04/09/2023 - 'Our first fundraiser! An afternoon DJ set at Sounds + Grounds' by David

Sounds & Grounds record shop and cafe in Cowes hosted our first fundraiser for the MND Association it was lovely afternoon shared with family and friends. I shared the decks with my lovely friend Michelle Salsbury and we played for over four hours.  She played 50's and 60's rock and roll, and northern soul and I played 70's and 80's glam, punk, disco, soul and electronic.


We sold orange and blue MNDA wristbands and badges and we had a wooden box, beautifully made and decorated by Shaun Ashley and Ellen Adams with one half orange and the other blue with slots for cash or coins and we asked everyone if they were Team Orange or Team Blue when donating, with a QR code for online payments.  Anything donated in cash goes to the local Southampton branch of the MNDA while online donations go centrally. 


Our grand total on the afternoon was £384 with a further £50 donated the following morning. Team Orange was surprisingly way more popular than Team Blue with nearly double tucked away on that side. Read into that, what you will!

As you can see from my setlist below, I don't play many chart hits but believe me, they are all picked with passion and every one is a banger!

I played requests for many that turn up including my lovely mum, who looked bemused and overwhelmed but had a lovely time talking to my friends, many of which she had fed as teenagers or taught! 


I played Paul Simon's The Only Living Boy In New York for Alice as this is our duet song. You've got to hear us folks, we are sublime! 

Thank you to Jamie, Michelle, Josh and Kathy at Sounds & Grounds, who really looked after us well and were so supportive to us and our cause. 


If was a lovely afternoon spent with people I love, and Alice and I would like to thank everyone who came, and those who were there in spirit x

Set list:
Let It All Blow (long version) - The Dazz Band
Cherry Lips (get into magic vocal mix) - Culture Beat
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Mint Julips
In The Country - The Farmer's Boys
Tuesday Sunshine - The Questions 
Love Bug/Sweets For My Sweet (long version) - Tina Charles
The Ghost In You (full length version) - The Psychedelic Furs 
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut One Hundred 
Lazy Afternoon - Animal Nightlife 
Stop Your Sobbin' (demo) - The Pretenders
I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls 
Radio Africa (dub) - Latin Quarter (for Adrian & Jan)
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - The Korgis (for Anna)
The Only Living Boy In New York - EBTG (for Alice)
Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg
Black Man Ray - China Crisis (for Andy)
Brilliant Mind - Furniture (for Duncan)
The Morning Of Our Lives - Jonathon Richman and The Modern Lovers 
At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers (for Kev)
O Superman - Laurie Anderson
Funkin' For Jamaica - Tom Browne 
With A Song In My Heart - Ella Fitzgerald (for mum)
Nightingales 12" version - Prefab Sprout
Gangsters - The Specials (for Rich)
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council 
White Man In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Nicky - Momus (for Carl)
It's My Life (12" remix) Talk Talk (for Darren)
Why (12" version) - Carly Simon
Buzz Buzz Buzz - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers 
Liza Radley - The Jam
Keep On Keeping On - Redskins 
Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
Thank you - The Pale Fountains (for Lois)
Passionate Friend - The Teardrop Explodes
I Can't Help Myself - Orange Juice
Young Parizianz - Adam and the Antz (for Guy)
(Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star - Bill Wyman 
Sign Of The Times - The Belle Stars
Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club
Money - The Flying Lizards
Mahalia (extended version) - The Bible
Lost Weekend (extended version) - Lloyd Cole and The Commotions 



Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2023 at 1:26 PM

    Such a joyful Afternoon David and Alice and a privilege to be amongst so many lovely people. Well done and thank you. Xx mum

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  2. Suzy SueSeptember 4, 2023 at 2:37 PM

    Banging set list. ❤️

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2023 at 3:14 PM

    Can you do a spotify list for us Davey.....or play it at OD? Rachel

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  4. DavidSeptember 4, 2023 at 11:27 PM

    Hello Super Rach! I will play you whatever you want at Overdraft!

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  5. Geoff RobersonSeptember 5, 2023 at 11:49 AM

    I’m curious now. I’m going to have find some of those songs on my streaming music provider. I like finding new (to me) music.

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2023 at 2:32 PM

    It was an honour to dj alongside you, and what a total raised 👏🏼 Chelle x

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