The Slow Dance

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Aged 11, dancing with Sarah Boland at the Salvation Army disco round the corner from my mums house.

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Oh yes … church disco 1986

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I’m glad you guys had moderately listenable records. This was the jam for when we had teachers and parents telling us to leave room for Jesus.

It still makes me break out into a cold sweat.

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The only one that got me on the floor at that point

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Nero’s 2000, Ramsgate.

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The slow dance at the end of the night aka The Erection Section.

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Late 80’s school disco classic, all the girls loved this one, no slow dancing for us lads though, too cool (i.e shit scared of being turned down or worse ridiculed)

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Was all over these at our monthly school disco in 1984

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In the bank

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This always reminds me of school and Sally Army discos.
A bathing in Kouros, full of confidence, until the slowies came on.

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Makes me chuckle thinking this thread could be “8pm at a kids disco” or “8am at the Saint” :thinking:

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Now we’re talking!

Played at a wedding recently, bride and groom are both DJs so threw a big party in a field with a load of their mates playing.

Had the honour of playing just after dinner, so was in my element playing (my bread and butter :wink:) this kind of stuff.

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I ended with a “fun-sized Mars Bar” in my pocket :laughing:

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Was club called Nero’s 2000 or was it Nero’s in year 2000
Asking as Nero’s 2000 would have been a great name for a club in 80s / 90s

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Ha, been thinking of making the very same clarification since I posted that.

Yes, this was a slow jam that was popular when I went to Nero’s 2000 in the mid-eighties. It was a neon and chrome palace of dance fit for a future emperor.

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If i can fix my time machine and go back to 1984, then this would definitely be getting a spin

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There you go.

The not so subtle smell of Lynx Africa permeating the school hall.

My mum and dad wouldn’t buy me an OP sweatshirt or a Diamond Back sadly.

But in that brief moment I didn’t care…It felt skill.

Not sure my ‘date’ was hugely impressed. Asked me if I wouldn’t mind her going out with one of my mates a couple of weeks later to which I replied “ok”.

I did not have game.

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I remember this being so popular with the girls, that you never got a refusal.

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Slipped this in (fnarr,fnarr) at the end of the night when I DJ’d at a mate’s wedding a few years ago.
Song still brings back memories of mid 80’s nightclubs.

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