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A bit of background - I play a club my friends and I set up in London called Crimes Against Pop - general idea is that anything from 1950 through to the current day we think is a good pop record, we'll play.

Comments/reactions that stick in my mind :

Playing an electro pop set - lots of 80s classics and more contemporary stuff that had the same vibe. Scruffy Pete Doherty lookalike walks up and asks if I've got any Dylan. I humbly point out that I don't think that would work at 1 am in a pop club, he seems to take this in, then asks for some Neil Young :/ After a couple more totally unsuitable requests I give him a flyer for another club as he doesn't quite get the concept of what we're playing ...

Getting told to play some old school hip hop as that's what the floor 'needs'. I point out I've just played some De La Soul, Dimples D, NWA. Chap, totally straight faced, tells me 'No, I mean proper old school, like Biggie and Nas' :facepalm:

Ending the night with Soundhog's 500 Bad Mice and get a seriously drunk lass walk up to the booth and just shout in my face 'Make it stop, you're ruining the Proclaimers'.

6 months of nobody dancing at all to Phil'n'Dogs Dr Pressure despite me playing it every month. Single gets properly released and suddenly everyone thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Deciding to finish a set with Starship's We built this city on rock and roll (Hey, I like it) and watching the floor clear in under 30 seconds