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Was DJing at a do in the early 80s and one of the Mod crowd kept coming up and DEMANDING 'Fire' by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown despite my explaining that this was a Northern Soul do. In the end I
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A big fat greasy bloke with loose fitting clothes was dj'ing at a small do in Spain. He was playing some right sh!te. I thought requesting Northern might be pushing it so I asked if he had any Motown.
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last week on my radio show someone requested Benny Mardones - into the night. beat that for stupid requests...
Last Fri night. Wellington NZ.
I'm DJing a soul/ska night, in the middle of a soul set a guy in his 20s walks in, sits down gets his iphone out, feverishly concentrates on it for a few minutes. Gets up walks up to me.
"Can I make a request?"
Me: "Sure, but I only brought this small box of 45s with me (I had 75 or so & over half were ska), so your success rate might not be all that good"
Looks at iphone
"Do you have Mel Britt "She'll Come Running Back"?
Me: No.
He looks at iphone again.
"Can you play Judy Street "What"?
Me: "Sorry mate, I don't have that"
He looks at his iphone again
"How about - he names some other rare northern 45 I don't have - ?"
Me: "Nope, sorry, I really only brought a small amount of records with me"
He puts his phone in his pocket & walks out.
Maybe I should have packed better records.....
It was weird.