Bodytonicmusic & Big Chill Present:
DJ DEREK (Sweet Memory Sounds, Bristol)
DJ Shepdog (Nice Up!)
Tom Beary & MC Little Tree (Scribble)
Grandad DJ Derek is back to rock the Bernard Shaw with some sweet reggae and dancehall. For the un-initiated, Derek is a retired former accountant for Cadburys Chocolate, who made a name for himself some 30 odd years ago for playing black music to a black crowd and doing it well. So well infact, that the BBC made a documentary about him and he hasnt looked back since, doing 3/4 gigs a week up and down the land and the tender age of 68.
A diehard real ale afficianado (he brought his own booze to the club but not before heating it on the radiator in his hotel room) he played in the Bernard Shaw last November and schooled everybody in how a real Gentleman DJ does it. Selecting sweet soul, ragga and dancehall jams and dishing out life advice in his see it to believe it Jamaican patois, he made us laugh, he made us cry, but most importantly he made us dance!
Bodytonic are doing this gig in association with The Big Chill Festival in the UK (August 6th - 9th) where Derek is a mainstay
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This guy DJ'd at my work christmas party the year before last and he was absolutely fantastic, tore the place down.
ReplyDeleteThis'll be Tim Westwood in a few years....