A little bout me and djing part two.

0:00 The front room at th

Alright, yep, so Germany, that was good fun, got back from there and then around about that time I actually started doing Radio Karadigian which was a radio station based, well it is now still, based in Aberystwyth and I did a dance show called Fat Beats FM and had loads of promotional records and CDs, loads of giveaways. I didn't get paid for it, but then again, I mean, I had so many records. I mean, at one point, I sold, probably sold about five or six thousand records. Not because I wanted to get rid of them, it was a case of, I just physically have no room to put them. The front room at the moment now where the computer is, if you could imagine that room, and I don't know if you've seen it sometimes where the stereo is, but that entire wall, as God is my witness, and either side, was just records. Full, full.

And again, I mean, you can't play them all, you know. Looking back now, possibly maybe there's a few hundred I shouldn't have sold, but then out of the thousands, you know, it would have taken me forever just to go through them. So I did Radio Karadigian for 10 years and that was a lot of fun. The only reason I stopped that is because it was on a Sunday and quite often after I'd worked Friday and Saturday night, the last thing I wanted to do was go out Sunday. Of course then, you know, with children arriving as well... You know, you want to be at home with them. During the mid-90s as well, there was an organisation in Aberystwyth called Spank, organised by a mate of mine called Ed CMA, and that was good fun, that was done in the football club in Aberystwyth, and that was just full on. I had Matt Edwards turn up, Ministry of Sound, a load of good DJs, and I used to do the PA, and I played once. In fact, what was quite funny, I always used to say to Ed,

2:21 He's like hey fine so I've got a set there

Get us a set, mate. And then he goes, no, no, no, no, I can't do that. I said, look, give me a set. No, no, no. So in the end what I did, which is quite a bit naughty but proved a point, I did a tape. I made a tape and I gave that to a third party who handed it to Ed. And he listened to that tape and he said, oh, I love it, brilliant, fantastic. We want that guy to play for us. And it was like, oh, right, OK. And of course that was me. So in the end when I finally told him well it was my tape he was like oh right okay do you want a set Jonathan? He's like hey fine so I've got a set there. So that was pretty cool. During the course of this happening as well there were parties in Talabont and...

I mean, when you think about the warehouse parties and whatnot, well, fine, you know, it's a warehouse party in the late 80s, early 90s for thousands of people. But, I mean, these parties in Talabont, they're still talked about today because basically you've got some guy who basically said, right, here's my land, stick a few marquees and you can have a party for an entire weekend. And it was marvellous. It was great fun. There was one party I did... For Spank, put all the PA up and how much time we got? Oh, we're alright. Put the PA up and it started raining and the marquee's on a bit of a slant and the PA's up here and you know, all of a sudden you have a little trickle and then it got a bit more of a trickle and eventually it was like, it was a river and I'm not kidding you, we had a river running through the marquee and it was a mud bath. It was absolute...

4:33 I'll never forget that, that was quite funny actually that was

He mud bathed. And I had loads of mud all over the speakers and whatnot, but there you go. Another point, being, you know, actually looking after the PA and whatnot as well, you're standing in the corner, and of course people think you're a drug dealer. So once I had this guy come up to me and he goes, have you got any drugs? I says, no, I don't do drugs or anything like that. And he said, well, do you want one of these? I'll have some of this. And I had a glass of JD, well drink of JD and he said thank goodness you got some sort of vice. I'll never forget that, that was quite funny actually that was. So that was my old Taliban episode, loads of P8. I mean at one point I had, bloody hell, I had four 2x18 base cabs which were about 2400 watts each.

I had four of the RCF Event 6000s, which are 1,000 watts each, and four Crown Macrotech VZ3600s, which are 1,365 watts a side at 4 ohms, which are very loud. And so I'm checking the time, you see, because I blabber, you see, so I've got to get this on under 10 minutes. So there you go, loads of gear and whatnot, but of course during all this is happening... There's a tiny bit of club work, but there's loads of weddings and parties and that sort of stuff. Got married in 1995 to my beautiful wife, which I'm still with, love her to bits, Lisa Lewis. And, I mean, apart from the radio station, still doing gigs, worked for Solid Gold, it's an agency near Shrewsbury, Paul Cowdroy, sorted mate. Did the Millennium function for Timpson Shoes, that was pretty good.

And I had a phone call once, can you do McAlpine's daughter's 21st birthday party? It was like, oh right, okay, fair enough. I turn up. It's not, it's THE McAlpine. The person in the UK who organises, does the roads and all this sort of stuff and surfacing. And I didn't blink your note, but there you go. So there's a little bit of an insight into what I have and haven't done. Maybe it's been interesting. Maybe you're there going... Has he finished? But who gives a monkeys? Thanks for watching.

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