The Disco Years

So its no real secret that back in 1979 to 1984 I had my own mobile Disco, there are so many stories and adventures to tell but here a just a few The Wedding Fight It was a place called Skelton Working men’s Club, the name sum it all up, lets just say that Down Town Baghdad would be a safer place to be, Anyway there I was doing this wedding Disco and no matter where you are they always stop the bloody music to do the Bingo, so the Compare comes on and me and my assistant Martin are watching him , and we notice his has a wig on, The evening carry’s on the and party is going well when all of a sudden they stop for more Bingo, So the brides father is not to happy about this and starts to give the Bingo guy some stick, after about 5 mins of abuse from either side it kicks off and the father of the bride leaps onto the stage and pulls his wig off and throws it into the crowd, well it, well and truly kicks off now, the compare shoots off into the side closely followed by a group of men who seem intent of afflicting some serious harm on him, Meanwhile its like a riot in the hall where we are there are glasses flying all over the place , tables Chairs, its like the wild West, all of a sudden my mates girl friend hurls this ash try at some guy who promptly ducks and my mate Jon gets it square in the face, After about 20 mins the police where called. The Wedding Fight No: 02 So this time we are in a place called grangetown, this place has mesh on the window, Take into account that all these families are very well related, like there sister is also there mother if you get the drift, so all is going well, until the brides ex boyfriend turns up, to say it exploded would have been the understatement of the year, all hell broke loose, Well I believe that the bride and groom spent the night in the cells The Wedding Cake We were moving all out equipment in, and they had set the food out in front of the stage, whilst we were moving the decks across we knocked the cake over, so being professional, we promptly packed all the gear away and left the build at mach 2, When the customer called up we simply denied all knowledge of the booking The Mucky Duck This is a local name for a well known public house in Redcar, so we were again doing a wedding, this time we were in the box above the dance floor the place was rocking and it was going great, on this occasion I had two guys with me Martin and Jock, so all was going well , and I bent down to select another record, when I felt something fly by my head, then I heard a thud, thinking nothing of it, I sat back up put the new record on turned around and Martin was on the floor laughing, whilst Jock was holding his eye, and moaning, It appeared that Jock had by some unfortunate luck had been hit in the eye by a sausage roll, I’m not kidding, so we pack all the gear away at the end of the night and off we take Jock the accident and Emergency, try explaining to a Doctor that this guy who is dressed in a Hawaiian shirt that he has been hit in the eye by a low flying Sausage, It took bloody years for him to live that down.