Night Fever

As far as I can remember I started DJ’ing back in the seventies.  My earliest recollection is of taking an old radiogram which consisted of a record player and a radio built into an old wooden cabinet and adapting it.  I think what we did (we being a few friends at one of the local youth clubs) was rip out the radio and connect another turntable in it’s place.  This was then transformed using a couple of lamp holders with coloured bulbs into my first console.  When one record was finished a big switch was turned to change the input to the other turntable!

About 1974 I got together with my friends (another) Paul and Richard and “Nite Sounds” was born – Paul’s surname was Knight so we chose to funk it up a little bit.  Our equipment was purchased from a fantastic shop in Farnborough called Disco Sales & Hire.  We had a double turntable and mixer consul built by a company called FAL. As you can see from the photo there was still a fair amount of DIY involved.