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Did you see my news?

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Did you see my news on social media over the last few day? If you don’t follow me on FaceBook please click here and get following!

I have hinted about my news for quite a while but now it’s finally out there … I’m going Global! Well, that’s not entirely true. My friends will tell you I don’t really DJ very far from home and that “up North” for me is anywhere above Winchester. Well that’s not entirely true – coming up in 2020 I’ve got bookings in Devon and North Dorset but I do tend to stay local a lot of the time.

I’m very lucky to now also have a home in Fuerteventura, so Global for me is offering my services there too. I’ve set this up with my friends Gary and Gail who have moved to Fuerte. We have a new business called Fuerte Fine Weddings offering wedding planning and advice along with our celebrant, MC and DJ services. CLICK HERE to go to our new Fuerte Fine Weddings website. Basically if you want to have a destination wedding you should speak to us. Oh, and if you don’t understand what a celebrant does please click here.

This won’t change anything over here at all. I’m still taking 2020 and 2021 bookings in the UK. I’m still available for my couples whenever they need me, when I’m in Fuerteventura I have great wifi. That means even though I can’t always meet in person I can video chat via FaceTime, Skype or FaceBook Messenger. Actually I get better internet access in Spain than I do in the UK.

Whether it a wedding in South West England or Fuerteventura, I’d love to be considered to help you create the day of your dreams so please get in touch. CLICK HERE and let’s have a chat.

time to recharge

Time to recharge my battery

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I’m currently taking some time to recharge my battery.

I may go into more details later but for now let’s just say the last few months have been a very testing time on a personal level. Sadly my beautiful wife, Ce, passed away at the end of April. She had been living with Cancer for sixteen years and we always knew the day would come.

As you can imagine, a lot has happened and my circumstances have changed dramatically, so I’m taking my time to plan the next chapter. 

I have a few weeks with no weddings so I’m away doing my thing and writing up the scripts, play lists and Love Stories (click here) for the bookings I have later in the month.

One of the major principles Ce and I lived by over those years was to always schedule things to look forward to. There was always something, usually many things, booked into our diaries including gig tickets and holidays. When you work for yourself it’s really important to plan ahead. You need to make sure you get holidays. It’s very tempting to try and fill every weekend with a booking but you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to take a break.

Even though I’m away I am still totally contactable for all of my couples and potential clients. In fact my internet connectivity is probably better than at home. Our get away destination of choice is Fuerteventura (click here) and I’ve been very fortunate to spend a lot of time here in recent years. In the coming months I expect to have some exciting news to share with you – if you follow me on social media you may have an inkling of what’s to come 😉

Don’t forget to take time to recharge your batteries.

Time to recharge

One more …

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One more post from your favourite, award winning, Hampshire wedding dj on holiday in Fuerteventura. Life sounds better to music and taking a break has given me plenty of time to listen to plenty of favourites and discover new ones.

One more

I really loved Rae Morris’ 2015 debut album ‘Ungarded’ and I’m looking forward to her second album ‘Someone Out There’ which is due out early next year. Here’s one of the tracks she’s released already … ‘Do It’. CLICK HERE for her official site.

There are plenty of bars playing great chill-out here so it was no surprise to hear José Padilla’s “Adios Ayer” in the air as we enjoyed a café con leche. José Padilla is a Spanish DJ and music producer who has been resident DJ at Café del Mar.

Can’t tell you much about this one – oh how I love Shazam 😉
La Isla & Sylvia – Siento (Mahjong Extended Mix)

One of the radio shows I always listen to (usually on the iPlayer) is Trevor Nelson’s Saturday evening “Rhythm Nation” (CLICK HERE). It’s always worth listening right to the end, you never know what you might miss if you don’t! This was the last track on his 25th November show ~ Daniel Caesar’s “We Find Love” taken from his debut album “Freudian”.

Not long left here now so this may be the last of these posts … but then again we’re heading out to one of our favourite bars again today so you never know there may be one more 😉

Coming up next week a special Christmas songs post with no Michael Bublé, Pogues or Mariah!

recharging my batteries

Still Chillin’

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So, I’m still chillin’. As I said last time, I’ve got 4G and a phone signal everywhere here so if you need me, or want to check a date, just get in touch.

Here’s a few more tracks from the soundtrack to our break in Fueretventura.

The really great thing is that (so far) we’ve not been bombarded with the usual Christmas music. We’ve also seen some great local musicians playing live.

We’ve got a TV in our room and I’m absolutely loving the BBC’s Christmas video with the school girl and her dad – great message and great to hear this track again! Clean Bandit are so clever – this is the tune of Christmas for me this year.

Another of our favourite bars is Reef on the front in Corralejo CLICK HERE. On one of our visits they were playing some tracks by a guy called Donavon Frankenreiter, he’s a protégée of Jack Johnson and also reminded us of John Mayer. A few tracks stood out including “Pass It Around”, “A Little Bit Of Riddim” and this one ~ “Bend In The Road”

I’ve also listened to a few more old episodes of Desert Island Discs including Ed Sherran’s from earlier this year. It’s well worth a listen CLICK HERE The one track Ed put above all the rest was Nizlopi “Flooded Quarry”. He explains how he became their guitar tech and the huge influence they’ve had on his career. I only knew them for the JCB song so it was interesting to hear Ed’s story. Here’s a video of Nizlopi doing “Flooded Quarry” at The Joiners!

Perfect for still chilling’ to is “Breath” by Télépopmusik. This was the debut single from the French dance music act and features guest vocals by Angela McCluskey. If you look very carefully you won’t see me in this video.

I’m still chillin’ for a few more days so maybe there’ll be another post.

Still Chillin