» Listings for 2009

1. Charity, warmth and cuteness

   Posted on 12:00am Monday 9th Nov 2009

   Hi all, Just a quick one this week. Not a lot happening at this time of the year. I'm getting a steady flow of bookings for weddings next year so the sites doing well I'm glad to say. Lord knows I've put the work in! Slaving over a hot monitor night after night. But if I'm honest I like it. Life is a game after all. You shouldn't take it too seriously. Just play along like a game of whatever with your friends. Do right by people or you'll always feel like shit anyway regardless of how they are. Treat others as you yourself would want to be treated. They call that the "golden rule" in some parts of the world. imagine if everyone lived by that one....Yeah that's right baby....just stop reading this for a minute and sit back in your chair and think what it'd be like....no more traffic wardens, arms dealers, political betrayal, dictators, anti-depressants, foreign call centres and celebrity fitness DVDs.  I'll let you into a secret. If you did just that, (lived by that rule) you won't get even half the crap that bad-arses get in their lives..
   
   Anyway, all I did this weekend was a children's party in Bognor which wasn't great money or anything but hey...the folks were great, the children were as cute as anyone else's kids always are. And they are! Particularly the little blond girl walking round all night with a dummy in mouth and a floppy teddybear/bunny rabbit thing. I'm a big softy I know but I feel a lot more relaxed with children running round the show than drunk adults lurching around the lighting rig with a full pint of Stella and legs like jelly!  Help!!!! short circuit warning!
   
   Took Becky to St Martins tea rooms in Chichester today. Oh how I'd love to live in a house like that building. Cosy just doesn't do it justice. Old cottagey place with log fire and beams and all organic menu...We didn't eat there. It's a bit pricey for a week day lunch but if we had a bit to blow we could do a lot worse I'm sure...There I sat in my new jumper which was amazingly warm. All I needed was a pipe and a mortgage....
   
   This Saturday we're not gigging as things stand. We donated an eye wateringly large amount of our hard-earned to a very good cause indeed and have been rewarded with a night out at a restaurant in Hove with some other mates so that should ease the pressure for an hour or two...
   
   See you next week and book me! I need to make that money back! (yikes) Have a GREAT week!
   
   Mike.
   

2. Good road test this week

   Posted on 12:00am Sunday 1st Nov 2009

   Hi There people. Winters drawing in now. love those crisp dark nights and the accompanying fog. Can't wait for next weeks fireworks at Arundel but It's going to be a rush if we're to make it. Got a kids party in Bognor from 5 until 7pm and the fire works start at 7:30pm. Probably arrive just as they're finishing.
   
   Fridays gig was nice. Played at Westbourne church hall for a 15th party. We had smoke lazors, the lot. Really nice family and guests. Apparently the mother said to her Daughter, You look for the DJ so she did and she said that said she thought my website was much better than the others. Excellent! Now I know my target audience....Just kidding. It's nice when all your hard work get's noticed.
   
   Saturdays gig was at Arundel town hall and I thought it would be great, but sometime in the last ten years the Environmental health buggers have come along and put a noise limiter in. Being who they are, They set it to about 3 decibels so it was down to "mid level Woolworths home stereo" level for the whole night again. Such a shame. Nice couple. After the first dance people started drifting away into other rooms as the show had no impact at all. Sometimes this job is so soul destroying. You do everything you can on your mixing desk to try and make it sound punchy but the box on the wall keeps flashing red lights at you and you have to turn it down again lest you lose all power to the stage. I know I moan about these devices on a regular basis but that's because they're popping up in more and more venues. I only mention this one in particular, as it's a particularly severely adjusted one.
   
   Oh well, Can't end on a negative note now can I? Drove over a thousand miles this week and crossed four countries to pick up my lovely partner Becky from Germany, or Bundesrepublik Deutschland as the locals know it! Oh and all we lost from the Peugeot van was a hubcap. Not a bad test for a new second hand van!
   
   Have a great week. See you next time.   

3. Lots of travel and cake.

   Posted on 12:00am Monday 26th Oct 2009

   Hi all, brilliant gig on Saturday night at Highly manor near Crawley West Sussex. Nice party of people. Started off on a soul/motown theme but towards the end of ther night the inevitable happened...It became a free for all on music genres and everything from MGMT, Black Eyed Peas to The Jam was up for grabs. I must complement them on the wonderful chocolate and fresh cream wedding cake...MMMMM! That was nice at the end of the night. The venue is a wonderful old country manor with just enough cosiness to get lost with a brandy in an initmate atmosphere away from me and my throbbing bass bins and pumping disco music. Is that enough inuendo for you?
   Chocolate wedding cake, throbbing bass bins? What more could a woman want? Don't answer that. It's too long a conversation!
   
   Well, I'm typing this from Bremen in Germany after an epic trip to pick up my new partner and love of my life Becky. I crossed four countries yesterday (long, long, long drive!) to get to her in the new second hand Peugoet Expert van and I have to say after fixing all those annoying little problems that come with a used vehicle, it all came together at the last minute. We had to fit a new arial as the old one was not getting a strong signal and the new one was just as bad! Finally I thought to myself: Well, the base unit was changed and well earthed so if I screw the original longer arial back into this new base unit, it might just work in harmony. Thank god t worked! A 100% clear signal came crystal clear accross the speakers on the morning of my epic trip. One of my first aural treats was listening to some dude singing "stormy weather" in Flemish. Bizzare indeed. But radio on mainland Europe can be so much less fomulaic than English radio with the same 15 tracks going round and round and bloody round all day long. In france in particular, you could be hearing U2 one minute and Geno Vanelli the next. They just don't care about the corperate bankers and accountants. Maybe I should have been a Euro.
   
   Talking of which..Funny how the world bank mafia are getting their plan to make us all one country slowly under way. (new world order?) You used to cross border posts in Europe. Painful maybe, but Nation sovereignty was demonstrable. Now all you get is a small sign on the edge of the E motorway anouncing that you are now in the "Nederlands" for example and the radio language changes to another one that I can't understand. 
   
   I'm starting to waffle again aren't I? Oh well, better get on with the moving thing. One thing you can get over here is organic tobacco which is interesting!
   
   See you next week. Have a good one!