NEW THOUGHTS AND MUSIC


Hello again. Thanks for reading my blog! I thought I'd do another one as one of two things have changed since I last did this! Firstly I am taking a break form SmokeFM. It's not because I am not happy doing a show for them (I am happy playing my music anywhere) it's just time pressure. There are simply not enough hours in the day - I really struggle to do everythng that a person of my 'maturity' should be doing!! To commit to being in a place at 6pm is just too challenging for me at the moment. I am hoping that I can resume my shows here soon.

I have also been spending a bit of money on new (old) vinyl. Most of which you can hear in this week's (24th February show). There are a couple that I have never owned and are popular and a few obscurities that have been passed over by time but are good enough to be aired. Talking of this week's show what you hear is 'version 2'. The first one was lost when I dropped my MiniDisc and the battery fell out - erasing everything. I was three quarters of the way through it so was not best pleased to do it again. Oh well...second time around I did change the order a bit and it seems to hang together a bit better.

Last week I went 'clubbing' to hear my friend PapaG play his set at 4am in the morning at a club in Central London. It was LOUD, but very enjoyable! I wasn't the oldest there either!!

In the coming weeks my shows on JSR will feature some music that are CD based rather than vinyl. I have quite few CDs of Soul Disco & Funk that need to be aired so will be doing that in a few weeks

It’s been ages since I did my Blog. So firstly Happy New Year! (Yes it’s been that long!) So what’s been happening in the World of RetroRuss?

Well firstly I now manage the MySpace page for Jazz Syndicate Radio – this has grown exponentially over the past 10 weeks or so it’s been up. Lots of artists, fans and other DJ’s have made contact and it’s certainly a good vehicle to stay in touch. If you want to connect with me then do visit my MySpace page www.myspace.om/retroruss
I’ve got lots of MySpace friends too!

What else – I’ve been buying some new (old) tunes…my best acquisition being Free- Deniece Williams, vinyl on the Columbia label, plus other odds and sods that are now in the vaults ready to be played at some stage in the future. I have been on JSR for over a year and for my anniversary show did a House Music show. It was different and interesting to do – certainly something I will repeat again in the future.

I went to see Dreamgirls the movie this week. A film about soul music sounded great and I like Jennifer Hudson, Jammie Foxx, Eddie Murphy & Beyonce. The film was a huge disappointment, with the exception of Jennifer Hudson. Poor script, bad dialogue, terrible music, just a bad film. The potential to do a film about this era was enormous and all I can say was that whoever was in charge, ‘ballsed it up’.

Hopefully going to do a live show on an FM station soon and a gig too….watch this space for future announcements!