Yup, I spoke. I am of course restricting myself to brief yet profound
utterances. I thought Saturday night was excellent and the presence of
those who may not look just right didn't bother me in the slightest, why
should it? Swing yer pants regardless, that's what I say.
A Ridehalgh wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, jclw100 wrote:
>
> > Here, here
>
> Joanna - you spoke m'dear!
> > Mark McNulty wrote:
> > >
> > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dominic Broadhurst
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> > > >> It was really early mod stuff I must admit, but as you say, the great thing
> > > >about it was that there
> > > >> were rockabillies there as well
> > > >hmm deffo good re music appreciation, fashion wise I leave you all to
> > > >make up your own minds........
> > > I'd rather see rockabillies who love their music rather than mods who
> > > haven't got a clue i.e. some of the clueless mods I meet at Uptight week
> > > in week out. If they haven't heard it before (and what they've heard is
> > > very little) then they don't dance. Only weeks ago I could keep them
> > > off the floor with tunes like Afex, Birds Birds, Jacques Dutronc and
> > > Georgie Fame but then they visited The Mousetrap and realised that I had
> > > been playing tracks that they were allowed to dance to all along. It
> > > still pisses me off that I can clear a dance floor just because they've
> > > never heard the tune before, they stand at the bar wandering what this
> > > great new tune actually is but don't dance to it for another 3/4 weeks.
> > > This week's first ever play (I got a copy at last) at Uptight was Etta
> > > Jame's Seven Day Fool, and it cleared the fuckin' floor. Bloody muppet
> > > mods.
> > >
> > > Mark.
> > > --
> > > Mark McNulty
> >
