And Off We Go...

That’s another year off to a flying start then. We had a big turnout for the first session of 2025 at Wharf Chambers – lots of people with lots of records to play, and a fair few folk there just to listen or to see what it’s all about. We squeezed in 21 sets with the usual vast variety of things on offer. Here’s what everybody played:

Glyn

1. Slade – When I'm Dancin' I Ain't Fightin'
2. Slade – Born To Be Wild
3. Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
4. Olivia Newton-John / Electric Light Orchestra – Xanadu
5. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – You're All I Need To Get By
6. Peter Sarstedt – Frozen Orange Juice
7. AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie

Eleanor

1. David Bowie – Sound And Vision
2. Wilson Pickett – Soft Soul Boogie Woogie
3. Queen Latifah – Ladies First
4. Paula Abdul – Vibeology
5. The Rah Band – The Crunch (Part 1)
6. Jackie Wilson – (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher

Mark C

1. David Bowie – Heroes
2. Sex Pistols – Holidays In The Sun
3. John Foxx – Underpass
4. Flux Of Pink Indians – Neu Smell
5. Adam & The Ants – Kings Of The Wild Frontier
6. Sparks – The Number One Song In Heaven
7. Tenpole Tudor – Real Fun

Tony

1. Paul Weller – The Bottle
2. The Fall – There's A Ghost In My House
3. The Regulators – Don't Look Back In Anger
4. Roxy Music – In The Midnight Hour
5. Spencer Davis & Dusty Springfield – Private Number
6. Gerald Wilson Orchestra – California Soul
7. Dusty Springfield – Long After Tonight Is All Over

Nat

1. Tom Jones – What's New Pussycat?
2. Lonnie Donegan – My Old Man's A Dustman
3. Brian & Michael – Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs (Lowry's Song)
4. Middle Of The Road – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
5. Kelly Marie – Feels Like I'm In Love
6. Ottowan – D.I.S.C.O.
7. Abba – Dancing Queen

Caroline

1. Chas & Dave – Ain't No Pleasing You
2. Notsensibles – (I'm In Love With) Margaret Thatcher
3. Angelic Upstarts – I'm An Upstart
4. Hazel O'Connor – Eighth Day
5. Blondie – Rapture
6. X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescence
7. Splodgenessabounds – Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please!

Quest

1. Kenickie – Come Out 2Nite
2. Sultans Of Ping FC – You Talk Too Much
3. Prolapse – TCR
4. Sidi Bou Said – Ode To Drink
5. Blessed Ethel – Dog
6. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci – The Game Of Eyes
7. Ned's Atomic Dustbin – Kill Your Television

Rich

1. The Birthday Party – The Friend Catcher
2. Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag
3. Clock DVA – 4 Hours
4. Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
5. The Clash & Ranking Roger – Rock The Casbah

Jenny

1. Kraftwerk – The Robots
2. Ike & Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits
3. Edwin Starr – Contact
4. Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer
5. Trinity – Judgement Time

Delia (Positively Not British Set)

1. Kyu Sakamoto – Sukiyaki
2. La Sonora Dinamita – A Mover La Colita
3. Raffaella Carrà – A Far L'Amore Comincia Tu
4. Yma Sumac – Tumpa!
5. Radha Krishna Temple – Govinda

Smithy

1. Sham 69 – If The Kids Are United
2. The Stranglers – Duchess
3. Kiss – Crazy Crazy Nights
4. Europe – The Final Countdown
5. Ray Parker Jr – Ghostbusters

Andy L

1. Donna Summer – Love To Love You Baby
2. Indeep – Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
3. Eurythmics – Love Is A Stranger
4. A Flock Of Seagulls – Space Age Love Song
5. Associates – Party Fears Two

Tim (Magic Motown Set)

1. Little Stevie Wonder – I Call It Pretty Music, But The Old People Call It The Blues (Part 1)
2. The Supremes – Come See About Me
3. Marvin Gaye – Hitch Hike
4. The Contours – Can You Jerk Like Me
5. The Marvelettes – You're My Remedy

Cathy

1. Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
2. Adam & The Ants – Dog Eat Dog
3. Bow Wow Wow – Chihuahua
4. Bow Wow Wow – See Jungle! (Jungle Boy)
5. Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy

Graham

1. The Beatles – Rain
2. The Loft – Why Does The Rain
3. The Pastels – Something Going On
4. Primal Scream – Velocity Girl
5. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Tracks Of My Tears

Stuart

1. Fred Wesley & The JB's – Blow Your Head
2. Young MC – Know How
3. Jay Richford & Gary Stevan – Running Fast
4. Nina Simone – My Way

Alasdair

1. The Scaffold – Buttons Of Your Mind
2. Neil Innes – Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues
3. The Scaffold – Lily The Pink
4. Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs – Sea Side Shuffle

Vasco

1. Don Harper's Homo Electronicus – World Of Sport
2. Richard Denton & Martin Cook – Tomorrow's World
3. Vorderhaus – Tomorrow's World
4. Quiller – Quiller

Jon-G

1. Desmond Young – Warning
2. Leroy Smart – Mother Lisa
3. The Mighty Diamonds – Them Never Love Poor Marcus
4. Max Romeo – Norman

Ray Mc

1. Nancy Wilson – Uptight (Everything's Alright)
2. Ella Fitzgerald – Get Ready
3. Doris – Beatmaker
4. Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger With The Trinity – Save Me (Pt 1)

Mark B

1. Les Yper-Sound – Psyché Rock
2. Stereolab – Cybele's Reverie
3. King Tubby & The Aggrovators – Dub Place
4. Crystal Castles – Alice Practice
5. Horace Andy – Quiet Place