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Our fourth time on the Royal Hotel's entertainingly-sprung dancefloor. Improved bar response meant fewer queues, other than the traditional one outside the doors at the start. Another hectic one for me, being single-handed behind the decks as usual in November. Thanks again to our security, the hotel staff, and to all of the attendees.

As usual, the playlist is below ...

( The 80s Night (1900-2300) )

The second time for The 80s Night on the high-quality dancefloor of the Royal Hotel, again running the event as promoters rather than just the DJs and, as is the pattern for Hallowe'en events, with me flying solo behind the decks (which was, as ever, somewhat nerve-racking).

(And somehow, I didn't post up this list until now.)

( The 80s Night (1900-2300) )

Back in Whitby for the first Tomorrow's Ghosts festival run by Ghostwriter, and back in RAW again for The 80s Night. It felt more like a 'normal' Whitby than the previous one, possibly partly with the greater numbers and the fact that there were more things going on over the weekend.

Anyway, back in the booth up in RAW, and we had five hours of The 80s Night in person, and then a bit under two hours of The After Party, all unfortunately DJing solo, as one of the team was unable to make it up this time, although that did mean sneaking in a few songs they would usually veto (and not having to be quite as careful dancing in the booth). Unusually, even threw in a couple of requests, but I'll put that down to being unsupervised, so don't count on it becoming a regular thing ...

(For those who don't know, The After Party is the name for the after-midnight alternative set, where we try to recapture the eclectic nature of alternative clubbing in the 90s, but with even more music to choose from.)

Thank you, again, for everyone who came along and had a good time.

( The 80s Night (1900-2400) )

( The After Party (0000-0145) )

As someone was leaving RAW tonight, they thanked me for the weirdest night out they'd had. And then confirmed that they meant that as a compliment. I'll take that.

Returning to RAW for the first time since 2019 for a fully three-dimensional, semi-interactive (what's a request?) version of The 80s Night, and also some The After Party. Thank you to everyone who came along and made our return to in-person clubbing both safe and fun.

For any who may be curious, here's what we played ...

( The 80s Night (1900-2400) )

( The After Party (0000-0100) )

It turns out that there was a need for a third online version of The 80s Night. So we put one together. Another three and a half hours of The 80s Night, with, once again, an hour of The After Party as a chaser.

Here are the setlists, and the sets can still be streamed or downloaded from here.

( The 80s Night )

( The After Party )

As you may have seen, Tomorrows' Ghosts for October 2020 has been postponed, at least as far as the physical version goes. (Absinthe Promotions are arranging an online event.)

In similar vein, the team behind The 80s Night are going to repeat what we did in April, but with some modifications.
Once again, we will be pre-recording a set and uploading it so that you will be able to either stream it or download it. Or both.
We will set up a Zoom meeting, and at 7pm on Sunday 1st November, we will all press 'play' on the set at once, and then we can see each other as we dance, nod, or hot-tub along (one person, last time).

This time, however, we're planning a longer set than in April with, as an extra, a short set from The Afterparty, our alternative night, following on from The 80s Night.

Hope that you'll be able to join us!

In the meantime, April's set can still be downloaded (or streamed) from tinyurl.com/djLandmine, as can the full Afterparty set from October last year. (And some of my other sets, too.)

Retrospectively posting this setlist, as it appears that it didn't get typed up back in 2019. Oops.

Another warm night in The Whitby Way, and another busy outing for The 80s Night.

( Setlist here )

In April, following a venue shuffle, The 80s Night was back in the former Wellington, now refurbished, with a new layout, a bigger bar, and a more powerful PA, and rechristened The Whitby Way. It seemed that the air-con hadn't been touched, though, so the venue ended up as warm as ever. The new stage was large enough to safely park Kat's chair, and the pre-wired booth was excellent, with room for both decks and CDs.

( The 80s Night )

This time around The 80s Night was moved across the road from our previous venue to RAW Nightclub - bigger bar, bigger sound system, club lights, bigger dancefloor, and the return of my co-DJ, Kat (retrokitty). Also, an even sturdier booth to make it even less likely I'd endanger the punters with my dancing as well as our music.

Ours was the first act in a three-part night - The 80s Night, followed by a rather good Gary Numan tribute band, and then an alternative club night to complete the night.

The evening also saw the welcome resurgence of the (in)famous queue, much to the confusion of the bar staff.

( Setlist )
¹ And, at this point, we were asked if there was aircon. There was, and it was already running.