Whenever I hear the term OLDIES DJ I automatically think of everything up to and pre Wigan Casino , Mecca and Cleethorpes .

HOWEVER , now in my 40's this category has started to include the DJ'S I listened to in the early eighties who were categorised as 100 % NEWIES , eg Keb , Guy , Ion , etc ...

How does everybody else feel about this one AS if a promoter advertised the next TOTW reunion as an oldies event ( yes , I was there AND WE ARE !!! ) I really would feel like a geriatric !!!!

Likewise Dj's who have progressed newer sounds that MAY attain this status but in reality been only around for the last ten years plus + what's your views ?

Gee I hate labels, but know where you're coming from.

My intro to the scene was just around / after Stafford etc and I suppose my core appreciation muscially is for 60's from the whole eighties / early nineties scene that followed and was influenced by these places. These days we find a 'new' appreciation for these sounds, tunes very familiar to those around my age but possibly less so for those who dropped out of the scene in the eighties when northern was at its nadir (oh the irony...). Then over the last 10 or more years, these folks re-enter the scene now 'discovering' and appreciating these records for the first time, so these tunes are maybe fresh for them? A new set of 'reactivated old newies tunes' then if you like! Even this phase may be changing now, with the funk / R&B / latin thing moving things along, some of it not to everybody's taste, some that is, but merely repeating the philosophy of the early eighties trying to keep things fresh (although in fact we now even have latin oldies! aargh!).

Live and let live, avoid labels and collect / listen to what the fek you like. There's room for old and new somewhere no matter however you define these terms. I listen to and collect the 'old newies' but also equally more current 60's stuff, and on the few occasions that I DJ, I play both.

Edited July 29, 201113 yr by mark w.

lot depends on your starting point for eg.

when i dj i play stuff from stafford to present spins plus underplayed wigan oldies

so if some one comes along who only went the torch and early wigan

they say " dont know any of these" your a newie dj

where as if there on the scene at moment im prob a oldie (Rarer) dj

if u compare to butch / mick h / arthur fenn etc

Whenever I hear the term OLDIES DJ I automatically think of everything up to and pre Wigan Casino , Mecca and Cleethorpes .

HOWEVER , now in my 40's this category has started to include the DJ'S I listened to in the early eighties who were categorised as 100 % NEWIES , eg Keb , Guy , Ion , etc ...

How does everybody else feel about this one AS if a promoter advertised the next TOTW reunion as an oldies event ( yes , I was there AND WE ARE !!! ) I really would feel like a geriatric !!!!

Likewise Dj's who have progressed newer sounds that MAY attain this status but in reality been only around for the last ten years plus + what's your views ?

The last Stafford reunion was an oldies event, the main room was playing Stafford oldies, the Spirit of Stafford room was playing newies and more current plays. There was something for everyone.