dave harvey
Whether as a DJ, programmer, promoter, or raver, there are few dancefloors that Dave Harvey hasn’t graced.
Since cutting his teeth DJing in the 90s, Dave has built an inimitable sound that traverses house, techno, breaks and electro, EBM, wonky chuggers and disco infused oddities – often all in the same set.
His prolific enthusiasm for electronic music drew him out from behind the decks – in the daytime at least - and following a move to Bristol in the early 2000s, he co-founded the legendary Team Love collective and set about curating some of the scene’s most loved festivals and events.
From the artist-acclaimed Love International, where he still sits at the heart of programming, to Love Saves the Day, Forwards, Waterworks, and the prodigious Silver Hayes area at Glastonbury, Dave has earned a reputation as a transformative figure for UK dance music.
Team Love’s productions centre on a fundamental ethos of community and collaboration and over the course of his three decades in the game, Dave’s regular plays alongside the likes of Felix Dickinson, Craig Richards, Dresden, and his close team Ellie Stokes & Chez de Milo have brought together an enviable extended family of likeminded artists and crews in cities around the world.
Between the era-defining festivals and celebrated sets at Houghton, Block 9’s Meat Rack and fabric, Dave is hard to pin down to any one thing and that probably explains how he can sit as comfortably in a back to back with Ivan Smagghe, Midland, or Palms Trax as he has done in this season’s 2025 run, as holding it down on his own. Instead, he is probably best summed up in his own words: “first and foremost, just a lifelong music enthusiast”.