The Night I Won A DJ Competition
The Head Youth Worker (Hilary) at my youth centre thought I had the skills to do it.
Each of us had a 3 record set and had to demonstrate Microphone skills along with use of disco lights.
I will admit the other 2 DJ's were good even if one stuck to songs from early 1980s for his 3 record set.
I cannot remember the exact 3 records I played that night
The Judges were from the Fire service, Another Youth Club and a DJ from a local nightclub called Julia.
The local paper Scunthorpe Telegraph showed up to take photos of us in the booth.
Sadly the only copy of the news article is this bad photocopy which I took from the news archives in Scunthorpe Central Library.
I did get a certificate for winning but sadly I couldn't find it when I was looking for it at my dads house.
In 1989 I was entered again but that time I got beaten into Second Place by another DJ.
I had a long and varied DJ career after my Youth club days
I've done DJ work in some Flea Pits but I've also done Discos at Posh Family Mansions (Normanby Hall near Scunthorpe)
I don't really miss my DJ days I gave up DJ work a good few years back now.