Speakers

Bill Tuckey began working as a reggae DJ in London nightclubs while still at school, before building a large sound system, Manasseh Hi-Power, that toured the country, hosting nights in clubs and warehouses with Soul to Soul, Norman Jay, Trevor Nelson and many other well-known DJs in the 1990s.

He presented a cult radio show for over a decade on Kiss Fm, helping steer the station from its early pirate days, when it broadcast from his DJ partner’s flat in a tower block on Cable Street, east London, to becoming a legal entity with franchises across the UK.

A second career in journalism began when he launched a magazine to support the station’s licence application. He has worked for numerous publications, including spells as a Caribbean News Editor for The Voice Newspaper Group in Brixton and as a restaurant reviewer for Time Out. For more than a decade, he was a senior features editor at The Independent newspaper, most recently as editor of The Independent on Sunday’s flagship magazine.

Since leaving the paper He has launched a successful graphic art business and a flooring company specialising in importing cork and rubber.

He is the father of two sons with ASD and author of The Most Amazing Saturday Morning Rubbish Club, a graphic novel slated for publication by Self-Made Hero in 2025.