Day One -- I Should Be Working...

My blogs are scattered around the internet like body parts at the annual Leper's Twist and Jive Convention.

But I'm becoming wary of Murdoch's MySpace and posting blogs on my own webspace feels a little like talking to myself. I wonder why I think that posting them here is any different?

The question mark is for my own benefit.

I'll scrawl a mental Post It to consider an answer later.

As always, I DJ'd on Friday night and continued in my Quest to Be Nice to Customers in 2008.

It is an effort. People who approach DJ booths, in general, are typically the exact kind of people who should not ever, on any account, be allowed to approach DJ booths.

Nevertheless, I have not been rude to anyone, so far, in 2008.

It's not easy, you know. I'm stood there by myself with tunes to find and mix, trying to juggle a mental playlist, working out when I'll need to pee next and how I'll manage to get a song into the playlist that is long enough for the pee and a quick fag outside.

But despite my best intentions, I did manage to piss someone off on Friday night. She had come over to the booth on a number of occasions and I had been the personification of politeness. Then she asked me for something I had no intention of playing, that was about a third of the speed of what was already on the decks, so I told her that I wouldn't play it and she had a little temper tantrum like my 5 year old does when she doesn't get what she wants.

"I'm a DJ," she said with a quivering bottom lip. "You're meant to play what people want."

If you're a wedding DJ, perhaps.

If you come to one of my nights, I choose the music. It's what I've been paid to do every Friday night for the last 10 years.

My friend, Tony, who witnessed the altercation didn't really offer me any support after she melted back into the [dancing] throng.

"She was really hot," he said.

I hadn't even noticed.

So, tonight's show is full... here's the blurb:

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On tonight's show: the Spencer McGarry Season are in session, our monthly techno mix from Som Bom / Acid Casuals, the prodigously talented *KC* launches her latest blog, we have a Demo of the Week [currently not awarded -- deadline for submissions is 3pm today, Sunday 24th] and Soundhog rattles the old music tree to see what falls out.

Please send demo's to: themysterytour@gmail.com [high quality .mp3's, please -- NOT Windows media files].

Please send gig info to: welshgigs@btinternet.com

Your opinions, reactions and suggestions are welcome, too. Use the themysterytour@gmail.com address for those please.

The show is on BBC Radio Wales 10pm - 1am tonight.

Find out how to listen here

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I'm looking forward to getting out to take more pictures in the early part of next week. I have a calling to visit Stone Circles. If you know of any in North Wales, please pass 'em on!