The Thinking DJ

In 1996, all the Chicago Rock Cafe DJs got together and had a big meeting (unpaid). They put on their very best thinking caps and entered the Chicago Rock Cafe ‘Think Tank’, chaired by the self appointed ‘Head DJ’, where they voiced their very...

How to Create An Atmosphere as a DJ

This diagram came from the handout provided by Luminar Leisure during one of their monthly “Patronise a DJ” meetings (which, I hasten to add, I never attended, despite constant ‘last’ warnings). So in 1997, nearly ten years after turning...

Me vs The Rank Organisation

It’s 1992, I’m the DJ at Cambridge’s first Student night, the club’s busiest night by far, my contract has just been extended and I’ve been given a payrise. Enter the New Manager, who’s first action was to sack the existing DJs so...

Frank Kidson – Old English Dances

I recently digitised my personal copy of Frank Kidson’s limited and very scarse “Old English Dances” (also called “Old English Country Dances”), published in a run of 80 copies, 1890, and offer it up freely for the benefit of the...

Wedding Photos

In April 2011 I got married to Claire, and our awesome photos were taken by John Miles, since relocated to New Zealand. John did an amazing job at a reasonable price, so I was a bit pissed off when I found out our photos were being used by “Diverse Image...

Enabling mod_rewrite on Apache

This is one of those things I often forget to do when setting up WordPress on a new server, which means pretty permalinks don’t work: If you have a problem with permalinks not working on WordPress, it may be because Apache does not have mod_rewrite enabled. An...