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Colchester, United Kingdom

Bio

What is LYP short for? Lemon Yellow Pea

Lemon Yellow Pea, that’s an unusual name! How did that come about?

Well…..

Stuart Braybrooke (artist name LYP) was playing as part of Fatboy Slim’s Palookaville tour. In the green room Norm was looking through the list of artists playing that evening and asked “who is Stuart Braybrooke? That’s a rubbish name, nobody will remember that”. He had a point. In a long search for an original name with meaning he chose to use Lemon Yellow Pea which came from a friend’s child who would sing Lemon Yellow Pea instead of LMNOP when singing her ABC alphabet song. Lemon Yellow Pea has evolved into a record label while LYP is one artist’s name used by Stuart.

Done anything good?
Through the years LYP has held a number of long-term club and bar residencies. Holding regular slots at Ministry Of Sound and Pacha London. Guest spots have been spread far and wide. Like every good DJ at the time LYP had slots on pirate radio and as internet radio grew played