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The story so far
the first Found Thirst winner last year. The highlights so far
have to be - going to one of the best studios in London with
Paul Oakenfold's team, touring colleges for a month playing to
thousands of people, and best of all the international gig's,
Budapest and Beirut so far with more to come hopefully. Winning
Thirst has given an unbelievable boost to my career. I could never
have imagined it would take me so far...."
Heineken also aims to maintain its contact with the newly
discovered talents and encourage and help them to perform at
more dance events. Oakenfold is delighted with the results of the
cooperation with Heineken: "The partnership works great. I really
support the ethos of bringing people closer to the music. It's
amazing to see the enthusiasm, dedication and talent of all these
aspiring DJs in the countries we visit. They are dance music's next
generation and we want to give them as much support and
encouragement as possible."
At the time of print, the Thirst tour has so far visited four
continents and thirteen countries: starting in Ireland, followed by
events in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Brazil,
Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, New Zealand, Vietnam, Malaysia,
and Japan. So far there have been 56 different performances for
more than 64,000 dance enthusiasts and 47 Found@Thirst events.
In total over 600 aspiring DJs have already taken part in the
Found@Thirst events. And these figures will become even more
impressive, as the bulk of the tour is planned for the European
summer of 2003 with performances in various venues, including
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