Warming Another House

Bear is the latest one in the group to buy a house and Saturday night was his house warming party. As you can see above he was delighted to see the number of people that showed up, bringing booze and gifts for his new gaff.

The spread was great - lots of food, beer, wine and of course music. As is customary, the entire party took place in his kitchen. After we ate it was time to get down to the serious business. Thanks to a (ahem) 'borrowed' projector, we were able to watch Pink Floyd's Pulse DVD (an Oct 94 gig from the Division Bell tour) on the main kitchen wall. Paulo took to the decks first and knocked out some 'proper' dance tunes while everyone settled in for a long night. After a while the crowd started growing restless and the whispers started, quickly developing into chants: "dance off, dance off, dance off, dance off"...

After Paulo's 'warm up' I took over the decks and provided the tunes for the dance off that turned Bear's kitchen into the closest thing to a 1970s Manhattan discotheque that one could hope to find in Dublin.



By most accounts Joe (pictured here) was by far the best and busted enough moves during the dance off to upstage Tony Manero on his very best night in his very best suit. It must have been the magic in that bottle of Smirnoff Lemon Vodka and the tea towel head gear.

The tunes were:

01. Soul Kitchen - The Doors
02. Magic Bus - The Who
03. Gimme Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group
04. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Otis Redding
05. Night Train - James Brown
06. Soul Man - Sam & Dave
07. Let's Spend The Night Together - The Rolling Stones
08. I Can't Explain - The Who
09. Be My Baby - The Ronnettes
10. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
11. Twist & Shout - The Beatles
12. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
13. Start! - The Jam
14. Too Much Too Young - The Specials
15. Mirror In The Bathroom - The Beat
16. One Step Beyond - Madness
17. Rudie Can't Fail - The Clash
18. Ghost Town - The Specials
19. Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth
20. Mickey - Toni Basil
21. I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
22. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C Music Factory
23. Superfreak (12" Version) - Rick James
24. 1999 (Album Version) - Prince
25. Footloose - Kenny Loggins
26. 9 To 5 - Dolly Parton
27. Copacabana (At The Copa) - Barry Manilow
28. Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
29. Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
30. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns 'n' Roses
31. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
32. Cars - Gary Numan
33. Genius Of Love (Long Version) - Tom Tom Club
34. Juicy - Notorious BIG
35. Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
36. Billie Jean (Original 12" Edit) - Michael Jackson
37. Kiss - Prince
38. Holiday - Madonna
39. Groove Is In The Heart (12" Version) - Dee Lite
40. Groovy Train - The Farm
41. I'm Free - The Soup Dragons
42. Can You Dig It? - The Mock Turtles
43. Weirdo - The Charlatans
44. Whip It - Devo
45. Pop Muzik - M
46. Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones

Best of luck Bear and we look forward to your next shin-dig and dance off. I hope the gaff is nice and toasty now...