Soul Obsession Edinburgh Oct 1st lookback

What a great time we had.

Johnny Weston and I left Birmingham airport at midday on the Saturday with brifght sunshine and 26 degrees. We arrived in Edinburgh to dull overcast skies and by 5pm rain !

It didn't dampen our spirits though, Derek collected us from the airport and we went on a magical mystery tour to collect some speakers and cables. After a fish supper and a couple of beers John and I left Derek to finish setting up, and we jumped a lift to the Spiders Web where John was doing a spot.

Great little underground cellar Soul Club. I know it's been running years but this was my first visit. To my surprise I probably knew 80% of the people in there, including the Italians and Germans ! Didn't recognise George Wallace at first though, because he's shaved his beard off !!

Back to the MacRobert Pavillion for the niter. When we arrived in the afternoon I thought it was a huge room and would need a lot of bodies to fill it, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the room well over what I was expecting at 11pm, Virtually all the seats were taken and the dancefloor was warming up nicely. A few more beers and then it was time to DJ.

Derek came to me and said a few people had been saying there was too much midtempo being played. No problem, straight into it with a few banging Oldies. Floor full ! Job done. I left Johnny Weston with a full floor and went straight through to the R & B room for my second set.

Now whilst I'm known for playing R & B in my normal set, I don't consider myself an R & B DJ, especially when I'm up against the best of the Scottish & Irish R & B DJs. So I was outside my comfort zone with this one. But that gave me the nervous edge you need to put a good set in, and I was quite pleased that not only did people not throw things at me, they danced right though my set. Quite a few people came and looked at what I was plying as well, so that gave me some quiet satisfaction. In fact I was really pleased with the way the set went, and it gave me a real buzz doing it.

Back into the main room for some more beers, until the end of the night, to find Johnny Weston DJing in the Modern room, virtually to himself. Not that it bothered John, he just played what he wanted.

A lift back to the airport, to try and get a last beer with Andy Dennison, but strangely the bar wasn't open until midday on the land side, but opened at 6am on the airside, so we said our goodbyes to Andy and went through to have a liquid breakfast.

Overall, a great night. Derek Robertson did a fantastic job pulling it all to gether, and I think everyone who attended it really enjoyed it. So thanks to Derek for inviting us, thanks to all the people who had a chat and a beer, and thanks for the Scottish hospitality.

See you all again soon.

Dave

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