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44 postsKristian Nairn is a DJ and actor born in 1975 in Lisburn, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. He is best known for his role of Hodor on the HBO series Game Of Thrones. He headlines the Rave of Thrones dance music events with tour dates in Australia and the U.S., and has been a longtime resident DJ at Belfast gay club Kremlin, as well as DJing at many other events including supporting Mylo, Scissor Sisters and Calvin Harris. He is a dedicated World of Warcraft player and has appeared in the Channel 4 show The Salon and the BBC series Ripper Street.
Nairn releases his remix of So In Love With You, the 1997 Duke classic that charted at number 1 in the UK. The uptempo rework keeps the original’s vocals but scraps its pop-driven bassline in favor of a harder deep-house rhythm track and buzzing bass synths.
https://soundcloud.com/kristiannairn/duke-so-in-love-with-you
Nairn releases his original track Saviour Of The Universe on his Soundcloud page. The instrumental features a driving deep-house bassline with robot-like synths overlaid.
Nairn releases the Jupiter Ace and Kristian Nairn remix of Belfast pop-dance band AJ Suzuki’s Jump Start on his Soundcloud page. The track adds a bass-heavy house beat and breakdown to the analogue synth-driven vocal original
Nairn releases his remix of Madison Avenue’s Don’t Call Me Baby over Soundcloud. The rework of the 1999 U.S. Billboard number 1 hit, which also reached number 1 in the UK and charted in Australia, New Zealand and Europe, features a trademark driving deep-house bassline under the original vocals by the Australian duo.
Nairn releases his July 2013 mixtape on Soundcloud, featuring his trademark house vocal and piano house sound alongside electro, progressive and EDM-driven influences. The mix features tracks from Adam K and Soha, My Digital Enemy, Laurent Garnier, Fedde le Grande, Armand van Helden, Knife Party and Eric Prydz.
A website describes Nairn’s drag act, DJing as ‘Revvlon – Princess of Darkness’:
Revvlon is a drag queen of immense proportions, unlike any you have ever seen or are likely to see. Standing at eight feet tall (in heels) she has been quoted in the gay press as the tallest drag queen in Europe, not to mention the most intimidating.
Revvlon’s act incorporates visuals based on Nairn’s 6’10” frame with his driving progressive house sets:
Revv’s music style is a mixture of deep, funky progressive house always pounding bass, with her own twists added. She has a tremendous ability to sense what the crowd wants to hear and always keeps one step ahead. This combined with the sight of the visual explosion behind the decks that only Revvlon can achieve with her devilish movements and furnace-freezing stares makes for a truly multimedia experience.
Nairn’s character, Hodor, appears in episode 10 of season three, Mhysa. He accompanies Bran Stark, played by Isaac Hempstead-Reed, and Jojen and Meera Reed, played by Thomas Sangster and Ellie Kendrick. The group take shelter in a castle on the Wall that has been abandoned by the Night’s Watch. They encounter Samwell Tarly, a Nights Watchman played by John Bradley-West, and his companion Gilly, a wildling woman played by Hannah Murray. After initial mistrust the two groups realise that they are no threat to each other. Samwell gives the other group a valuable gift of magical weapons that can assist against the undead White Walkers north of the Wall. The groups separate with Samwell and Gilly remaining south of the Wall and Bran, Hodor, Jojen and Meera heading north.
Nairn appears as Hodor in season three, episode nine, The Rains of Castamere with Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark, Art Parkinson as Rickon Stark, Thomas Sangster as Jojen Reed, Ellie Kendrick as Meera Reed, and Natalia Tena as Osha the wildling. They take shelter in an abandoned tower to hide from a group apparently made up of wildling tribespeople who are raiding into a stretch of land south of the Wall. Hodor becomes panicked by the sound of thunder and his shouting threatens to reveal their location. Bran is forced to use a newly discovered psychic power to quiet Hodor. The party decide to separate with Bran, Hodor, Jojen, Meera and Bran’s direwolf Summer heading north of the wall to search for a raven that Bran has dreamed about. Osha, Rickon and the direwolf Shagggydog will seek shelter at the stronghold of a Stark loyalist family south of the Wall.
Nairn appears as Hodor in season three, episode seven, The Bear and the Maiden Fair, with Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Art Parkinson, Natalia Tena, Thomas Sangster and Ellie Kendrick. Conflict arises between the group as Jojen Reed, played by Sangster, tells the rest of the party that they must travel beyond the Wall that separates the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros from the wilderness to the north.
Nairn appears as Hodor in The Climb, episode six of season three, with Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Natalia Tena, Art Parkinson, Ellie Kendrick and Thomas Sangster. Hodor is distressed when the characters of Osha the wildling and Meera Reed argue over hunting and skinning rabbits, until Bran Stark intervenes to calm the situation.
Nairn’s character Hodor appears in season three, episode two, Dark Wings, Dark Words with Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark, Art Parkinson as Rickon Stark, Natalia Tena as the wildling Osha and two new characters. Bran Stark dreams that he is walking and hunting in the woods and attempts to shoot a crow with an arrow. An unknown boy – played by Thomas Sangster – appears in his dream and tells him that he cannot shoot the crow as it is himself. Bran awakes, startling Hodor. The boy later appears in real life and is revealed to be Jojen Reed. He is accompanied by his sister Meera Reed, played by Ellie Kendrick, and after an initial confrontation the two are revealed to be part of a family that is loyal to the Starks.
Nairn appears in the tenth episode of season two, Valar Morghulis, with Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Art Parkinson and Natalia Tena. Hodor, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark and Osha emerge from their hidingplace in the crypts of Winterfell to find the castle on fire after a siege and battle, and their household staff dead or scattered.
Nairn appears as Hodor in season two, episode seven, A Man Without Honor. After their escape from Winterfell, he accompanies Bran Stark, played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright, his brother Rickon, played by Art Parkinson, and the wildling Osha, Natalia Tena, along a riverbank. Hodor cracks a walnut for Bran using the palms of his hands, showing his giant-like strength.
Nairn appears in season two, episode five, The Ghost of Harrenhal. His character Hodor accompanies Bran Stark, played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who gives advice to his subjects at Winterfell after the departure of his older brother to march south towards Kings Landing, and continues to be troubled by strange dreams.
In season two episode three, What Is Dead May Never Die, Hempstead-Wright’s character Bran Stark experiences a strange dream in which he sees through the eyes of his direwolf Summer. As Summer, Bran follows Nairn’s character Hodor into his own bedroom and looks down at himself sleeping.
In episode one of season two, The North Remembers, Nairn’s character Hodor carries Bran Stark, played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright, to the Stark family’s godswood after Bran has a dream that he is in the sacred grove and sees his reflection in the grove’s pool transformed into his direwolf, Summer.
Nairn’s charater Hodor appears briefly in season one, episode 10 of the series, Fire and Blood. He accompanies Hempstead-Wright’s character, Bran Stark, who has had a dream that his father Lord Eddard Stark, played by Sean Bean, has been killed.
Nairn’s character, Hodor, is shown in a full-frontal nude scene in season one, episode eight, The Pointy End. Bran Stark, played by Hempstead-Wright, and the wildling Osha, played by Tena, are discussing the ‘Old Gods’ worshipped by the people of northern Westeros when Hodor appears naked after bathing in a nearby pool and then forgetting to dress.
Nairn’s character Hodor the stableboy receives his first major screentime in episode four, season one of the series, Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things. Hodor, who is portrayed as mentally challenged and only able to say his own name, is chosen to carry the character of Bran Stark – Hempstead-Wright – down the hall of the Stark stronghold Winterfell after Bran is crippled in a fall.
Nairn’s character, Hodor the stableboy, appears in a brief cameo in the first episode of the series, Winter Is Coming.