Ceilidh in Glasgow University Union (GUU) this week

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Want to come to a JIGGERS ceilidh this Saturday?

This Saturday night (22nd May 2010) the 5 piece band are booked to play at the GUU for an “old boys” school reunion party. Because of Champion’s League and other stuff, the client has sold only about 50 tickets. It will be quite a relaxed, informal affair, so he’s asked me if I can drum up any local support who’d enjoy a jig aboot. It’s free if you want to join them, then let me know. The email is info @ thejiggers DOT co D O T uk

Note: please do contact me first if you’d like to come along, and I’ll clear it with the client. The people who bought tickets are also getting a meal, but free guests just get to dance about, so carb up before you come!

PS GUU is a student union, so I.D. may be required for you young-looking types.

Top 10 Records every wedding DJ needs: No 3

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CANDI STATTON – Young Hearts Run Free

DON'T DO IT LADIES! 

"What's the sense in sharing this one and only life? Ending up just another lost and lonely wife?"

Edit: if the youtube vid doesn't work hear it on last.fm

Strange
that a song that decries the meaningless nature of commitment should be so
popular at weddings…Or maybe people enjoy a dose of realism in the midst of
their fairytale day?

 Young Hearts Run Free again capitalises on nostalgic
emotions, this time sung from the persona of a bitter older woman (or maybe
she’s not so old?). Word of advice girls…don’t get married. Look out for
number one.

Why is this song so popular, especially when we're playing a wedding ceilidh? It’s an
enigmatic reminder that straightforward analysis of lyrics does not always tell
us how a listener is likely to respond.

When communicating, it's not always what you say, it's how you say it. Your voice communicates with music more than words. Interesting that something as "throwaway" as a 70s pop song can remind us the extent to which music, not lyrics, is the real communicator.

So what does this song *really* say to you?

Top 10 records every wedding DJ needs (no 4.)

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Hi all. Back from a nice blog-holiday break with…

Top ten records every wedding DJ needs: no 4

Scissor Sisters: I don't feel like dancing.

Ironically of course, play this record at a wedding, and people
do.

It annoys me that the Scissor Sisters made this record. It’s
just the right tempo for the “walking to the dancefloor dance”. Since I don’t
tend to play more than one song by the same artist (unless it’s a very long DJ
set), it means that I rarely get to play what I think is their absolute best single, the abounding-in-funk, groovetastic and often forgotten-about “take your mama out”.

Still, lyrics in the chorus for this record deserve a
special mention, just because they’re especially indecipherable (how many teenagers know what "that old joanna" is?). 

“I don’t feel like dancing when that old Joanna plays, my
heart could take a chance but my two feet can’t find the way, you’d think that
I could muster up a little soft-shoe gentle sway, but I don’t feel like
dancing, no sir, no dancing today”

PS Don't you love that fun Youtube video?