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dancefloorlandmine: Pink and blue neon-style lettering of 'The 80s Night' (80sNight)
Monday, November 11th, 2024 11:03 am
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) )
dancefloorlandmine: Pink and blue neon-style lettering of 'The 80s Night' (80sNight)
Sunday, May 5th, 2024 02:00 am
A third visit to the Royal Hotel's fully-sprung dancefloor, and another four hours of The 80s Night. This time the division of labour was pretty efficient, with Kat doing the hard work of selecting most of the tunes and letting me do the easy bit of cueing them up and pressing the buttons.

Thanks again to the hotel and security staff, and all of the attendees who enable us to keep doing this.

The 80s Night (1900-2300) )
dancefloorlandmine: Pink and blue neon-style lettering of 'The 80s Night' (80sNight)
Saturday, March 16th, 2024 02:30 am
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) )
dancefloorlandmine: Pink and blue neon-style lettering of 'The 80s Night' (80sNight)
Friday, May 12th, 2023 11:33 pm
In Whitby again, and this time with the full The 80s Night team. However, a whole new venue, as substantial changes to our previous location meant that we had to find a new home in mid-February and, to add to the stress, this would be the first event where we were not just DJing, but also hiring the venue and security and covering other expenses directly.

The staff at the Royal Hotel were incredibly helpful, and we were set up in our grandest location yet, the ballroom, where we were even on an actual stage with white tablecloths on the table for the decks, and there was a proper sprung dancefloor! Jaye wrangled the lighting controls, the friendly and helpful door supervisor from SSGL arrived, the doors opened, and we set the ball rolling on a condensed four-hour version of The 80s Night.

The 80s Night (1900-2300) )
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Friday, November 11th, 2022 05:02 pm
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) )
dancefloorlandmine: (Whitby)
Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 03:32 pm
I'll do more of a full summary of the latter half of the Whitby week in a while, but in the meantime, it appears that the heavy cold that I seem to have brought back to London from Whitby (along with assorted Botham's biscuits and Justin's chocolates) has turned out to be Covid in disguise, back for a second assault on my system - although currently it's maintaining its pretence at being a heavy cold in "non-stop nose hose" guise. A number of other people who were at Whitby have since also tested positive, so it's no great surprise, but I am feeling a little irked that I wasn't as assiduous at using my mask as I should have been.
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Monday, October 31st, 2022 02:39 am
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.
dancefloorlandmine: Pink and blue neon-style lettering of 'The 80s Night' (80sNight)
Saturday, April 30th, 2022 12:48 pm
Last week, due to April's Whitby weekend being a peculiar one (no bands at the Spa, rather fewer folk in town), the main, in-club version of The 80s Night was postponed to October.

However, I pre-recorded a three-hour set, so that those who weren't coming to Whitby could join in, and those in Whitby could listen wherever they ended up being. As it turned out, many of them came to one large holiday apartment - with the furniture pushed back, the living room was almost as large a dancefloor as we'd had at some venues. The music was streamed through a phone to a battery-powered speaker, and after the sun went down, we briefly relocated to the bandstand by the pier for a some outdoor dancing (including an impromptu unscheduled Locomotion conga and Nellie, both inserted into the set by our designated speaker-minder), confusing the cruising youth on their endless circuit around town, before returning indoors for shelter from the wind - it did make me regret including some of the slower tracks.

If you want to stream or download the set, you can do so from here.

The setlist )
dancefloorlandmine: Pink and blue neon-style lettering of 'The After Party', with white lettering beneath for 'The After Party' night (80sNightAfterParty)
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 11:31 am
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) )
dancefloorlandmine: Pink and blue neon-style lettering of 'The After Party', with white lettering beneath for 'The After Party' night (80sNightAfterParty)
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 07:59 pm
In other news, I did a thing ...

A reminder for folk packing to head up to a Yorkshire seaside town this coming weekend. Please self-test before going to the public events, and please don't go to them if you test positive or have symptoms.
The slogan was 'Kill Your Idols', not your friends, bands, or DJs.
And we recommend taking a bunch of tests up with you, rather than over-stretching the local supplies.

Still from The Breakfast Club with "Don't You Forget LFT" across it.
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Monday, April 26th, 2021 02:43 am
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 )
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Monday, November 2nd, 2020 02:15 am
For the second rendition of The 80s Night in the pandemic, we recorded a longer set than in April, running to three-and-a-half hours, and also added an hour of The After Party to follow up.

And here are the setlists (with a link to the streaming/download site at the bottom of the page) ...

The 80s Night )

The After Party )

The recorded sets can be found (either as a single combined set, or as two separate sets), along with other of my sets (including April's 80s night, and The After Party from last November), for streaming or download, HERE.

Due to popular (?) appeal, I'm working on a possible design for a commemorative t-shirt - more details will be forthcoming once I've worked out pricing, printing, posting costs, etc.
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Sunday, September 20th, 2020 03:31 pm
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.)
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Thursday, November 7th, 2019 05:30 pm
A return to RAW Nightclub for The 80s Night, again followed by our The After Party alternative club night offering, but this time without a band in between. Once some pre-opening teething troubles had been surmounted, people started turning up as the doors opened - with the first twenty through the doors getting the limited edition "Top 20" badge we'd put together. And then it was on with the music, with the usual accusations that we were trying to kill people. (Why would we do that? We want them to come back again to dance next time!)

Thanks again to everyone that's supported the night in various ways. Hope to see you at RAW again in April.

The 80s Night, 1900-2400 )

The After Party, 0000-0200 )
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Sunday, April 28th, 2019 07:00 pm
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 )
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Sunday, December 16th, 2018 11:56 pm
The drama over which promoter can claim to be putting on a goth festival at Whitby continued, but with 'both events' taking place on the same weekend this time around, we were back at The Whitby Way, slowly taking over the venue from the Formula One being watched on the screens. We even managed to capture a few people who'd come in for the TV, and stayed considerably longer than they'd intended.

Our next appearance in Whitby will be on Sunday 28th April 2019 ...

Meanwhile, here's what we played this time:

Read more... )
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Friday, May 25th, 2018 12:39 am
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 )
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Sunday, November 5th, 2017 02:06 pm
Our second night DJing at RAW, this time bookending a live set by The Memepunks, who put on an excellent show and, I suspect, acquired new fans, as well as adding in a couple of new songs, including a cover of 'Nellie The Elephant' to close their set. The first part of the night was the long-running 'The 80s Night', while the final part was a generic alternative night to entertain those with any energy left, tailored to the taste of those who were still moving.

The 80s Night )

The After Party )
dancefloorlandmine: DJing at B-Movie Nov 04 (DJ)
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 02:22 pm
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 ([personal profile] 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.
dancefloorlandmine: Me hiding behind camera (CameraEOS)
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 11:16 am
Less than a month after Friday night's photos!

Saturday night at Whitby Goth Weekend November 2016 featured Chasing Dragons, Children On Stun, Skeletal Family, and The Mission, all of whom have played WGW before - although for some, it's been quite a while! The Mission, notably, played substantially extended sets to mark their return after so many years, with Evi Vine on additional vocals.


Sample photos under cut )

Gallery links for more photos

Chasing Dragons

Children On Stun

Skeletal Family

The Mission

(As usual, feel free to share these images with the bands, and they're welcome to use any of them (please credit as Simon Landmine).)
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