Jonnie began DJ-ing on and off whilst at college in Leeds when he co-promoted Relish at the Music Factory, Leeds in the early 90’s. However, his DJ career got going in earnest with his Disco Connection compilation project, which he put together whilst working for Distance Records between 1997-98. Jonnie’s aim was to capture the exciting vibe of quality disco –house and recruited the Daddy of Disco-House himself Dave Lee (A.K.A Joey Negro, Jakatta, Raven Maize, Doug Willis etc) to mix the compilation. There then followed a UK and European club Tour which included a successful launch party at the Notting Hill Arts Club, London & Disco Connection nights at Burning (Queen, Paris,) Miss Moneypenny’s,(B’ham) Burger Queen,(Edinburgh) Debbie Does Dallas, (The Cross, London) as well as dates in Hamburg, Barcelona and Marseilles. Tour guests included Bob Sinclar, Joey Negro, Andrew ‘Doc’ Livingstone, Huggy & Craig Burgerqueen, and Mr Pink.

After leaving Distance, Jonnie joined Tribal Gathering in 1999 and with owner David Vincent, re-opened the legendary Sankey Soap in Manchester in September 2000. Jonnie became the funky room resident for Golden during its time at Sankeys. Back in London, Jonnie was running his own night Plato’s Retreat at various venues in West London & then started Daiquiri Disco with Nick House, now one of London’s biggest club promoters. Jonnie describes his style as credible funky, soulful house with plenty of vocals. "I’m very selective with my tune selection & tend to cherry pick only the very best quality cuts regardless of producer, label, remixer or whatever...this approach has never let me down yet and the crowds really appreciate it!"

As well as DJ’ing, Jonnie has been running his own label Blackbooty Records, which kicked off with his debut production ‘If U Want Me’ in March 2002. This track set the standard for things to come. Danny Rampling played it on his Radio 1 ‘Lovegroove Dance Party’ show, as did the Sharp Boys (Kiss FM) and perhaps Jonnie’s greatest fan Graeme Park (Galaxy FM) who to date, has played every single one of Jonnie’s productions on his various radio shows. Dubbed by I-Dj magazine’s Matt Anniss as House Music’s re –edit king, Jonnie’s productions always capture the best of classic disco cuts.

Through out his production career Jonnie has worked with Kevin 'K-Boy' Brooks, who had formerly engineered for Joey Negro as well as co-producing with Mark Knight as K&M and one third of the Kidstuff production team. Kevin's production and studio skills have graced many a hit record from the Z Records stable. Most recently Jonnie and Kevin co-produced Ten Percent, a faithful reworking of the Double Exposure classic. This followed their debut track ‘I’m Here Again’; a disco tour de force featuring the vocals of the grand dame of disco herself Thelma Houston. An absolutely guaranteed floor filler, it was tipped by I-DJ as one of the hot tunes for Miami and was aired on The Dreem Teem’s Soulful Sessions show on Radio 1 (Sat 5th March 05), as well numerous plays Galaxy FM, Vibe FM, Nova FM (Ireland), Beat 106, Key 102 and radio shows throughout Europe.