So, on New Years Eve, I was in the Treygeyb Arms in Ffairfach in Mid Wales. It’s a cracking local boozer with a proper fire, good beer, and all the characters you’d expect to find in a local pub !

The entertainment for the night was a Sixties / Seventies / Eighties disco, provided by the Landlord’s son and jokingly the week before I said to Jessica: “I wonder if he’ll let me do a spot ?”

Midweek Jessica goes into the pub and arranges for me to do a spot ! Then tells me that it’s done off a laptop using MP3s !

So, I’ve got to do a spot, New Years Eve, in a pub where 99% of the people would think of the bottom of their shoes if you mentioned Soul to them ! Using a laptop and MP3s ! Thanks girl !

Anyway, here’s what I played, and to be honest despite some initial trepidation about using a screen and mouse to DJ with, it absolutely is a piece of piss. The first spot is 10.30pm to 11.30pm, and the second one was somewhere around the 1.30am to 2am mark, but I’m a little hazy on the exact time.

Suffice to say, I managed to get people up and dancing (And not just Jessica either)

Desmond Dekker — The Israelites

Dave & Ansell Collins — Double Barrel

Harry J Allstars — Liqudator

Baba Brooks — Guns Fever

Jr Walker — Shotgun

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas — Heatwave

Maracles — Going To A Go Go

Four Tops — Standing In The Shadows Of Love

Jackie Wilson — Higher & Higher

Temptations — The Way You Do The Things You Do

Freda Payne — Band Of Gold

Jr Walker — Roadrunner

Frank Wilson — Do I Love You

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell — Two Can Have A Party

Wilson Pickett — In The Midnight Hour

Eddie Floyd — Knock On Wood

Sam & Dave — You Don’t Know Like I Know

Edwin Starr — Stop Her On Sight

Impressions — You’ve Been Cheating

Magnetics — I Have A Girl

Jackie Wilson — I Get The Sweetest Feeling

Temptations — The Girl’s Alright With Me

Four Tops — Shake Me Wake Me When It’s Over

Velvelettes — He Was Really Saying Something

Four Tops — Sugar Pie Honey Bunch

Arthur Conley — Sweet Soul Music

Impressions — You Ought To Be In Heaven

Ann Sexton — You’ve Been Gone Too Long

Prince Buster — Al Capone

Dandy Livingstone — Rudy, A Message To You

Bob & Marci — Young Gifted & Black

Would I ever consider using MP3s on the Northern scene ? No of course not, it goes against the very essence of what Northern Soul is all about for me, but I’ll be honest, any Mobile DJ these days that doesn’t use a laptop and MP3s must be a complete idiot !

My only question now is, am I to be marked as a leper and ostracised from the northern Soul scene for using a laptop and MP3s

David, son of Rimmer of Lancaster,...

Dave: Do I say 'yes'?

STONE HELPER #1: Yes.

Dave: Yes.

OFFICIAL: ...you have been found guilty by the elders of the town of using the laptop and MP3s of our Music, and so, as a blasphemer,...

CROWD: Ooooh!

OFFICIAL: ...you are to be stoned to death.

Edited January 2, 201312 yr by MrC

better than the normal shit you play!

Chris

That would make for a reet good New Years Eve!!! (apart from the pants that is FW of course)

anyone who stumbled across that would be well chuffed in a local boozer - records, jukebox, laptop or otherwise.

If you would have played real records off original 45s them buggers in Mid Wales would have dragged you out at midnite and put you in the Whicker Man and set fire to ya while dancin around naked singing Delilah lol

I just have to say how totally amazed I am that you can remember all that!

I just have to say how totally amazed I am that you can remember all that!

Are you implying that I might have been somewhat inebriated ?

Are you implying that I might have been somewhat inebriated ?

Not at all dear!

^{see you managed to slip in the Magnetics though Dave}

^{see you managed to slip in the Magnetics though Dave}

Had to be done Grant, just had to be done !