boogie nights

tim

Do you remember the village hall? There used to be some great discos organised by the vicars wife. Unfortunatly they stopped abruptly. We never knew why, but all thought it was something to do with Mr James smooching with the lower school netball team

Drinking lager and black, and eating so many pork scratchings you were sick, all the boys sat down one side of the room trying to look cool in thier tesco jeans and strippy tank tops dancing to Mud and Status Quo; all the girls giggling in the toilets and sitting down the other side of the room and sequence dancing to Showwaddywaddy; only to come together for the last slow dance: "I'm Not In Love" - 10 cc.

I always pretended I had to help clear away the sandwiches but really was too scared to talk to girls.

Anyway i think the dj was called Sean. He is still gigging. I found he is appearing at a scout hut in the village of Islington:

WEEKLY TUESDAYS (OCT 19-NOV 9) @ BAR ACADEMY GUILTY PLEASURES Sean Rowley and his disreputable cast of cohorts are hosting four weekly parties at Bar Academy with those great records by bad pop stars.Guilty Pleasures has grown since the release of the eponymous compilation back at the end of August and a series of near legendary 'do's' since. Doors 8pm-12am / £7 adv (£5 concs). Tues 19th Oct: First up, it's the very special Terry Hall + guests Tues 26th Oct: It's the turn of Adam & Joe + Saint Etienne Tues 2nd Nov: Sean will be joined by Simon 'Fast Show' Day and the boys from Lemon Jelly (tbc)

It might be worth meeting up there to see if Speccy Watson will still let you kiss her for 5p behind the garages.

phil

Comments

[timw]

Phil

If you take a look at the notes on the village green in the the Our Oldton section of the main site, you'll see that the hall became a pizzeria. So it wasn't a sex scandal that did for the place, but the relentless march of capitalism...

Inadvertently, you seem to have confirmed that the Oldton supermarket was a Tesco. Thanks for that.

timw

[paul conneally]

i'm not sure that they could have been tesco jeans - did tesco's sell clothes back then?

for us they were from a shop called 'sexy rexy's' our 'star jumpers' too - the first showaddywady record 'hey rock 'n roll' i think -was the only one i ever liked - "standing on the corner in my new blue jeans / talkin 'bout suzie she's a rock 'n roll queen / everybody's talkin 'bout a new way to rock 'n roll"

sometimes the boys would fight

paul