitments and Lee began to MC for the guests at Entropy such as Carl Cox, Grooverider, DJ Rap, Stu Allen and Mickey Finn and work in a new record shop briefly that Entropy had opened. Both of them started to get work further a field at clubs such as Quest in Wolverhampton and New Dawn in Manchester amongst others and numerous one off rave events such as Amnesia House’s raves at Donnington Park, Fantazia in Telford, Dance Nation in Warrington and Revenge in Wigan. Lee started to become a little disillusioned with the rave scene as the music was starting to move in a direction that Lee was unhappy with. This, combined with the fact that both Entropy and Shelleys had had their heyday, Lee started to look around for something a little more secure.

Quite a few of the scene's leading DJs had started to venture into the recording studio to make their own tracks and having some ideas and an interest in making a record, the thought of being the first rave MC to move into production was appealing. In the spring of 1992, with money saved from his gigs plus a small loan, Lee booked into the local recording studio, The Room (shortly to be re-named Baseroom), in Shelton. Unfortunately the session had to be cancelled but was re-scheduled for the following week. In the meantime, MC Lethal was contacted by local band the Rhythm System and it was suggested that he did the pre-production with the engineer/producer of the outfit, Nic Britton. After several intensive hours in Nic's studio, Lee's first track 'Ravedigger' was born. It was finished off at The Room studio and with a finished DAT, Lee was off to London to get the record cut and pressed onto white labels. A very small, successful DJ mailout was done and Lee did his own distribution with a thousand white labels in the boot of his car. A couple of distribution companies caught wind of the track and bought the remainder of the records from Lee and sold them all within a week.

Part 3 of MC Lethal Profile......