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StokeBloke
17th-January-2007, 02:29 AM
After reading so much negative stuff about venues I figured there must be some other people like me here, people who go dancing and have an amazing time. The DJ played great music, the staff were friendly, the floor wasn't sticky or too slippy, the drinks were reasonably priced, you learnt a really cool new move, you met an old friend, a new friend, danced with a forumite, had a fantastic dance, anything really.... but most importantly you had brilliant fun Cerocing.

I wanted to share the excellent time I had tonight at Stafford (where pretty much all of the above was true... ohh did I mention party atmosphere?) with you guys without getting shot down in flames for daring to have fun Cerocing.

So, please tell all.......... where's your favorite venue and why? Where have you been tonight? Anything - let's make this a who's who of the top dancing spots in the UK :D

But there's just one thing......... nothing negative please, save the moaning for all the other threads and keep this one up beat to balance the karma of the forum.

under par
17th-January-2007, 03:32 AM
Mrs Par and I had a great weekend of dancing.. Utopia on Friday FAB! :cheers: :respect: Hammersmith Saturday ... Tiggerbabe was just amazing :kiss: :kiss: :hug: Sunday Berko with OXO :worthy: and latin Ian:worthy: 2 rooms of class music... WOW a great weekend.:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Gadget
17th-January-2007, 02:16 PM
:D I had a good night of dancing last night: was flowing stuff well and connecting to the music nicely. Had some very nice dances :flower: Tried a couple of things that didn't screw up. :clap:... yup. a good night. :waycool:

Genie
17th-January-2007, 03:16 PM
I also had a good night last night. DJ was brilliant (as always) and the teacher was good too (as usual). The dances went well, really enjoyed them. A good night was had by all :-)

fletch
17th-January-2007, 03:35 PM
Mrs Par and I had a great weekend of dancing.. Utopia on Friday FAB! :cheers: :respect: Hammersmith Saturday ... Tiggerbabe was just amazing :kiss: :kiss: :hug: Sunday Berko with OXO :worthy: and latin Ian:worthy: 2 rooms of class music... WOW a great weekend.:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

:yeah:


Its not very often I don't have a good night when I go out :flower:

shame I missed OXO'S at Berko, but , Utopia was wonderfull, for all the reasons allready stated and looking forward to this weeks Utopia:worthy: Hammersmith was just fab, fab, fab. all on another tread :cheers:

I think this tread could be good.


I just hope we get a variation of venues on this tread, it would help me making decision where to go, especially if I can't travel far for sitting reasons.

perhaps new to me' venue' would be useful and not just i went to........venue again this week as usual, and it was .......


I hope that's not negative its not meant to be, I just think the post's would have more impact if the person posting has something to compare and can give reasons why it was good, not just its all new to me, and I have discovered dance.


:flower:

David Bailey
17th-January-2007, 03:54 PM
It was great, thanks.

Battlestar Galactica and The Transporter. Fantastic :clap:

philsmove
17th-January-2007, 03:59 PM
Whent to Ceroc Bath

The DJ played great music,
The staff was friendly
The floor wasn't sticky or too slippy (but being concrete a bit hard)
The drinks were reasonably priced, (like free …some one elses round:cheers: )
Yes l learnt a really cool new move (the illusion thingy)
Met lots of old friends,
Don’t think I danced with a forumit,
But had a fantastic dance( with an ex)
Yup brilliant fun Cerocing.

And after years of Leroc I am now an offical Ceroc member

And looking forward to the new Ceroc venue in Bristol

Little Yellow Fish
17th-January-2007, 04:06 PM
I had a great time last night too :D And I didn't fall once! Hopefully I won't fall tonight either... :D But we won't tempt fate

robd
17th-January-2007, 04:15 PM
Yes l learnt a really cool new move (the illusion thingy)


Illusion spin??

I so want to be shown how to do this properly :grin: Who cares how outdated and passe some people might think it is!

fletch
17th-January-2007, 04:17 PM
I wanted to share the excellent time I had tonight at Stafford (where pretty much all of the above was true... ohh did I mention party atmosphere?) with you guys without getting shot down in flames for daring to have fun Cerocing.

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I hear there were some experienced male dancers there.:worthy:

its not just about turning over begginers,its catering for all levels allowing people to progress.:yeah:

No one wan'ts to stop people having fun, lets not be negitive or sensitive :rolleyes:

I'm not sure who said it but..........any publicity is good publisity :wink:


:flower:

Beowulf
17th-January-2007, 04:24 PM
Pretty good I must admit..

apart from one Dance where my Partner was really forcibly back leading and hijacking me (almost every move!) I had a good night.

I ache today though.. not been dancing since NYE !! ouch !!

TurboTomato
17th-January-2007, 05:57 PM
It was great, thanks.

Battlestar Galactica and The Transporter. Fantastic :clap:

Not so good for me :what:

It started off ok with a visit to the gym. Then on the way back I ran out of screen wash. I was pleasantly surprised when I found I could buy screen wash along with my groceries at my new, bigger, Sainsburys.

The rest of the evening was much of a muchness, but I struggled to get to sleep because of an annoying itchy cough



Oh, are we supposed to be talking about dancing? :whistle:

StokeBloke
17th-January-2007, 06:08 PM
But there's just one thing......... nothing negative please, save the moaning for all the other threads and keep this one up beat to balance the karma of the forum.


Not so good for me :what:

It started off ok with a visit to the gym. Then on the way back I ran out of screen wash. I was pleasantly surprised when I found I could buy screen wash along with my groceries at my new, bigger, Sainsburys.

The rest of the evening was much of a muchness, but I struggled to get to sleep because of an annoying itchy cough
Dude, I think you're kind of missing the whole point of this thread, but as you had such a crappy evening have some free hugs :hug: :flower: :hug: :flower: :hug::flower: :hug::flower: :hug::flower: :hug::flower: :hug::flower: :hug:

Now where have you danced lately that was amazing TurboT? :clap:

MartinHarper
17th-January-2007, 06:15 PM
I find it difficult to read this thread without recalling Eddie Izzard's sketch about "Awesome Hotdogs, only $2.99".

fletch
17th-January-2007, 06:17 PM
Oh, are we supposed to be talking about dancing? :whistle:


yes. aparently Cerocing, can we post about other dance styles, or even MJ :confused: and nothing negative please :rolleyes: it will up set the Karma on there forum.:really:

lets hope we get lots of post's other wise it could become very boring as some people don't travel very far :whistle:


:D :flower:

TurboTomato
17th-January-2007, 06:32 PM
Dude, I think you're kind of missing the whole point of this thread, but as you had such a crappy evening have some free hugs :hug: :flower: :hug: :flower: :hug::flower: :hug::flower: :hug::flower: :hug::flower: :hug::flower: :hug:


That was my failed attempt to be 'mildy entertaining' :na: But thanks anyway.


Now where have you danced lately that was amazing TurboT? :clap:

My local venue obviously :D Being serious for a moment, and trying to be objective, it is very good - a very nice venue, a great teacher and DJ, and a very friendly bunch of people (that's not just from me, but from other people that dance elsewhere). I shall be off there in a couple of hours!

I have also been to Woking recently and enjoyed that.

TheTramp
17th-January-2007, 06:33 PM
I had a good night last night. Lots of lovely dances. Better not comment on the DJ and teacher though! :whistle:

Seahorse
17th-January-2007, 06:43 PM
well, we had a laugh last night as a group of 'cerocers' from my local venue had a second latin (merengue/mambo) night together. It's become apparent that the teachers are on quite a steep learning curve and to their credit they are listening from much of the good humoured feedback which we give ... at times we were in hysterics with some of the analogies as the teacher isn't english, with several instances of being told we could practice moves alone 'or whilst waiting for a bus'... or 'pretending to kill a worm with the twist of our ankle'...'kill it!, kill it!, kill it!, kill it!'... hmmm... yes!

Despite this we actually learnt a sequence of moves to freestyle to rather than a standard routine which was satisfying - remains to be seen if we can repeat it. But I think we all left feeling good and it was nice to be out together.

I think a few drinks before hand will help in future.

fletch
17th-January-2007, 06:47 PM
That was my failed attempt to be 'mildy entertaining' :na: But thanks anyway.


.
if you havn't got a scence of humor its wasted


I had a good night last night. Lots of lovely dances. Better not comment on the DJ and teacher though! :whistle:

glad to see you are keeping with 'only positive' feed back please :rolleyes:

We know thats where I have gone wrong in the past :na:


I find it difficult to read this thread without recalling Eddie Izzard's sketch about "Awesome Hotdogs, only $2.99".


now you have me wondering, I havn't seen it :what:

StokeBloke
17th-January-2007, 06:58 PM
lets hope we get lots of post's other wise it could become very boring as some people don't travel very far :whistle:


:D :flower:
Fletch I promise to try not to turn the thread into a Stafford-fest :flower: I do think that as you (and a few other forumites) visit lots of venues you are in a really great position to advise us lesser travellers where the best nights are - so we can make the most of the times we can manage to break free mid-week for a night :wink:

Remember you can post about anything you did last night that was amazing (OK dance related stuff :D calm down Gav) such as new moves you learnt, dances you had, it's not all just about the venues......

TurboTomato
18th-January-2007, 12:41 AM
My local venue obviously :D Being serious for a moment, and trying to be objective, it is very good - a very nice venue, a great teacher and DJ, and a very friendly bunch of people (that's not just from me, but from other people that dance elsewhere). I shall be off there in a couple of hours!

And I had a fab nights dancing :clap:

StokeBloke
18th-January-2007, 12:51 AM
Tonight I danced myself into trouble and invented a move to get back out!!! First time that's happened to me - linking stuff up by myself that quickly I mean, I'm always dancing myself into trouble :D :D

(I also had a few beautiful dances :flower: )

TurboTomato
18th-January-2007, 01:01 AM
Tonight I danced myself into trouble

Was she ok? :wink:





Hope you got that one this time :)

Trouble
18th-January-2007, 01:03 AM
Tonight I danced myself into trouble
(I also had a few beautiful dances :flower: )

Blimey i didn't feel a thing. :awe:

Dai
18th-January-2007, 01:07 AM
I had a fab night at northampton last night - venue was great, the people were great. It was busy, but not too busy that there wasn't space to dance. It was my first proper night of dancing since ICE on 1st, so that probably helped, as i had missed dancing. That combined with now being somewhat less stressed - all good.

Can't wait till the weekend now - freestyles!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

StokeBloke
18th-January-2007, 01:13 AM
I had a fab night at northampton last night - venue was great, the people were great. It was busy, but not too busy that there wasn't space to dance.
Northampton sounds great Dai, I've seen lots of good stuff written about it here. Glad you had a good time, did you get lots of dances too?

fletch
18th-January-2007, 09:11 AM
Fletch I promise to try not to turn the thread into a Stafford-fest :flower:
......


I don't mind you talking about the same venue, after all you will proberbly get me talking about the same ones,:grin:

for most of us when we started dancing we couldn't belive how FAB it was and raved on about it to our freinds, the danger is 'teaching your granny to suck eggs' i'm sure I can say we are all please you are so excited about you new discovery. There is a world out side Stafford I hope you get chance to to find out :flower:

SeriouslyAddicted
18th-January-2007, 09:56 AM
Had a fab night as always at Salomans last night. Great teacher, great DJ and some amazing dances - knackered this morning now though!

Tiggerbabe
18th-January-2007, 10:06 AM
glad to see you are keeping with 'only positive' feed back please :rolleyes:

We know thats where I have gone wrong in the past :na:

I think he was only joking, Fletch :hug:

fletch
18th-January-2007, 10:26 AM
I think he was only joking, Fletch :hug:

and I wouldn't sarcastic,:wink: not my style :na:


:D

StokeBloke
18th-January-2007, 10:40 AM
I don't mind you talking about the same venue, after all you will proberbly get me talking about the same ones,:grin:
So tell all Fletch, where are these dancing hot spots that aren't full of dancing hot shots?


the danger is 'teaching your granny to suck eggs'
I wouldn't dream of trying to teach you to suck anything babe :D :D :D :D and I certainly wouldn't call you a 'granny' Fletch... although Granny Fletch does have a certain cosy agony aunt ring to it don't you think? :flower: :flower: :love: :hug: :love: :hug: :love: :hug: :love: :hug: :love: :flower: :flower:

TheTramp
18th-January-2007, 11:01 AM
I went along to the freestyle in Dundee last night, and had a great time, with some lovely dances to some great music by Tiggerbabe :flower:

fletch
18th-January-2007, 11:18 AM
So tell all Fletch, where are these dancing hot spots that aren't full of dancing hot shots?

I wouldn't dream of trying to teach you to suck anything babe :D :D :D :D and I certainly wouldn't call you a 'granny' Fletch... although Granny Fletch does have a certain cosy agony aunt ring to it don't you think? :flower: :flower: :love: :hug: :love: :hug: :love: :hug: :love: :hug: :love: :flower: :flower:

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

so you Do have a sence of humor :wink:

I think i will be a while before 'granny Fletch' is used Maddy has just had her 13 birthday but at alsmost 45 i'm in the right age bracket.....you cheeky bleep bleep! :na:

personally and I might be wrong but 'hot shot' seems to be people that only want good dances, at what ever leavel you are currently at 'cliquey' seems to me comes from lack of confidence and feeling secure in you group and happy just to stop with that group.:flower:

I have said before there are cliquey groups and 'hot shots' every where, the one I used to sit with in Wolverhampton. and who I believe some still dance at Stafford, comments to me in the past have been 'so aren't we good enough to sit with any more' a bit of a control thing? know your place?


Just ask BARMPOT about 'hotshots' in the Midlands :sad:


'hot shots' want good dances at there own leavel or one or two leavels above

'cliquey' just a group of people that know each other


you will get the above everywhere.....it is in the eye of the beholder :flower:


But IMO Daventry is the best free style, followed by Ealing

David Bailey
18th-January-2007, 11:30 AM
Now, now, Fletch, you're verging on being non-positive there... :wagging finger icon:

I had a great night last night at Ashtons - good old-fashioned bopping around, it makes a change occasionally from all this intense Tango stuff. :grin:

robd
18th-January-2007, 11:37 AM
I had a fab night last night and I didn't dance a single step.

MartinHarper
18th-January-2007, 11:48 AM
So last night I danced with the best MJ follower in the world. And I should get to dance with her again tommorrow, Friday, and Sunday. However, this failed to amaze me as I'm now quite used to her unknowing brilliance.

DavidY
18th-January-2007, 01:27 PM
So last night I danced with the best MJ follower in the world. And I should get to dance with her again tommorrow, Friday, and Sunday. However, this failed to amaze me as I'm now quite used to her unknowing brilliance.Are you offering any clues on who this paragon might be? (Particularly for the benefit of those of us that may be in the same place as you on at least one of those days. :wink:)

Wuzzle
18th-January-2007, 01:30 PM
Tuesday was good fun, good music and nice moves. :clap:

Last night was fun if not a little cramped at times. So many ladies and not enough time. Am not sure how big a ratio other venues have being fairly new to ceroc. 18 ladies to move round at one point :really: think thats as busy as i've seen the place so far. Still all good fun :cheers: even if i felt i was dragging my feet a little...

(the wheel is turning yet the hamster lies still) :sad:

icebraker
18th-January-2007, 01:43 PM
Tuesday was good fun, good music and nice moves. :clap:

Last night was fun if not a little cramped at times. So many ladies and not enough time. Am not sure how big a ratio other venues have being fairly new to ceroc. 18 ladies to move round at one point :really: think thats as busy as i've seen the place so far. Still all good fun :cheers: even if i felt i was dragging my feet a little...

(the wheel is turning yet the hamster lies still) :sad: J11 last night just of M6 justs gets better every week, by the way Fletch Petes had his ban lifted he was there last night :kiss:

fletch
18th-January-2007, 01:46 PM
So tell all Fletch, where are these dancing hot spots that aren't full of dancing hot shots?


:

[QUOTE=DavidJames;331457]Now, now, Fletch, you're verging on being non-positive there... :wagging finger icon:
QUOTE]


He started it:na: Mr James sir :worthy:

:wink: :na:

I had a fab night last night one lady lost 10lb in a week :respect:

fletch
18th-January-2007, 01:48 PM
J11 last night just of M6 justs gets better every week, by the way Fletch Petes had his ban lifted he was there last night :kiss:


woooow :clap:

I wonder why :wink:

I hope he has learn't his lesson :whistle: he might think twice about commenting on the music :innocent:

Lory
18th-January-2007, 01:53 PM
I had a fab night last night one lady lost 10lb in a week :respect:

Did she give birth without realising :D

StokeBloke
18th-January-2007, 01:54 PM
J11 last night just of M6 justs gets better every week, by the way Fletch Petes had his ban lifted he was there last night :kiss:
Had a great night's dancing last night too, was a toss up between The J11 Club and Burton. Opted to go to Burton in the end. Glad I did as I learnt two really useful moves in the intermediate class. See you at the freestyle on Saturday maybe icebraker:grin:

fletch
18th-January-2007, 01:57 PM
See you at the freestyle on Saturday maybe icebraker:grin:

I thought you weren't allowed out at weekends :confused:

David Bailey
18th-January-2007, 01:58 PM
He started it:na: Mr James sir :worthy:
Ah, respect at last :na:

fletch
18th-January-2007, 02:26 PM
Ah, respect at last :na:

:wink:

TheTramp
18th-January-2007, 02:28 PM
Did she give birth without realising :D

No. I think she cut off her leg! :rolleyes:

StokeBloke
18th-January-2007, 05:55 PM
I thought you weren't allowed out at weekends :confused:
Hence the word maybe, I'm trying to jiggle work commitments so I can get along even if it's only for an hour. Who knows :nice:

JiveLad
18th-January-2007, 11:08 PM
Better late than never........this was my night - from the night being referred to. (This is a cut and paste from the (mildly entertaining) you know what:

One new move I forgot to mention in this post, was learning the Jack-in-the-box.......

================================================== ====


I decided to return to Basingstoke and Dance-Yourself-Dizzy (http://www.danceyourselfdizzy.com/)who run it (and Fleet and Winchester). The great advantage of DYD is that the web site is a treasure trove of MJ video lessons. For a mere £8.,50 for 6 months you get access to the lot from beginners to advanced moves - and you can download the lot. Plus - the intermediate lesson gets posted the day after: now that's what I want!

Added to that, the teacher (same guy as the video, same backdrop) is crystal clear and gets it all well organised. Top.
And............orange squash at 50p a pint.....!!

Ok - now to some vignettes:

1. When I first went several months ago, there was a woman making loud noises (you know the type....can hear from half a mile away).......and the teacher went "5 women on......" - and I heard "which lucky man is going to get me?".......and you guessed it - she landed on me. Well it was **** test (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=****+test) time (see the link if you don't know what this is...........) - so I gave some back and she said "oooooh we're going to have a baby together" (bear in mind she is 50+). Round 1 closed. The women did the circuit - and guess what.........she landed on me again......."Oooooooh - it's going to be twins (laughs out loud)". As it happens she was quite a competent dancer. She was there again - but seem to be a bit quieter (good).

2. I was surprised to be remembered by several women. There was Tai-Chi-Woman - we share a common interest in the oriental art. I guess she is about 70+ - and knows all the moves - and dresses so fashionably. At the end of the dance, she asked me what style I had been dancing - and she thought it was Lindy Hop......????? (Eh? - some chance - that would be cool.....).

3. Drk-Spin was probably the best dancer that side of the M25 - superb double spins like I'd never seen quite as perfectly executed. Quite delightful: a highly proficient, premier league dancer and we had 2 great dances.

4. The Taxi-1 asked me to dance - and we had 2. She was great fun - with lots and lots of style (too much?? - I dunno when it becomes too much - but it was fun to see). Danced with the demonstrator (Lin) who was fine - and I wanted to check out the Basket move we did in Intermediate - so she helped on that.

5. Danced a few times with Jenz which was fun - funky - which is what it's all about at the end of the day. She told me (as other women have told me (see previous posts) that some guys can take it all a bit too seriously............why??). She will be a great dancer.

All in all a fine evening - although it lacks a bit of the zip of say St. Albans or Stevenage: perhaps because of the music (sometimes seemed like a school disco from the 1970's) and also the fact that it really thinned out by 10:30 (don't know why - that's only about 1 hour freestyle).

Ok - quite a distance from St. Albans - but at that time (going and coming back) it's quite a fast run; Stone Roses to listen to on the way back, followed by Kephlunk, Shaggy remix, Praisecats and there we go!

DavidY
21st-January-2007, 03:00 PM
Yes, I had a great night.

My local venue (Marcus Garvey in Nottingham). I enjoyed it more than Utopia the night before (partly due to my being tired on Friday night).

At Nottingham, there were still some really lovely dancers, some really good music, and (even with about 150 folk there) space to dance comfortably. :clap:

StokeBloke
21st-January-2007, 07:46 PM
I was at the Stoke freestyle last night for a couple of hours and I had my first try at double trouble! Boy, is that fun. I also had a dance with a lady who just glides around the floor - I love dancing with girls like her that make me look good :D :D :D

There was a guy there who was doing merengue, and I managed to nab one of his moves and pull it on the floor later on (only something simple but that sort of development makes it feel like my dancing is progressing).

I also spent some time chatting with an awesome lead (hi David), getting some pointers and tips; he was even kind enough to show me how to do a move I was talking to him about properly :respect:

Last night was amazing...... dancing is amazing.... I'm still grinning like mad today :D :D :D

Gus
21st-January-2007, 08:41 PM
for most of us when we started dancing we couldn't belive how FAB it was and raved on about it to our freinds, the danger is 'teaching your granny to suck eggs' i'm sure I can say we are all please you are so excited about you new discovery. There is a world out side Stafford I hope you get chance to to find out :flower:Sage words. After all the ranting about Stafford I thought it was only right and proper to see if all the claims about how wonderfull it was had some basis ... and see how the place has changed in the last 4 years since I last visited (when H was still teaching there :worthy: )

To be honest, I went down fully expecting to slag it off. I really couldn't see how it had produced any good dancers as the Midlands clubs tend to be a bit isolated and few good words have been uttered about the Ceroc DJs ... but I tried to have an open frame of mind.

First impressions were not good. The floor was DANGEROUS (it was a last minute decision to go and I only had my work shoes with me ... leather soles :tears: ). I had to severely modify my moves so I didnt send me or my partner crashing to the floor. Also, aside from the instructor and a couple of long-time dancers I knew, there was no one who stood out as a dance star .. in fact I would have said the standard reflected a club going for about 18 months rather than one thats been around for 8 years or so. The lighting was a joke. No proper DJ lights, just half the hall lights turned off ... poor show. Soooooo ... from that aspect my initial thoughts were confirmed ... a sad wasteland of dancing ...BUT

... I've got to admit I quite enjoyed myself. :waycool: The main reason was the music, one of the best sets I've heard played by a Ceroc DJ in many a year. Also, the teacher was Lorraine, who I taught with years ago. She's lovely and a great dancer. As for the female dancers, their inexperienece with anything outside the strict Ceroc syllabus was evident, but at least they were NOT prone to backleading and tended to go where they were led, more than I can say for some of my local venues.

So, in short, not somewhere I would venture again, but I enjoyed myself. The puzzle for me is that given the excellence of the teacher and the music, why did everyone there appear to be a newish dancer?:confused:

StokeBloke
23rd-January-2007, 07:17 PM
Had a brilliant night last night. Learnt a couple of really useful intermediate moves (I'm finding out that some are far easier to work into freestyle, and far more adaptable than others). I also had a couple of wonderful dances - I even pulled off a really nice dip I have been practicing. Ohh and the DJ had the Swingerhead track I asked for too :D :D

I love dancing!

Dai
23rd-January-2007, 07:56 PM
I can't say last night was brilliant, but it certainly wasn't bad. The thing that made it last night was dancing with one particualr woman. I hadn't seen her since the new year, and not being her regular venue it was such a pleasent surprise. If she is at a venue i have to ask her to dance, for if i don't its like i've had an incomplete night.

Do you know what i mean?? There are very few people who i dance with that i enjoy dancing with this much - in fact only two. There are obviously many people whom i love to dance with however, but these two people are just special.

I hope that makes sense - so yes last night was great, because one of these two people was there.

Minnie M
23rd-January-2007, 10:04 PM
I went to Ceroc in Twickers last night with Mr. & Mrs Under Par - had a really fab evening - great venue, fab floor, lots of friendly faces, lots of great dancers - definitely worth the trip (even the 30 mile detour on the way home:eek: damn road works:angry: ) - thanks for driving UP :hug:

StokeBloke
24th-January-2007, 01:46 AM
Today was my birthday so it was going to be extra special anyway. But I also had my first go at double trouble tonight. I only knew a couple of moves, but the girls I danced with were amazingly good sports and humored the birthday boy :respect: :flower: :flower: :flower: :flower:

Thanks girls... you really made my birthday extra special.... I just didn't know how addictive double trouble could be, it's sooo much fun. I just need some practice now :D :D :D :D :D

I love dancing at Stafford, it's always soooo much fun. Looking forward to the J11 Club tomorrow now :) :) :) :)

Jamie
24th-January-2007, 01:53 AM
Whoop! I've had a WICKED night, best night I've had since Hammersmith, went to a venue in Mansfield tonight... I was on form tonight, spins were wicked, followed fantastically, my routine went down really well.. Music was spot on, just an absolutely wicked night in general...

WHOOP :clap:

Beowulf
24th-January-2007, 10:48 AM
Last night was {cough} ok , Sadly to say I've {cough} had better nights. The Class was Good, The teaching was good{cough} , the music was {cough} good and what Freestyle I managed {cough} was good too.

Alas before class I got a drenching in the cold, and if {cough} there's anything better suited to {cough} aggravating my asthmatic Cough {cough} then it's cold and damp (and smoke.. but luckily I was spared the {cough} hat trick)

What I managed of {cough} the night was great though. And after {cough} steaming my airways and having a {cough} good nights sleep I'm fully functional and all my circuits are working {cough} perfectly... well.. Mostly

I did miss the presence of some of my favourite dancers though , Freya, Piglet, Genie, and several non-forumites.. WHERE WHERE YOU? :tears:

TheTramp
24th-January-2007, 11:02 AM
You only enjoyed it because I told you about the woman who had been telling me how much she enjoyed dancing with you! :flower:

Beowulf
24th-January-2007, 11:05 AM
You only enjoyed it because I told you about the woman who had been telling me how much she enjoyed dancing with you! :flower:

No I liked the moves too.. the Baskety thingie and the neck break thingie and that funny spinny thingie I kept getting wrong ;) (You have to admire my grasp of the technical names for these moves don't you :rolleyes: )

And the music was good. I enjoyed the dances I did do.. and would have had a lot more had it not been for my damned {cough} :tears: :sad:

Tiggerbabe
25th-January-2007, 01:47 AM
I had a great time last night, Lorna was back and feeling better :hug: Fab dances with Husky Cat, Alan (cool moves :waycool: ) the taxi dancer, Freudian Hips, Firefly (on tour), various beginners :) and Rob - brilliant! He lead me into Tango - type moves :D added to which Gail had my favourite sweeties at the front desk. Brill new venue - loving it! And other people liking MIKA as much as me :clap:
Plus lots of lovely people who helped me with all the equipment at the end of the night - cheers guys :kiss:

Dai
25th-January-2007, 01:50 AM
I went to Leicester for the first time ever tonight - its a really friendly venue, and i had a great time. I shall certainly be going there again. Good music, good dances, - all good.

Chef
25th-January-2007, 11:27 AM
Not quite last night - it was the night before last. Commis Chef and I had an amazing night.

We went to a tiny village hall event. The music was fantastic (or should I just say - to our tastes) we even enjoyed dancing to T-Rex Get it on. The floor was utterly superb. The other dancers have not yet fully developed their skills as the club has been running for a short time but it was most enjoyable dancing with them.

What made it fantstic apart from the great music and the superb floor.

Space.

For once we could both dance without worrying about people crashing into us. We had a fantstically inventive dance night when we were dancing together. I pushed home to us one of the great things about travelling long distances to dance in places with other good dancers. They dance in their space and keep their dancing controlled and tidy and I don't have to worry about them crashing into us. Less concentration on them more on the music and my partner.

Where was this place? Not telling you. Besides, even out here in the sticks this place is in the back of beyond.

WittyBird
25th-January-2007, 10:02 PM
And other people liking MIKA as much as me :clap:

I'm loving Mika, there is so much play/ scope involved with it. :clap: I can't wait for the album :worthy: I personally think there will be showcases to it at the champs in May - wish it was me :yum:

Lethe
25th-January-2007, 11:31 PM
Couldn't go to ceroc last night as I have a horrible cold at the moment :tears: first one I've missed for ages :sad:.

SeriouslyAddicted
26th-January-2007, 09:47 AM
Couldn't go to ceroc last night as I have a horrible cold at the moment :tears: first one I've missed for ages :sad:.

You weren't the only one - think the snow kept loads of people away. You didn't miss one of the best nights.

blissful
26th-January-2007, 05:20 PM
Sage words. After all the ranting about Stafford I thought it was only right and proper to see if all the claims about how wonderfull it was had some basis ... and see how the place has changed in the last 4 years since I last visited (when H was still teaching there :worthy: )

To be honest, I went down fully expecting to slag it off. I really couldn't see how it had produced any good dancers as the Midlands clubs tend to be a bit isolated and few good words have been uttered about the Ceroc DJs ... but I tried to have an open frame of mind.

First impressions were not good. The floor was DANGEROUS (it was a last minute decision to go and I only had my work shoes with me ... leather soles :tears: ). I had to severely modify my moves so I didnt send me or my partner crashing to the floor. Also, aside from the instructor and a couple of long-time dancers I knew, there was no one who stood out as a dance star .. in fact I would have said the standard reflected a club going for about 18 months rather than one thats been around for 8 years or so. The lighting was a joke. No proper DJ lights, just half the hall lights turned off ... poor show. Soooooo ... from that aspect my initial thoughts were confirmed ... a sad wasteland of dancing ...BUT

... I've got to admit I quite enjoyed myself. :waycool: The main reason was the music, one of the best sets I've heard played by a Ceroc DJ in many a year. Also, the teacher was Lorraine, who I taught with years ago. She's lovely and a great dancer. As for the female dancers, their inexperienece with anything outside the strict Ceroc syllabus was evident, but at least they were NOT prone to backleading and tended to go where they were led, more than I can say for some of my local venues.

So, in short, not somewhere I would venture again, but I enjoyed myself. The puzzle for me is that given the excellence of the teacher and the music, why did everyone there appear to be a newish dancer?:confused:








Gus, I was there that evening (and again this week) and I had a great time. To be honest if you come along for the last half an hour in your workshoes you're going to have a problem - it's a fast floor, we all know that, and we wear the appropriate footwear - dancefloors differ wherever you go.
As for the standard, well that's subjective isn't it? All I can say is everyone seemed to be having a lot of fun and that's why I, for one, keep going. I think folks have been raving about it being a great social night full of lovely people, rather than about the level of dancing....I know which is more important to me.
You will have missed the apology they made about the lighting being fused, it's usually very atmospheric. It's a shame you were disappointed, I think you were probably the only one that was! You should go again sometime (with sensible shoes of course :)

Lynn
27th-January-2007, 10:52 AM
Not last night, Wed night. Busy week, worked till 10pm on Tues, v busy at work Wed morning, travel Wed afternoon - I really needed something fun on Wed night.

Big thanks to Dave the Scaffolder for giving me a lift from my conference centre to Stevenage. :hug: I was really tired and paced myself but it was the perfect unwind evening. Nice to meet Trouble too!

StokeBloke
27th-January-2007, 10:06 PM
Last night was one of the best nights of my entire life :D:D:D:D:D Lalalalalalalaaaaaa :D

drathzel
27th-January-2007, 10:58 PM
no i had a rather average night but i was out for dinner and clubbing with a few friends. Clubbing just isnt as much fun when you're not out with ceroc-ers

fletch
28th-January-2007, 11:47 AM
I had a fabulous night at Knustford last night,:clap: it wasn't as busy as usual which I liked, there was a singer on at the end of the evening and I though she was lovely.:worthy:

Considering I felt lousy it was a good night :sick: :hug:

littlewiggle
28th-January-2007, 06:01 PM
Well Bulwell wasn't as busy as usual but all in all I enjoyed it. Where were all the men though hey?! Oh and who was the man that held me upside down for what seemed like forever and a day lol....he had the ladies queuing up for him anyway!

JiveLad
28th-January-2007, 07:40 PM
Last night at Chesham (in aid of chairty): Somewhere a dancer went kachow! (http://ceroc.blogspot.com)

:cool: ;) :)

Gus
28th-January-2007, 07:42 PM
To be honest if you come along for the last half an hour in your workshoes you're going to have a problem - it's a fast floor, we all know that, and we wear the appropriate footwear - dancefloors differ wherever you go. Urrrmmm ... the danceflor was commented on by most of the dancers I took onto the floor ... and by the experineced dancers who I know from way back. Experiences of a club venue is always a personal thing and I fully accept for new dancers the club is probably very good. However, i was there for an hour and was getting frustrated when you've got superb music but no-one (with the exception of Lorraine :drool: ) who was able to do much outside basic ceroc moves :(

Yup ... a social club it may have been, but only two lasses asked me to dance (and they both knew me) and no one spoke to me without me making the effort to speak to them so you'll forgive me if I dont share your view as to how friendly the club was.

PS -- Am I just getting too much into conspiracy theory ... but is this about the third time when a 'new' forum member has appeared out of the blue just to defend Mike's clubs, then disappear never to be seen again? :rolleyes:

WittyBird
28th-January-2007, 08:16 PM
PS -- Am I just getting too much into conspiracy theory ... but is this about the third time when a 'new' forum member has appeared out of the blue just to defend Mike's clubs, then disappear never to be seen again? :rolleyes:


Well a few of us will be going along to Wolverhampton on Thursday so lets just see how we find it. A complete and honest review is what I will give.

Now must remember to take my notepad :whistle:

fletch
28th-January-2007, 08:32 PM
PS -- Am I just getting too much into conspiracy theory ... but is this about the third time when a 'new' forum member has appeared out of the blue just to defend Mike's clubs, then disappear never to be seen again? :rolleyes:


No Gus your not, I have just been doing my best not to say it first,:mad: funny they seem to have a sickly flavour to them, blissfully, delectably, delicious, sorry they just leave a bad taste in my mouth,:angry: but hey i'm a blond woman what would I know,:rolleyes: I know one thing the aforementioned names are not men, even if get PM's saying they are using the husbands logon.:eek:

There seems to me only a few people I know that say what they mean,:worthy: have the courage, 'sweet one's':sick: stand up and be counted or scuttle back on the door where's you came from :wink:

Dai
30th-January-2007, 04:26 PM
I've had a fab few days - Utopia at Evesham, Chester, then dancing monday in Daventry, Tues Northants, Wed Leicester, Thurs Northants, Friday, Bedford, Saturday Knutsford, Sunday Rugby, Monday Dav, and tonight northants again.

I have never danced so much in my life!! One of the best things i have found from venturing out of my little local area is that up north the venues and the people are so friendly, sorry to say its not the same in the south, but hey what can you do about that!!

A huge thankyou to all the people i had wonderful dances with at Knutsford - i'll definately be head back that way in the not too distant future.

And an enormous thank you to Fletch - who is opening my eyes to a world of ceroc outside of Northants!!! Not really sure where to go this weekend however - all of you guys will be at southport, so local venues will be empty, and i can't go as i have to work!!

WittyBird
30th-January-2007, 04:32 PM
i can't go as i have to work!!

Oh the woe's of the professional student eh :rolleyes:

Well at least you can take a walk around the lake or prune the orchard if you're bored without us all :rofl:

Dai
30th-January-2007, 04:34 PM
Oh the woe's of the professional student eh :rolleyes:

Well at least you can take a walk around the lake or prune the orchard if you're bored without us all :rofl:


Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! How rude!!!:angry:

fletch
30th-January-2007, 04:35 PM
And an enormous thank you to Fletch - who is opening my eyes to a world of ceroc outside of Northants!!! Not really sure where to go this weekend however - all of you guys will be at southport, so local venues will be empty, and i can't go as i have to work!!

your welcome babes :flower:

we will miss you at Southport :tears: Hammersmith the following Saturday, Utopia is a sell out again on the Friday :respect:



The piont is there is a world outside Ceroc its MJ just good venues, good music, good dancers whoever runs the venue, Ceroc or independent:cheers:

Knutsford is independent :worthy:

fletch
30th-January-2007, 04:38 PM
Well at least you can take a walk around the lake or prune the orchard if you're bored without us all :rofl:


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! How rude!!!:angry:


perhaps you could do a bit of Salmon fishing :rofl: or does the 'help' do that

sorry honey couldn't resist :rofl:

Freya
30th-January-2007, 05:17 PM
Just thought I'd ay that I had a great time at The Invercarse in Dundee last night! Well...The Freestyle anyway but we won't mention the rest on a thread about good stuff!

I had some fantastic Dances with some fabulous Dancers! The Music was good, Nice mixture of stuff! No NAF(Insert letter of choice)T! :wink:

And then stayed for a caffine fix in the bar before driving home! so thanx Guys! :hug:

Wuzzle
31st-January-2007, 01:37 AM
Yeah had a great time as always. Learnt some fun moves, forgot about my toothache for a good couple of hours. :clap:

Only problem is i think i didnt dance enough cause the moves learnt today are starting to fade. Even while trying to write em down... :confused:

Though that could just my brain going to bed.... :whistle:

More cerocin tomorrow will jog my memory... and hopefully my dentist will work his magic and i'll be all fun and dance by the time Ceroc :clap: either that or still feeling a little apple cheek.

StokeBloke
31st-January-2007, 02:32 AM
I had a fantastic night tonight, Lorraine :worthy: taught us a couple of really lovely and useful moves (not sure about the cha cha cha footwork in the sway - but it was fun to try and learn). The new teacher at Stoke-on-Trent also taught a couple of crackers last night too. I am in desperate need of a few good solid two handed moves and any right handed move that isn't a yo-yo variation is like manna from heaven :wink:

I have finally achieved a personal goal tonight. A whole song without one 1st move or yo-yo! Yayyyy.... it finally feels like I'm starting to dance :D :D :D :D I know from bitter experience that this may be the calm before the storm, and that I may now take a couple for backward steps... but I'm kind of getting used to those knock backs now :eek:

I love dancing :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

WittyBird
31st-January-2007, 02:49 AM
I love dancing :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Great - save me a dance on Thursday please :D

StokeBloke
31st-January-2007, 02:57 AM
Great - save me a dance on Thursday please :D
It'd be my pleasure - why do I feel like a lamb to the slaughter:flower:

But there are going to be some great dancers at Wolverhampton I hear, you won't want to be wasting your valuable dancing time with me babe. I suggest you watch me stagger about from the sidelines before making rash offers of dances :love:

WittyBird
31st-January-2007, 03:04 AM
It'd be my pleasure - why do I feel like a lamb to the slaughter:flower:

No need to feel like that :confused:


But there are going to be some great dancers at Wolverhampton I hear, you won't want to be wasting your valuable dancing time with me babe. I suggest you watch me stagger about from the sidelines before making rash offers of dances :love:

It's not wasting my time, its all a learning curve, I love dancing with people old and new, you get more experience that way. Please come introduce yourself to me I would love to dance with you :grin:

Jamie
31st-January-2007, 03:05 AM
I love dancing :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Whoop save me a dance too! :D:D

WittyBird
31st-January-2007, 03:07 AM
Whoop save me a dance too! :D:D

Your mine Biatch :waycool:

Jamie
31st-January-2007, 03:11 AM
Your mine Biatch :waycool:

Sorry StokeBloke, I should have said "save a dance for me too!.......................................... When Witty's finished with me! :what:"

lol! :whistle:

WittyBird
31st-January-2007, 03:17 AM
Sorry StokeBloke, I should have said "save a dance for me too!.......................................... When Witty's finished with me! :what:"

lol! :whistle:

Wanna say that face to face babe?

Easy lovely :rofl:

TheTramp
31st-January-2007, 05:09 AM
I have finally achieved a personal goal tonight. A whole song without one 1st move or yo-yo! Yayyyy.... it finally feels like I'm starting to dance :D :D :D :D

Why is this 'learning to dance'?

Personally, I use lots of 1st moves, or basic variations thereof (for example), everytime I freestyle. Maybe I need to learn to dance? :D

fletch
31st-January-2007, 09:52 AM
I had a fantastic night tonight, Lorraine :worthy: taught us a couple of really lovely and useful moves (not sure about the cha cha cha footwork in the sway - but it was fun to try and learn). I am in desperate need of a few good solid two handed moves and any right handed move that isn't a yo-yo variation is like manna from heaven :wink:



I love dancing :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

If you can get both my hands :wink:

I sent one of my members down after weigh in last night :clap: she text me at 10.30 to say she had a fab time, very brave just poping down on her own like that Go Gal!:respect:



But there are going to be some great dancers at Wolverhampton I hear, you won't want to be wasting your valuable dancing time with me babe.

hay! this weeks begginger is next years expert,:worthy: don't forget that, :flower: as a begginer if you get knowcked back you wont forget it:mad: belive me we all have a few people we remember as begginers that were less than welcoming and helpfull and I bet they regret it :rolleyes:

I will allway waste my time on waste of times, cos I don't see it like that :hug:

get you tomorrow Stokie :hug:




Maybe I need to learn to dance? :D

I couldn't put it better myself :na:

:rofl:

StokeBloke
31st-January-2007, 10:34 AM
Why is this 'learning to dance'?

Personally, I use lots of 1st moves, or basic variations thereof (for example), everytime I freestyle. Maybe I need to learn to dance? :D
Because personally I have found that because yo-yo and 1st moves are quite long moves and get taught a lot, and give you something from your right and left hand I can end up using them for thinking time. Like a pair of crutches :sad:

This leads to a dull and uninteresting dance for my partner. As would any long move four or five times in a routine... this is not how I want to dance so I aimed for zero tolerance on 1st moves and yo-yo's to force myself to create other interesting ways of filling the three or so minutes. Now I have hit that target I know I can use them without abusing them. So I am happy to reintroduce them - I am sure if you stick on in there Tramp..... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

There is nothing wrong with the moves, they are nice moves, it's just me, the pillock who is repeatedly pulling them :D :D :D

Beowulf
31st-January-2007, 11:12 AM
Yo-Yo's and 1st Moves

There is nothing wrong with the moves, they are nice moves, it's just me, the pillock who is repeatedly pulling them :D :D :D


Well last night I learnt the Hatchback.. so now I go.. OH NO ANOTHER YO-YO !! and instantly switch to the hatchback :) :clap:

Last night was good, did "less" Yo-yo's and First moves (and my personal bane.. man spins). Well until I had a dance with Genie and she drew my attention to the fact I'd not done a Yo-yo or a man spin.. of course, it's the whole "Don't think of a Pink elephant" thing.. as soon as she said that all I could think of was Man spins and Yo-yo's (oh and Pink elephant obviously)

Damn you you cruel woman :rofl: :flower:

There was a couple of moves I think I will use again. Although I couldn't figure out how to stop the followers from turning out to their right side when I tried to do the sway comb thingie. I'd go to comb them.. and they would turn to the right :).. Practice makes perfect I guess :)

All in all a good class.

TheTramp
31st-January-2007, 12:30 PM
Although I couldn't figure out how to stop the followers from turning out to their right side when I tried to do the sway comb thingie. I'd go to comb them.. and they would turn to the right :).. Practice makes perfect I guess :)

Make sure that you've got a good 'block' with the right arm behind their back, and don't lead much of a rotation as you do the 'caress', it's a quick (but smooth) motion.

If you ever need any assistance, all you have to do is ask. Either myself, or Lisa (I'm sure), will be more than happy to help.

Beowulf
31st-January-2007, 01:16 PM
Make sure that you've got a good 'block' with the right arm behind their back.

Oh I managed a very good block on one lady last night. As per the "what not to wear" thread I managed SOMEHOW to put her into the sway and get my right index finger stuck in her belt loop ! :blush:

At least my hand was definitely on her waist !! :D

I think it was a non-forumite.. but if not then I apologise. It did seem to amuse her greatly :)

Dai
31st-January-2007, 01:22 PM
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



perhaps you could do a bit of Salmon fishing :rofl: or does the 'help' do that

sorry honey couldn't resist :rofl:


:rolleyes: - anyone would think i live in a mansion from the way you both go on!!

No the 'help' don't fish the salmon - its a delicate art you know, they are far too brutish for that. However the are able to exercise the horses when we don't have the time, in between polishing the white pebbles on the drive and washing the spare cars. :rolleyes:

StokeBloke
1st-February-2007, 02:05 AM
Something happened tonight and it was so cool.

I went into a move and decided I wanted to do something other than I had planned for the next move because the girl I was dancing with was easy to sway with. So I changed my plans and brought her out a different way and went into a move I sort of plucked out of the air, and it all worked seamlessly! :eek:

This feels like REAL progress! This is a very good thing! StokeBloke is a happy boy. It only happened the once, but....

I love dancing :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

fletch
1st-February-2007, 09:02 AM
This feels like REAL progress!

I love dancing :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:


We will change that tonight :na:

Wuzzle
1st-February-2007, 09:56 AM
Took it really slow last night. Had one wisdom teeth out. So it made for an interesting evening.

Another nice night some really smart moves learnt. :nice:

Didnt to do to badly only felt light headed after 9:30 only down side was that i couldnt dance alot :sad: and had to miss some really good tracks.

But hey there is always tonight. Won't feel like am floating about as i dont need my painkillers :D wonder if you can overdoze on ceroc..

Twirlie Bird
1st-February-2007, 12:06 PM
I just know that tonight is going to be amazing for me. I am going to meet 'Fletch and the Fletcherettes' and grab the opportunity to take guidance and advice from them. :nice:

WittyBird
1st-February-2007, 12:07 PM
grab the opportunity to take guidance and advice from them. :nice:

:rofl: I really wouldn't :na:

JiveLad
1st-February-2007, 12:42 PM
Last night I did Milton Keynes for the first time, and Witty Bird (en route to Southport via Wolv a Hampton)was there with JacksonDonut, as well as Rachel - who very kindly spent some time with me 1:1 on repeat of Intermediates (great class by Marc) as well as elementary Tango. Thanks Rachel!!

Before I knew it, the evening was over. The good news was that Mika 'Grace Kelly' was on for my first time.:clap: :clap: :clap:

For full report on MK + Grace Kelly you can see the (mildly entertaining) you know what if you are that way inclined.:wink:

Rachel
1st-February-2007, 12:53 PM
Last night I did Milton Keynes for the first time, and Witty Bird (en route to Southport via Wolv a Hampton)was there with JacksonDonut, as well as Rachel - who very kindly spent some time with me 1:1 on repeat of Intermediates (great class by Marc) as well as elementary Tango. Thanks Rachel!!

Before I knew it, the evening was over. The good news was that Mika 'Grace Kelly' was on for my first time.:clap: :clap: :clap:

For full report on MK + Grace Kelly you can see the (mildly entertaining) you know what if you are that way inclined.:wink:
Lovely to see you, Witty & Jan there! Next time, we'll have some proper dances as well. The evening's never long enough, is it?

Perhaps I should put this in the 'What ceroc does badly' thread, but I think Ceroc nights should go on until at least 11.30pm.

Rachel

Lynn
1st-February-2007, 03:10 PM
I think Ceroc nights should go on until at least 11.30pm. Our nights end at 10:30pm but its often 11:30 before we've left. The music does end at 10:30 but we tend to linger and chat. Last night decided that since we do that anyway we might as well go and sit in the bar till it closed at 11:30pm. Oh dear, I could see that becoming a habit ... The plus side it that I can spend almost all the time when the music is on actually dancing, if there is time to chat afterwards.

I did have a good evening last night because something clicked when I was leading the beginner ladies, I seemed to find a way of mixing the moves gradually thoughout the dance that worked and I saw them transform from stiff armed, back leading, bundles of panic, to slightly more relaxed, occasionally smiling and - following most of the time.

StokeBloke
2nd-February-2007, 09:51 PM
I was at Wolverhampton last night and I finally met the infamous Fletch (and the Fletcherettes).:flower: More importantly I got to dance with Fletch (and the Fletcherettes). :respect:

Fletch, I loved our dances, thank you babe. Thank you for all the encouragement, pointers, tips, suggestions and ideas. Ohhh and thank you so much for the 'blues' lessons. I lost count of how many dances we had, but I loved every single one. Come back and see us all again soon :love: :awe: :love:
Huge thanks to Caz and Witty for the dances:clap: :clap: :clap: Witty you are a bit of a handful, but you're well worth the effort :na:


And that leaves Jaime. What can I say about dancing with Jamie? Having never led a guy before I went in a little blind.... but I will say this one thing to anyone who leads out there in Ceroc-Scotland-Land....

If you are a venue and Jamie is there, you are completely out of your tiny brain if you don't take the chance to dance with him, beg, borrow or steal a dance with him, but get out on the floor with him!
:respect: :respect: :respect: He is awesome :respect: :respect: :respect:

Mike great tunes and a really fantastic night! It was so good in fact that everyone was shouting for more after you had already extended the set by 30 minutes.... top job mate :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Last night was amazing.... does it show :D :D :D

Frankie_4711
3rd-February-2007, 11:47 AM
Went to the opening night at Faversham yesterday. Turned out to be really good despite the fact that my favourite partner wasn't there:tears: .

A good mix of people of different abilities from lots of areas of Kent - quite a few that I know, but enough that I didn't know (or haven't seen in ages) to make it an interesting evening. NICE floor, good music, nice atmosphere, even numbers of men and women :really:, challenging and different Intermediate moves (nice one Virginia!), lovely venue and even though it went on til midnight, a lot of people had drifted away by 11.00 so there was plenty of space, but even at it's busiest it wasn't crammed full.

All in all I was impressed. The only bad things I can think of were the toilets :sick: and the locals outside afterwards:eek:

StokeBloke
7th-February-2007, 02:01 AM
Tonight was amazing! I finally met and danced with Dai, lead and follow and a bit of both. Thanks babe the dances were fantastic, sorry I got greedy but I could have danced another four or five straight with you. Awesome fun :respect: There is no way I would have guessed how short a time you have been following. You made it really easy for me - fanx :flower:

I really got my money's worth tonight. I led ladies, I led a guy, I got led by a lady, I got led by a guy in double trouble and in one dance with Dai we took turns leading until I was totally confused about who was driving :clap: :clap: :clap: I had some great dances but more importantly I had amazing fun. I swear Stafford gets more like Mardi Gras every week! Yes; I know there are people who like to moan and nit pick about the venue, but with its super fast fun floor, the party atmosphere, great crew and excellent DJ I can't help but love dancing at Stafford - so shoot me :flower:

Actually, I just love dancing :clap: :clap: :clap:

Beowulf
7th-February-2007, 09:34 AM
it was actually :)

intermediate class had some interesting moves (didn't like the shoulder slide push thingie.. but loved the baskety thing and the other moves)

Had a dance with Lisa (the teacher) and it was great (I admit to being terribly nervous about dancing with such a good dancer.. I didn't rip her arms off which was a bonus)

I got my tickets for Beach Ballroom so :clap: :clap: (even though they were more expensive than I anticipated.. I had £23.80 in my pocket.. and I needed £24 for my two tickets ;) .. thanks gadget for the 20p .. and thanks to Trampy for getting me a drink later in the evening :respect:)

Had some really great dances , and although not ALL the tracks were to my taste (Trampy.. what WAS that one where they murdered Another brick in the wall by Pink Floyd?) there were plenty of great tracks on during the evening .. including some of my faves. And the last track.. :worthy:

You know.. I might just be getting this dancing bug thing after all :wink:

SeriouslyAddicted
7th-February-2007, 09:36 AM
Wow what a great night I had at High Rocks in Tunbridge Wells. I had been losing my enthusiasm for that particular venue and went with no real expectations but had an amazing night. Some really great dances and loads of rock and roll music :D

fletch
7th-February-2007, 09:54 AM
Fletch, I loved our dances, thank you babe. Thank you for all the encouragement, pointers, tips, suggestions and ideas. Ohhh and thank you so much for the 'blues' lessons. I lost count of how many dances we had, but I loved every single one. Come back and see us all again soon :love: :awe: :love:



Just to show you we are allowed more than two :na:

Your attitude is just right for dancing I don't think it will be long before you want more insperation :hug:

Dai
7th-February-2007, 11:56 AM
Tonight was amazing! I finally met and danced with Dai, lead and follow and a bit of both. Thanks babe the dances were fantastic, sorry I got greedy but I could have danced another four or five straight with you. Awesome fun :respect: There is no way I would have guessed how short a time you have been following. You made it really easy for me - fanx :flower:

Awwwwww Geeez Thanks:hug:

You are a lovely lead yourself, i was well impressed!! And it was lovely to dance with you. Infact it was lovely to dance with all of you Stafford peoples - Twirly, IceBreaker and Mike. Hope to see you guys soon

:flower:

Freya
7th-February-2007, 12:22 PM
If you are a venue and Jamie is there, you are completely out of your tiny brain if you don't take the chance to dance with him, beg, borrow or steal a dance with him, but get out on the floor with him!
:respect: :respect: :respect: He is awesome :respect: :respect: :respect:
Nah Jamie is Boring! You don't want to dance with him! :wink::wink:

He's just "Hyper Like a Monkey?"

robd
7th-February-2007, 01:52 PM
Went to St Neots last night and had another great night. Music so-so and had to rein in a few ladies who insisted on trying to pass to the right no matter what I was attempting to lead (including the teacher and no, it wasn't Michaela) but still lots of fun dances with people at different levels of experience. Think I am still buzzing from Southport and I don't want it to stop :clap: Interesting that the common perception is that going to regular nights immediately following a weekender can only be a disappointment - for me it has been the opposite. I guess for a follower it could be different though.

Beowulf
7th-February-2007, 02:14 PM
was lovely to dance with all of you Stafford peoples - Twirly, IceBreaker and Mike.

Wassat? Twirly came up to Stafford? And here was me thinking she was in London :wink:

I guess you mean Twirly Bird?

(or my Twirly has a secret double life she's not telling me about!)

I knew having two Twirly's on the forum would make things confusing. :D

Twirly
7th-February-2007, 03:20 PM
Wassat? Twirly came up to Stafford? And here was me thinking she was in London :wink:

I guess you mean Twirly Bird?

(or my Twirly has a secret double life she's not telling me about!)

I knew having two Twirly's on the forum would make things confusing. :D

Not me - never been to Stafford in my life!

Anyway, I'm Twirly, she's Twirlie

Dai
7th-February-2007, 04:22 PM
apologies Twirly - i did mean Twirlie Bird

Wuzzle
8th-February-2007, 09:39 AM
Yeah i had a great time. Stumbled along with the first move having just got it right in the end. Onto next fun and easy moves followed by the last move :respect: which was really great.

Was fairly busy so one of my followers and i decided to go all babysteps. Which was more funny than anything else :grin: and many thanks to Von :flower: who assisted me by walking me to a bigger floor space across the dance floor. :hug:

Roll on tonight :cheers:

Fiver
8th-February-2007, 12:01 PM
Went to Ceroc Bath.

And looking forward to the new Ceroc venue in Bristol

What new venue in Bristol? :really: Haven't heard about this.

I too have been going to a Ceroc venue in Bath recently, the Pavilian by any chance? I rate it quite highly though I don't always get there in time for the lesson as I do a Salsa class first at another venue (I know, kinda compulsive) but, when I have made it, the class has been good with clever inventive moves:clap: Richard's a great teacher and entertainer:worthy:. And, after years of dancing at leroc venues, I am now officially a Ceroc member too as from just before Christmas.

Sheepman
12th-February-2007, 02:57 AM
Not a dance event, but it was amazing.

After a long day working and driving, I took a trip down to my local (I think that's the second time in 24 years I've been in that pub.) The live music was Gwyneth Herbert, she has one of those smoky yet powerful voices, not too rare in the jazz circles, but what did it for me was the ease of her interpretation, adding new life to numerous classics.
Probably not much that's likely to be heard in MJ, though I think I have danced to her version of Fever.

Her own compositions have plenty of wit & incisiveness. For her encore, she left the PA behind, the crowd were hushed & spellbound as she sang, and near to tears by the end, with her sentiment.

It made such a change to see some live music, when I'm so busy researching recoded stuff.

And now I stink of smoke :sick:

Greg

Piglet
12th-February-2007, 09:13 AM
Oh yeah!:wink:

Not that I'm boasting or anything :whistle:

Whitebeard
13th-February-2007, 02:50 AM
Not a dance event, but it was amazing.

After a long day working and driving, I took a trip down to my local (I think that's the second time in 24 years I've been in that pub.) The live music was Gwyneth Herbert, she has one of those smoky yet powerful voices, not too rare in the jazz circles, but what did it for me was the ease of her interpretation, adding new life to numerous classics.
Probably not much that's likely to be heard in MJ, though I think I have danced to her version of Fever.

Her own compositions have plenty of wit & incisiveness. For her encore, she left the PA behind, the crowd were hushed & spellbound as she sang, and near to tears by the end, with her sentiment.

It made such a change to see some live music, when I'm so busy researching recoded stuff.

And now I stink of smoke :sick:

Greg

I recognised the name and did a little Googling. Her personal site seems to have been abandonned and replaced by a MySpace effort which is pretty much of a disaster - very slow and clunky and links in royal blue against black which are unreadable on my screen (usually that's the province of the warex geeks). Always use bold against a black background; and a decent point size too.

Nevertheless, I liked her vocalisations and the backing arrangements of her highlighted tracks. In particular "The Woman meets the Man ... " seemed to be a track that could justifiabley be described as challenging.

Next time she's round these parts I'll be on the lookout for a ticket.

TheTramp
13th-February-2007, 03:44 AM
Last night was truly amazing.

Sat in the car park at dancing, waiting for a recovery vehicle, after my clutch decided to give up the ghost. That'll be £200 to the man at the garage then.

To finally get home to find a virus on my PC, from a MSN message that someone had sent me earlier in the day.

No more amazing nights like this one please....

Jhutch
13th-February-2007, 06:12 PM
Yes:clap: :clap: :clap: Had possibly the best time i have had cerocing. However, i sometimes whether it has more to do with the mood you are in rather than anything else?:confused:

StokeBloke
13th-February-2007, 08:48 PM
Had a great time. I did double trouble and sort of pulled it off ok :D I also learnt a lovely move in the intermediate class. Stoke has a new teacher and she has some excellent intermediate moves!

Stop by and check her out! It'll be 'one lady on please, one lady on' and before you know it we could be dancing together :D :D :D

Double Trouble
13th-February-2007, 08:51 PM
Had a great time. I did double trouble

I didnt feel a thing:D

TheTramp
14th-February-2007, 01:12 AM
Not even being pulled off ok?

Twirlie Bird
14th-February-2007, 03:03 AM
Had a great time. I did double trouble and sort of pulled it off ok :D


I didnt feel a thing:D

You really did ask for that Stokie :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Twirlie Bird
-x-

StokeBloke
14th-February-2007, 03:12 AM
I didnt feel a thing:D
C'mere and say that cus you'll feel far more than a thing :wink:

SeriouslyAddicted
14th-February-2007, 09:41 AM
Well the earth moved for me last night but not in a nice way - was taken out mid Ceroc spin to find myself flat on my a**e in the middle of a crowded dance floor :blush: and it wasn't my fault although I'll save the man in question from public humiliation this time.

Wuzzle
14th-February-2007, 11:53 AM
Yup good night out though I think coming off a caffine high left me feeling nackered. Felt sleepy at the end of routine. Had my first dance without man spin or yoyo :D. Which was nice though i did end up really close to doing them. Now if i can do a dance without man spin ish moves that would be something... :innocent:

Lee Bartholomew
14th-February-2007, 12:45 PM
Had a rubsih night last night. Couldn't get in to it at all.

And I managed to take someone out mid ceroc spin and make her end up flat on her a**e. :whistle::whistle:


:love:

StokeBloke
15th-February-2007, 02:26 AM
Went up to Knutsford to dance. I had a try of the WCS class... WOW that is some weird stuff. Hard to get to grips with. But really good fun to try something new. I think the teacher is the new guy who demo's at Stoke... I think. Either way he really knew his stuff :)

They also ran a blues class... this was my first try at a blues class too. Seemed strange, not quite what I had expected from blues... more like slow MJ... but what do I know? Like I said it was my first try at it.

The music was great all night. Big up DJ Becky (I think that's her name). Anyway, fantastic to hear different and danceable tracks all night. A real treat not to hear 'Now I can dance' once :clap: :clap:

The standard to dancing was really high, this was reflected in the standard of the teaching! Great routine Keith, and the whole class moved at a steady manageable pace for me. Cheers for some great moves. The dance floor is fairly compact, but two of the edges run up to the walls, this gives it quite a claustrophobic feeling if you are in the corner where the walls meet. With all the lifts, drops and dips going on it really was a bit of a mine field at times!

I would recommend anyone to give Knutsford a try BUT! But make sure you go in a small group. The venue is not friendly at all. To be honest I felt like a gate crasher at a stranger's wedding reception - if you know what I mean. It's a shame because that really has put me off going back, unless there were some people going who I knew. Nobody spoke to me, and nobody asked me for a dance... I guess I have been spoilt by the hospitality of Ceroc Midlands.

Whitebeard
15th-February-2007, 03:14 AM
Well, maybe not amazing but, nevertheless, a pretty enjoyable night with enough pretty slow expressive tunes to keep me happy here in the North West Country or South Midlands.

We had a guest teacher, and very female at that, who taught a rather nice intermediate routine; much of which would lend itself to Blues dancing. But, as usual, just a little too much for me to retain and, in my usual lazy fashion, I reverted to auto pilot beginner moves once into the freestyle.

Jamie
15th-February-2007, 04:17 AM
Not exactly amazing, but I had a good night.. Hoping to have a better night on Friday! :D

Martin
15th-February-2007, 07:17 AM
I had an amazing night last night - bad day, lots of stress.

Eve went dancing, met up with someone I knew at a distance for 7 years of dance, wow she was wonderful to dance with.....:respect:

Music average, but had some fab dances... :grin:

StokeBloke
19th-February-2007, 09:26 PM
Bromsgrove Tea Dance

First time there so not sure what to expect. Great dancers - I even managed to dance with a champ (poor girl I hope she'll come back after my attempts at MJ with her)! But she was just... ohhh :respect: :worthy:

Then there was Fletch and the Fletcherettes :flower: Dancing blues with Fletch to a really amazing track whilst wearing my leathers..... oh my! Is it hot in that venue or was it just me :whistle:

WittyBird...... I can't get enough of playing with you on the floor babes. You make it all soooo fun :clap: :clap: And spinning Jaime for all he's worth... and some more is just sooo cool. The more I dance with you guys the better it seems to fit together. Thanks for the dances Jaime :worthy: :worthy:

Fantastic music, FREE ICED WATER, free tea, free coffee, free biscuits, four hours dancing and a wine raffle - all for £6!! :cheers: :cheers:

I can see Sunday's becoming Bromsgrove night for me.....!!!

fletch
19th-February-2007, 10:31 PM
just weight till TwerlyBird gets her hands on CJ :wink: :drool: :worthy:

Dai
20th-February-2007, 10:26 AM
Well - last night wasn't particularly amazing for me, but the weekend was - utopia, and derby, great time. I even managed to lead three dances in roller blades on sat - although they were a little (or a lot) dodgy!!

I will deffinatley be going to derby again - i can am sure of that!!

Gav
20th-February-2007, 10:37 AM
Surprisingly, yes it was. :clap:

I have been getting increasingly fed up with my local venue and even though my improvisations last night were labelled by some followers as moves that I did wrong, I really did have a good time.
The usual full pace ceroc music, which I normally don't really like, but for some reason I really "clicked" with the music and with the ladies I was dancing with.
I'd rather have a night like that at one fo the best freestyles or weekenders, but it still felt great anyway.

Lee Bartholomew
20th-February-2007, 01:10 PM
Yes but for the wrong reasons :tears::tears:

http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11591

http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11593

Nick M
21st-February-2007, 12:31 PM
Fantastic night for me last night at CerocLive in Bath

partly because I haven't been been dancing for about a month (away on business)
partly an excellent selection of tunes
partly getting asked by loads of ladies, consequently sitting out almost no dances all night

anyway, thanks Richard!

SnowWhite
22nd-February-2007, 05:43 PM
Amazing might be a little OTT - but I had a good time at MK last night. :grin:

Have been on a little dancing 'low' since Southport, and last night made me feel a lot better.

:flower:

Northants Girly
22nd-February-2007, 06:26 PM
Amazing might be a little OTT - but I had a good time at MK last night. :grin:

Certainly not amazing but much, much better than what I'd expected. We didn't get there till 9:30 but the music from then onwards had definitely improved since last time I was there!

Got to finally meet Lost Leader too :grin:

HelenB
22nd-February-2007, 09:22 PM
Amazing might be a little OTT - but I had a good time at MK last night. :grin:

Have been on a little dancing 'low' since Southport, and last night made me feel a lot better.

:flower:

:yeah: I had a good time - for MK (IMO) it was relatively well gender balanced - and I left later than originally intended

What I'm wondering is - did I dance with any forumites I don't know? :confused:

Lost Leader
22nd-February-2007, 09:33 PM
Compared to your profile pic is you hair now much shorter?

HelenB
22nd-February-2007, 09:38 PM
Compared to your profile pic is you hair now much shorter?

Well, sort of, not really short - about chin length

I was wearing a grey stripy top...

Lost Leader
22nd-February-2007, 09:59 PM
Thought so - yes we did dance. You are a lot of fun. I was the "not very good but trying my best" bloke in the orange t-shirt and brown trousers.

I certainly had a good night at MK, so that is two forumites I notched up - are there any more takers?

Lethe
22nd-February-2007, 10:45 PM
Had a fantastic time last night thanks to 'the good people of Salomons' :respect:gonna to miss you guys :hug: , Hope that Birmingham ceroc will be as friendly and fun.

fletch
23rd-February-2007, 08:42 AM
I went Wolverhampton last night, and as soon as I walked in I was met with a genuinely warm welcome, it was lovely to see some of the old faces there. The place was buzzing and the people there looked as if they were having such fun.

The music was the best I have ever hear at Wolves well done Lou, there wasn't a single track that I didn't enjoy dancing to, and the gaps between tracks was just right.

I felt like I had come home :hug:


I'm going to miss dancing with you this weekend Stokie,:tears: theres allway room for a little one TB :wink:

SeriouslyAddicted
23rd-February-2007, 09:57 AM
Had a fantastic time last night thanks to 'the good people of Salomons' :respect:gonna to miss you guys :hug: , Hope that Birmingham ceroc will be as friendly and fun.

Thanks for our dance Lethe - hope my leading wasn't too bad. Good luck in Birmingham, I am sure you'll meet some lovely dancers and forumites there.

TurboTomato
23rd-February-2007, 10:34 AM
Had a fantastic time last night thanks to 'the good people of Salomons' :respect:gonna to miss you guys :hug: , Hope that Birmingham ceroc will be as friendly and fun.

Good luck!! :hug: :kiss:

Make sure you come back and visit us at Salomons some time :D

Mythical
23rd-February-2007, 10:43 AM
Last night was pretty amazing for me in Cov. My dancing was pants, but the people were great, the music was excellent, and a guy who started the same week as me and has been pretty unconfident and spent tracks and tracks doing just armjives has suddenly become this awesome dancer, which made me :D
Some people even asked me to dance!
So despite 4 refusals in 3 evenings, I'm feeling pretty good!
Just a shame I can't make the freestyle tonight. :(

sidney
23rd-February-2007, 10:47 AM
This is not dance related, but I don't know how to start a thread, but last night I went to see X.Factor in Notts, and it was fantastic. The eight acts from the show were all there Ray,Ben,Leona,Ashley and the rest. Eaton Road opened the show to fantastic stage efforts and the crowd got going straight away and then two of the guys from the group did the compare job a bit like Ant and Dec really funny. I have been to lots of shows over the years but this was one of my favs and I was given the ticket this week as someone had dropped out so it was a bonus that I got a chance to see what I would have missed out on.:nice: So tonight I will be going to Coventry so I hope I have a amazing tonight:cheers:

Wuzzle
23rd-February-2007, 11:50 AM
Had a great time on Thursday night. :nice: Even though I had a really evil time at work so was pretty much dead my feet. :(


Wednesday nights dancing was just what i needed :nice: and tuesday I had a great night out :clap:


Anyone else got the friday feeling???

:cheers:

SnowWhite
23rd-February-2007, 12:39 PM
I went to see The Naked Truth at our local theatre last night... What a fantastic show!!:respect:

The all-female cast made me laugh til my sides ached and then in an instant the whole focus shifted and everyone was crying...

Hilarious, yet poignant - a truly fab show. And all about pole-dancing too!:waycool:

Would definitely recommend it, and it was lovely to spend some time with non-dancing friends that I'm sometimes guilty of neglecting.

:flower:

StokeBloke
23rd-February-2007, 04:58 PM
I went Wolverhampton last night, and as soon as I walked in I was met with a genuinely warm welcome, it was lovely to see some of the old faces there. The place was buzzing and the people there looked as if they were having such fun.

The music was the best I have ever hear at Wolves well done Lou, there wasn't a single track that I didn't enjoy dancing to, and the gaps between tracks was just right.

I felt like I had come home :hug:

I'm going to miss dancing with you this weekend Stokie,:tears: theres allway room for a little one TB :wink:
Wolverhampton last night was just soooooo much fun. Great music to dance to, usually high standard of lesson taught my Majah and a great crowd of people to dance with of all standards (must have been well over 120 people there last night).

I had so many brilliant dances too. Special thanks to TwirlieBird and Fletch, always a pleasure girls :awe:

I also got asked by one of the more experienced girls to dance, and when the track finished she asked if we could carry on dancing to the next one :flower: Now THAT was a real confidence boost! I feel as if my lead may be improving too, as I don't remember once being back led last night either - including in the intermediate lesson when it must be super-tempting for the follow to 'help out' :rolleyes:

I love dancing :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Gav
23rd-February-2007, 04:59 PM
Would definitely recommend it, and it was lovely to spend some time with non-dancing friends that I'm sometimes guilty of neglecting.

:flower:

You have non-dancing friends? How odd. :wink: :rofl:

fletch
23rd-February-2007, 05:08 PM
I also got asked by one of the more experienced girls to dance, and when the track finished she asked if we could carry on dancing to the next one :flower: Now THAT was a real confidence boost!
I love dancing :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:


I was pointing you out to some newbies saying 'this man has only been dancing 4 months and look at him' :worthy:

I love dancing :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

missed the leathers :whistle:

Dai
25th-February-2007, 01:28 PM
Coventry on Fri didn't start to well for me, after the sat nav directing us to random different places, i was getting more and more irrate and irritable. We eventually got there after driving round and round cov for ages at about 10:30.

Once there, i recieve a big hug from Fletch - generally puts a smile on my face! Then a big hug from Barmpot too. First dance wih Jamie - was still wearing my big boots from travelling up in, but wasn't really in the right frame of mind to follow, so i kept them on for a while, certainly made dancing interesting (oh, and i made me as tall as Fletch!!)

The evening certainly picked up, and thank you to everyone who danced with me, Fletch, Jamie, Pawplay, Sidney, NorthantsGirly, and to the non forumites too, not to mention the excelent dances i had wih Fletch's children.:worthy: :worthy: :worthy:

Sat evening was spent in Wellingborough, it was Chelsea's 18th Birthday Party. I had a really great night, and lots of dances - hope Chels isn' suffering too much today!! :rolleyes:

Just wondering if there is anything local i can do tonight now - to finish off the weekend!!

fletch
25th-February-2007, 02:17 PM
Just wondering if there is anything local i can do tonight now - to finish off the weekend!!


I'm going to Nottingham tonight not sure how far it is for you :flower:

Dai
25th-February-2007, 03:04 PM
What is on in Notts then? I can't see anything on the Uk Jive web site - not too far - it depends on what time it finishes

Green-eyed Monsta
27th-February-2007, 10:38 AM
:clap: I just did my first proper Birthday Dance! :clap:
(Wasn't my birthday, and he's only 12 but for once I didn't run and hide in a corner!)
AND...:clap: I've got myself a really awesome dance partner for a demo :clap:

What a great night!!

Lethe
27th-February-2007, 02:03 PM
Had a rubbish time last night. Having found my way across Birmingham city centre (whilst trying not to look like a prime mugging target clutching my A to Z) I arrived at the venue only to be told that ceroc had been cancelled :tears: was very disappointed.

StokeBloke
27th-February-2007, 04:39 PM
Had a rubbish time last night. Having found my way across Birmingham city centre (whilst trying not to look like a prime mugging target clutching my A to Z) I arrived at the venue only to be told that ceroc had been cancelled :tears: was very disappointed.
Ummmm you really haven't grasped this thread at all have you? Sorry you had a bad night :flower:

fletch
27th-February-2007, 05:09 PM
Had a rubbish time last night. Having found my way across Birmingham city centre (whilst trying not to look like a prime mugging target clutching my A to Z) I arrived at the venue only to be told that ceroc had been cancelled :tears: was very disappointed.

:confused:

where were you going on foot? and from where ?


I don't thing Birmingham is much different from any other major city, crime happens every where, sometimes we worry about it more than it happens.:what:

:flower:

Lethe
27th-February-2007, 09:12 PM
:confused:

where were you going on foot? and from where ?


I don't thing Birmingham is much different from any other major city, crime happens every where, sometimes we worry about it more than it happens.:what:

:flower:
I got a bus into Birmingham city centre to colmore row and then walked from there to the glee comedy club, it was a lot easier than I expected, but not knowing birmingham at all I felt a little vulnerable wandering through deserted streets whilst reading a map. On the plus side, it was probably worth going as I now have a route worked out for next time. I don't think Birmingham is a particularly dangerous place, I just feel safer when I know my way around.

StokeBloke
9th-March-2007, 02:36 AM
Wolverhampton Pavilion was awesome tonight. It was just one of those nights where everything seems to go your way. The night started really well for me. I was given the biggest dance compliment I have ever received... and by one of the most talented dancers I have ever led. So I was already on cloud nine! :D :D :D :D

Then the dances just seemed to flow so well. I hit breaks in the music, played, laughed, joked, danced and just had an absolutely brilliant time. I was feeling really in control, dance after dance. I had a grabby follow who I calmed down by altering to a two finger lead for a minute or so, a really over excited follow who I slowed down to match the speed of the music, and on both occasions the dances that ensued were wonderful. I had lots of asks and I asked a couple of people who seemed nervous about dancing, but we were fine and had cracking dances. :D

It could have been slightly better, as one of my favorite follows has a busy weekend ahead so didn't manage to make it to Wolves this time - now a couple of dances with her would have turned an amazing night into a perfect one :whistle:

fletch
9th-March-2007, 09:15 AM
It could have been slightly better, as one of my favorite follows has a busy weekend ahead so didn't manage to make it to Wolves this time - now a couple of dances with her would have turned an amazing night into a perfect one :whistle:


:flower:

but you could have a s many as you wan't if you come to Hammersmith :D


xx

StokeBloke
9th-March-2007, 11:15 AM
:flower:

but you could have a s many as you wan't if you come to Hammersmith :D


xx
Careful what you wish for or you may end up with me treading on your toes for the entire night one of these days (nights:)) babe :love:

You were missed last night :flower:

StokeBloke
12th-March-2007, 02:11 PM
Saturday freestyle at The J11 Club was so much fun. We were there celebrating our wedding anniversary and Mike gave us the dancefloor for the start of TwirlieBird's favorite track. She looked as gorgeous as always and I was in seventh heaven dancing her round the floor alone :awe: :awe: :awe:

Thank you to everyone I danced with later who congratulated me! :kiss:

It was a fantastic night that was made even more special by the Ceroc Midlands crew. Thanks guys :hug: Ohhh yeah, and thanks TwirlieBird for putting up with me for so long... I know I can be a pain in the (_|_) at times :D

fletch
12th-March-2007, 02:16 PM
It was a fantastic night that was made even more special by the Ceroc Midlands crew. Thanks guys :hug: Ohhh yeah, and thanks TwirlieBird for putting up with me for so long... I know I can be a pain in the (_|_) at times :D

I think you have been doing it wrong :eek: i'll get Jamie to talk you through it :whistle: :innocent:

i'm glad you had a good time :flower: missed you both :hug:

are you coming to Utopia, pleeeeese :kiss:

Jamie
12th-March-2007, 02:16 PM
Congratz Stokie & TB.

I had a fab night last night, was sleep deprived and didn't think I'd make it, but after a bouncy dance I was awake and ready for action. Had some wicked dances. :D

fletch
12th-March-2007, 02:17 PM
after a bouncy dance I was awake and ready for action.

so did you get any action :confused:



:whistle:

Jamie
12th-March-2007, 02:19 PM
If I did, it would be on the forum would it not? :wink:

fletch
12th-March-2007, 02:24 PM
If I did, it would be on the forum would it not? :wink:

do you think thats why I never get any action :rofl:


and what are you trying to say :confused: that I carn't keep a confidence :eek:

you can trust me I wont tell anyone :wink: :devil: :D

StokeBloke
12th-March-2007, 04:56 PM
I think you have been doing it wrong :eek:

I don't think that is the wrong way of doing it Fletch, just another way ..... :wink: :whistle:

fletch
12th-March-2007, 05:09 PM
I don't think that is the wrong way of doing it Fletch, just another way ..... :wink: :whistle:

Fair piont :whistle:





:rofl:

stewart38
13th-March-2007, 03:51 PM
Went to the Hippodrome jive nation last night, never been before

It was a great fun night

Nice to have enthusiastic teachers /dancers with a short dance with a stranger slot, I thought it was warm up dance so didn’t smile of course

Felt like you had been to a party rather then the lets just do 3 basic intermediate moves tonight because we cant be bothered to put effort into anything else, you get at some ceroc nights

The music was great too

None of this ive got a CD collection from the 1950 big band era lets play that for 30 mins type stuff

Ill be back about 100 there ?

fletch
13th-March-2007, 04:06 PM
Went to the Hippodrome jive nation last night, never been before

It was a great fun night

Nice to have enthusiastic teachers /dancers with a short dance with a stranger slot, I thought it was warm up dance so didn’t smile of course

Felt like you had been to a party rather then the lets just do 3 basic intermediate moves tonight because we cant be bothered to put effort into anything else, you get at some ceroc nights

The music was great too

None of this ive got a CD collection from the 1950 big band era lets play that for 30 mins type stuff

Ill be back about 100 there ?


i'm hoping to get there on one of the bank Holliday's, I think this will be a 'Fletcherette' sort of thing, plenty of 'hi energy' :innocent:

Freya
14th-March-2007, 12:54 PM
I had an absolutely fantastic night last night!

Trampy's music was perfect in my opinion, Good mixture and not a song I hated amongst them! :grin: :hug:

AndI had loads of fantastic dances!

whitetiger1518
14th-March-2007, 02:35 PM
Tuesday night, JJs, old friends, good music and some (I hope) lovely connections = perfect dances:drool: Again Again please?? :tears:

Whitetiger

TurboTomato
15th-March-2007, 10:46 AM
Went along last night, not really in the mood and not expecting a particularly good night....

But turned out to be very enjoyable :clap: Felt a lot more confident last night for some reason, and had some really good dances :D

Green-eyed Monsta
15th-March-2007, 11:51 AM
I was already having a great night, but when one of my favourites was suddenly free at the same time I was I just couldn't stop myself from running across the floor and leaping straight on him! And then he gave me 4 dances in a row! And they were all fantastic!:D :D :D

Caz
15th-March-2007, 01:10 PM
yes it was.. first night back dancing after family bereavement but was FANTASTIC to be back dancing and to see all my friends.... also the bloke i like turned up too:D :D

StokeBloke
15th-March-2007, 04:05 PM
also the bloke i like turned up too:D :D
Another bloke? I thought there was only me Caz :tears: :tears: :tears: :tears:








:flower:

Whitebeard
18th-March-2007, 11:27 PM
The Saturday freestyle was much quieter than normal for some reason but, on purely selfish grounds, that meant more space to dance in and there was enough of a crowd to create an atmosphere. Quite a nice chilled atmosphere at times due to the best set I can recall being played (Thanks John - Just a Gigolo really took me back in time). The floor was good and for once I think I spent more time dancing than sitting around. A great night for me; and thank goodness a little rain today meant that I couldn't possibly be expected to do yet more lawn mowing !!

Twirlie Bird
24th-March-2007, 05:44 PM
Was last night amazing for me? OH YESSSSSSS :nice: :clap: :nice:

Went to Halesowen and got to dance with the amazing Amir :drool: :drool: :drool:

Awesome. Amazing. Out of this world. Oh yesssssssssssssssss :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect:

Need I say more :blush:

Caz
28th-March-2007, 07:40 PM
Another bloke? I thought there was only me Caz :tears: :tears: :tears: :tears:


:flower:


Sorry Stokie!!! U r one of my favourite men tho :flower: Can't count Jamie.. he is my favourite lady :clap: Hope to c u soon xxx

Tiggerbabe
1st-April-2007, 11:48 AM
Never mind last night, all of yesterday was :clap: :D

Busking in Perth in glorious sunshine (despite it still being a wee bit chilly), lots of laughs and brilliant company (not to mention cheesy chips afterwards :drool: ).

Dundee party in the Bonar Hall was buzzin'. Great night, great music and I got to dance all night as I wasn't working :clap: Fab to see Monika :hug: and Husky Cat made it to her first Dundee party :hug:

Husky_Cat
1st-April-2007, 01:28 PM
:hug: :hug: to Tiggerbabe!! Thank you for the fab dance!

and Yes i did make it to my first Dundee party after so long.. :clap: :clap: and i loved it, as the atmosphere was different, from a normal dance class! the only disadvantage was when i went on the dance floor for first time, it was very slippy , took me a while to get used to them and i was not even wearing the shoes i normally wear to dance classes!! But in all it was good night even if we left at just after midnight, it was cos we were getting tired !

thank to the people who did give me some dances! :D

Caz
1st-April-2007, 02:58 PM
Yeah.. Had a fab night at Daventry.. 2nd vist there and first time they had 2 rooms open (when i was there) ... fantastic dances all night and fab to catch up with so many people...:hug:

Jhutch
3rd-April-2007, 06:44 PM
Well, the idea of a barbecue followed by ceroc sounded good:clap: However, the time between eating and dancing was too short resulting in me feeling sick for much of freestyle:sick: Was actually one dance where i was contemplating making a quick exit to the toilets:really: :blush: Can't have been too encouraging for anyone looking at me feeling that uncomfortable either. Was a bit better though after i had a sit-down for a while. Was all over the place due to coming off nights as well:sad: Strange, sometimes i feel fine after nights, others time i wonder why i bothered turning up. Had a 14 hour sleep anyway so hopefully i will feel fresh enough for next time:)

DavidY
6th-April-2007, 12:54 PM
Yep. :clap:

One of my regular venues (Rugby) had an Easter "Bunny Curry" night (other varieties of curry were available...).

It was still (more-or-less) an ordinary class night, but everything was just that little bit better than usual: A few more experienced dancers showed up, a good selection of beginners to dance with (I was taxiing), a few more tracks played (we had a later finish than usual), all added up to a good atmosphere.

Plus our usual excellent team on stage of Chris French :clap: DJing and Marc & Rachel :clap: teaching.

It all added up to a really good night. :)

Twirlie Bird
6th-April-2007, 12:59 PM
Last night was awesome. :clap: :clap: It was cinderella night at Wolves so we danced until midnight. Some fab dancers came down as it's the start of the bank holiday weekend and just to top it all of we had OXO's on the decks. :respect: What a fantastic set to compliment such a fantastic night. Thanks OXO's and thanks to all the fantastic dancers that made my night last night. :flower:

Roll on Oxford :cheers:

Lost Leader
6th-April-2007, 01:37 PM
Yep. :clap:

One of my regular venues (Rugby) had an Easter "Bunny Curry" night (other varieties of curry were available...).

It was still (more-or-less) an ordinary class night, but everything was just that little bit better than usual: A few more experienced dancers showed up, a good selection of beginners to dance with (I was taxiing), a few more tracks played (we had a later finish than usual), all added up to a good atmosphere.

Plus our usual excellent team on stage of Chris French :clap: DJing and Marc & Rachel :clap: teaching.

It all added up to a really good night. :)

:yeah: I too had a great night at Rugby. The atmosphere was fab and I was rarely off the dance floor. Curries were also very good :drool: Big thank-you to everyone who helped to organise this special night :nice:

Oh, and David, I've finally managed to work out who you are!

StokeBloke
13th-April-2007, 02:39 AM
Ceroc Wilton (Wiltshire). We went along tonight with some of my family, so they could see what all this dancing m'larky was all about.

We were all made to feel very welcome. The teacher (Carol) did an amazing job. She taught the class in a slightly different format to that which I am used to, but I liked it A LOT! I even got to dance with her later, and she was lovely to dance with :respect:

Both routines were well put together and the freestyle was fun. The music was great too. Although I found it a little too much of the same (mainly dance and Latin tracks... but the DJ did play half a dozen slower tracks right at the end). Good numbers too, plenty of fans to keep the temperature down and reasonably priced drinks (and loads of young pretty girlies... shhhh don't tell Twirlie I said that bit :eek: ).

Twirlie and I asked and got asked for lots of dances, so we had a great time. I'm pleased to report that a few of my family also seem to get infected with Ceroc tonight. My younger sis loved it, my younger brother and his girlfriend also look like they'll be going back. The other two sisters who went but only watched have said they will seriously consider going back, but to dance next time. My father sat there slightly confused - no change there then :D

What was also lovely was a forumite who usually dances at Bournemouth made the trip up to meet us and dance with us (Hi Trev) :hug:

So, Ceroc Wilton... highly recommended for a fun and friendly night out. Thanks again for making us all feel so very welcome.

Mac
13th-April-2007, 02:44 AM
Hey Stokie if your going to derby I will bring that DVD for you:wink:

I just got in from dancing at StAlbans and had a curry with Mick and Joe and JB and the St Albs croud! what a feeling.... Bring it on!!!
:clap: :worthy: :hug:

Mac
13th-April-2007, 06:35 PM
Papped by Mac (with permission of course!):cheers: St Albans 12 04 07

Mac
13th-April-2007, 06:48 PM
More Papped by Mac + Heres an insight into what your dedicated crew do when they are through teaching d j ing n dancing etc ! :worthy::cheers: :clap: :clap:

Twirlie Bird
9th-May-2007, 08:49 PM
I arrived at Ealing feeling very anxious. :what: I had no idea what to expect. On one hand I have heard so much about ‘London dancers’ and ‘Hotshots’ and on the other Fletch was telling me how lovely everyone at Ealing had been to her.:confused:

I have nothing negative to say about anything. Everyone was incredibly friendly. I hardly left the dance floor and only asked for one dance all evening. It was superb. :clap: Each dancer had their own unique style but they were fun and friendly, not at all intimidating or up themselves. :respect: I met some wonderful people, some wonderful forumites. Had a couple of fun and interesting dances with the wonderful Andy McGregor. :whistle: Love your style Andy. Big thank you to Chef and Under Par for your beautiful dances too. :respect:

Astro
12th-May-2007, 12:49 PM
Had a couple of fun and interesting dances with the wonderful Andy McGregor. :whistle: Love your style Andy. Big thank you to Chef and Under Par for your beautiful dances too. :respect: I didn't know Mr. McGregor was there. Will I ever meet him? Have I danced with him unknowingly?

Twirlie Bird
12th-May-2007, 02:11 PM
I didn't know Mr. McGregor was there. Will I ever meet him? Have I danced with him unknowingly?


Astro believe me. You would know if you had danced with Andy :whistle:

StokeBloke
13th-May-2007, 03:39 PM
:clap: :clap: :clap: Mariachi :clap: :clap: :clap:

Where do I start? Well we drove for two hours to get to Jive Nites at Oakham. Why would someone drive for two hours to go to a freestyle when there was a freestyle in Walsal 50 minutes down the road? Well unless you have been to a Mariachi night I guess you may not understand! :worthy: Actually we drove for a little longer than two hours, but that was on account of me being a Joey and putting nearly the right postcode in my SatNav! We had the right street.... wrong town - what a dope! :whistle: Luckily it was only 5 minutes up the road. :blush:

Again the music was brave, challenging, different, familiar and full of cues for musicality and breaks. If you want a Michael Buble/Tina Arena free night (not that there's anything wrong with them but...) one word... Mariachi.

When we got there Yli grabbed me for a dance, which was lovely and I kept meaning to ask her for more but kept getting side tracked. Sorry :flower: We found some forumees to say 'hi' to, CJ, Yli and SnowWhite and met some for the first time. Grumpy Gav (who cheered up as the night went on), Dave the Scaffolder who is a really great dancer and such a good laugh. It's a shame I was too busy dancing to talk to them properly - roll on Southport!

Ohh and Trouble and Double Trouble. I could write a book about meeting those two! At one point it was like the front row of a Status Quo concert :eek: For the sake of brevity I will just say how awesome they both are. Great straight talking fun girls who completely made my night on the dance floor. Double Trouble is such a joy to dance with, playful and fun and an amazing follow. If you have the nerve to hold her gaze she's got brown eyes you could swim in :flower:

I had far more than my fair share of dances with Trouble. We just clicked the minute we started dancing and the dances just got progressivly more fun and wonderful from there on in. I even managed to get the final dance of the night with her :love: There are some dancers that would sway your decision on where to go if there was a choice of venue and you knew someone would be at one of them - Trouble you fall into that catagory, so watch it I'll be stalking you :awe:

As the evening went on I thought that the venue was getting a bit too hot, then I realised that it was just a case of the music being too damn good. It is almost impossible to sit anything out! Luckily I had plenty of shirts and enough deoderant to melt a polar icecap :na:

It sure was lovely dancing the night away with great music, friends new and old in a laid back environment and the chance to see other couples doing the odd aeri*l too (hush my dirty mouth) :innocent:

There's so much more to say, but I'm sure I've bored you enough. I took a load of photos (I claim the £10k DT!) that I may get online if I get a moment....

StokeBloke signing out.

fletch
14th-May-2007, 03:26 AM
:clap: :clap: :clap: Mariachi :clap: :clap: :clap:


Again the music was brave, challenging, different, familiar and full of cues for musicality and breaks. If you want a Michael Buble/Tina Arena free night (not that there's anything wrong with them but...) one word... Mariachi.



It sure was lovely dancing the night away with great music, friends new and old in a laid back environment and the chance to see other couples doing the odd aeri*l too (hush my dirty mouth) :innocent:



.


ooooer! you big grasser Stokie :D


when CJ tried to explain the concept to me I was hopless cos he was saying, you know the one by ?? no I don't know any names of tracks or artists so it was a waste of time, :blush:till I was there :clap: IMO this is the next BIG thing, I loved it :worthy:

we were talking about it this afternoon at Bromsgrove the first venue to have one :respect: its soooo different, inspiring :worthy:


oooo just thought are you doing one at SP CJ ? and afternoon on the decking with this lot playing :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Twirlie Bird
14th-May-2007, 01:06 PM
oooo just thought are you doing one at SP CJ ? and afternoon on the decking with this lot playing :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

That would be awesome. :clap: What a way to spend an afternoon in (hopefully) the sunshine. :clap:

Not long now. I'm soooooooooo excited. :D

dave the scaffolder
14th-May-2007, 01:44 PM
That would be awesome. :clap: What a way to spend an afternoon in (hopefully) the sunshine. :clap:

Not long now. I'm soooooooooo excited. :D


An afternoon of, not dancing, but playing!

I find would you like to have a play? invariably leads to some smashing dances.

Twirly you and i could play on the floor and Stokie and Trouble could play on the floor.

It would be marvellous.

Note!!! When i say play i mean in the experimental dance sense!!!

Mind you i promised Sarah White i would try and drink her under the table, so i might be recovering in A and E for a while.
XXX XXXX DTS

Twirlie Bird
14th-May-2007, 02:48 PM
Twirly you and i could play on the floor and Stokie and Trouble could play on the floor.


It's a date.:D

I have the perfect top to wear too :whistle:

dave the scaffolder
14th-May-2007, 03:05 PM
It's a date.:D

I have the perfect top to wear too :whistle:

Intrigued am i. XXX XXX Dave:cheers:

StokeBloke
16th-May-2007, 01:37 AM
Tuesday nights mean only one thing these days... Revolution Dance in Congleton :clap: I had a brilliant time in the WCS class. I actually felt like I was starting to 'get it' tonight!! At long last! Thanks to the ever patient Chris' teaching. Talking of teaching... Steve did a fantastic intermediate lesson. I have been sitting out of lessons for a spell because my brain was getting MJ move overload! But Steve's routine was just too good to pass up. Four solid use-able, lead-able, smooth moves - praise the lord :respect:

Then there's the music. Smooth grooves and interesting remixes to play with. Great company, friendly dancers. We even got to dance with old friends that we used to dance with before we started hunting out new venues to try. Fantastic!

Keith and Janey deserve the success they are having with the place, three weeks in and I think there were more people there tonight than there was on the opening night :respect: There's a real skill to running a successful venue - and Keith and Janey are master craftsmen :worthy: Roll on next Tuesday :D :D :D :D :D

Caz
16th-May-2007, 07:50 AM
An afternoon of, not dancing, but playing!

I find would you like to have a play? invariably leads to some smashing dances.

Twirly you and i could play on the floor and Stokie and Trouble could play on the floor.

It would be marvellous.

Note!!! When i say play i mean in the experimental dance sense!!!

Mind you i promised Sarah White i would try and drink her under the table, so i might be recovering in A and E for a while.
XXX XXXX DTS

Can I play too Dave???:flower:

last night had a WICKED night at Rainworth.. local venue but had Jamie back to spin :clap: :clap: I think i spun his little socks off bless him... Really good night tho, lots of great dances and a good time had by all .. Roll on Hammersmith on Sat and SP!!!!

dave the scaffolder
16th-May-2007, 09:40 AM
Can I play too Dave???:flower:

last night had a WICKED night at Rainworth.. local venue but had Jamie back to spin :clap: :clap: I think i spun his little socks off bless him... Really good night tho, lots of great dances and a good time had by all .. Roll on Hammersmith on Sat and SP!!!!

Of course you can play as well baby.

As you well know you are one of my favourite play things.


XXX XXX DTS:love:

Caz
16th-May-2007, 10:04 AM
:clap:
Of course you can play as well baby.

As you well know you are one of my favourite play things.


XXX XXX DTS:love:



:D :D

Double Trouble
19th-May-2007, 10:54 AM
Went to Ashtons last night.

Highlight of the night was Rocky's face when he saw me and Trouble walking towards him. It was something like this.:eek:

Thanks for the dance Rocky. At last we agree on something. You are right, you are crap at Double Trouble.:wink:

I had some lovely dances with the gorgeous Mickeyr. I did accidentally punch him in the face and nearly poke his eye out all at the same time. Gentleman that he is, his response when I said sorry was "Don't worry, I've got another one":worthy:

The Chuckle Brothers were on good form all night. Dave, thanks for being you. You make me laugh. Gav...thanks for driving and giving me some lovely dances.:awe:

That's it for me now until Southport. Just have to make some adjustments to my costume (its far too long at the moment):whistle: and then I'm all set.

Wuzzle
19th-May-2007, 11:32 AM
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Feet remembered how to dance freestyle. No sprite 3G was taken to aid in my quest to be awake while dancing and not to be in auto pilot. Think redbull the taste of redbull is growing on me. Maybe its the caffeine <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1032" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style='width:14.4pt;height:14.4pt'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Frankie\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip _image003.gif" o:href="http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/images/smilies/9.gif"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]-->:sick:<!--[endif]-->

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Trouble
19th-May-2007, 06:37 PM
Ashtons. what can i say. One of the best nights ive had in a long time. I actually did not ask one single person for a dance, i was in demand all night. Everybody i danced with almost without exception, had more than one dance at their request. Fantastic compliment to any dancer.

i had Mr Darcy, MikeyR, DTS, Rocky, Stewart38,Jivelad, Gav all exceptional and very different dancers, all got me hot in their own little ways and all lovely to dance with. I would say at this point, MikeyR, ....:worthy: Jivelad - what an improvement. You have musicality coming out of every pore in your body and you have even mastered the breaks. Fantastic stuff. Gav, get it back baby get it back. (Gav is having a i hate dancing moment)

Rocky ---- we got you and you came back for more. Compliment in itself. Thank you. xx

DTS as always my rock and steadfast companion. Chuckles per minute.

thanks all for making my night a great and fantastic one.

JiveLad
20th-May-2007, 10:56 AM
Ashtons - my review is at Ceroc Mad Jive Lad: London calling (http://ceroc.blogspot.com/2007/05/london-calling.html)

Thanks Trouble......it was fun! :hug:

fletch
28th-May-2007, 03:35 PM
I arrived at Ealing feeling very anxious. :what: I had no idea what to expect. On one hand I have heard so much about ‘London dancers’ and ‘Hotshots’ and on the other Fletch was telling me how lovely everyone at Ealing had been to her.:confused:

Love your style Andy. [/FONT]

:rofl: he's got some style aint he :eek: :waycool: :worthy:

told you, told you, told you :clap:

I new you would love 'em :hug:

ther are more 'hotshots; in the Midlands than there are ever in London, and I think its because they seem more set in ther way's in the Midlands, like thats my seat I allway;s sit ther :rolleyes: I have allway danced this way why would I change, (musicality, stlye, brakes etc.):( Londoners seem to accept newbies proberbly its the nature of the beast in London :flower:


I didn't know Mr. McGregor was there. Will I ever meet him? Have I danced with him unknowingly?
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NO :rofl:

you would know :devil: :worthy:


Astro believe me. You would know if you had danced with Andy :whistle:



:yeah:

StokeBloke
28th-May-2007, 03:41 PM
LAST NIGHT WAS AWESOME!! A bunch of forumites descended on The New Venture Club in Nottingham and had a great time, laughing and dancing together. There was me and Twirlie, DTS, Trouble, Jamie, DavidY, Jiveaddicted, Caz, Dai, Pawplay, Fletch and her two kids. So it was quite a turn out for a modest little class night! But to be honest the most fun started when Pulse shut off the music (just past 11:30) and wished us all goodnight.

As we were in one of the rooms in the club, we spilled out to leave only to find that the regular working men's club type night was still going... and they had music! The bar was open and it wasn't long before the locals got treated to an impromptu cabaret! They were really enjoying themselves, and once they realised we didn't bite started to join in with us. I spoke to a local at the bar at about 12:30 and said that they would be throwing us all out soon I expect. She replied - hardly likely my husband owns the place and he's the DJ! In fact we were all having so much fun that they played music right through until 2am!! By which time we were all pretty much dead on our feet!

A few of the night's highlights for me were dancing with Jamie and doing a one arm drop to the floor with him, and some old dear diving down to help him up because she thought he had fallen over :rofl: Dancing to cheesy Dirty Dancing music with Twirlie Bird and getting a great reaction when we did The Angel lift together. Dancing with the owner's wife who claimed she couldn't dance, but actually followed really nicely. But, one of the best bits was watching Jamie do 'double' trouble with NINE follows :respect: :worthy: :respect:

They were so friendly and the club owner asked us all to come back when they have their next quiz night on the August Bank Holiday!

Twirlie Bird
28th-May-2007, 03:52 PM
Last night was a blast. Stokie you make it sound like we innocently stumbled across the bar playing music. :rolleyes: Now how do I recall it. 'There's music in there - lets' gatecrash it'. :rofl: Was that Fletch? :rolleyes:

What a night. The regulars were a brilliant sport and that DJ rocked. He played all the cheesy party tracks - YMCA - Can-Can - Macarana etc. Such a great laugh. :cheers: We were all shouting for Candy Man and the poor sod said 'give me a break I only came here to do the quiz'. Also had some music that CJ would have been proud of.Rocking to Sweet Child Of Min ealways gets me going. Love it. :D

Jamie dancing with the nine of us. Total respect. :respect: He had his own little fan club. The women in the bar were falling over themselves to get to him. One lady wanted to see as much of his as she could. Bless.:whistle:

Thanks to everyone for last night. :hug: Fletch said she could feel it was a pre-Southport party and her waters were right. Oh let me think now.....









4 MORE SLEEPS
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

fletch
28th-May-2007, 04:00 PM
As we were in one of the rooms in the club, we spilled out to leave only to find that the regular working men's club type night was still going... and they had music! The bar was open and it wasn't long before the locals got treated to an impromptu cabaret! They were really enjoying themselves, and once they realised we didn't bite started to join in with us. I spoke to a local at the bar at about 12:30 and said that they would be throwing us all out soon I expect. She replied - hardly likely my husband owns the place and he's the DJ! In fact we were all having so much fun that they played music right through until 2am!! By which time we were all pretty much dead on our feet!

A few of the night's highlights for me were dancing with Jamie and doing a one arm drop to the floor with him, and some old dear diving down to help him up because she thought he had fallen over :rofl:

, one of the best bits was watching Jamie do 'double' trouble with NINE follows :respect: :worthy: :respect:

They were so friendly and the club owner asked us all to come back when they have their next quiz night on the August Bank Holiday!

:yeah:

what a fab night :rofl: :clap:

that old dear was sooo:rofl: I liked it when she got Jamie by his belt loop and tried to drag him off across the room, she wanted him, she was going to have him :devil: :rofl: :rofl:

Nine is that a record :confused: I was dragging people from the bar to join in :wink: :na:

I don't know what she would have done if she had caught Jamie if you had of droped him she could hardly stand herself :rofl:

best bits

Y.M.C.A.


Time Warp

oooo and the Mowtown :clap: :worthy:

Trouble
28th-May-2007, 04:06 PM
Not only was last night amazing, the night before was a big high too.

Drove down to the lovely town of Stoke this weekend to spend some great dance time with Stoke Bloke and Twirly. First night went dancing in Knutsford. What a great time was had. Ruby Red was the first person we met who to put it mildy was the nicest person you could ever wish to meet. She ensure we were looked after all evening and one of the highlights for me was watching the exhausted DTS come off half the man he was when he finished dancing with her. He could not see through the sweat on his head and i sat there holding up a towel giggling as he stumbled towards me. Best dance of the night he said.....

Another highlight for me was of course dancing with the lovely Blue Shoes who IMHO is one of the best... Thanks for the many wonderful dances Frank..xxx

The venue itself had lots of lovely touches. The tables were made up with flowers, chocs and nuts and it had a great feel to the evening. This venue could easily compete with any london venue that i have been too.

Second night, went to the New Venture Club in Nottingham. A load of forumites turned up and think we gave the regulars a bit of a fright. Best part of the night was gatecrashing the bar after our night finished. It went from a little discomfort by the regulars at us literally taking over the place to full on, joining in, clapping and absolute enjoyment had by every single one of them. They loved it and so did we.

Jamie as per usual did his cabaret for all to enjoy, spinning like a black and decker and then really pushing the boat out and doing a dance show all on his own with two phones, lit up in both hands..... standing ovation for the Jamies one man light show. A particular lady who was there, who clearly had sunk herself into Jack Daniels for the night actually wanted to have his babies.... :D

Overall fantastic weekend, cant wait for Southport, thanks again to the lovely couple Twirly Bird and Stoke Bloke.... great time, great company and cant wait to do it again.

xxxx

dave the scaffolder
28th-May-2007, 04:38 PM
Aye aye sport fans Me and the Trouble had a weekend at Stokies and Twirlybirds.

First things first a massive thanks for a cracking weekend we were spoilt rotten by the pair of them.

I dont know why more forumites choose to do this more often, honestly its like a dance weekend with mates you can choose.

Obviousley us 4 love dancing together and a special connection has been built up very quickly between all of us...Marvellous.

Sat,, Knutsford excellent venue really friendly crowd and Ruby Red trying to kill me on the dance floor...amazing dancer..cheers babes, many more at SP

Sun...Nottingham The New Venture Club previous posts have described the night...cracking

Highligt of the night for me was a tall slim blonde aged 21 with a hat on asking for a fast dance, sorry sweety forgot your name, but will never forget you, i as usuall gave it large for the 1st 2 mins then 46 fat and unfit took over, by the end of the dance i thought i was having a clutcher.

Had to sit down for a while until her mate asked me to dance, Trouble nearly wet herself with laughing at me.

Had a dance with Fletches daughter..amazing the Fletch children can dance...Look out for these 2 in the future, rising stars these 2 are.

All in all an excellent weekend and a big thank you to all the Northern crowd for making Trouble and i very very welcome. XXX XXXX DTS Dave:flower::flower::flower:

Twirlie Bird
28th-May-2007, 04:58 PM
A few pics from last night. The rest of the pics will soon be in my gallery section.

Twirlie Bird
28th-May-2007, 05:03 PM
A few pics from last night. The rest of the pics are in my gallery section.

Twirlie Bird
28th-May-2007, 05:10 PM
The after party.

Andy McGregor
28th-May-2007, 06:08 PM
oooo and the Mowtown :clap: :worthy:Motown :angry:

Twirlie Bird
28th-May-2007, 06:17 PM
The pics from last night are now in the gallery (http://www.cerocscotland.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=584). :clap:

StokeBloke
28th-May-2007, 06:24 PM
Motown :angry:
Is Mowtown a form of Blue Grass music :rolleyes:

Jamie
28th-May-2007, 08:22 PM
Last night was wicked. :D


See how Cute I am!! (http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/../../photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1570)

fletch
29th-May-2007, 03:53 AM
Motown :angry:



ooooer, what's got your knickers in a twist :confused: carn't be my spelling you gave up on that ages ago :na:


:flower: :hug:



Is Mowtown a form of Blue Grass music :rolleyes:


am I supposed to get this one :confused: cos its gone stright over if I was :blush:

Caz
29th-May-2007, 07:20 AM
Ok so it wasn't quite last night but more or less - seen as i slept for the best part of 24 hours after Sunday night in Nottingham :rofl:

Really good night as described by all above me! great to see so many forumites and to meet JiveAddicted and Alex. Didn't get to dance with JiveAddicted :tears: but we did do the Can-Can - right until the end i hasten to add when everyone else had given up! :clap:

Jamie as per usual had his fan club and loved having all those muggles to entertain with his spinning etc

wicked night. great warm up for Southport.... the final countdown is on :rofl:

Minnie M
29th-May-2007, 07:33 AM
Is Mowtown a form of Blue Grass music :rolleyes:

am I supposed to get this one :confused: cos its gone stright over if I was :blush:

:rofl:
You must realise that "Blue Grass" is a perfume by Yves Saint Laurent - and what has that got to do with mowing the lawn :whistle:

Trouble
29th-May-2007, 09:32 AM
Last night was wicked. :D


See how Cute I am!! (http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/../../photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1570)

Jamie Jamie Jamie, you buggered up the title....it should read ........."SEE HOW CUTE WE ARE"

for goodness sakes, i give up, bloody men, no idea, better of with a set of jugs.. :D

fletch
29th-May-2007, 10:24 AM
:rofl:
You must realise that "Blue Grass" is a perfume by Yves Saint Laurent - and what has that got to do with mowing the lawn :whistle:

:blush:

thanks Minni :flower:


and Stokie......*grown* that joke is as good as BARMPOTS :rolleyes:

Astro
29th-May-2007, 02:59 PM
LAST NIGHT WAS AWESOME!! A bunch of forumites descended on The New Venture Club in Nottingham and had a great time, laughing and dancing together. There was me and Twirlie, DTS, Trouble, Jamie, DavidY, Jiveaddicted, Caz, Dai, Pawplay, Fletch and her two kids. So it was quite a turn out for a modest little class night! But to be honest the most fun started when Pulse shut off the music (just past 11:30) and wished us all goodnight.

How's your poor jaw, is it still bruised?



best bits

Y.M.C.A.


Time Warp

oooo and the Mowtown :clap: :worthy:
I love all the above. :clap: Did you modern jive to the Time Warp or what?

Is Mowtown a form of Blue Grass music :rolleyes:
It's played a lot at the Hoedown Barn Dances.

Caz
30th-May-2007, 07:48 AM
I love all the above. :clap: Did you modern jive to the Time Warp or what?


No we did the cheesy dance moves to Time Warp, YMCA, Macarena etc etc...

The Can-Can was fun too! :clap:

what do we reckon guys.. cheesy pop for the main room at 4 a.m...:whistle:

U up for a bounce about again FirstMove??? :flower:

Twirlie Bird
17th-June-2007, 05:17 PM
Monster Jive at Derby. What a night. :D Yet another mind blowing Jive Addiction event.:respect:

Fabulous dances with fabulous people. :flower: Met some new forumites. Big hi to you all. :clap: Great music and such a relaxed atmosphere made for a stunning night. :clap: Think I was the first one dancing and was there with the last ones too. :clap: 6 hours of almost non stop dancing. I ache today like I do at weekenders. It's brilliant. :D

Been struggling to find my high since Southport. :( I found it big style last night. :D It was just what I needed. Thank you John and Wes. :respect:

Blind_Dynamo
17th-June-2007, 06:14 PM
Monster Jive at Derby. What a night. :D Yet another mind blowing Jive Addiction event.:respect:

Fabulous dances with fabulous people. :flower: Met some new forumites. Big hi to you all. :clap: Great music and such a relaxed atmosphere made for a stunning night. :clap: Think I was the first one dancing and was there with the last ones too. :clap: 6 hours of almost non stop dancing. I ache today like I do at weekenders. It's brilliant. :D

Been struggling to find my high since Southport. :( I found it big style last night. :D It was just what I needed. Thank you John and Wes. :respect:

:yeah: This was my first jive addiction event and WOW what a good time arrived at rollerworld and bumped intp a lot of friends and familar faces also met a few new ones

Music was good especially the Dance Demons last set.:worthy:


Once again thanks for taking me Cruella :hug:

littlewiggle
17th-June-2007, 06:38 PM
Monster Jive at Derby. What a night. :D Yet another mind blowing Jive Addiction event.:respect:

Fabulous dances with fabulous people. ::

Gutted I couldn't come. Wanted to but did something weird to my shoulder - think I trapped a nerve - couldn't move and spent the night in agony :sick: But feels better today after many painkillers and deep heat! Thank goodness :nice:

Mini Mac
17th-June-2007, 06:55 PM
all of yesterday was wicked! :respect: Thenight was quite good. We were quite tired Dad, Toni and me and so we chilled out and decided we'd go to Solihul instead of the originial plan of going to Derby! It was a good night, very busy and my feet ached by the time i got in. Painful blisters... owww!:sad: :tears: and i dropped my chips in the car! :tears:

Apart from that it was great! x

Little Monkey
17th-June-2007, 09:15 PM
Went to Red, Hot and Blue in Edinburgh for the first time ever on Friday, and had a FANTASTIC time! Dande Demon played a great set, with a mix of blues, funky wcs and latin music which was just :drool: . The floor was amazing (this must have been changed recently?), and I was spoilt for choice when it came to good leads.

Ooooh, and one of the highlights of my evening was the Little Monkey cuddle sandwich with Dave Hancock and Jennifer. :D

My only complaint was that it seemed to slow down completely for the last hour(?). A bit too solidly slow, and a bit sleep inducing IMHO. All good tracks, but just all very slow stuff.

Thanks so much to Heather for giving me a lift, and for our nice detour to Ikea on the way! :D



Last night I went to the Stirling WCS party, and again had a fabulous time. Wasn't too sure about the music played by a lady in the main hall, but don't care, as Tiggerbabe delivered the usual mix of absolutely fab choons in the blues/wcs room upstairs. Again had some fab dances, and lots more cuddles! Yay! Oh, and big thanks to Yvonne for driving! :hug:

fletch
18th-June-2007, 12:05 AM
Monster Jive at Derby. What a night. :D Yet another mind blowing Jive Addiction event.:respect:

:respect:

I have to agree :clap: I had some fab dances :worthy:

Wes, I just love your footwork :clap:

I got refussed three times on the trott :eek: one looked like he was going to pass out, so let you off :D I wonder what the reason for the others were :what: perhaps the music was a bit to challenging for there dance stlye :whistle: :na:

My knight was made when a certain person with two left feet :rolleyes: not :( turned up, :clap: welcome to the Midlands :flower: i'm not a stalker, honest.....a complete bunny boiler maybe :rofl: but not a stalker :D

what time did you get home :confused: its not easy doing those long journes late at night I know :hug:

DD thanks for my request's :clap: brill set :worthy:

Caz
18th-June-2007, 07:34 AM
Monster Jive at Derby. What a night. :D Yet another mind blowing Jive Addiction event.:respect:


Been struggling to find my high since Southport. :( I found it big style last night. :D It was just what I needed. Thank you John and Wes. :respect:
:yeah:


Music was good especially the Dance Demons last set.:worthy:


:yeah:

Wes, I just love your footwork :clap:

I got refussed three times on the trott :eek: one looked like he was going to pass out, so let you off :D I wonder what the reason for the others were :what: perhaps the music was a bit to challenging for there dance stlye :whistle: :na:



I agree with the footwork Fletch! I danced with Wes for about the 2nd time ever and we were cha cha ing and jiving and a bit of everything. fabulous Wes - a dance i won't forget in a hurry :grin:

Sorry to hear u got refused Fletch :really:

As TwirlieBird says Derby was a wicked night.. arrived buzzing cos i had been looking forward to this since SP and left on an even bigger high :D TBH it took a while for me to get into it but after 11 p.m. it really became just like SP, the atmosphere, the dances, everything...:clap: :clap:

Had some amazing dances with BoardRider - thank you ever so much, even after i thought i had missed u and u had gone home :rofl: .. u r an amazing dancer .. just wish i cud dance with you more!!!

Fab fun dances with Barmpot - even tho i think we shocked some Derby virgins who had ventured out of Doncaster for the first time :rofl:

Lovely dance with John (as in John and Wes)....Lovely singing too John :wink:

Got to dance with Fletch's kids again...loved our play on seat Pawplay with the kids :rofl:

Led Cruella for the first time :really: U r a wicked follower babe! Enjoyed our dance!

Probably forgotten loads but i have slept (lots) since then..

Love to all :hug: and hope to c u all next weekend :clap:

boardrider
18th-June-2007, 11:43 AM
Had some amazing dances with BoardRider - thank you ever so much, even after i thought i had missed u and u had gone home :rofl: .. u r an amazing dancer .. just wish i cud dance with you more!!!


Am now blushing profusely whilst sat at my desk at work.
Which is unfortunate as someone nearby has broken wind and I now look like the guilty party. So thanks for that Caz. :wink:

They were fun dances and I'm looking forward to the next ones. :flower:

Caz
18th-June-2007, 01:16 PM
Am now blushing profusely whilst sat at my desk at work.
Which is unfortunate as someone nearby has broken wind and I now look like the guilty party. So thanks for that Caz. :wink:

They were fun dances and I'm looking forward to the next ones. :flower:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Poor u!!!!!

Hope u get over the embarrassment soon!! :blush:

:flower:

Caz
3rd-July-2007, 07:55 AM
In summary last night was AMAZING! :clap:

Went to a new venue in Goole, set up by Mikey and the lovely Serana.

Really good opening night. Lovely venue, good floor, temperature good, some fabulous dances, and special thanx to Mikey for my dance to "Everything" :D . Will definitely be back guys. :respect:

Great to get to see Clem and Tracy again :clap: who I did not expect to see but who had made the special effort to travel up. :cheers:


Big thank you to everyone who made my birthday night special too... even tho I was a little embarrassed to get a cake and sung to :blush: . Love to all :flower:

sway
3rd-July-2007, 09:52 AM
went to bosa nova last night in worcs good night had some good dances and some very good dances

thanks for the dance martin harper as usual it was very good and lots of fun,

hope every body else had a good night esp caz hope you had a good bday
x

Caz
3rd-July-2007, 12:17 PM
hope every body else had a good night esp caz hope you had a good bday
x

thanx babe! I had a great day:D ... Mikey and Serana made my night for me too! :flower:

Wuzzle
6th-July-2007, 08:27 AM
Last night I have to say I was spoilt, it was great fun! Great tunes and nice routine it was a amazing night. :respect:

The best bit about today is that knew yesterday that I thought i had over done it. :whistle: I awoke this morning and no pain I think my foots fully recovered :D

Caz
6th-July-2007, 04:25 PM
Last night I have to say I was spoilt, it was great fun! Great tunes and nice routine it was a amazing night. :respect:

The best bit about today is that knew yesterday that I thought i had over done it. :whistle: I awoke this morning and no pain I think my foots fully recovered :D

No pain! :clap: Hope u r back on top form soon and that we get to dance again soon!

xxx:flower:

rubyred
26th-July-2007, 10:28 AM
Last night at Knutsford was pretty amazing. The music started off a bit on the samey side but then got going after the second lesson. Boardrider was there .... I have dubbed you the King of stops man.... you just get them everytime, :respect: Great friendly atmosphere and a lot going on with the WCS in the other room and tango milonga after the tango class last week. :flower:

Gav
5th-August-2007, 04:49 PM
Yes it was.
Took public transport into the city and had a nice relaxed afternoon in Covent Garden. Pimms and a mixed charcuterie for two.
Then onto the Pigalle club for dinner. Lovely food, good wine, champagne cocktails and mojitos.
The Extraordinaires were performing. Not entirely my cup of tea but a great band.
DT and I were the first to hit the dance floor and all eyes were on us! As the song finished and we left the floor, I heard the lead singer shout "let's give it up for the dancers!".
We each had a dance with someone else at one point, but they were lindy-hoppers and although it was difficult it was still fun.
Eventually all the plebs got pissed enough to bounce up and down on the dance floor so we listened instead.
A rickshaw ride back to the hotel to complete a lovely evening.

Everything was great but made even more so by the company of the gorgeous DT. :awe:

robd
5th-August-2007, 06:28 PM
I had a great night taking in the c o c k (http://www.restaurant-guide.com/****-pub-and-restaurant-the.htm) for the first time.

It was very satisfying. For both of us.

Gav
5th-August-2007, 08:14 PM
I had a great night taking in the c o c k (http://www.restaurant-guide.com/****-pub-and-restaurant-the.htm) for the first time.

It was very satisfying. For both of us.

Strangely, when you click on the link, it says your c o c k can't be found :confused:

Double Trouble
5th-August-2007, 08:54 PM
Everything was great but made even more so by the company of the gorgeous DT. :awe:

Thanks hun. Great night out.:clap:

The only slight down side is that we couldn't find The Muffin Man....who lives down Drury Lane.:sad:

It's funny how London is just a place that I work during the week, but at the weekend, it turns in to a very special place. :yeah:

robd
6th-August-2007, 09:06 AM
Strangely, when you click on the link, it says your c o c k can't be found :confused:

I know the feeling but that's the power of the forum censors for you. You feel emasculated after they touch something that you've nurtured and grown so carefully.

Innuendo aside. it's a restauraunt in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire serving delicious food - would recommend it highly to anyone in the area.

Mythical
6th-August-2007, 01:36 PM
Yes. I went to the tea dance at Lickey End where I haven't been for ages! Had some lovely dances with some brilliant dancers, and caught up with a few people. Lovely to get back to the midlands, even if it was just for a couple of hours!

Tiggerbabe
7th-August-2007, 12:07 AM
Had a fab night in Dundee at the Invercarse, made even more special by the arrival of Mike and Judith, from Newcastle :clap: Haven't seen them in ages - brilliant! :D

Tiger Pants
7th-August-2007, 09:02 AM
Had a fab night in Dundee at the Invercarse, made even more special by the arrival of Mike and Judith, from Newcastle :clap: Haven't seen them in ages - brilliant! :D

Must agree with you on that TB a truely amazing night with buckets of good dances and dancers. The music too was very much to my taste........at one point I thought I was 17 again.... who needs anti-aging cream when you can knock off over 20 years just like that, well done Elaine:respect:
Lovely to meet and dance with Judith.....lovely person.

whitetiger1518
8th-August-2007, 12:09 PM
07/08/07 JJ's Glasgow

Some lovely dances with dancers that I haven't seen in a while :clap: :flower:
some lovely moves too from the intermediate - I do like the penguin walk!:worthy:
And the neck break is much nicer than the wurlitzer (for me anyway).

Franck did you plan it to be a blues moves night?

Only fly in the ointment:
Franck limping and in need physio :(


:hug: Get Well Soon Franck :hug:

Whitetiger

Caz
8th-August-2007, 12:32 PM
Last night at Ceroc in Sheffield was amazing! Wicked music :respect: to Mark the DJ! Was in complete weekender mode and was quite distraught when it came to 10.45 and we had to go home :tears: Didn't have a bad dance all night and generally a fab night! Can't wait til next week now :clap:

P.S. Great class Jamie.... even tho u forgot what an elbow was :clap:

Lynn
9th-August-2007, 02:14 PM
I had a fab night in Belfast last night. Good to see some folk who had been away for a while and I had a lot of really fun dances.

And I'm going dancing tonight, and Sat night is a freestyle!

David Bailey
10th-August-2007, 04:36 PM
I popped in to Muswell Hill last night - Annette was on the decks for a change, but it was good to see people, including Clive Long and ESG, again.

Great night's dancing, only slightly marred by me falling over whilst trying to do something clever in walking-backwards terms. :blush:

Lynn
10th-August-2007, 09:00 PM
Had another good night last night in Bangor this time. Saw another few folk I haven't seen for ages.

Managed to have my glasses fly off mid dance for only the third time ever!

After not enjoying my dancing for a while, its great to have several really good evenings in the one week. Really looking forward to tomorrow nights freestyle now.

Twirlie Bird
11th-August-2007, 02:37 PM
Went to Utopia at Derby last night. Was a little apprehensive as the first one had been so perfect. :what: I knew that this one had a lot to live up to and there was going to be no Rocky or Silverfox.:tears:

Things looked promising when I arrived as there was really good music being played and plenty of people. :clap: That was a good start and the night just got better and better. Both Rob Ambridge and John Baker played good sets and I have to admit his is the first time that I have enjoyed their stuff. :rolleyes: It wasn't perfect all the way through but there was some good stuff. The night was made complete for me by the dancers. :respect: All but a few of my favourite men were there and we had so many fabulous dances. :awe: When it got to midnight and we were abruptly escorted from the venue we set up in the cap park and had our own private party for the next three hours. :rolleyes: Fan-bloody-tastic.:D :D

I have been struggling with dancing for a while now. :tears: There came a point when I didn't even know if I wanted to carry on. The fun and enjoyment had gone.:sick: Last night though it was awesome. It all came back to me. :D The buzz, that adrenaline flooding through me. Brilliant. :D I am so on a high now.:clap: :clap:

The down side to last night is the ridiculously early finishing time.:mad: Who wants to go home at midnight? :confused: :angry: Theses nights need to be longer. £9 for a midnight finish is also taking the mick.:eek: My only other complaint is the lighting and the complete lack of fans. :( There was zero air flow and that really was not nice. :sick: As for the lighting I think I was spoilt last time with the seductive lighting. I felt like I was being seduced. :awe: Last night that was missing. Yes there was candles but they didn't have the same effect with such bright lights on the dance floor.:tears:

Anyway I'm happy. :D Last night was a good starting point. I cannot wait until I get all of my favourite men in the same venue alongside my favourite DJ's.:D :whistle:

StokeBloke
11th-August-2007, 03:50 PM
I went with Twirlie Bird to Utopia Derby last night. The opening night was the ultra-high Rocky/SF standard we have come to love and expect :respect: I knew that this one would not be able to live up to the first one. I was going to put a full and frank description of my thoughts about last night... however I have decided to only comment on the positive stuff. So here goes:

There was ample car parking.

Blueshoes
11th-August-2007, 03:59 PM
I was at the same event (Utopia Derby) and really enjoyed it! The standard wasn't as high as I'd hoped but the music was superb and I had some lovely dances. Maybe it's because I've just got back from holiday and a three week break from dancing....

David Bailey
11th-August-2007, 04:29 PM
I have decided to only comment on the positive stuff. So here goes:

There was ample car parking.
:rofl: :respect:

Rep on its way...

Mac
11th-August-2007, 07:14 PM
Here are the PAPs From Jive Nation Last week ! (http://www.cerocscotland.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=607)

Enjoy:D

Caz
12th-August-2007, 04:39 PM
Went to local venue in Doncaster last night and had a surprisingly good night! after the last one only attracted 18 people :really: I didn't expect much but it was a surprisingly good and well attended night!

Had lots of fab dances with the usual suspects but glad I went now :D Missed some of the regulars but sure I will catch up with you all again soon:flower:

Twirlie Bird
12th-August-2007, 05:20 PM
After waking up still buzzing and wanting to dance more I convinced Stokie to go to Coventry to Sinful Mikey's do. Never been to an event that Mikey has DJ'd before and this was also an opening night for this dance company so wasn't really sure what to expect. :what: However I knew there were going to be some brilliant dancers there so knew I was in for a good night.:wink:

I had a blast. :D Caught up with lots of friends. The music was awesome. :clap: There was a very sexy buzz to it all. Huge :respect: to Mikey. Fabulous dancers and the class was great fun to watch. :whistle: Lots of different yummy sweets on all of the tables and the most interesting drawing of a raffle I have ever seen.:rofl:

Fantastic seeing Trouble and DTS again. :hug: Trouble you looked absolutely stunning.:wink:

Big thanks to Mikey's beautiful lady for helping Stokie get his mojo back.:respect: :D :whistle:

This was a brilliant opening night. In a way it was too brilliant. The dance floor wasn't very big and it got far too packed. :eek: That and the lack of air flow would be my only slightly negative comments.

Would definitely go to another event especially if Mikey was on the decks. :clap:

Caz
13th-August-2007, 07:32 AM
Big thanks to Mikey's beautiful lady for helping Stokie get his mojo back.:respect: :D :whistle:

This was a brilliant opening night. In a way it was too brilliant. The dance floor wasn't very big and it got far too packed. :eek: That and the lack of air flow would be my only slightly negative comments.

Would definitely go to another event especially if Mikey was on the decks. :clap:

Mikey's beautiful lady is Serana and she is lovely, an absolute star.

Shame u missed his Eggboro freestyle babe but I am sure there will be another one!

:flower:

Trouble
11th-September-2007, 10:19 AM
Sara Whites Jive nites opened up a new venue in Bedford last night. I normally attend Sara's on a Sunday night and find the dancers to not only be fantastic but well above the normal ceroc standard as they are taught about musicality and moves that are just a little different.

Anyway, i have to say, this was one of the best dance nights i have been to in a long long time. Not only is the hall fantastic, with a seperate bar area and great floor, it was a great atmosphere, great dancing and i wish some of you could have been there.

Some of my highlights;

Blue Shoes and Ruby Red did a little routine for us with lots of character and lovely mini aerials that just looked great. The pair of them were as usual fantastic company and lovely to dance with. Frank without fail, always brightens up any evening for me that he is at. Ruby is a little ray of sunshine. :awe:

Boardrider to my surprise and delight was there and we have warmed ourselves up nicely for the blues room at Southport :whistle:

Apologies for me not knowing much about him but the teacher there was a guy called Andy, did nice little routine for us to learn and very easy to follow.

Music - absolutely spot on. Sara knows her music.

New dancers - people i had not danced with before were absolutely lovely. T

I could go on but i must say this is a venue with great potential, high spirits, friendly users, great dancers and i will definately be a regular. If your ever near Bedford on a Monday night, i would suggest a visit, you wont regret it.

Well done Sara, me and DTS had a fantastic brill night... :flower:

Little Miss
11th-September-2007, 10:41 AM
In total agreement with Trouble. Last night was fantastic, one of the best dance nights I have had in weeks and I am now well and truly ready for Southport.

It was great to see Trouble and DTS after such a long time - please come out locally more you two - we miss you :flower:.

Sara's nights are always great for music, but this venue is also beautiful and aids a fantastic atmosphere. Her and the team did an amazing job of getting it together and making the night run smoothly, it was awesome.

Blueshoes and Ruby Red are always a pleasure to watch (and spend time with). Thanks for making the journey down and making our evening even better :hug:. Dancing with Blueshoes never fails to make my evening (my year for that matter!) , to think in three days time I get to dance with you again :drool:

Too many fantastic dances to mention - even the beginners picked up the first four moves brilliantly.

Can't wait to see everyone again on Friday :clap::clap::clap:

dave the scaffolder
11th-September-2007, 06:07 PM
Aye aye then must agree with Trouble and Little Miss absolutely banging night at Sara Whites last night.

I have said on many occasions that the dancing at Sarahs venues is exceptional, everyone and i mean everyone, lets themselves go and gets totals immersed in the music and dancing.

Ruby Red is a dance Goddess as far as i am concerned an absolutely amazing set by her and Blueshoes...Respect to the pair of you.

It is so nice to see people who i knew as shy newcomers come on so far in so short a time, it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

I will highly recommend this new venue on a Monday at the Harpur Centre in Bedford to all and sundry, so come along and be amazed

Well done to all at Sarah Whites and i am really looking forward to some serious dancing with you all at Southport.

XXX XXX DTS Dave

tsh
11th-September-2007, 06:33 PM
I will highly recommend this new venue on a Monday at the Harpur Centre in Bedford to all and sundry, so come along and be amazed


Don't do that, it might get too crowded :D

I'm just hoping that after Monday, Southport isn't a disappointment. It was amazing to get the same sort of atmosphere as the blues room on a week night...

Husky_Cat
20th-September-2007, 11:09 AM
I went to the Friary (dundee) last night after a long absence from dancing and it was an amazing night as had excellent dances with Tiggerbabe :D, Allan the taxi dancer, and few men that i dont know names of but it was good otherwise.

My new sparkly dance shoes did help a lot even if they have shed off skins on my big toes!! (note to myself , buy plasters for next week!)

I had some fits of giggles with some dancers in Intermidate class while trying to work out the 1st part of the moves.

In all it was excellent and made me feel that i may had a long absence from dancing, i surely didnt forget anything!! :clap::clap::clap:

Shona
xxx:hug:

rubyred
21st-September-2007, 12:30 AM
Just got back from dancing at REVOLUTION DANCE'S newest venue in Lytham St Annes. What a lovely venue,:clap: lots of dancing area and of course the warmest of welcomes from Keith.and Bev. Good luck to Bev who is the franchisee , and your lovely hubby, and I hope it goes from strenght to strength. Lots of new faces as well and the ones I spoke to said that they would definetly come back.

Keith and Bev did a brilliant display well done guys really good showmanship, poise and fabulous interpretation.

Mr Blueshoes was on the decks and that always means a faboulous night's music.

If you are in the area I would recommend a visit.

Double Trouble
27th-September-2007, 11:24 AM
Me and sis went to see Ricky Gervais last night.

I wish he was on the forum, he'd get infractions left, right and centre.

Very, very funny.

I particularly liked his story about his neigbours autistic son. As a good will gesture he offered to take him to the zoo for the day, but took him to the casino instead.:rofl: £2,000 down after half an hour, he said to him "You look like rain man, but you can't even count 7 straws on the floor...even I can see there is 7 there".:rofl:

I know it's wrong, but I was LMAO all night.

Princes William and Harry were sitting a few rows in front of us and Lionel Blair one row back.:eek:

Get us...mingling with the stars:rofl:

Daisy Chain
27th-September-2007, 11:51 AM
Princes William and Harry were sitting a few rows in front of us and Lionel Blair one row back.:eek:



Name dropper!

Daisy

(A Jealous Little FLower)

stewart38
1st-October-2007, 11:52 AM
Me and sis went to see Ricky Gervais last night.

I wish he was on the forum, he'd get infractions left, right and centre.

Very, very funny.

I particularly liked his story about his neigbours autistic son. As a good will gesture he offered to take him to the zoo for the day, but took him to the casino instead.:rofl: £2,000 down after half an hour, he said to him "You look like rain man, but you can't even count 7 straws on the floor...even I can see there is 7 there".:rofl:

I know it's wrong, but I was LMAO all night.

Princes William and Harry were sitting a few rows in front of us and Lionel Blair one row back.:eek:

Get us...mingling with the stars:rofl:


Was thinking of going but didnt :sad:

Think he had put on his web site 'sold out'

when it hadnt :grin:

Sheepman
1st-October-2007, 04:11 PM
I was working at MoJive's new dance hall in Southampton last night.
It's love at first slide! :awe:
It has to be the best dance floor I've ever danced on, I'm running through a long list in my head which includes plenty of excellent dance floors, but none which can quite compare. They've spent many £000s on a beech sprung floor, I want one at home! Just a shame that I was so busy I only got 3 half dances all night. :sad:

Greg

Astro
1st-October-2007, 04:16 PM
I was working at MoJive's new dance hall in Southampton last night.
It's love at first slide! :awe:
It has to be the best dance floor I've ever danced on, I'm running through a long list in my head which includes plenty of excellent dance floors, but none which can quite compare. They've spent many £000s on a beech sprung floor, I want one at home! Just a shame that I was so busy I only got 3 half dances all night. :sad:

Greg

What's the test to find out if it's a sprung floor? (Apart from going home with aching muscles).

StokeBloke
8th-October-2007, 05:37 PM
Last night Twirlie Bird and me went to The Sunday Squeeze, run by Revolution Dance. It's a fairly new (weekly) event so we wanted to support it, even though it is a 120 mile round trip for us! So, where to start?

The Venue
The venue looks like an old school building from the outside. Brick built with huge arched windows along the side. It looks very nice, then you step off the street and into it's interior - WoW! The whole building has recently been completely refitted as a dancing venue. The first thing that hits you after the plush carpets and indirect lighting is the big display case of lovely things to buy. From bow ties to dance shoes :grin:

The main hall has a beautifully laid wooden floor, full licensed bar, soft seating, raised DJ area and..... one wall is a full ceiling to floor, wall to wall mirror! Great for checking out your posture or moves... but if the idea of seeing yourself dance is a bit freaky you can easily escape up to the other end of the floor.

The Music
Sometimes we've been to Revolution Dance events and found the music a little ... umm too Latin for our tastes. However, this was billed as a blues/chill event and the music delivered - in spades! DJ Bex played a flawless set. There had obviously been a lot of thought and effort put into the music she played - and it really paid off. Not one single duff track all night! :flower:

The Dancers
The dancers at the event last night were all really great! None of the Midland Robot Arm Bounce Brigade were there. The standard of dancer was very very high. But there was no snootiness; even though there was some West Coast going on at times!! A friendly, relaxed, chilled out bunch of people who were there to chat, dance and socialise. I had some amazing dances with Twirlie Bird, Ruby Red, Kim (from Knutsford) and a girl I've never danced with before called Holly. Not to mention half a dance with DJ Bex and all the other ladies who risked life and limb to dance with me :whistle:

In Summary
Think Southport Sunday afternoon on the decking. Chilled and friendly with a full compliment of great dancers to spin around the floor. We are already trying to arrange to get our friends from further afield to this event. Even the 120 mile round trip won't be putting us off making this a regular venue on our MUST DO list! It is worth the effort and Revolution Dance should be applauded for hitting the bullseye that everyone is aiming at - a holy grail of dancing! :worthy:

fletch
8th-October-2007, 05:45 PM
The main hall has a beautifully laid wooden floor, full licensed bar, soft seating, raised DJ area and..... one wall is a full ceiling to floor, wall to wall mirror! Great for checking out your posture or moves... but if the idea of seeing yourself dance is a bit freaky you can easily escape up to the other end of the floor.


The Dancers
The dancers at the event last night were all really great! None of the Midland Robot Arm Bounce Brigade were there. The standard of dancer was very very high. But there was no snootiness; even though there was some West Coast going on at times!!

In Summary
Even the 120 mile round trip won't be putting us off making this a regular venue on our MUST DO list! It is worth the effort and Revolution Dance should be applauded for hitting the bullseye that everyone is aiming at - a holy grail of dancing! :worthy:


Any stamping :rolleyes:

west coast snootiness :rofl:what are you saying Stokie :confused:you will think like that cos your just a jiver :na:

what time is it on :flower:

rubyred
8th-October-2007, 07:18 PM
even though it is a 120 mile round trip for us!

Really good to see you both and great that you made the trip to come all that way.

The Venue
The venue looks like an old school building from the outside. Brick built with huge arched windows along the side. It looks very nice, then you step off the street and into it's interior - WoW! The whole building has recently been completely refitted as a dancing venue. The first thing that hits you after the plush carpets and indirect lighting is the big display case of lovely things to buy. From bow ties to dance shoes :grin:

It is like an oasis in a desert, like you when I first went I thought what have I come to until I walked inside and was transported away from the drabness outside.

The main hall has a beautifully laid wooden floor, full licensed bar, soft seating, raised DJ area and..... one wall is a full ceiling to floor, wall to wall mirror! Great for checking out your posture or moves... but if the idea of seeing yourself dance is a bit freaky you can easily escape up to the other end of the floor.

Loved to look at the excellent way you did the one armed drop - which I have now called 'Stokie's one armed bandit move'. And great to do the 'Stokie slide'

The Music
Sometimes we've been to Revolution Dance events and found the music a little ... umm too Latin for our tastes. However, this was billed as a blues/chill event and the music delivered - in spades! DJ Bex played a flawless set. There had obviously been a lot of thought and effort put into the music she played - and it really paid off. Not one single duff track all night! :flower:

Music is great and Blueshoes also DJ's there as well.

The Dancers
The dancers at the event last night were all really great! ..... A friendly, relaxed, chilled out bunch of people who were there to chat, dance and socialise. I had some amazing dances with Twirlie Bird, Ruby Red, ...:whistle:

Always a pleasure to dance with you:awe: and I have also to mention Royboy whom I know Twirly bird just thought was amazing. We are spoilt having him in our area now he has moved from Scotland. Also Keith who is well anyone that knows Keith will appreciate how good he is.

In Summary
Think Southport Sunday afternoon on the decking. Chilled and friendly with a full compliment of great dancers to spin around the floor. We are already trying to arrange to get our friends from further afield to this event. Even the 120 mile round trip won't be putting us off making this a regular venue on our MUST DO list! It is worth the effort and Revolution Dance should be applauded for hitting the bullseye that everyone is aiming at - a holy grail of dancing! :worthy:


Can't wait to see you all. Because of the venue's close proximity to the West Yorkshire border the place attracts the dancers from Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and the like. Great to see you guys there and thank you to all the lovely men who graced the floor with me.:flower:

StokeBloke
8th-October-2007, 08:26 PM
Any stamping :rolleyes:Strangely not babe.... stamping seems to diminish the further away from the Midlands you travel :whistle:

west coast snootiness :rofl:what are you saying Stokie :confused:you will think like that cos your just a jiver :na:What are you talking about woman..... you've seen me, I can't jive :D

what time is it on :flower:6pm - 10pm every Sunday. We're trying to organize a car load to take up the Sunday after Breeze. I think we've managed to fill mine - if you're at a loose end I know you'd love it - it's a VERY different experience from some venues that I have seen you supporting lately :wink: Ohhh and free cake at 8pm to help you recharge :D:D

Caz
8th-October-2007, 10:09 PM
sounds like a fab sunday venue this one.. where is it again.. or am i just being thick?

rubyred
8th-October-2007, 10:55 PM
sounds like a fab sunday venue this one.. where is it again.. or am i just being thick?

No babes you're not thick no one has mention the details.:rolleyes: It's in Rochdale, 180 Whitehall Street, Rochdale, OL12 0RZ. Sunday evening 6pm to 10pm.

Let me know when you are coming it will be great to see you. :waycool:Try and get Jamie to come, also Mark and his lovely lady.:flower:

Twirlie Bird
9th-October-2007, 12:08 AM
Dancing in front of those mirrors was an experience having never seen myself dance before. :wink:

I had an amazing time. As we were driving up we both said we didn't think we'd be making that journey very often unless it was exceptional. I had no idea how far north it was! :eek: Exceptional it was. :respect:It had the Southport feeling but it's weekly. What else could I ask for. Well apart for it to be in Stoke that is. :cool:

I had some gorgeous dances. Each and every dance was amazing. :awe: The talent in that room was incredible. I could feel my dancing improve by the time I left. I can't name names as every single dancer was amazing. I just hope they all attend the next one.

Can't wait until Sunday 21st October. It would be wonderful if Blueshoes made it for that one. :whistle:

StokeBloke
9th-October-2007, 02:56 AM
Can't wait until Sunday 21st October. It would be wonderful if Blueshoes made it for that one. :whistle:
I know, it's hard to describe what Revolution Dance managed to achieve last night! It was the 'everything' that I have been looking for for so long - finally it arrives on my doorstep (OK it's a 120 mile round trip, but I'd crawl it over broken glass for that):clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

Finally.... Southport away from Southport.... :worthy:

Keith
10th-October-2007, 11:21 AM
Hi Guys,
Thank you for your kind comments.
The idea has always been to create that Southport feeling at all our nights, but as you can see the 'Sunday Squeeze' is the closest, due to the type of dancers we try to attract.
We have aimed the night at Intermediate to Great dancers, (Every night of the week is aimed at beginners to intermediates, why not have one of our own?) who don't want lessons etc, but just want to dance with good, friendly like minded people, to chilled tracks (Generally; Latin Blues, Nu Tango, Slower Swing, Soft Rock, R&B, WCS etc) all the types of music we love from the Blues & Latin Rooms at Southport.
However if you are unsure of slowing your dance down we do offer, a quick lesson at the beginning of the evening (Subject to numbers) and or private tuition to help you gain your confidence. (All in with the price, as is the cake around 8pm :wink: )
Join us & end your weekend on a dance high
:D:D:D
Keith

TA Guy
10th-October-2007, 12:55 PM
I was working at MoJive's new dance hall in Southampton last night.
It's love at first slide! :awe:
It has to be the best dance floor I've ever danced on, I'm running through a long list in my head which includes plenty of excellent dance floors, but none which can quite compare. They've spent many £000s on a beech sprung floor, I want one at home! Just a shame that I was so busy I only got 3 half dances all night. :sad:

Greg

Heh, when Catriona said 'Greg on the decks', Since we're never met but I recognize your name from here, I wondered if that was you :)

Couldn't agree more about the floor, simply the best I've ever danced on. Apparently, before it was even laid, he spend a fair amount of time and cash trying out a load of different floors to get the perfect one. The hall itself still needs some work (sofas have yet to arrive etc.) but having been a MoJive puppy for a long, long time, and having flung so much of my hard earn't cash at Ceroc and other independants as well as MoJive, it is good... so good to get something tangible back out of it. I.E. A permanent, custom built hall dedicated to my addiction :)

BTW excellent music all night. You and Catriona wouldn't like to move down here would you ? :)

robd
11th-October-2007, 09:57 AM
Went on a rare foray down to Twickenham for West Coast Wednesday last night, primarily as I had a private lesson booked but decided to stay on for the class & social and very glad I did. The class was simple (in relative terms compared to some I have seen) but effective and I danced non stop in social - had some great dances with so many people. It's a lovely floor there, top music from Graham and Msfab hijacking like her life depended on it :grin: I'm really enjoying my WCS Wednesdays in Northampton but this was a nice change of scenery - has really put me in the mood for dancing this weekend :clap:

straycat
12th-October-2007, 05:04 PM
Because of the venue's close proximity to the West Yorkshire border the place attracts the dancers from Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and the like.

Hmmmm. Two hours twenty mins from us (sez Google maps)
This could be an option for the occasional Sunday - we'll have to make it over there before too long, as it does sound good...

rubyred
15th-October-2007, 08:03 PM
Hmmmm. Two hours twenty mins from us (sez Google maps)
This could be an option for the occasional Sunday - we'll have to make it over there before too long, as it does sound good...

It would be great to see you and don't forget to let us know which Sunday you will be there, and I will make sure to be there so I can have the pleasure of dancing with you again.:flower:

Miguel
18th-October-2007, 09:59 AM
Yesterday evening we had a special guest teacher at West Coast Wednesday, Heidi Groskreutz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Groskreutz) Heidi taught both the beginners and intermediate class with lots of energy and atitude. I loved it. She was assisted by the very capable Kev F (http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/members/kev-f.html) After class we sang Happy Birthday to AlexyMiss (http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/members/alexymiss.html) and eat loads of chocolate cake :drool:. Great freestyle till 11pm. West Coast :waycool: Wednesday is definately the best night out of the week, IMHO.

drathzel
18th-October-2007, 11:45 AM
My belfast class normally averages between 40-50 and i really like it that way as it has a great community feel about it and everyone is nice to everyone else. Last night we had the Northern Ireland match on and i thought we would be the 40 end of 40-50..... Boy was i wrong 71people showed up! It was a fab night!

Tiggerbabe
18th-October-2007, 11:50 AM
71people showed up! It was a fab night!
Brilliant :hug:

Lynn
18th-October-2007, 02:26 PM
71people showed up! It was a fab night!I walked in and thought 'where have all these people come from?!' Great to see so many there!

Was also expecting us to be low on men there being a NI match on, but they'd set their videos and come out dancing!

Wuzzle
18th-October-2007, 02:40 PM
Yeah last night was great fun. Continuous pretzeling learnt.... again for hmm fourith or fifth time. :whistle: :respect: for some reason tat move never sticks in the brain that long.

Still I had a great time..... topped the evening off with a yumyum :D

Beowulf
19th-October-2007, 11:51 AM
erm... in a word NO

I went back dancing last night after an extended absence. Having just got over a cold as well my sinuses and therefore my balance were all to pot. And being in a different venue with very few people I knew didn't help either.

Had a couple of freestyles after the beginners class.. they didn't go down well at all. I was so rusty.. Was staggering all over the place when I turned.

When I entered the intermediates class (that was a mistake in hindsight) I just couldn't get my body to move at the correct speed without falling over. A couple of "snappy" moves I just couldn't master and I sat down.. felt miserable and sorry for myself then walked home (Thankfully I stay round the corner) .. I was home by 8:45 !!

No, not quite ready to be back dancing yet it seems.. which is a pain as I was looking forward to it too :(

Gadget
19th-October-2007, 01:05 PM
[caramel rabbit]Hey, take it easy...[/caramel rabbit]

I think that you are expecting to dive in and be exactly how you think you were when you exited - Build up slowly again; do the classes at the side with a willing victim so you can do the moves s l o w l e y... I'll lend you my balance board for practice ;)

Steven666
22nd-October-2007, 01:29 PM
Certainly was for me.

Dancing at my favourite venue with my favourite dancer with smashin' music.

It felt like it couldn't get better.

StokeBloke
22nd-October-2007, 01:43 PM
Yeah last night was great fun. Continuous pretzeling learnt.... again for hmm fourith or fifth time. :whistle: :respect: for some reason that move never sticks in the brain that long.
And this is a bad thing... why? :whistle::whistle::whistle:

Steven666
14th-November-2007, 01:10 AM
Right then. Where to start.

I had decided to try out a different venue tonight. Partly because where I normally go wasn't on and my half barred insident so I decided to go to Bowden.

Hmm...

I don't want to slag any place off if I don't have to but I just can't help it after tonight. I'll try and break this up into headings.

Parking - Ample. But that was (almost) the best thing of the night. And even that was scuppered that it's stupidly long and I unknowingly parked miles away from the enterence. Not good on a cold night.

Price - £7 for a class night? Dear god. I've been to cheaper freestyles and you can get much longer then.

Time - I got there about five to 8. I know many venues start before 8 but it does still annoy me as these venues tend to finish what I class as too early. In this case 10:30. After paying £7 I felt somewhat short changed to have to leave so early.

Room layout - Oh dear. The most odd odd odd odd shaped room and sitting arrangement ever if you can call it a sitting arrangement. If you want a social night out then you can almost give up before you start. Three tiny alcoves nowhere near catering for the people that were present. Three alcoves on three sides of the room which where so narrow it would make any clospaphobic (sp?) person panic and you had to fight though people to get remotely near the dancefloor.

The dancefloor - Personally I found it a bit uneven and inconsistant. Some bits were too slippy and some patches were not slippy enough. Always detracts from my night if I don't like the floor. I tried different shoes on it but then just gave up.

Climate - If I wanted a sauna I would have went to a gym or something. Seriously rediculously boiling. No air con. Few fans not making even the lightest bit of difference and in a position where you couldn't even stand in front of them. Urgghhh.

Dancers - A good range from the beginner to the blaintantly good which I do like. A more pleasing aspect of the night. I just wish my dancing could do Sungi justice but I was of the boil (and not good enough for her anyway but I try). She is just simply fantastic and I do like dancing with her.

Numbers - Far too many. And with that room layout, to me, it is almost a fire risk. You hardly had room to breathe. Step forward then attempt to step back and you can't do it as another couple has invaded it, normally by entering the floor. Fortunately my floorcraft is OK (usually).

The lesson - The teacher (sorry if your on the forum but I don't know who you were or who you are) missed some aspects that I feel are vital in any lesson. Not a problem for me as I got the lesson easily but a fair few didn't. That was the case for both lessons. The beginners lesson (that I only watched as I turned up late) only had three moves. One of which was a comb. I just think there should be four but that is just me. But the comb had this extra beat in the middle of it that beginners were simply not going to pick up which meant that almost everyone were dancing at different times to eachother. Something I have never seen. Well not like that. Then the intermediate lesson. It was a nice routine but please please please at least show the moves before we do them rather than go straight in to them. Together with the fact that it wasn't really split into seperate moves (as they interlinked as such) and were stopping ad starting every two or three beats back to the beginning then adding another couple of beats each time. Yet we never knew the final outcome as we were never shown. It was hardly ever done to a normal count either. You went at a disjointed pace just to revert back to the beginning again to add an extra to beats. I picked it up but wheather everyone did I simply don't know. I few follows said they didn't get it so I had to show them what to do. I just feel we should at least see what we are doing before we do it.

Music - not a good set by the DJ. Supprising I have heard many good sets by him in the past. Practically every song was either really quick or really slow. I don't mind quick and slow tracks but when there was nothing at all in between, it annoyed me. I the choices played just felt uninspiring. I wasn't alone in thinking that as someone I know gave a few choice words about it too.

Overall - Will I go back. Take a guess...

Martin
14th-November-2007, 02:22 AM
So (according to Steven666) Bowden has a cr*p teacher and a cr*p DJ...

Would the DJ or the teacher like to comment?:D

Taliesin's Muse
14th-November-2007, 07:22 AM
erm... in a word NO

I went back dancing last night after an extended absence. Having just got over a cold as well my sinuses and therefore my balance were all to pot. And being in a different venue with very few people I knew didn't help either.

Deepest sympathy. I'm in the same position: sick and off-dancing since March, and only just now maaaaybe well enough to get back to it. My balance is shot, I can't follow for peanuts, I'm exhausted after half a dance or half a beginners' class...I've put on weight what with not dancing all that time...

Slowly is the way to go, huh? :mad:

Leila
14th-November-2007, 03:47 PM
I had a great night last night (Tuesday) in Peterborough.

It has been a bit quiet lately but last night was back up on form again. There was a new DJ - the lovely Mac :respect: - who played a great set. Whilst the music has been good until now I guess a change can be the breath of fresh air a venue needs sometimes. The floor was busy but not so that you could not move and I had some good dances with some familiar and some new faces. Looking forward to next week!

Trish
14th-November-2007, 04:07 PM
I had a great night last night (Tuesday) in Peterborough.

It has been a bit quiet lately but last night was back up on form again. There was a new DJ - the lovely Mac :respect: - who played a great set. Whilst the music has been good until now I guess a change can be the breath of fresh air a venue needs sometimes. The floor was busy but not so that you could not move and I had some good dances with some familiar and some new faces. Looking forward to next week!

Yes, I had an excellent time last night too! It was really good to catch up with some old friends and get some great dances with guys I haven't seen for ages! I love Mac's music, is he a permanent fixture now? It'll be great to have Mac on a Tuesday and Richard on a Thursday. :waycool:, that way I get to dance with Richard if he's not DJing and Mac's said he'll set the music up so we can have a dance with him too - looking forward to it, if I remember rightly he's an excellent dancer!

Lovely to see people enthusiastic for a change, there's been too much misery lately what with all the changes, and so good to have the taxi dancers back.

Miguel
4th-December-2007, 08:33 AM
Yes it was. Went to Twickenham (http://www.ceroclondon.com/twickenham.htm) after an absence of several months and must say the evening really did tick all my boxes. It's a lovely venue, Val's intermediate class was excellent, great music from David and such nice people. This is what social dancing is all about.
Hasta la vista, baby. :flower:

Caz
4th-December-2007, 09:09 AM
Went to Marcus Garvey last night and had a fun night... Music was a bit up and down and I noticed that a lot of people left early on (it was a different DJ apparently) although I have to say that myself and Jiveaddicted had fun during the beginners class (as the DJ played cheezy stuff) sat out making up a new yo-yo and basket etc...:rofl:Nearly made Jamie and Alex laugh on stage :whistle:

It was fun to be the "new girl" there and I got loads of dances with lots of people I haven't danced with before. :D Even got to dance with DavidY and a few other familiar faces who I don't see that often (don't think they are forumites tho). So in a nutshell, even tho a few people said it wasn't up to the usual standard I enjoyed myself :D:D

Mini Mac
4th-December-2007, 10:07 AM
I had a great night last night (Tuesday) in Peterborough.

It has been a bit quiet lately but last night was back up on form again. There was a new DJ - the lovely Mac]well done dad im so proud of you! Your making a fine dj!:respect:

Mac
4th-December-2007, 11:57 AM
I had a great night last night (Tuesday) in Peterborough.

It has been a bit quiet lately but last night was back up on form again. There was a new DJ - the lovely Mac :respect: - who played a great set.
....................
The floor was busy but not so that you could not move and I had some good dances with some familiar and some new faces. Looking forward to next week!
Aw Shucks Im blushing Thanks so much for your lovely compliments :flower:


Yes, I had an excellent time last night too! It was really good to catch up with some old friends and get some great dances with guys I haven't seen for ages! I love Mac's music, is he a permanent fixture now? It'll be great to have Mac on a Tuesday and Richard on a Thursday. :waycool:, that way I get to dance with Richard if he's not DJing and Mac's said he'll set the music up so we can have a dance with him too - looking forward to it, if I remember rightly he's an excellent dancer!

Aw double Shucks Ditto above. I think I am a permenant fixture now!:flower:

Lovely to see people enthusiastic for a change, there's been too much misery lately what with all the changes, and so good to have the taxi dancers back.

My Third week at this venue and The floor rocked with some really good dancing . It was apleasure to witness. loking forwad to Next week too



I had a great night last night (Tuesday) in Peterborough.

It has been a bit quiet lately but last night was back up on form again. There was a new DJ - the lovely Mac]

well done dad im so proud of you! Your making a fine dj!:respect:
AWWWWWWWWW Thats My Girl!:hug:

demonic_chick
4th-December-2007, 01:32 PM
I'll tell you tomorrow :wink:

If anyone's at stafford tonight, look me up i'm well on form today :waycool:

xx

Double Trouble
22nd-December-2007, 01:04 PM
I went to Cheshunt last night.:clap:

I know I moan about the place, but last night was surprisingly bearable. I dunno if they've sacked the usual DJ or if the usual one has finally got in to the groove, but the music was really good. I had quite a few "I love this one" moments and danced loads all night.

I even had a few 'wow' dances...! I know...how'd have thought it in Cheshunt.

Jive Lad you looked very dashing in your spangly jacket and mask. Thanks for the lovely dance.

As far as I know there were no other forumites there...sorry folks, but I always seem to have a better night when you lot ain't there.:rofl:

robd
22nd-December-2007, 02:04 PM
As far as I know there were no other forumites there...sorry folks, but I always seem to have a better night when you lot ain't there.:rofl:

:clap:

The feeling's entirely mutual :flower:

Happy Christmas!

JiveLad
22nd-December-2007, 02:28 PM
I went to Cheshunt last night.:clap:

I know I moan about the place, but last night was surprisingly bearable. I dunno if they've sacked the usual DJ or if the usual one has finally got in to the groove, but the music was really good. I had quite a few "I love this one" moments and danced loads all night.

I even had a few 'wow' dances...! I know...how'd have thought it in Cheshunt.

Jive Lad you looked very dashing in your spangly jacket and mask. Thanks for the lovely dance.

As far as I know there were no other forumites there...sorry folks, but I always seem to have a better night when you lot ain't there.:rofl:

Thx Sam :flower: ......would have liked to have danced more......next time.

------

Friday December 21st - Cheshunt (Masked Party Night)

Entertaining evening - busy without being 'bumper-to-bumber' on the dance floor.

A friendly crowd as usual. And nice to see Gav and Double Trouble there, as well as HunnyBunnyFunny - maybe other forumites.....(?).

Wearing masks is - ok - except it does impact your peripheral vision a bit - and it does get a bit hot as well. Mine came off after an hour or so......

Music - generally ok. Nothing special.

Food: cheesey balls, assorted cakes, cream crackers.

And a big thank you to J who hitched her skirt up to enable a particular move to be performed.

Double Trouble
22nd-December-2007, 03:10 PM
:clap:

The feeling's entirely mutual :flower:

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas to you too Rob :hug: I look forward to neg repping you regularly in 2008.:na:

Oh...I forgot to mention about Cheshunt. The Aerial Numpties were there and they didn't do a single aerial all night :clap: Has someone told them off or have they just got bored with washing the blood out of their dance shoes from decapitating pensioners?:confused:

Genevieve
22nd-December-2007, 05:19 PM
Happy Christmas to you too Rob :hug: I look forward to neg repping you regularly in 2008.:na:

Oh...I forgot to mention about Cheshunt. The Aerial Numpties were there and they didn't do a single aerial all night :clap: Has someone told them off or have they just got bored with washing the blood out of their dance shoes from decapitating pensioners?:confused:

lol, they probably read the forum :waycool:

I went to Halesowen last night and had a fantastic time. I really ought to stop grinning inanely at every poor soul that takes me on :sick:

Trouble
23rd-December-2007, 06:02 PM
Trouble and I went to Berkhamstead last night (Sasturday).

The lady on reception was very friendly, lots of excellent dancers and a good night was had by all.

I recommend this venue to all and sundry.

XXX XX DTS Dave

Sh1t logged on as Trouble again

Mini Mac
24th-December-2007, 04:58 PM
Trouble and I went to Berkhamstead last night (Sasturday).

The lady on reception was very friendly, lots of excellent dancers and a good night was had by all.

I recommend this venue to all and sundry.

XXX XX DTS Dave

Sh1t logged on as Trouble again

glad u had a gd night hope to see you there in the future:hug:

everyone at berko is friendly including the bar staff!:cheers:

drinks are reasonable priced:D

musics always great:waycool:

marc and rachel and young joe are all very good teachers xxxxxx

Twirlie Bird
12th-January-2008, 05:10 AM
Just got back From the Ceroc gig at Rugby and wow what a night. I am still on a complete buzz even after a 90 minute drive home so I thought I would come on here and share it. :D

The music was superb. Lovely mixture and not one duff track all night. Marc played the gorgeous super slow track at the end of the night that I adore but only ever get to hear it at one of Marc's nights. Rachel took a turn on the decks and she was brilliant. Not only is she absolutely stunning, a superb dancer the girl can DJ too. :respect:

It was Jak Paul's birthday too so I wanted to make tonight extra special for him. We gave him a pirate party complete with cake and some special people made the trip to share his night with him. Thank you guys. :awe: Marc serenaded him in Buble style but fortunately left the birthday kiss to Rachel.

Great numbers too. This was the only thing I was a little concerned about tonight but no need. Lot's of great dancers and it was fantastic being able to enjoy watching the westies again. Met some new people including a lovely forumite. :waycool: The night was full of great dances, in particular thanks to Lost Leader and Blind Dynamo.

So, Rugby freestyle's are great. I will definitely be making the journey again. The next one's on the 22nd February. See you there? :wink:

Easily Led
12th-January-2008, 11:42 AM
Wow, how do you do it Twirly Bird - we had to retire exhausted about 12.15 and then collapsed into bed! However, I have to agree that it was a great night. I have never had so many dances in one evening. There were also some amazing dancers there - although I have to say that you and Stokie certainly added some stardust to the proceedings - we were thrilled to see you arrive and so early as well :respect:. Well done to Marc and Rachel for the lighting, great music etc. Already looking forward to the next one!

Minnie M
12th-January-2008, 01:16 PM
UTOPIA

Even though I was working, I still had TWO whole hours of blissful dancing :drool:

The only thing missing was Silver Fox (get better soon) but Zebra Woman did you proud :respect:

Lost Leader
12th-January-2008, 03:00 PM
Just got back From the Ceroc gig at Rugby and wow what a night. I am still on a complete buzz........

:yeah: Absolutely fabulous night at Rugby. This was the best free-styling I've had for months. Every time I had a great dance and thought "that's gotta be the best dance of the night" I had another one that was just as good. Huge thank-you to all my fabulous partners and to Marc and Rachel for master minding proceedings :respect:. Completely exhausted, but cannot wait for the next one. These Rugby events look like essential dates in the dance calendar from now on :clap::clap:

LYD
12th-January-2008, 03:22 PM
Had a great time in Rugby last night... lots of faces i recognised plus a few new ones to add to the list of dancers to go hunt for... (yes, that's you Twirlie :D)...

Marc and Rach as usual, pulled of an awesome night with great music and a great fun and relaxed atmosphere... Had so many good dances i've lost count.

Bring on Southport!!! :cheers:

fletch
12th-January-2008, 05:01 PM
UTOPIA

Even though I was working, I still had TWO whole hours of blissful dancing

The only thing missing was Silver Fox (get better soon) but Zebra Woman did you proud

:yeah:

I danced all night, think I only missed about 4 tracks


ZW set was just fab and so unexpected, go Ali

I had the most amazing dance with DavidB funky, fun, and fab.

I sat and watched Lilly and David while I was waited for my next dance, and they looked fab, funking away.

Think I have found a new friend, Warren from Brighton, what a man, aparently he was at uni in Brum, it seems out paths may have cross in the past although we didn't know it, Not at Uni :blush: (more like the back of the Uni in Aston) :D

And he has offered to teach me WCS if I teach him Northern Soul, I might step up after all :na:

Robd ...did we, did we, ? we did didn't we. Fab new slant on the Saturday night feaver move, I think Gerry needs leasons, can you just show him at your next WCS night :wink:Tar


Johnymann, I was looking for you, then you disserpeared altogether :tears: you don't get away that easily, i'm stalking you for Friday.

Ben nice to see you so relaxed.

Frank, WOW yes FRANK and TiggerBabe turned up, I had a loverly dance with him as allways.

Sparkels, you looked loverly, and Fab cake.


Gerry you were a bit neglected but I will make it up tonight i'm sure, we are in the Midlands.

Twirlie Bird
12th-January-2008, 06:57 PM
Just a few pics of Jak Pauls birthday to share with you.

Twirlie Bird
12th-January-2008, 07:03 PM
Just a few pics of Jak Pauls birthday to share with you.

Lost Leader
12th-January-2008, 08:09 PM
great pics.

sidney
15th-January-2008, 12:38 PM
A bit late but I have been busy, so not been near a pc. I went to Rugby on fri gone , and also was a bit concern if it was going to be a poor turn out, as I did hear quite a few of the regs were going to the other plus a friend of mine was doing the both of them. When we got there we were greeted by Kurt who was his most lovely self, the room look nice and inviting. It was not packed but just enough for you to dance without knocking each other. The music all night was fab, and my friend came later and said this one was the better one and it was great to see Graeme Fox again and his partner and had a couple of dances with them both. So yes I will be at the next one but for me it won't be as good as this one because more will come next time, so won't be able to do many flashy moves.

Steven666
23rd-January-2008, 02:09 AM
Was it amazing? It was certainly fun filled.

On a whim of mixed signals I was seemingly invited back to Nantwich so I turn up only to be turned away at the door.

Yet now I have been given a more clear reason for be barred as it were. Simply it was stated that if I stayed in the room then the DJ would have simply walked out mid set if needed be. So I must say, that's a loyal member of staff working there keen to furfil his duties. And who is running the place as it seems the DJ (via blackmail as it were) has more power, in this case over banning, than the franchisee.

Anyways, I got a car full of Nantwich customers (albeit just one as things turned out) and headed to Stafford.

Having insured myself against the super fast floor with a little dampening water (no excess, I made sure), I had a good night!

Got a bit snookered on the way back when J14 on the M6 was closed Northbound but I found my way eventually.

All in all, eventful, but still certainly worth the night out.

(edit - what a bleeding long post via wii remote)

Martin
23rd-January-2008, 10:01 AM
On a whim of mixed signals I was seemingly invited back to Nantwich so I turn up only to be turned away at the door.



It seems rather worrying that you have got banned from a forum, got banned from a venue... What next?

As you are not a teacher ( and teachers sometimes get banned, due to policy in other venues) it makes me wonder what it is you do to get this result?

Maybe time to gloss over, or time to get real and change?? :hug:

Steven666
23rd-January-2008, 10:06 AM
It seems rather worrying that you have got banned from a forum, got banned from a venue... What next?

As you are not a teacher ( and teachers sometimes get banned, due to policy in other venues) it makes me wonder what it is you do to get this result?

Maybe time to gloss over, or time to get real and change?? :hug:

I've got a damn sight more people on my side. But the franchisee is effectively being blackmailed. He's been given an ultimation. He had no choice and so isn't really his decision.

Oh and a quote from that forum from a member:



Shame about the permapermaban.
He didn't do all that much wrong, he just had the whole of Off Topic in the palm of his hand.

dave the scaffolder
26th-January-2008, 11:14 AM
Went to Ceroc Central last night to the Addison Center.
There was a lovely fun lesson by Mikala Waller and straight into freestyle.

Must say did not have a bad dance all night long.

met a couple of forumites for the 1st time ie Lost Leader and Easily Lead, both good dancers.

All in all a very good night was had by all.

DTS Dave XXX XXX

Batgirl
26th-January-2008, 12:59 PM
Also went to the Addison centre last night - great night!

Danced with DTS - I've never been led by the back of my belt before!:nice:

Really fun night.

dave the scaffolder
26th-January-2008, 01:18 PM
Also went to the Addison centre last night - great night!

Danced with DTS - I've never been led by the back of my belt before!:nice:

Really fun night.

Oh I remember you !!!!!

Superb dancer, cheeky, imaginative and very playful.

One of the best there IMHO.

DTS Dave XXX XXX:respect:

bigdjiver
26th-January-2008, 06:11 PM
Went to Ceroc Central last night to the Addison Center.
There was a lovely fun lesson by Mikala Waller and straight into freestyle.

Must say did not have a bad dance all night long.

met a couple of forumites for the 1st time ie Lost Leader and Easily Lead, both good dancers.

All in all a very good night was had by all.

DTS Dave XXX XXX :yeah: I wish CC would run this every week. I had a super time. I got too hot - which was my fault for not opening the back door wider.

The tea and cakes on sale experiment failed :sad:

:devil:Ahem ... Michaela ... :respect:
(She has given in to the universe not getting it right and settles for "Mick")

dave the scaffolder
26th-January-2008, 07:30 PM
I noticed the tea and cakes and thought to myself, aye aye I am going to have a nice cup of tea in a minute, and then it was these are the last 2 tracks and I thought sh1t wheres the night gone.

Sorry for getting your name wrong Mick. One more thing if Russ has a word with you, you know youve been spoken too, bit of a gentle giant is Russ.

DTS Dave XXX XXX

StokeBloke
27th-January-2008, 06:35 PM
Last night Twirie Bird and me traveled with Maja down to Chiswick for the Swing the Blues event. We only went for the freestyle in the evening, but my expectations and excitement were not misplaced! Three rooms... so something for everyone.

My night really was about the UTOPIA room, although I did drift through all the rooms through the evening. Marc's opening set was delicious! The next two slots were filled by Rocky. Who played an equally sublime and very varied set!

I lost count of the great dances I enjoyed last night, but special mentions for Twirlie, Maya, Smiley Sue (umm... :swoon:), Rachel, Emma (the WCS dancer... I think that's her name) and her equally delightful friend she arrived with, Zebra Woman (I just adore the way you dance), HelenB (WoW!! What a cool dance that was!!), Icey (I hope your ankle is OK today petal) and of course Val :awe::worthy:

The drawbacks were that the radiators were all on! I was also surprised to turn up for the 8pm start only to find out that even though there had been workshops all day there was going to be a 45 minute lesson!! So no dancing until 8:45!! :eek: It was also rammed in the UTOPIA room early on, but it thinned out a little towards the end and... 12:30 finish sucks... roll on all night blues room at Southport THIS FRIDAY!!! :clap:

Overall an excellent night of varied music, moods and a fab atmosphere. Well done guys - respect :flower:

Caz
28th-January-2008, 10:18 PM
Yeah so I know it wasn't last night but I just wanted to say that Drathzel's 2 year anniversary do was brilliant. All credit to Dee for all her hard work. The venue looked amazing. Sheena - fab music. Franck - for being Franck. Thanx to all the lovely people I met and danced with all night. Would post more but I am really tired. Had a great weekend in N.Ireland and would def recommend a visit over there to anyone, I for one will definitely be paying another visit.

Great weekend guys :hug:

As much as I am pleased to be home in Doncaster, it is kinda depressing as well....

Easily Led
17th-February-2008, 11:01 AM
Last night I went to Sara White's "Hearts and Flowers" at Oakham. The journey both there and back was really weird - it felt like the middle of nowhere and took nearly an hour and a half. Who knew there were so many hills around there? Anyway, it proved to be worth it because Sara is such a great teacher and wonderful hostess. The opening class was genuinely fun and she even provided nibbles! I was impressed by the general standard of dancing which, inspired by her, seems to really emphasize musicality. I didn't have a bad dance or a refusal all night! Also thanks to tsh:flower: (I think) who asked me for a lovely dance early on and boosted my confidence in an unfamiliar environment. However, the stand out dance for me was with a young man with long hair who I bumped into on the dance floor. It was to Duffy's "Mercy" which I love! It was fabulous - fantastic and left me on a high that nothing else could quite match:worthy:! It was later revealed that this was none other than Captain Fantastic! (Is that how he got his name!!) I would like to have danced with him again but after seeing what he did with Rebecca in a Tango I was too scared :eek:!

Thanks to everyone else I danced with too - whoever you were (especially Mr Free Hugs who I danced with twice):nice:

Lost Leader
17th-February-2008, 12:00 PM
First time at Oakham and first time at a Sara White event. The venue is rather nice and thankfully on arrival it was warm (this was the coldest night of the year). Free water from the bar in proper glasses is never a bad thing. One word of warning though, whilst the floor is lovely and smooth, it is also very fast.

It took me quite a while to get used to the speed of the floor. I didn't know most of the dancers and the standard of dancing with pretty high. Sara W. puts a lot of emphasis on musicality, especially hitting breaks. It's a little different from the more flowing style taught by Marc and Rachel and the music played to some extent reflected this.

I had a bit of an uneven night, but that was mainly down to the fact that it was just one of those nights where you personally don't quite get into the zone. That said, it was by no means a bad night. I had a number of good dances, including new to me forumites Eeyore and Sidney and another lady whose forum name I forget. Forum legends Captain Fantastic and Rebecca (gorgeous outfit btw) also turned up and embarrassingly I managed to dance with Rebecca without recognising her initially, though the penny dropped eventually. Sara W. also grabbed me for a dance just as we were about to leave but by that time I was pretty tired and didn't really do justice to her foxy :devil: style.

So Oakham is good, and could have been even better had I managed to be on better form on the night.

sidney
18th-February-2008, 11:01 AM
I and my friends went to Oakham on sat and when we got there we were welcomed warmly by the guy on the door, the venue was done up with red tablecovers on the tables and sweets also the lighting was just right plus the fruit and cakes at midnight was a nice touch which showed Sara had put a lot of effort into the evening. I like the floor as I could really do my spins unlike some floors I have tried. I had a nice dance with Lost Leader who introduced himself to me and my friend Jive Cat plus I had a couple of fab dances with Captain Fantastic whose wife had a beautiful outfit on, loved it. The music on the whole was good apart from when rock music was played which gave me a chance to sit out as I can't stand that kind of music, everyone to they own. We all agreed it was a fun night and we would deff go again to another evening.

Northants Girly
18th-February-2008, 04:34 PM
Last Friday I went to Red Hot and Blue in Edinburgh and had a really fabby night.

Everyone was very friendly and I had some cracking dances. Was good to see some old forum friends I'd not seen for ages and got to meet some new ones too. Hopefully will be back again :grin:

Whitebeard
21st-February-2008, 04:24 AM
Well, for me, it came alive tonight. Probably the best class night I've experienced.

It was a combination of some great music in the latter half of the evening, (Solomon Burke was in there somewhere) together with some lovely sensual and playfull fingertipping ladies. There were a couple of tacked on bonus tracks for those who had done the recent WCS classes. Despite WCS being far too footworkey complicated for me, I had no trouble slow MJing with two delightful ladies.

Whitebeard
22nd-February-2008, 01:58 AM
hhhhhhhh

JiveLad
23rd-February-2008, 10:49 AM
Ceroc Cheshunt Friday 22nd Feb.

Now that was one of the best nights in ages.......great atmosphere and vibe all the way through - underpinned by one of Robin's best ever sets.

That was the most people I have ever experienced at Cheshunt - so slight downside is the bruises as it was mega-packed at times.

A few forumites were there: JayJay, Maxine, SunnyBunny and great dances with all.

It got v. hot early on - and on request the doors at the side were opened, as they do in the summer. Maybe this could be done earlier.

Overall - thoroughly enjoyable and FUN!

:clap: .....

Thx to all involved - crew and dancers, I appreciate it.

Isis
25th-February-2008, 11:09 AM
Well, the last ever party at Marco's in Edinburgh was fantastic. :clap:

I loved the music, the atmosphere was great, loads of lovely dances (only wish I was feeling better and could have danced more).

Was glad to 'officially' meet Killingtime & Louisa and get a chance to chat to ShinyWeeStar and Ducasi's friend Lindsay (don't know if she's on the forum).

Thanks to Ducasi for some lovely dances and for being good company on the journey there and back. :flower:

Jay Jay
25th-February-2008, 03:36 PM
Ceroc Cheshunt Friday 22nd Feb.
Now that was one of the best nights in ages.......great atmosphere and vibe all the way through

..........have to agree with you it was one of the best nights at Cheshunt that I can remember.....it did get a bit too crowded at times...but great when coffee and cakes were served which left lots of room to dance!....oh and thanks for the dances always fun!

Gav
29th-February-2008, 01:00 AM
Surprisingly, yes it was.
Having not long since moved, I decided to try somewhere new and I picked Muswell Hill Ceroc.
I didn't know if I'd recognise anyone, so I was pleasantly surprised to see ESG on stage and Tessalicious behind the decks!
Alec certainly makes a great teacher (he wouldn't sound out of place as a radio DJ) and the music was great.
Although I'm sure that the franchisee would rather pack more people in, I thought the amount of people was just right. Enough for a good atmosphere, but plenty of room to dance and there were quite a few really good followers there too.
A friendly crowd and a good crew made for a great night thanks. :respect:


I'll have to try ESG's cake next time though.

Jay Jay
2nd-March-2008, 11:58 AM
........it so definitely was.

Having never been to Chiswick before..and going with a mixed bag of opinions I did have a fabulous time. The blues room had a fabulous atmosphere. Marc and Rachel were on top form the music was excellent and had lots of wonderful, wonderful dances.

Don't know if there were any other 'forumites' there (still don't know names to faces-but getting there!) but I do know Mr Darcy and thank you for the lovely dances :nice:,

Steven666
2nd-March-2008, 12:43 PM
Answer to thread question...

Hell yes it was!

Cruella
2nd-March-2008, 01:20 PM
Yep, I had a fantastic night WCSing at a private party. Renewing my enthusiasm to dance after another disappointing night of MJ on Friday.

robd
2nd-March-2008, 02:04 PM
WCSing at a private party.

And you wonder why people think you're a hotshot....:rolleyes:

Lost Leader
2nd-March-2008, 06:50 PM
And you wonder why people think you're a hotshot....:rolleyes:

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Trouble
3rd-March-2008, 02:32 PM
Berkhampstead.

ooh DTS and I ventured to Chesham friday night and Berko last night.

Chesham has its little blues room which was DJ'd by Tiger very nicely. Not many heads in there so plenty of room to play around and overall a surprisingly really nice evening and unexpectedly so. Blues room floor was fantastic to dance on and Tiger did a lovely set with a mix of everything.

Berkhampstead was - in the blues room absolutely fantastic. Marc and Racheal did a brilliant job with the music and there were such fab dances in there that the night just flew past.

Tiger was in the fast room and it was not as packed as usual BUT, people in berko seem to have absolutely NO idea about floorcraft. It was actually dangerous. I had my foot trodden on at least twice and a clout around the ear. People were doing drops even though Tiger requested that they didn't and i got the overall impression that people just dont care about other people. If you were bumped into or knocked, nobody apologised it was awful.

I would only ever go to Berko for the lovely little blues dancing and if Marc and Racheal are doing it then every opportunity i get i shall be there. :awe: :awe:

Lory hogged a lovely chap called Rob who i managed to get one dance out off..... didn't manage to get him again... Ms Lory was exceedingly greedy there......However, the wonderful and talented Marc gave me 5 wonderful dances, they were out of this world, Mr Darcy as usual you make my evening complete and DTS.... stop singing. LOL xxxxxx

Maxine
3rd-March-2008, 02:37 PM
Saturday night at Chiswick was absolutely brilliant; all my group had a great eve. Floor in blues room superb as was Marc and Rachael’s music. Had some really fab dances and thanks to all the guys I danced with, especially to the mad guy who not only lifted me up once but 4 times – Hope his back is ok:nice:

Also really great night at Berko great music again from Mark and Rachael:waycool:

What a weekend did not make it out of the blues room all weekend:nice:

Lory
3rd-March-2008, 03:05 PM
B
Lory hogged a lovely chap called Rob who i managed to get one dance out off..... didn't manage to get him again... Ms Lory was exceedingly greedy there......

Oops sowwy :blush: I couldn't help myself though :yum::wink:

(to be fair, he is my mate and we'd pre-arranged to meet up there for a boogie together)

Trouble
3rd-March-2008, 03:11 PM
Oops sowwy :blush: I couldn't help myself though :yum::wink:

(to be fair, he is my mate and we'd pre-arranged to meet up there for a boogie together)

I could see you was sorry.... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

LOL - only kidding hun xxx

JiveLad
6th-March-2008, 06:32 PM
Wednesday March 5th: Ashtons

Hadn't been to Ashtons for some while - and... what a very pleasant surprise........fantastic music: who was the DJ? It was a guy. (I vaguely recall some announcement about having 'guest' DJs....).

Of course song of the moment: 'Mercy' by Duffy was great fun. The guitar 'twang' which occurs after about 2:30 is a gorgeous moment.....:yum:

Numerous very good dancers and just the right amount of people for the floor. Forumites: dunno who was there except Mel & Tonic, looking funky.

And (for London (ahem)) the 'vibe' was better than usual........

Astro
6th-March-2008, 06:42 PM
Wednesday March 5th: Ashtons

Hadn't been to Ashtons for some while - and... what a very pleasant surprise........fantastic music: who was the DJ? It was a guy. (I vaguely recall some announcement about having 'guest' DJs....).

That's Erick. :clap:


Numerous very good dancers and just the right amount of people for the floor. Forumites: dunno who was there except Mel & Tonic, looking funky.


I was there, but had to leave before the intermediate class finished. It was a good class too.:tears:

I had a pain when I went in - thought the excercise would help, but it just made it worse. I'm such a fool. :sad: £7 down the drain too.

StokeBloke
9th-March-2008, 03:44 PM
Last night was awesome. We went to Nikki and Dave's engagement party in Burton-on-Trent. I was stunned at what they had done to the venue. We have only ever been there for Ceroc nights in the distant past - and it always had that chilly church hall sort of empty feel to the place. Last night's party there was stunning - the venue was beyond recognition. It never ceases to amaze me the way a venue can be made to shine with a few simple well thought out touches, the right lighting... and of course packing it to the rafters with great dancers is always going to be an added bonus.

There were dancers there last night from far and wide. It was great spending some time dancing and chatting with the girls who had traveled up from Telford :hug: Hopefully I will get to dance with you both lots more now we know where you're hiding. I had some lovely dances with Patricia who also provided a perfect mixture of accessible music. Oh and fab dances with Fruity Oranges... scream if you want to go faster babe :rofl:I was also delighted to dance with Nikki again. Our dances just seem to get better and better.

The girls are running a Spring Ball on the 5th of April, I know they are almost sold out already!! But if you're free that night, and you want to have a taste of what IS possible at that venue.... give Want2Dance a call, just make sure you find me for a dance :wink:

It was wonderful to be part of such a special night. Good luck for the future Nikki and Dave, judging from last night you don't need any luck though :D

Fruity Oranges
9th-March-2008, 08:52 PM
I have to agree - it was one of my best nights this year! The atmosphere was brilliant and the dances I had were just fantastic :clap:

I had brilliant dances all night - enjoyed all of them and it was great to meet up with old friends and make new ones too - although the ladies all seem to know Mr Fruity Oranges :whistle:


Oh and fab dances with Fruity Oranges... scream if you want to go faster babe :rofl:

I'm screaming!!!!! When you have a dance with StokeBloke you don't need to visit Alton Towers I was all turned around and holding on breathless - LOVED IT!! :rofl: And I would like let the ladies know that if you are at all worried about the security :wink: of a top you're wearing - StokeBloke offers a unique service of checking they don't budge! :rofl: I was worried about my top being a bit low, but after my screaming dance with him I knew it wasn't going anywhere.

Last night was a very special night, the venue, the fantastic music but most importantly the wonderful couple that we were celebrating with. Nikki and Dave are truly lovely people who deserve good things (- and I think they'll get them.)

gebandemuishond
10th-March-2008, 01:15 AM
I've just had a fantastic day's dancing in Oxford. My first (and hopefully not lat) Jango workshop, which really made me want to dance more tango. Really top-notch teaching, can't recommend it enough. Also had my first dance with an experienced tango follower (Amir's demo, I think her name was Anya...), which didn't go to pot! Great music, including some awesome French tangoy songs which I can't remember any lyrics to but would love to hear them again someday.

Dan

sidney
10th-March-2008, 10:32 AM
On saturday a big group of us went to Dave's and Nickie's engagement from Leics and it is not the best of routes to get to from where we live but it was worth it, the venue look fantastic and what a crowd it was buzzing. I did more socalising then dancing as so many old faces to catch up with and the music was pleasing something for everyone and the night went so quickly such a shame it could not have gone on longer.:nice:

Easily Led
14th-March-2008, 02:14 PM
Last night I went to the normal class at Rugby which I was not especially looking forward to as my last few classes had been disappointing for various reasons (mainly gender balance). A shortish distance away from the venue I noticed Rachel in conversation with an RAC man and it transpired that Marc and R's car had broken down as they arrived near the venue. With help from David Y they managed to set up and run the evening as usual which was in itself pretty amazing! I hope they manage to sort it out for the rest of their engagements this weekend. They certain did have to go the extra mile last night and all credit to their dedication:respect:!

I was glad that they did as it was the best class night at Rugby for me for ages (almost as good as a freestyle). This was mainly due to a good gender balance which is rare but not unknown at Rugby. Marc seems to me to be particularly good at encouraging beginner men - and of course they have the lovely Rachel to dance with! I would like to thank all the men who made me feel so good last night by asking me to dance, not criticizing at all and even seeming reasonably happy with the experience! I even got one compliment on my wiggle! I am also increasingly liking prolonged eye contact - it does make it feel more special:nice:!

Steven666
14th-March-2008, 02:22 PM
I am also increasingly liking prolonged eye contact - it does make it feel more special:nice:!

Tends to freak me out! :eek:

Easily Led
15th-March-2008, 01:39 PM
Tends to freak me out! :eek:

It takes two to make eye contact so if you don't want it you look away :wink:!

Kel_Warminster
15th-March-2008, 03:01 PM
Hate to say it, but after such high expectations I did not enjoy London Utopia last night :(. Some good dances (thanks Miguel and Mr Underpar you were some of them :)), but also a lot of "bad" ones, where I was being told how to dance by the leaders, and this caused a massive lack of confidence...I tensed up...I couldn't follow leads...the dreaded vicious circle.

Funny, I really enjoyed the class at 8 by Val, my first few dances were great, but the night got steadily worse afterwards.

Is it worth giving London Utopia another go, after two bad nights there?

:(

Jay Jay
15th-March-2008, 05:30 PM
Hate to say it, but after such high expectations I did not enjoy London Utopia last night :(.

It's really funny sometimes, how different people can be at the same place, at the same time and have two such varied evenings. I had a fabulous time at Utopia last night, infact one of the best nights I have had there.

Maybe it's having spent so many hours in the blues room at Camber last week or just getting to know so many new faces but a big thank you for all the dances danced :flower:.

Kel, don't write it off your list completely and give it another go.

Kel_Warminster
15th-March-2008, 05:38 PM
It's really funny sometimes, how different people can be at the same place, at the same time and have two such varied evenings. I had a fabulous time at Utopia last night, infact one of the best nights I have had there.

Maybe it's having spent so many hours in the blues room at Camber last week or just getting to know so many new faces but a big thank you for all the dances danced :flower:.

Kel, don't write it off your list completely and give it another go.

Thanks for the confidence Jay Jay. I too had a whale of a time in the blues room at Camber (reached a new "zen" in my dancing at approx 3 AM early Sun morning!!). I found the atmosphere at Utopia London quite terrifying for a relatively new blues dancer like me, but I have been to Utopia Derby three times now, and have always got great vibes up north.

Am I dancing with the wrong people? Or just needing more confidence? ARGH!!!!! :sick:

Jay Jay
15th-March-2008, 05:48 PM
I too had a whale of a time in the blues room at Camber (reached a new "zen" in my dancing at approx 3 AM early Sun morning!!). I found the atmosphere at Utopia London quite terrifying for a relatively new blues dancer like me, but I have been to Utopia Derby three times now, and have always got great vibes up north.

Am I dancing with the wrong people? Or just needing more confidence? ARGH!!!!! :sick:

All I can say Kel is that if you have reached that 'zen' before - you can get there again. Utopia shouldn't be a terrifying experience, go and have fun. if anyone makes you feel inferior and zaps your confidence, yes they are the wrong people to dance with! :flower: .

Chef
17th-March-2008, 03:06 PM
I had a fab time last night - Dancing WCS! Not that my dancing was great just that I managed to relax and enjoy it instead of having that feeling of being totally confused when freestyling.

I went to the sunday evening freestyle at Petts Wood in Kent, which is the same venue as Paul Wardens' Beginners and improvers courses will be held in shortly. It is in the function room of a pub which has temporary flooring laid in it. There were more men than women about (situation normal). There were a few people who had done only a few classes either at weekenders or workshops and some people who were very experienced. Some had travelled a long distance to get there but everyone was getting up and having a go.

I really liked the music and there didn't seem to me to be one duff track the whole evening.

Definately going to make this as regular an event as I can and hope more men come along to even the gender balance up a bit more. The evening ran from 7pm until 10pm so I (and others who travelled far) could get home in reasonable time for work on Monday morning.

No that I have a regular WCS night within range of me I will hope to use it instead of lose it.

Lory
17th-March-2008, 03:44 PM
No that I have a regular WCS night within range of me I will hope to use it instead of lose it.

I thought it was a one off? Who's the teacher?

Chef
17th-March-2008, 03:58 PM
I thought it was a one off? Who's the teacher?

It was actually the second night (but the first with wider advertising). I understand that they are not running for the next two sundays but will be back on the 6th of April and then will be running every sunday from the 20th April.

There is no teacher, it is just a freestyle night. For those people going to the courses that Paul Warden is teaching (at the same venue on a thrusday evening) it provides valuable freestyle time to put into practice what they have learnt and for more experienced dancers to have a place to go (notice how most of the WCS scene is on the south west side of London). If it thrives and survives with vigour then it will demonstrate to the teachers that there is a market there for thier services.

Spiky Steve
17th-March-2008, 04:01 PM
I thought it was a one off? Who's the teacher?

I haven't been but I understand there is no teacher.

Moondancer
17th-March-2008, 04:49 PM
I really enjoyed the Gods of Thunder freestyle on Saturday night. Saw some very good dancing going on – nice to see what I’m aiming for, and I might even get to that stage in about twenty years’ time…or not…

I was so pleased I plucked up the courage to ask some very good men to dance…so thank yous are due for not being unapproachable and not saying no to a beginner to various non-locals including Trampy (I did manage to stop being intimidated by you!), ?Mark from Sheffield, a bloke with a goatee beard, a bloke in a white shirt and T shirt near the end who said he hadn’t been dancing long either (liar or genius???) and some others. The dances were all different (from my point of view) but I enjoyed them all.

I’m sure I learn far more dancing with good men, even if I don’t always get it…and even if it is scary. And it’s much nicer when your partner engages with you and doesn’t make you feel if they are dancing with you on sufferance, so thanks guys!

Kel_Warminster
17th-March-2008, 05:08 PM
Glad to hear you had a good time Moondancer :)

After friday's fiasco (well, for me anyhoo) at Utopia, I had some of the most enjoyable dancing of my life at the small village hall dance in Tisbury on Sat night that I went to, raising money for charity at the same time. GI Jive was amazing, dancing to a live swing band in 1940's costume with friends from my local Ceroc venues, and with villagers from Tisbury.

Check out the photos - GI Jive - Nadder Hall - March 2008 (http://www.swallowcliffe.com/GI%2DJive/), Chris Stanbury is the photographer and he took some v good shots.

BTW - I'm the one in the green dress :)

dep
17th-March-2008, 05:52 PM
Check out the photos - GI Jive - Nadder Hall - March 2008 (http://www.swallowcliffe.com/GI%2DJive/), Chris Stanbury is the photographer and he took some v good shots. JLG didn't tell me his blow up doll had been allowed out for the night Pic 3888.:wink:

Kel_Warminster
17th-March-2008, 05:56 PM
:grin:LOL dep - she was very much in demand that night :grin:

Freya
19th-March-2008, 09:10 AM
Just wanted to leave a quick note to say I had a fantastic time at Chester on Monday night.

Got there for the intermediate class which was a nice quick and easy 3 move class then into freestyle.

I didn't get off the floor all night. Everyone was really friendly asking me to dance and I had lovely dances with everyone. It's refreshing not to be the one doing all the asking. Next time I'm visiting I'll definately be going again.

Thanx Steve and Crew for a fab night.

Spiky Steve
19th-March-2008, 02:21 PM
It was actually the second night (but the first with wider advertising). I understand that they are not running for the next two sundays but will be back on the 6th of April and then will be running every sunday from the 20th April.

There is no teacher, it is just a freestyle night. For those people going to the courses that Paul Warden is teaching (at the same venue on a thrusday evening) it provides valuable freestyle time to put into practice what they have learnt and for more experienced dancers to have a place to go (notice how most of the WCS scene is on the south west side of London). If it thrives and survives with vigour then it will demonstrate to the teachers that there is a market there for thier services.

I found my leaflet for this.

The website is:
Home (http://www.westcos.co.uk)

Steve

dave the scaffolder
20th-March-2008, 01:00 PM
Aye aye sport fans. Trouble and I went to Ashtons last nigh and had a very good night.

Finally met the lovely Lindy Loo and apolagised for my last horrid post about Ashtons.

Lindy made me very welcome and for that and the spectacular dances, with her and the female demo,(sorry dont know your name), I thank you.

Good venue excellent teaching, very smooth and fluid like.

A venue I would recommend to all and sundry.

DTS Dave XXX XXX

StokeBloke
23rd-March-2008, 03:27 AM
Yes it's 2:30 in the morning :eek:

We just got back in from our first ever WCS freestyle. It was a real step out of my comfort zone. It's one thing to have the odd (and they are very odd) dabble at WCS at a freestyle somewhere. But to immerse yourself in WCS for a night when you're not a Westie is quite nerve wracking.

I needn't have worried! Eva and Pete laid on a perfect night's dancing. The venue had a great sized dance floor. Very reasonable bar. The dancers were all so friendly. It's a new event in the area so the level of dancing was very mixed, and complete beginners like me didn't feel at all uncomfortable :flower:

The short class at the start of the night was great too. It felt very informal and unlike Ceroc classes it didn't move at glacial speed! Before I knew it I had a few moves to try and we were into freestyle.

The music was......... awesome. I know Pete tried to make the set inclusive, so it wasn't just WCS WCS WCS... there was a nice juicy lump of blues in the middle. He played some brilliant music and I can honestly say I didn't hear one duffer all night :worthy:

It seemed to work out really well. Even though it's 140 mile round trip for us, we would definitely go again. It was lovely to see JoanneC and BoardRider there; and I finally got to meet and dance with Angelique too.

I cannot recommend this event highly enough. If you want to improve your WCS, or if you just want a really relaxed place to dance your own way to some ultra smooth music... this is the place!

Agente Secreto
23rd-March-2008, 11:47 AM
Just goes to show that I'm a Forum novice - didn't even realise that there was an established thread to talk about great nights so started a separate one to rave about Dance Demon's Red Hot & Blues Night in Edinburgh. Repeating the keynotes here so everyone knows how good it was

...............Went North to Edinburgh and had the good fortune for the trip to coincide with RH&B on Friday 21st. I've been there once or twice before so knew what to expect - the Demon did not disappoint

What a night.

4 1/2 hours of brilliant music with some amazing dancers. Demon :respect:was his usual self, playing a superb set. Of course we weren't dancing until the sun came up, but other than that if you closed your eyes you could almost have been in the Blues Room at Southport....

What a great night. I hope I helped the many ladies I had the pleasure to dance with play with some great music. Every partner brought something unique onto the floor with them but getting down and dirty with Esther :devil: certainly managed to raise my blood pressure. My highlight of the the night was a 4-track set with Firefly (just couldn't bear to return her to her seat).

Still feeling the effects 2 days later - always the sign of a good night - and not getting any sympathy from Janette. Aching in places that I'd forgotten I had and hoping I can get my legs moving again before I go to my normal 'home' at Jive Nites tonight …………

Cruella
24th-March-2008, 01:39 PM
. The dancers were all so friendly.

Were they smiling then Stokie? :whistle:

Twirlie Bird
24th-March-2008, 03:22 PM
Were they smiling then Stokie?

Do you know this is something that I actually said to Stokie on the way home - "there wasn't much smiling!"

However there was an awful lot of concentration and counting. :D

JennyC
27th-March-2008, 03:15 PM
Are you sure you were looking up??!! I know I was definitely smiling :D expect when I realised I couldn't dance Blues anymore because I kept trying to West Coast - sorry Boardrider

(I have been recently accused of frowning but I think that's because my fringe is getting too long)!

I definitely feel that with WCS although I might not be outwardly smiling (concentration etc) that inwardly my smile is always much bigger than it is with jive.

Would agree that although Coventry was a long way - I really liked the venue even if my Sat Nav didn't and would definitely make the trip again!

Jenny x

Lost Leader
29th-March-2008, 10:54 AM
Last night's Rugby free-style was absolutely marvelous! There was a very good turnout with a great range of dancers, some familiar, some not. New table layout created a bit more space on the floor but even so it got slightly crowded for an hour or so.

Music for the most part spot on (Marc just keeps on delivering) If I was being really picky there were perhaps a few too many "clubby" tracks that seemed to go on for over 5 minutes (I generally prefer shorter tracks, but that's probably just my age :tears:). Rachel also played a brief but very varied set towards the end of the night :waycool: which gave the evening's dancing an added dimension.

I really got into the zone and had loads of great dances, in fact I don't remember one bad dance all night. I would estimate that around 60% of the dancers there were pretty familiar locals (say roughly from within a 25 miles radius) but the other 40% was made up of people I did know from further afield and those I did not recognise at all. All in all a very nice mix.

I wont single out individuals (there are so many and I have a terrible memory for names) but I have to mention one or two forumites who travelled a long way to be there; Stokie and Twirly Bird, and Snow White. I hope you all had a good evening and thanks for the fabulous :drool: dances TB and SW (sorry we did'nt dance Stokie, will catch you next time :rofl:)

Can't wait for the next one :clap:.

dave the scaffolder
29th-March-2008, 11:18 AM
Now then sport fans Trouble and I went to St Albans last night and we both did not have a bad dance all night.

The floor craft seems to have improved, maybe someone has finally had a word.

All in all a good night had by all.

DTS Dave XXX XXX

Easily Led
30th-March-2008, 04:37 PM
Lost Leader and I went to Sara White's Spring Ball last night. We were both a bit jaded having done 3 nights in a row, including Friday night at Rugby. The venue was excellent although I found the floor a little slow - there was a very nice chill-out area which I didn't actually use, convenient conveniences etc. The tables were laid out very prettily and the post cabaret finger food was very nice indeed :drool:.

The class was indeed a fun class but perhaps a bit of a challenge in heels and a long dress. The Cabaret by Adam and Taz was amazing and very high energy - no wonder Taz is so slim! The music was pretty good on the whole but the best thing was meeting more forum people there like Agente Secreto who is such fun to dance with, as is his wife (according to LL); Trouble (who I got into a "tight" situation with :o ); I introduced myself to Tsh (who looked a little puzzled :confused: ); DTS introduced us to Ruby Red who then danced with Lost Leader whilst I latterly "forced myself" on MagicHans whom DTS also introduced (LL edit - this is starting to sound like a bad soap opera). I had great dances with everyone, including several non-forumites

As I was feeling under par (?) for the first part of the evening and because I find it more difficult to ask strangers to dance I didn't get on the floor quite as much as I would have liked. However, this meant that I really enjoyed the last part of the evening and left on a high. I am now wondering if this is a good policy as on Friday I felt things tailed off partly because I really went for it early on and then felt too tired towards the end.

Anyway a very good night and especial thanks to Agente Secreto , DTS and (Mr) Sara White for making it so :clap:.

Trouble
30th-March-2008, 05:24 PM
Sara White has done it again for me. Absolutely fab night in every way. Everybody looked fantastic and made the effort. We had a great crowd on our table and a great crowd was there in general.

Cant wait to see the pics.

Great points

Photographer there to take pictures of your choice and remember the night.
Lovely buffet ( i avoided it as not part of diet plan)
Great bar
Great outfits, everybody looked fantastic
Great dancers of which I had too many to mention all individually but i must say, standard was fantastic.
Company was great
All the lovely compliments i got about my weight loss and encouragement which makes it all worth while. xx

Down bit

I left my camera on the table...... so if anybody finds it/found it, please let me know. Its quite expensive and has approx 200 pics on it. :tears: :tears:


Anyway aside from that, i had another great night. Thanks Sara, Dave and gang, it was brill xxxx

Kel_Warminster
30th-March-2008, 09:09 PM
The freestyle at Bath last night was out of this world (wonderful!!)- loads of friends turned up early for the WCS class, the music was a great mix of fast favs and bluesy tracks, and I barely left the dance floor all night. Even got the last dance of the evening when everyone else was leaving, I just couldn't stop!!

Congrats Richard and Ceroc Live team for a truly excellent night :)

Lost Leader
30th-March-2008, 09:50 PM
Sara White has done it again for me. Absolutely fab night in every way. Everybody looked fantastic and made the effort. We had a great crowd on our table and a great crowd was there in general.

Cant wait to see the pics.

Great points

Photographer there to take pictures of your choice and remember the night.
Lovely buffet ( i avoided it as not part of diet plan)
Great bar
Great outfits, everybody looked fantastic
Great dancers of which I had too many to mention all individually but i must say, standard was fantastic.
Company was great
All the lovely compliments i got about my weight loss and encouragement which makes it all worth while. xx

Down bit

I left my camera on the table...... so if anybody finds it/found it, please let me know. Its quite expensive and has approx 200 pics on it. :tears: :tears:


Anyway aside from that, i had another great night. Thanks Sara, Dave and gang, it was brill xxxx

:yeah:

An excellent night all round. I am sure someone will have returned the camera to SW or the venue staff so hopefully you will get it back eventually.

Not much to add really, full marks to everyone for the delightful dresses and delectable dickies. Adam and Tas were just great to watch and such nice people too. Tas asked me for a dance which I really enjoyed (and was kind enough to say that I was a lovely lead). Thanks to everyone who danced with me - it really was an absolute pleasure to dance with so many fab followers :worthy:

stewart38
31st-March-2008, 04:34 PM
Went to Berko for the first time this year and first time dancing since Southport

Still great venue/people

Realised how much I'd missed my 8 moves dancing

Agente Secreto
31st-March-2008, 06:23 PM
...re Jive Nites Spring Ball - 29 March.

Anyway a very good night and especial thanks to Agente Secreto , DTS and (Mr) Sara White for making it so :clap:.

Sara's partner is David and he is one of my wife Janette's favourite dance partners.

The Spring Ball was a great night. I had loads of great dances. Ladies thanks to all of you, and you all looked great in your ball gowns. Personally would have liked more blues-style tracks later on but was obviously in the minority because the DJ kept the floor filled all night.

The class was different, for those that did it the hip thrusts were interesting........:innocent:

Ended badly for me though - strained tendon in my back dipping a lady 3 tracks from the end. Thankfully close enough it did not spoil an otherwise great night. Teaches me to pay more attention to technique in dipping and not lean forward regardless of how light the lady is. Hope it doesn't keep me out of action for too long....................

dep
31st-March-2008, 08:08 PM
........... - strained tendon in my back dipping a lady................Hope it doesn't keep me out of action for too long....................sounds like a good excuse for being laid on your back for a few days.:what:but no rest:eek::whistle:

JiveLad
8th-April-2008, 09:00 AM
Ceroc - Haywards Heath Mon 7th April

It's interesting and fun to go to a venue where absolutely no-one knows you......no expectations, no history, not part of any group affiliations...

The whole evening was very enjoyable: everyone was friendly, no cliques and the music was good throughout. Venue was modern, straightforward with cheap bar (orange squash at 40p).

One highlight was dancing with the teacher - a Russian (sorry - forget her name) - who was also a very good teacher - the moves in Intermediate were fine and flowed well. What a dancer!

Had a lot of good laughs with different people - it was all quite easy going and relaxed.

....Carol (got demoted as school prefect for kissing a guy behind the bike shed, Maz from Burnley, and the blond bird who danced with me to 'Mercy', and the woman who unxpectedly did multiple spins perfectly on the spot).

robd
8th-April-2008, 10:57 AM
Yes! :D

I am sure I saw Dan Hudson smile (when he wasn't busy looking at his shoes :rolleyes:)

JiveLad
9th-April-2008, 08:38 AM
Ceroc Epsom - Tuesday April 8th

Was it amazing?

Yes (for some of the wrong reasons):

Intermediate lesson
A bit like those Ariston washing machines...it went on and on and on...

1. Double handed Archie roll into
2. Swizzle then teapot walk round into
3. First move block and reverse spin into
4. Pretzel walkaround with various hand swaps

3 moves would have been plenty.

Drinks
- orange squash at £1.50 (was 40p the previous nite)
- shandy £3.50 a pint
(this is a council managed venue).

Music
Was sub-optimal - and closest to the worst set I've experienced. There were too few tracks with breaks or regular 4/4 beats. The set just did not flow! Any 'normal' tracks were like an afterthought. Still, we did get 'Mercy.

Dancers
One hundred and fifteen of them.....with about 15-20 women over. About 40-50 of these were beginners (judging by how many went off to the refresh).....never seen so many (the previous night, precisely zero went to the refresh). Generally a youngish crowd, and a bit cliquey.

One or two amazing dancers, including the girl from Fleet a couple of months ago, on her first Freestlye, who has transformed from a polite, genteel beginner into the raunchiest dancer this side of Watford Gap.

dave the scaffolder
13th-April-2008, 12:36 PM
Went to Berkhamstead last night.

Trouble and I turned up with Mini Mac, one of us made the effort with a pink g string and matching painted toe nails, hair looking stunning and smelling gorgeous, wearing a lovely slinky shirt. And the girls? Well they both turned up, bless them.

No seriously the girls looked gorgeous and with Troubles stunning weight loss dips and drops seem almost compulsory with her at the moment.

Music was stunning in both rooms and we all danced the night away with glee and enthusiasm. I had ladies actually coming up to me and asking if they could lead me.

Jive lad lead me with his usual style, poise and elegance, top man yourself Jive lad.

Miguel your still unsure about dancing with men as proved by his response when I asked him to dance, his reply was..."Fcuk off you batty boy." Bless him he is still unsure at this time.

All in all a stunning night, I must say, Trouble and I have not had a bad night at this venue yet so I shall keep my lovey gushing to a minimum otherwise everyone and his cat will turn up and the place will be overcrowded and spoilt. A cracking night enhanced by excellent music, in both rooms, and stunning dancers.

Well done to all involved.

DTS Dave XXX XXX

Mini Mac
13th-April-2008, 03:12 PM
Went to Berkhamstead last night.

Trouble and I turned up with Mini Mac, one of us made the effort with a pink g string and matching painted toe nails, hair looking stunning and smelling gorgeous, wearing a lovely slinky shirt. And the girls? Well they both turned up, bless them.

No seriously the girls looked gorgeous and with Troubles stunning weight loss dips and drops seem almost compulsory with her at the moment.

Music was stunning in both rooms and we all danced the night away with glee and enthusiasm. I had ladies actually coming up to me and asking if they could lead me.

Jive lad lead me with his usual style, poise and elegance, top man yourself Jive lad.

Miguel your still unsure about dancing with men as proved by his response when I asked him to dance, his reply was..."Fcuk off you batty boy." Bless him he is still unsure at this time.

All in all a stunning night, I must say, Trouble and I have not had a bad night at this venue yet so I shall keep my lovey gushing to a minimum otherwise everyone and his cat will turn up and the place will be overcrowded and spoilt. A cracking night enhanced by excellent music, in both rooms, and stunning dancers.

Well done to all involved.

DTS Dave XXX XXX

Aye Aye Dave i had a cracking night with you and the gorgeous Trouble

I had a lovely dance with Miguel as well who said i had been his best dance all night

( i think he might have been bluffing)

never the less thank you!

I do miss berko but sunday is such a hectic day for me

it now goes like this

wake up around 11.30 missing breakfast but too early for lunch

get a bath get dressed

have some sort of snack that sadly is not lunch

put the washing on

finally have lunch

laze

then around 7 i consider dinner

have dinner

then i do my coursework and homework lol i work best in the evenings

then get all my stuff ready for school...

dancing comes at a price and the debate between me and dad whether i will get up in the morning afterwards...

never the less berko remains a favourite

marc and rachel done a top set:clap: (also learnt some tango with marc...put a smile on my face!:grin:

latin ian's set was also great:worthy:

food was lovely although i wouldn't mind seeing a few biscuits i actually despise most cake:sad:

apart from that

it was fantastic quality dancing for less than a tenner!

Oh and of course a BIIIIG thanks to dave and michelle for picking me up...and putting up with my constant gabbling on the way home ;)

you guys deserve a medal lol

Trouble
13th-April-2008, 10:16 PM
Berko...... well the only reason i go to Berko is for the fantastic Marc Forster....

His set and Rachels at the beginning, was without doubt and as usual, the best.

I also had some really great dances, Marc as usual, the best and thanks.

Miguel, had me laughing all evening and Jivelad, your a saucy little monkey and long may it continue.

Berko was quiet but this made it all the nicer. There was plenty of room for moving in both rooms but the blues room done it for me. I hardly left it.

Cant rate it enough, if you love blues, then get ya little tushes down there.

xxxx

Maxine
14th-April-2008, 01:02 PM
Sorry If I'm repeating what Trouble has just said but I'd already typed this up.

Saturday Night at Berko was a really great night. Marc and Rachel’s music was brilliant (as usual). Only managed to drag myself out of the blues for about 3 dances and then gave into the vibes.

Thanks to Jive Lad, DTS, Marc, Gary and Trouble and all the other non-forum dancers for the dances.

Lastly if the guy who left with one of my shoes (accidentally I hope, or I am in trouble), is reading this please return to Berko with it, as Cinderella here needs it and I have given yours to Ian. Hope your not having too much trouble with the high heel!

JCB
14th-April-2008, 05:28 PM
Well, all I can say is :yeah: !
Marc and Rachel, you play an addictive chillout mix; and it is driving me barmy, because I can’t dance well to it yet.
I guess I’ll just have to come back, and keep practising… :whistle: :D

StokeBloke
19th-April-2008, 01:48 AM
Utopia Derby.

The venue has recently been refitted. New bigger better dance floor. Also a new air con system (but it still got very hot for some reason). But tonight was amazing for one outstanding reason; OXOs. He played the most delicious blues set I have heard in a very very very long time. The set just flowed along, amazing track after amazing track just drawing you onto the floor. The dances I had were great... a combination of a lot of things, but mainly being buoyed along by OXOs set I think :worthy:

It was great to see so many excellent dancers there. I didn't have one dance that wasn't brilliant all night - now I am ready for Daventry tomorrow.

fletch
19th-April-2008, 02:17 AM
U one outstanding reason; OXOs.

:yeah:


He played the most delicious blues set I have heard in a very very very long time. - now I am ready for Daventry tomorrow


bring it on :clap:

the floor was fab, I did get sressed cos Gerry's train was late, but back home having fun with freinds. :flower:

JiveLad
19th-April-2008, 09:57 AM
Friday April 18th: Cheshunt (Ceroc Metro)

Cheshunt again hit the spot.

I feel the centre of gravity for the 'region' (and for the Ceroc Metro franchise) has moved here - and, a little bit away from St. Albans/Berko.

Consistently good music and dances, including several forumettes:

Marvellous Maxine
Jazzy Jay Jay
Stylish SunnyBunny

and not forgetting:
Trouble
Double Trouble (who showed me how to eat a mini-profiterole in a sexy way - I didn't quite expect what she actually did - v. funny).

Talking of hitting the spot.....during a particularly 'raunchy' dance with one woman, we moved into the ocho position (my terminology). (The guy has legs apart and holds hands while the woman does some ochos followed by well - whatever (eg. the splits, an Argentinian tango leg brush....)).

So, she did the ochos and then.....forget the leg brush.......she kneed me in the groin. :eek: When I say knee - it was actually just below her patella. And it wasn't a forceful 'kick' - more of a controlled 'dab'. Still, contact was made.

I looked at her and said: "You just kneed me in the balls".
"Yes" she replied, grinning like a Cheshire cat, "I was just checking they were there".

I did consider replying: "Well next time please use your hands" - or something like that, then thought better of it.

Then, in the same dance, when she was behind me, she said she wanted to lift me. I accepted - and she did it. Hmmmm - what to do with my legs? Well I started to 'tread water' like a 5 year old might do in that situation.
Not particularly stylish (let me down!) - still, she had the balls to go for it.

Another great night........and thx to all who were involved. I appreciate it very much :clap:

Double Trouble
19th-April-2008, 12:52 PM
Double Trouble (who showed me how to eat a mini-profiterole in a sexy way - I didn't quite expect what she actually did - v. funny).


My dance mojo left me last night. I thought it would be sensible not to dance much with my two left feet and instead just cause mischief all night and generally be a naughty and misbehaved DT:devil:

I disagree with you about the music at Cheshunt Jivelad. I thought most of it was pants last night. The only time that DJ puts on anything vaguely interesting is when all the old coffin dodgers go for tea and cake in the bar area.

Quite a few people said to me last night that they only attend Cheshunt because it's local and convenient. I have to say that's mostly how I feel too. It's 5 minutes away, so no agro to get to. The only other plus point is that it's not full of hotshot types who think their poop don't stink. There's always a nice atmosphere there and that helps, I just wish the DJ would wake up and smell the coffee.

Jay Jay
19th-April-2008, 12:56 PM
Friday April 18th: Cheshunt (Ceroc Metro)


Talking of hitting the spot.....during a particularly 'raunchy' dance with one woman, we moved into the ocho position (my terminology). (The guy has legs apart and holds hands while the woman does some ochos followed by well - whatever (eg. the splits, an Argentinian tango leg brush....)).

So, she did the ochos and then.....forget the leg brush.......she kneed me in the groin. :eek:

That is something I could never manage to do to you JL, I only come up to your navel...thanks for the dances as fun as ever.

Did have a good evening, many lovely dances and nice to catch up with Double Trouble too.

Steven666
20th-April-2008, 08:58 AM
Daventry 19th Apr

Venue - reminded me of my old school sportshall. Same size, shape and brickwork. Spacious though there was the obvious slight overcrowding of the blues room once the main room had closed for the night.

Drinks - Cheap enough for me though I never used the proper bar.

Dancers - Fab mixed range. What I like. Thanks to everyone that I danced with, or rather, they put up with me.

The bad - From what I remember, my only second refusal this year. Though I expected a no before I asked. It was a "I'm hot, lets do the next one" excuse. Granted she never danced that track but she merely briefly watched then walked away as if I was under assessment first. But being northern adding to the fact it was very late on meant I hadn't had much blues room experience and was completely taitered respectively so contributing to not passing her test. I have danced with her before so I new what I wasn't missing out on, haha.

My target - 100 dances. Actual end total was 101 in 7 hours. I made it, just. Thanks to everyone (bar one, lol).

Oh and a big thank you to Fletch.

Fab night!

fletch
20th-April-2008, 09:44 AM
Daventry 19th April

well, last night was amazing for allsorts of reasons but firstly it was my birthday.

I arrived 30 min early, I had to make up for the night before.

It was wonderful to be met by my lovely Tor who had reserved and decorated a table for us all.

Rob Ambridge played old disco classics while everyone got set up, and yes I jigged around on my own.

Steven666 started him marathon dance session and secretly wanted to be doing it with him, I was his first and his 100 Th. dance, well done mate, i'm going to give you a run for you money at SP.

I did DWAS, goodness knows why? but I got trough to the finals, not due to my dance ability i'm sure, pure cheek and entertainment value, poor bloke who go drawn against me Nico, he hadn't been dancing long, within 10 seconds his face was pure terror, no not really:D but don't think he had had a dance quite like it.

I won the best dressed female and Emma made a lovely speech, about me, :cheers:and then Rob Ambridge announced I was to get a dance, thank you to all the men that danced with me and Tor for leading me on to the floor, Phil Webb so nice to see you queuing for me again.

I had so many best wishes it was awsom.

I recived proberly the best birthday gift I had ever had, there was so much thought, time and consideration to my needs put into it, Tor and Pawplay you guy's are the dogs ******** and I love you, thank you so much.:worthy::clap:

Caz thanks for the dance, while your down there, just rip 'em off why don't you.:eek:

Genivive and Jive junkie (rock&rollSteve) I wish you would change your forum name, thanks for the company, Gen leading me, fippin hec you've only just started dancing, yeah! respect, what did you think of Daventry then? was I right?

The blues room was fine for me, and Marc as always, played a blinder, it didn't finish till 3.30 and I was dancing from 7.30 and it was still to early, I need a weekender.

Thank you Gerry for staning back and letting me be fletch, I love you. :awe:

Lost Leader
20th-April-2008, 10:41 AM
Really enjoyed Daventry last night - this was for me the best Dav. event for some time.

Arrived very early but Fletch's birthday celebrations got things off to a great start. Had one or two dances in the main room to start with but quickly decamped to the blues room and never felt the need to leave after that.

I had a cold earlier in the week so felt a bit rusty to begin with but by the middle of the evening I really got it together and had a succession of great dances. I think I managed to dance with most female forumites who were there but might have missed JoannaC (not sure from photo) and Miss Molly. Had some fantastic dances with non forumites as well - massive thanks to all of you. Got a bit tired later on so called it a night just before 2:00 am (yes, I know, I am a Wuz)

Lighting, sound and music in the blues room was best yet for Daventry. Extra space as a result of removing the stage proved its worth. Even so it did get a bit crowded when the main room closed but at least this didn't happen until about 1:30 am.

I have had various niggles about some of the recent Dav freestyles but this time everything seemed better so hats off to the organisers as far as I am concerned. Dav. freestyles are back near the top of the tree.

Easily Led
20th-April-2008, 11:03 AM
I agree with all of the above, although for me the experience had a slightly surreal quality caused by me being a little light headed through over-medication and the remnants of my cold. I had some fantastic dances but I didn't feel really in the zone and was not as responsive as I could have been. Thanks to everyone who was kind enough to dance with me as I didn't ask many people and only about 2 I hadn't been introduced to (who were Silverfox and , I think, Mr Darcy). I was fully prepared for refusals but didn't get any!

Steven666 proved to be a perfect gentleman when I was expecting almost the devil incarnate :rofl:from his name, homer pic and "drunken" posts. ( I can not imagine why anyone would refuse you unless they were mad:confused:, and well done BTW). More surreal experiences were being a man sandwich :really: (?), and have a dance so UCP that I think I have groin strain :eek: (or I might need a new hip), and being asked to dance by a beautiful lady with no hair who was a fabulous and gentle lead! The fancy dress costumes may have added to my feeling of being in another world or perhaps I'm watching too much Dr. Who. Wow - imagine if David Tennant could dance! :drool:

martingold
20th-April-2008, 12:20 PM
My dance mojo left me last night. I thought it would be sensible not to dance much with my two left feet and instead just cause mischief all night and generally be a naughty and misbehaved DT

hehehe well i enjoyed my one dance with you anyway
sorry i didnt get more i was danced of me feet by all the chelmsford ladies that were there on friday for pete and maria's birthday party


I disagree with you about the music at Cheshunt Jivelad. I thought most of it was pants last night. The only time that DJ puts on anything vaguely interesting is when all the old coffin dodgers go for tea and cake in the bar area.

:what: are you calling me a coffin dodger ???
As for the music imho when we first got here it was a bit too much pop for my taste But and heres the but the dance floor was full so some people obviously liked it
once tea was over Robin settled into his usual mix of good pop and great ceroc
so we came away really happy having had a great evening

That is something I could never manage to do to you JL, I only come up to your navel.

knowing you i would expect you to jump jayjay :rofl:


Friday April 18th: Cheshunt (Ceroc Metro)

Cheshunt again hit the spot.

:yeah:


Double Trouble (who showed me how to eat a mini-profiterole in a sexy way - I didn't quite expect what she actually did - v. funny).
I now need profiteroles lessons:rofl:
Nice too meet you again Jivelad

Jay Jay
20th-April-2008, 12:44 PM
knowing you i would expect you to jump jayjay :rofl:






Don't know about jumping have to stand on a chair to get noticed sometimes it's not easy being small you know :tears: ......... hope the shoulder is getting better :hug:

Jay Jay
20th-April-2008, 12:53 PM
Double Trouble (who showed me how to eat a mini-profiterole in a sexy way - I didn't quite expect what she actually did - v. funny).



Is this the same Double Trouble that is in the Forum Diet Club..gotcha..but then again we do have to savour these little pleasures :wink:

Caz
20th-April-2008, 01:34 PM
Caz thanks for the dance, while your down there, just rip 'em off why don't you.:eek:

:blush:

First of all... I know it isn't last night but

Friday 18 April - Derby Utopia

I had an amazing night. Really needed a great dance and some serious blues. :respect: to OXO's, played a great set.. I didn't want to sit out any track!

Fab dances with everyone, great to see so many forumites there too - woohoo!

Great floor - I knew the venue had been refurbished and all I can say about the refurb is fab fab fab!

Saturday 19 April - Daventry

Again a really great night. Entered DWAS but didn't get past the first round :tears: Congrats to all who got to the final etc. esp to my mate Donna who got to the final and it really made her night :hug:

Had some fab dances both in the main room and the blues room but I must admit that I set up camp in the blues room and pretty much stayed in there most of the night. Great dances with people I haven't seen for ages. Must admit that towards the end of the night I got really tired and didn't dance my best but thank you to everyone who let me inflict my sleepiness on them!

Great birthday celebrations with Fletch - :worthy: to Tor for getting it all sorted! Even tho I had fun trying to get everyone to sign the card and avoid Fletch with it!!!

Nice to finally meet Steven666 properly.

Thank you to Fletch for letting us stay over this weekend.. It has been great to get out and see everyone again! Can't wait to get mobile again!! woohoo!!!

Astro
20th-April-2008, 06:24 PM
Went to Chiswick last night for the first time in months.

Both floors were good.

It wasn't too hot.

Can't think of anything to complain about.......no, nothing.

Really enjoyed it.

Tiger was in the small room where I hung out the most.

Annette played a fantastic track I haven't heard for years:clap: - it just about did me in.

StokeBloke
20th-April-2008, 09:03 PM
Daventry.... woW! What a night. The best Daventry I have been to by far. We got there early to avoid the predicted parking nightmare, and it was great to see the mood in the blues room being built. Rachel played until half eleven, and I have to say the music she played was amazing. Then Marc took us through until around three thirty.

There was something about last night that just worked. Ohh sure there was the usual weird patch when they shut the main room and the blues room gets flooded with people who are hyped up on boing boing music... but that's a conversation for a different time and thread.

It was great to see forumites, both new faces and familiar ones. DTS, Agent Secro and the lovely lady who accompanied you (had a nice dance with her too).

The music last night was top notch. As were the dancers. Do I risk mentioning people and glaringly forgetting someone... obviously loads of dances with my little Twirlie Bird in her Goth Chic tutu and later on in her 'Jamie' trousers :awe:, I had a lovely dance with Pawplay, I finally got a dance with JoanneC after missing her the last event she was at, Yilander our dances were beautiful, dancing to Dolly Parton with Camilla was a strange delight, Rachel our dances just keep getting better and better and I love them all, Easily Led.. I didn't know you were poorly... it certainly didn't show, superb dances with Elaine as always, caught up with Cruella.. she even asked for seconds :hug:, I hadn't danced with Lory in an age but it felt like it was just yesterday when we did... giving a lead that feeling of comfort takes real skill hon :worthy:, poor Alex looked dead beat near the end of the night but I dragged her onto the floor too, Donna deserved to get into the final of the DWAS if our dances are anything to go by..... competition Di, I am sure I have missed people out... sorry..... but it's true to say that I didn't have one dance last night that wasn't really enjoyable.

However, all that said, one person made my night last night.... Wittybird! OMG! I didn't know you were going to be there and the cheek of replying to my text to say you weren't going to make it so it would be a surprise!!! I think my face when you walked into the place and straight towards me said it all.... dozens of dances with my favorite dancer. Collarbone..yum!! Witty I miss you and you made my night, thank you :love:

jemessex
21st-April-2008, 10:02 AM
Lucille and me had quite a good weekend dancing although we were very rusty having hardly danced over last 6 weeks.

Friday - Cheshunt.
Nice atmosphere and dancefloor. Music was varied ( to keep the masses happy I think ).
Great to finally meet a few forumites outside of a weekender.
Sunnybunny, Jay Jay (thanks for the nice dance), Martin and his good lady Barbara and Trouble ( loved both our dances ) hope to have more in the future.

Saturday - Stevenage.
Not a huge crowd there but again a nice floor to dance on and a wide range of music played.

Any forum menber I have forgotten - apologies.
Thanks Martin for being most welcoming in both venues.

Sunday - Went to a class night. Lucille didnt really enjoy it and found it a bit of a come down after two lovely freestyle events. We are having a discussion on whether we should go to class nights or just fit in as many freestyles as possible and sod the distance and cost

Lory
21st-April-2008, 11:22 AM
Daventry.... woW!

I also had a fab night.. far far better than I was anticipating it'd be. So, it was definitely worth travelling for.

I can't comment on the main room, as I only poked my head in there briefly, had two mad fast dances with the lovely Phil Web, then had to go back to the blues room to recover and then after that, I completely forgot about it. I didn't even know they ran a DWAS till I just read it on here!

The thing which was really nice, because its a long way, I got to see people I don't usually see each week.

Fletch, you looked radiant my dear :hug:

I had some awesome dances, in fact they were all good! :worthy:Sadly I didn't get to meet any new forumites but I did have a couple of spectacularly good dances with a 'regular lurker' apparently! :na: (it feels a bit weird, when someone knows who you are but your in the dark about them )

Too many people to thank individually and I'd hate to forget anyone!

Berko - was another good night but the most amazing thing was, meeting Rachels grandmother.... there's no mistaking the similarities, she's INCREDIBLE! She got up and showed a little group of us how she does line-dancing and she was so quick and nimble on her feet. Nicely made up, with not a grey hair on her head she looked so young, i'd say 70 at the most but she's 95!!!!!!! :eek::really::worthy:

StokeBloke
21st-April-2008, 09:18 PM
Nicely made up, with not a grey hair on her head she looked so young, i'd say 70 at the most but she's 95!!!!!!! :eek::really::worthy:Odd I would have put Rachel more around the early to mid-twenties mark... but if you say so :D

Lost Leader
21st-April-2008, 09:27 PM
Odd I would have put Rachel more around the early to mid-twenties mark... but if you say so :D

You old charmer Stokie, you know full well that Rachel is 27 and a half but Marc is not a day over 17.

Marc Forster
22nd-April-2008, 12:21 AM
You old charmer Stokie, you know full well that Rachel is 27 and a half but Marc is not a day over 17.

You old charmer Lost Leader Sir. That deserves a Man Hug :hug:

JiveLad
22nd-April-2008, 09:31 AM
Is this the same Double Trouble that is in the Forum Diet Club..gotcha..but then again we do have to savour these little pleasures :wink:

Yes - they were small profiteroles about the size of a ....walnut.

-----------------

PS Special thanks to Sunnybunny for plucking my right eyebrow (Trouble had spotted that I had a long curly one -but she did not seem to have the ability to pluck me when she tried - and she just couldn't get it out).

(It's all in the wrist action).

:nice:

Lory
22nd-April-2008, 10:52 AM
Snip ~ we moved into the ocho position ~snip~ legs apart ~snip~ a controlled 'dab'. ~snip~ contact was made.~snip~

I looked at her and said: "You just kneed me in the balls".
".


Yes - they were small ~snip~ about the size of a ....walnut.


:D

The amusing thing is.... that your still daring to use that move :really:... you lead it on me on Sunday :na:

I hope I didn't disappoint? :whistle::rofl:

JiveLad
22nd-April-2008, 09:51 PM
:D

The amusing thing is.... that your still daring to use that move :really:... you lead it on me on Sunday :na:

I hope I didn't disappoint? :whistle::rofl:

Yes - and I know you are a lady - both fragrant and refined - so you would never do such a thing......

The move you chose to do at that point was both appropriate to our dance and tastefully amusant.

:yum:

OXO'S
24th-April-2008, 05:56 PM
Utopia Derby.

The venue has recently been refitted. New bigger better dance floor. Also a new air con system (but it still got very hot for some reason). But tonight was amazing for one outstanding reason; OXOs. He played the most delicious blues set I have heard in a very very very long time. The set just flowed along, amazing track after amazing track just drawing you onto the floor. The dances I had were great... a combination of a lot of things, but mainly being buoyed along by OXOs set I think :worthy:

It was great to see so many excellent dancers there. I didn't have one dance that wasn't brilliant all night - now I am ready for Daventry tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone for the lovely compliments.It was a absolute delight to play at DERBY UTOPIA,what a fab venue and floor. As for my set well i just did not want it to end,i could have gone on for another couple of hours i really go into the ZONE.Hope to be back there in near future.

fletch
24th-April-2008, 07:45 PM
Thanks to everyone for the lovely compliments.It was a absolute delight to play at DERBY UTOPIA,what a fab venue and floor. As for my set well i just did not want it to end,i could have gone on for another couple of hours i really go into the ZONE.Hope to be back there in near future.



:yeah:


it finished to early for me, but I got there late :(

StokeBloke
24th-April-2008, 10:12 PM
:yeah:


it finished to early for me, but I got there late :(:yeah:
it finished to early for me, but I got there early :(

Jay Jay
26th-April-2008, 03:50 PM
Just wanted to say that, yes, last night was amazing. Was initially torn between going to the new venue at Ware or Ashtons.

I chose Ashtons and from the minute I got there the first dance was lovely and it just got better and better. Lovely atmosphere, not too full and it was very welcoming considering I went on my own without my 'crew' (they went to Ware), I didn't feel 'lost' (sorry guys I made the better choice I feel :na:)

Makes me even sadder that it is closing, Two more Ashton events still to go but have just realised that the one on the 9th clashes with Utopia :angry:

Thank you to all the forumites that danced with me. :flower:

fletch
26th-April-2008, 04:53 PM
Just wanted to say that, yes, last night was amazing. Was initially torn between going to the new venue at Ware or Ashtons.

I chose Ashtons and from the minute I got there the first dance was lovely and it just got better and better. Lovely atmosphere, not too full and it was very welcoming considering I went on my own without my 'crew' (they went to Ware), I didn't feel 'lost' (sorry guys I made the better choice I feel :na:)

Makes me even sadder that it is closing, Two more Ashton events still to go but have just realised that the one on the 9th clashes with Utopia :angry:

Thank you to all the forumites that danced with me. :flower:

it was different this time, not sure exacterly why?

I had a fab time, I know why I travel so far there really isnt anythink like it in the Midlands, and with Hammersmith tonight meens its worth the journey.

you know most people surley? you are the 'crew' :rofl:

Got my ticket for the Brazilian night, they were selling fast.

the 9th will split the venue thats for sure. :(

Jay Jay
26th-April-2008, 06:11 PM
you know most people surley? you are the 'crew' :rofl:

Got my ticket for the Brazilian night, they were selling fast.

the 9th will split the venue thats for sure. :(

Getting to know more and more faces to names that's for sure and I do have you to thank for that :flower:

Have got my party ticket booked and my choice for the 9th has been made as I have the ticket for Utopia already confirmed (I don't hang around!).

JiveLad
26th-April-2008, 06:12 PM
Well - so glad I went to Ware last night instead of Ashtons - what a fantastic and interesting venue! It's an upmarket place - not the usual run down school/town hall type place.

The venue is called 'The Priory' - which is perhaps appropriate for those with a dance addiction. Set in several acres of grounds, it has plenty of parking.

Two rooms - both with fantastic floors (fast without being ice rinks) and several people commented on how good the floors were (I think the one in the Blues Room was marginally better). They are probably the best floors I have experienced.

The Main room and the Blues room opened out to decking or onto gardens with doors along the sides - so keeping cool was not really an issue.

Good to see many familiar faces from Cheshunt, Stevenage, St. Albans, and a few forumites SunnyBunny and Maxine were strutting their stuff to good effect.

One thing I enjoyed so much was the Blues Room - AT LAST! A Blues room where blues was played!! What a relief! It does what it says on the tin! I have been suggesting to some (eg. Ian at Chesham) that they could play more real blues in the Blues room.....and here it happened! So much more enjoyable than a normal blues room - there were songs with breaks and there was an authenticity about the songs. So thanks to Keith who was the DJ.

I've been reflecting on this and I think my ideal Blues nite would be a synthesis of the Marc F. type vibe - which works very well in it's own way, mixed with this authentic stuff. I wonder who can move in that direction.

Anyway......back to Ware. The snacks were fantastic and even though I came in late to them - there were still plenty of min-donuts and croissants left. The 'vibe' was fine - maybe women over? The feng shui of the Blues room was great - the main room less so because of the dimensions (it could do with being a few feet wider).

So - 'even better if's......':

It would be even better if:

- the evening had been publicised more: this is a great place and could have been maybe another 20-30 squeezed in?

- music in the main room. Well.....hmmm. I wasn't there the whole time, so I can only go on what I heard and what other people said to me. It could have been better. Some tracks go on far too long! Please keep them to 3 - 3.5 minutes as the norm. Include songs which have breaks and melodies. Expand the range of tunes played: it was all a bit 'samey'. (This is all a plea to Robin). Maybe even have a guest DJ for an hour to mix it up a bit - something....please!

- provide a transportation service from the main room to the Blues room (eg. a golf buggy). Ok it's only 1 minute walk - but it is across some gravelly bits - and some women were none to keen to go across in their dancing shoes (can't think why.....).

That's about it......I wish Ware every success - I understand there might be tea dances to follow as well as other freestyles and a regular Tuesday night. I hope it continues and develops well.

:nice:

sunnybunny
27th-April-2008, 12:49 PM
I would just like to echo Jivelad’s praise for Cerocmetro’s new venue in Ware (only 10 mins further up the A10 from Cheshunt). The venue is absolutely gorgeous – very classy. Maxine & I spent most of our time in the stunning blues room. This was in the old 17th century Priory that has stained-glass arched windows on one side and french doors opening out onto the lawns on the other. With beautiful lighting and a fantastic selection of old school blues music by Keith, the atmosphere was wonderful albeit at some times (especially after the “tea break”) a little bit too exclusive.

As Jivelad mentioned, the only drawback to the set up is that there is a bit of schlep between the two buildings and I am sure that if it had been raining on Friday night things might have been very different. Without doubt this is a fantastic summer venue – not so sure what it would be like in the winter.

Astro
27th-April-2008, 04:17 PM
it was different this time, not sure exacterly why?

I had a fab time,

About 10 people asked me if I knew Ashtons was closing. I think it cast a pall.

I didn't enjoy it much, couldn't get into the music and my dancing was off.

What was Hammersmith like?

fletch
27th-April-2008, 05:03 PM
About 10 people asked me if I knew Ashtons was closing. I think it cast a pall.

I didn't enjoy it much, couldn't get into the music and my dancing was off.

What was Hammersmith like?

I had a fab Hammersmith, I really had my mojo going, the wonderfull Dazzler, Tom Baker and Jammy started it well, larking about :rofl: and it just go better, I had some fab dances.

where were you?

Caz
27th-April-2008, 08:27 PM
Doncaster Back to the 80's freestyle
Had an amazing night last night at Ceroc Doncaster Back to the 80's freestyle. Mark Kerr played some fabulous tunes - was amazed at how much 80's stuff you could dance to...Must admit I was cheezed out by the end tho LOL

Lots of fun dances had and great to see so many people there...

Fab costumes!! Was quite embarrasing walking down street in my 80's costume tho :rofl:

dave the scaffolder
4th-May-2008, 01:29 PM
The Trouble and I went to Greenwich last night, the old pre-champs bash.

Quite a few forumites there and we both had a great time.

This is only the second time we have been to this venue and yet again it impressed us no end. Great music with two rooms just seems to work, marvellous. Nice to see Mikeyr up and about again.

All in all an excellent night yet again.

Well done to all ===Keep up the good work people.

DTS Dave XXX XXX

Beowulf
5th-May-2008, 01:06 PM
it was pretty darned brilliant actually :) It was a late night.. and I was a little tired by the end. But the champs are always great fun.

Astro
5th-May-2008, 02:05 PM
it was pretty darned brilliant actually :) It was a late night.. and I was a little tired by the end. But the champs are always great fun.

I agree, I had a marvelous time. Left on a high.:clap:

Thanks for the dance Beo.:flower:

straycat
5th-May-2008, 06:15 PM
We had a storming night last night. Just amazing.... best atmosphere we've managed yet...
(although there's a small list of things to do better next time)

Oh - and three hours sleep (courtesy of the impromptu post-event party). So tired....
Off to teach now :eek:

Astro
11th-May-2008, 03:41 PM
Hammersmith - last night

Terribly hot - the new air flow system was either not working or couldn't cope.

That's after it froze us stiff in the winter.:rolleyes:

The teacher was a no show, so freestyle was well underway when I pitched up at 8.50pm.:nice:

Warren was the DJ.

For me, half the songs were great, but the other half were weary - energy sappers I call them.

Mini Mac
11th-May-2008, 03:49 PM
Hammersmith - last night

Terribly hot - the new air flow system was either not working or couldn't cope.

That's after it froze us stiff in the winter.:rolleyes:

The teacher was a no show, so freestyle was well underway when I pitched up at 8.50pm.:nice:

Warren was the DJ.

For me, half the songs were great, but the other half were weary - energy sappers I call them.

i agree with some of this but i managed to have a good night, i certainly danced a lot which cheered me up and was thrilled to get all my belongings back!:grin:

thank you david bradley!

Astro
11th-May-2008, 03:53 PM
i agree with some of this but i managed to have a good night, i certainly danced a lot which cheered me up

I did have a good night. :yeah:

I suppose I want perfection.....

Maxine
12th-May-2008, 01:35 PM
I did have a good night. :yeah:

I suppose I want perfection.....

I had a really good night at hammersmith, one of the best i've had for ages. Had really great dances and enjoyed the atmosphere. it was near perfection :nice:

Moondancer
12th-May-2008, 03:36 PM
I had a good night at Pulse in Nottingham on Saturday and had some challenging dances which I really enjoyed. We started the night with a West Coast beginner taster session too!

Double Trouble
24th-May-2008, 11:48 AM
Almost didn't make it cos of a sprained ankle, but I drugged up on pain killers and vino and went to Ashtons last night for the first time this year...and the last time ever.:sad:

I'd forgotten how great the venue is and the organisers made a fantastic effort with decorating the hall and getting into the spirit of things. Everyone looked really lovely in their colourful outfits. I, as always, made a big effort with mine (black top, black trousers):D

I don't usually watch the shows, but I went up to the balcony with Gav and watched the Brazilian dancers swing their pants. I was impressed. The girls were super sexy and the men...well...if anyone knows the one with the woolly hat, please point him in the direction of my bedroom, quick fast. I could go to prison for the things I want to do to him.:drool:

I managed to grab Mike Ellard for a frantic but unforgettable dance (if you don't ask, you don't get). I was soooooooo tempted to say to him after our dance "That was really nice, you should definitely consider moving to intermediate classes, you're really ready", but I thought better of it.:devil:

I met and danced with Steven666. That boy can spin...! Lovely to meet you hun...looking forward to lots of dances with you at Southport next week.

We left about 1am as my ankle was telling me to give up before it did so I missed Rocky's DJ set. The music I did hear though was great. A bit fast at times for my liking but that's cos I'm an old, unfit, fart with a penchant for the blues.

Overall I have to say my best night so far this year. I was worried that the venue would be packed and my sore foot would get trodden on, but it wasn't too bad at all. Top marks all round.:respect:

Oh...nearly forgot...

....ROCKY'S LEGS were on show all night and I kept getting glimpses of them.:tears:Spare me.

jive-vee
24th-May-2008, 12:46 PM
YES YES YES it was :clap::clap::clap: Simon Borland came to teach a class at Melksham, was great fun. I had a couple of amazing dances with him and even got some compliments from him too :D.

Loads of fab dances with my mates and strangers there too.

Plus Kerrin finally played Low for me and we had a great funky fun dance to it :clap:

Loved it all.

Jay Jay
24th-May-2008, 12:54 PM
Overall I have to say my best night so far this year. I was worried that the venue would be packed and my sore foot would get trodden on, but it wasn't too bad at all. Top marks all round.:respect:


Agree with you 100%, the atmosphere was electric, as advertised it certainly was 'hot and steamy' and even though I was there until the bitter end and there were still some 'undanced' dances :tears:, I do have to say I left absolutely exhausted, aching but sated.

Great to put, yet again, some faces to names and it was lovely to meet Steven666, Zebra Woman and Misconduct, you're a great bunch.

oooh by the way, the fruit trees were amazing, I think I ate most of them and thank you Mac for feeding me the grapes!

Steven666
24th-May-2008, 01:23 PM
Ashtons - 23 May 08

Not actually that far from home as I thought.

Great to meet so many regular forumites for the first time. Thanks for all the dances.

And even though my shoulder was hurting a bit and my spinning & balance was well off then what it normally is, it didn't detract from a good night.

Highs

Watching & dancing a completely different style of dancing that I'm used to up north.

Wasn't too hot.

Flying saucers on the tables. Should be at every venue.

Two tracks played on the trot being Black n Gold & then The Snake. ZOMG!

Lows

Late starting though a 7:30 start. Dancing only started at about 9:15. :eek:

Got only my third refusal of the year. And two now from the same person. Is "I'm just gonna get my boyfriend" a valid excuse? I would have just prefered a no. In true Tw*at in the Hat naming style she shall now be referred to as the Bitch in the Bikini. Not the first she has made me feel one inch tall. She shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.

Overall.

A fun night out. And getting in at 6am wasn't to bad. Now where's me bed...

:)

fletch
24th-May-2008, 04:02 PM
Got only my third refusal of the year. And two now from the same person. Is "I'm just gonna get my boyfriend" a valid excuse? I would have just prefered a no. In true Tw*at in the Hat naming style she shall now be referred to as the Bitch in the Bikini. Not the first she has made me feel one inch tall. She shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.



I really felt for you last night, I know it took a lot of courage to ask for a second time, I did hope she would refuse you especially the way she did, you allways have me to dance with:hug: :flower:

Lory
24th-May-2008, 04:43 PM
I had a simply wonderful night

as Jay Jay said, the atmosphere was electric. From the moment I walked in the door and saw Linda Ellard and all the familiar faces and then, all the excotic decor, I knew it was going to be a special night!

Groovy Dancer (Dale) was serving cocktails and there were two enormous totem poles, made of edible fruit to die for :drool:

I was expecting it to be rammed full but no, it never got to an unbearable level.

Marcusj never asked me to dance, which I took as a good sign :innocent: but I asked him, 3 times and thoroughly enjoyed all our dances Although, I thought it was slightly disappointing, that there wasn't clipboard in sight! :sad:



I don't usually watch the shows, but I went up to the balcony with Gav and watched the Brazilian dancers swing their pants. I was impressed. The girls were super sexy and the men...well...if anyone knows the one with the woolly hat, please point him in the direction of my bedroom, quick fast. I could go to prison for the things I want to do to him.

The show was amazing!!!! The girls were practically in the nude but my word, what fantastic bodies they all had and boy, could they shake it!
The highlight of my whole night, was when Cruella shoved me forward and said, go on, ask the 'bare chested Samba Man' to dance..... Well, I thought I died and gone to heaven! He was absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! :worthy:

And at the end (he obviously didn't know the 'rules':whistle:) he picked me up, feet up in the air and span me so fast, I got a head rush!

I didn't have a bad dance all night, in fact, I only sat one out. which is probably why, my feet feel like they're going to explode today (it's all good training for Southport!)

The low points...

Someone treading on my foot, I was in agony! I just hope its going to be OK for next week.

And the fact, it was my last ever, Ashton's :tears:

Limpy Tink
24th-May-2008, 06:49 PM
I also had a great night, everyone had gone to a lot of effort - I loved all the thoughtfull little touches - and the fruit trees - yum!!



The show was amazing!!!! The girls were practically in the nude but my word, what fantastic bodies they all had and boy, could they shake it! :

:yeah:

I did LOL when (whilst casually standing just behind one of the boys as they were freestyling later - admiring the view :whistle:) Linda Ellard came and stood next to me as we both reflected on just how 'pleasant' the view was from where we were standing - it was only when she had gone I notice Mike on the balcony... probably watching us... watching the view... sorry Mike - was just a bit of window shopping :D



The highlight of my whole night, was when Cruella shoved me forward and said, go on, ask the 'bare chested Samba Man' to dance..... Well, I thought I died and gone to heaven! He was absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! :


You didn't need much of a push as I recall hun :D and you certainly gave as good a you got!!




And at the end (he obviously didn't know the 'rules':whistle:) he picked me up, feet up in the air and span me so fast, I got a head rush! :

Shocking behaviour :wink: and fancy you getting a "head rush" - whatever next??!!

I was only sorry not to have lasted till the end to do a bit of muggling to the Utopia's classic closing tracks, although I am sure Val, Lory and Fletch sang loud enough for me too - next time!!

Cruella
24th-May-2008, 07:18 PM
Groovy Dancer (Dale) was serving cocktails and there were two enormous totem poles,
Why is this line making me blush :blush:

The highlight of my whole night, was when Cruella shoved me forward and said, go on, ask the 'bare chested Samba Man' to dance..... Funnily I did the same to Tessalicious :D (I was too scared to ask him myself though :rolleyes:)but I did stand and watch and you looked fab!
I really enjoyed it last night, I found the atmosphere to be buzzing! I ran out of steam though and had to leave half way through Rocky's set so I could get home without falling asleep at the wheel. :sad:
I really felt for Linda, it was hard for her knowing that it was the last Ashtons for her and quite a few others. I'd like to thank her though for making a great effort and giving us some fantastic nights over the years.:hug::flower:

Maxine
25th-May-2008, 09:59 AM
I’ve had some brilliant dance nights recently but Ashtons Friday top them all. Brilliant and friendly atmosphere. Fantastic dances thanks to MarcusJ(Pele), Gav, DTS, and newly met Steven666, good to meet you and really enjoyed the double trouble with you and JayJay and I’d say it’s bikini woman’s loss because I thought you were a great dancer. This great evening has only made me lament the closing of Ashtons more (if it wasn’t bad enough already).:tears::tears:

Music was very fast at times but I tried my best to keep up but must admit was relieved when Rocky did his Utopia Set, that was brilliant – but Rocky those shorts

Thanks to Fletch for giving me a really nice compliment about my dancing, really appreciate it.:flower:

Only down side to the evening was being told off by son when I rolled in about 4am – ‘what time do you call this’. Felt like I was 15 again, but the aches in my body and feet told me otherwise

CheesyRobMan
25th-May-2008, 10:16 AM
Had a fab night at the belfast boat club at the ceroc NI freestyle - mini report:

The Good
Music was great, just one track I didn't really like and that was personal taste, but it all flowed very nicely and followed the pace of the room
First proper attempts at blues and they worked! :grin::grin::grin:
Lynn's red 'catsuit'...
Venue never got uncomfortably hot
Attentive bar staff and lots of free water
Generally just a great atmosphere, lots of people having lots of fun
Dances with drathzel - never boring...

The Bad
Me being too tired by 12:45am to dance properly to fast tracks like Candyman - my legs had given up by that point
Not getting round to dancing with everyone I intended to

The Confusing
Being asked if I did tango by a lady who obviously did - "erm, no... :what: "

All in all a great night - looking forward to next month's event! :respect: to drathzel for organising, running and DJing the night.

StokeBloke
25th-May-2008, 01:12 PM
MARIACHI!!!!!


OMG!! Last night at Sarah White's in Oakham was .. umm was ... was the reason why I started dancing. WoW!! The music was so much more than delicious, but let's stick with that for now .. I am really struggling to put last night into words. CJ's set was everything I had looked forward to - then some.. then some more. You made our night with some of your selections, and one in particular. Huge respect mate :worthy:

The venue was rammed with people just soaking up the music. The atmosphere that Sarah managed to create wasn't like your normal freestyle. It felt intimate, experimental, fun and so friendly. I saw no little cliques or bunches huddle up just dancing with each other either. Everyone seemed to be dancing with everyone. The whole night felt like a warm private party with great tunes, great dancing, laughter and friends. Perfect.

Then, you are stood looking out across the floor at the mass of dancing people thinking how life don't get no better than this... when Sarah struts in carrying fresh, cold fruit (and donuts and cakes for the carb deprived). Sarah you seemed to have thought of everything. Yilander was flitting about like the fix it up fairy giving the evening a little nudge here, a little tweak there. What a team.

I simply didn't have enough time to get around to dancing with everyone that I wanted to. But at a risk of leaving some people out (and I know I will)... huge thanks to my girl Twirlie for all of our dances. Trouble! Looking A-M-A-Z-I-N with dances to match... see how much fun lead and follow can be hehehee. It was just fantastic to see Smiley Sue before Southport, I thought I was going to have to wait another week - what an unexpected fantastic treat! Rosie :love: :hug: Finally got to dance with the delightful Eeore. Sarah White - Southport girl... your dance card is well and truly marked!! Fletch, our pole dance was .. interesting!!! Yilander was as gorgeous as ever. Easily Led; wow that was a beautiful dance we had - I loved every second of it. I know this is starting to sound like an Oscar acceptance speech, but I also need to thank Genevieve and Marianne for playing on the dance floor with me. There are other ladies that I don't know but I would love to thank. Especially those who came and asked. I didn't have one bad dance all night... not one. Wow!

R-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oll on Southport

If you we're at Mariachi in Oakham last night; you missed something very special. Don't miss it next time - seriously!!!









P.S. Apologies for the exclamation mark abuse in this post!!!

Agente Secreto
25th-May-2008, 01:57 PM
Mariachi - Oakham 24 May :waycool:

Echoing Stokie's comments, last night at the Oakham Mariachi was brilliant.

The venue was full of amazing dancers :drool: and the floor was filled all night. Yours truly set the ball in motion by being the first guy on the floor (my wife will tell you how unlikely that would have been only 2 short years ago) just after arrival and the die-hards were still going strong at 01:30 and so had the pleasure of hearing CJ play Tenacious D's track F**k Her Gently as a warm down!!! :eek:

I hardly sat down all night, and I'm definitely feeling the effects of that today being stiff in places I'd forgotten I had.

Too many forumites there to list, some coming from miles and miles away and happy to have many new people that I'll know at the Forumite's Gathering on Friday at Southport (5 sleeps to go).

The atmosphere was superb, I like the Oakham venue anyway but last night was particularly good and people were intermingling all over the place.

The Brilliant

Simon Rich and Nicole Beckey - their fun class really brought home some of the principles of connection - their cabaret slot was great too.
CJ :worthy: played a superb set that kept the floor filled all night (helped of course by the fact that everyone was well up for it). I've been at all of the Mariachi event so knew what to expect and this was delivered.
Ladies - you were all up for playing to the music. Even the challenging tracks were attacked with enthusiasm. It was great to dance with all of you and thanks for making an old guy look good. :rolleyes:The Not-So Brilliant

Can't think of any except for me running out of energy mid-track several times - I've always had a challenge keeping going for 10 minutes at a time:whistle:
OK, maybe one thing. The floor was a bit too slidy for me. Changing direction for someone of my size requires some traction and this was difficult to find in placesAll-in-all an outstanding way to warm up for Southport next weekend. Did I already say only 5 sleeps to go!!!!

Those of you that have yet to experience Mariachi should think seriously about remedying that soon ...........................

Pete

Lost Leader
25th-May-2008, 08:23 PM
I need to give this review of the Mariachi night at Oakham some context. My partner had a bad sore throat which developed out of a nasty fluey cold she had a few weeks ago (don't worry she is way past the infectious stage). Although she was feeling less than 100% I persuaded her to give the evening a go, but in hind-sight this perhaps wasn't the best idea as the venue was very hot and the sort of challenging music played isn't an ideal way to ease yourself gently back into dancing after missing it for a couple of weeks. Consequently she did not have a great evening and we left not long after midnight. Inevitably these personal circumstances will have somewhat coloured my view of the evening, so I would like to stress particularly that these are just my own opinions.

On the plus side the quality of dancer present was high and it was nice to see so many forumites there. The venue also looked great and Sarah served up some delicious fruit and other yummy snacks at midnight which was just what was needed. Simon and Nicole performed an impressive showcase and taught an interesting class. The floor was also good to dance on, if a little crowded at times - it's fast but this time that didn't really bother me.

On the not so good side I would have to mention the temperature. I know all dance venues tend to get hot but this was pretty bad. It did improve a bit later in the evening when someone managed to open a window. It is an unfortunate fact that hot air rises and the dance floor at Oakham is up on the first floor. For me also some of the music played just didn't light my fire (sorry CJ). I've got nothing against guitar based music - in fact I like it, but personally I would have preferred shorter tracks (nothing over 5 minutes). I also felt that too many tracks were simply just pretty damn hard to dance to. Should any of this really concern anyone? Quite simply no - it is just my personal opinion and quite evidently there were a lot of people there who really enjoyed the music. MJ is a broad church when it comes to music which is something I applaud. The sort of music I would prefer to dance to would be less liked by others. It is just a matter of personal taste.

I did enjoy some of the tracks and I still managed to have some really nice dances. I also enjoyed watching some of the fabulous dancing on show (CJ and Maya in particular I saw doing some amazing stuff). In different circumstances I would probably have enjoyed the evening a bit more but perhaps Mariachi is just not my cup of tea (or it may just be an acquired taste).

rubyred
26th-May-2008, 12:08 AM
Mariachi at Oakham

Really sorry to hear you didn't have a good night Lost Leader and I hope Easily Led is feeling better soon.:hug: I have to say that I really enjoyed my dance with you, and I look forward to dancing with you soon.

I have been wanting to come to a Mariachi night for ages, and I have to say I really enjoyed the difference that this night offered, both musically ,and then of course how to interpret the music. The playlist did offer a few challenges, but had great fun in trying to meet those challenges. Thank you CJ x.


Simon and Nicole's display was fabulous, and Nicole your dress was beautiful.

Sara as always puts in such an effort to make everything look and feel good and it certainly did. :respect:From the hall looking great, and the snacks towards the end of the night which were spot on for a sugar/energy rush. I just feel like I am coming home when I go to one of Sara's dos, everyone is really friendly and I am made to feel really welcomed.:flower:

As always lovely to meet up with friends, including Trouble, DTS, Dai, tsh,[you're on the ball with the photos already]Fletch and family,Stokie and Twirlybird, Yliander,Genevieve, Claire, Steve, Debbie, Argento and Mrs, and lots more, and to meet some new people from the forum, Smiley Sue, Jivecat, Joanna C.:flower:

I had some awsome dances, and one of my highlights has to be the steal I had between Blueshoes and Stoke Bloke:love:, how to make a girl feel good WOW:D.

Great night and good fun, and now to bed cos I am done.

tsh
26th-May-2008, 12:44 AM
Two great nights in one weekend - Mariachi, then Berko.
I was worried that Mariachi wouldn't meet my expectations, but I was wrong :respect: Then maybe in contrast, what felt like an even better great selection of music than usual at Berko - safer, and less demanding maybe than some of the experimental tracks from CJ, but still great to dance to - and between the two, more people than I expected to dance with this weekend :)
Just hope next weekend is as good...

Lynn
26th-May-2008, 01:10 AM
Had a fab night at the belfast boat club at the ceroc NI freestyle :yeah: I had a really good night too.


Music was great, just one track I didn't really like and that was personal taste, but it all flowed very nicely and followed the pace of the room I really enjoyed the music last night. There seemed to be a good mix of styles that worked, and I got to play about with some more interesting tracks.



First proper attempts at blues and they worked! :grin:Yep, definitely working! :D

Lynn's red 'catsuit'...:blush::innocent::D

I also liked the tap water on the bar, the temperature seemed to be just right, and personally I managed to get a nice balance between some socialising and lots of dancing and got round almost everyone I wanted to dance with.

I like doing the stroll at the end of the night - I think its a great way to round off a freestyle as it means that people who weren't up for the 'last track' can all get up and join in and it ends the night on a group dance and on an energy high - but its not as tiring as a fast track.

Great evening!

Jive Crazy
26th-May-2008, 07:00 PM
The bitch in the bikini always dances with me Steve lol

Caz
26th-May-2008, 11:54 PM
Goole Bank Holiday Monday

Had a fab night tonight at Goole at Mikey's class :D

Interesting as we were a little short on men (too much boozing cos of Bank Holiday me thinks..) but Mikey did a double trouble class which went down a storm! Great to see everyone doing it in freestyle time too. I now am known as Tigger Trouble tho.. thanx... me, trouble.. never.... :whistle:

Fabulous night. Great to see all the dancers that have come so far since I last visited... Hope to make it back there very soon..

Had a luscious dance with Mikey too :grin: Its been far too long!

:flower:

Trouble
27th-May-2008, 10:04 AM
MARIACHI NIGHT

Better late than never as they say.

Fantastic points

1. Dancers. Everybody in that hall had great musicality and was able to feel and dance the music.
2. Music. Even the experimental tracks were good. I did not hate any of it, quite the opposite.
3. Atmosphere. This was electric the minute we walked in. We were there early and it stayed electric the whole evening, even at the end when many of us could hardly walk.
4. Fruit at midnight.
5. Friends. So many kisses and hugs, feels like a family gathering.
7. Seeing Stokie and Essie after such a long time.
8. Tors attempt at double trouble with me and DTS - poor girl, not good thats us not her.
9. Stokies new dance style, very dominant and very sexy.
10.TSH taking such great pics
11. Meeting new forumites

and finally for the highlights;
8. Sleep over at Dave and Sara's. Finished off the weekend for me, quite literally. Lost Sunday completely in a haze. 7am jumping on trampolines, Ruby sleeping in wrong bed, Blue shoes looking quite unhappy at loosing his bed, DTS falling asleep at the table, DTS doing SAS in morning to avoid the dog biting his ass, Daves fantastic cooked breakfast. Raiding Sara's chocolate and of course fantastic company.

Negatives
1. Bar - charging for water. (tap) This really annoys me.
2. My feet not lasting as long as i need them too. (makes note to get some new footwear)

Missed;

1. not dancing with everybody i wanted to dance with

Sara - another great nite xxxx

dave the scaffolder
27th-May-2008, 06:05 PM
Mariachi at Oakham.


What can I say ....

I was Magnificent

I thank you.

Ps me knees are shot to bits could not dance the last thirty minutes as the knees gave out on me.

A modest little DTS XXX XXX

dave the scaffolder
27th-May-2008, 06:06 PM
Ashtons.

What can i say It was magnificent.

DTS XXX XXX

jivecat
27th-May-2008, 10:33 PM
For me also some of the music played just didn't light my fire (sorry CJ). I've got nothing against guitar based music - in fact I like it, but personally I would have preferred shorter tracks (nothing over 5 minutes). I also felt that too many tracks were simply just pretty damn hard to dance to. Should any of this really concern anyone? Quite simply no - it is just my personal opinion and quite evidently there were a lot of people there who really enjoyed the music. MJ is a broad church when it comes to music which is something I applaud. The sort of music I would prefer to dance to would be less liked by others. It is just a matter of personal taste.



:yeah: Quite a lot of the music did not inspire me to dance and although there were some cracking blues tracks I couldn't always find someone to dance to them with. I was brave enough to ask Simon Rich for a dance, though. Like LL, I did appreciate that most people in the room were not likely to agree with me over the music. Lots of tango, I enjoyed that :grin:. Next time perhaps we could have some Piazzolla for the experimental track, that'd challenge them alright!
I've only been to this venue twice but both times I have been impressed by Sarah's organisation. I love the healthy snacks at midnight, like nursery tea. It's a lovely room, easy to find and park, the floor is good if a bit slippy (not frighteningly so.) I didn't get there for the class this time but my previous visit (Valentine's Ball) had a fun musicality competition organised by Sarah which I thought was a fab idea.
It was nice to meet Joanne C from the forum, hope she didn't mind my nosy questions!

StokeBloke
7th-June-2008, 03:12 PM
Sara White's Purple Ball - Bedford :)

Last night we traveled down to Bedford to dance with Sara White and her gang! Now you may think that a 250 mile round trip is too far for an evening's dancing, but...

We have never been to the Bedford venue before - the really high ceiling seemed to work to keep the room at a comfortable cool temperature all evening. That coupled with free iced water on the bar, and a midnight snack of chilled fruit and muffins kept everyone buoyed up right through to the late finish of 1:30am!

The dancers were a real surprise too. So much musicality in one room! You can sure tell that Sara's dancers get far more in their class nights than semi-circle to the left and step back :respect:

Talking of dancers... how great to see Trouble and DTS again so soon after Southport. I had loads of time on the floor with Twirlie Bird :awe: I some wonderful dances with the gorgeous Trouble, they just keep getting better and better! I had a real fun dance with Tor and a delightful dance with Ms Fletch. There was a lady there who looked very Lindy in her dancing, super fab fun dancer! Sorry I don't know your name if you're reading this! Ohh and did I mention the dance I had with Sara to Night Prowler :swoon:

Later in the evening the lights were brought down and the whole room took on a lovely ambiance. A cracking little night, but... 125 miles each way is a stretch - even for a hardcore dance tart like me :D

fletch
8th-June-2008, 02:48 AM
The dancers were a real surprise too. So much musicality in one room! You can sure tell that Sara's dancers get far more in their class nights than semi-circle to the left and step back

Talking of dancers... how great to see Trouble and DTS again so soon after Southport. I had loads of time on the floor with Twirlie Bird I some wonderful dances with the gorgeous Trouble, they just keep getting better and better! I had a real fun dance with Tor and a delightful dance with Ms Fletch. There was a lady there who looked very Lindy in her dancing, super fab fun dancer! Sorry I don't know your name if you're reading this! Ohh and did I mention the dance I had with Sara to Night Prowler

Later in the evening the lights were brought down and the whole room took on a lovely ambiance. A cracking little night, but... 125 miles each way is a stretch - even for a hardcore dance tart like me

:yeah:

We managed to find a kibab house on the way home just to keep my little man happy, but in true blokie style once his belly was full he was soon in the land of nod, leaving me with that journey home alone. :sick:

Such a shame we are only a few miles from from each other, madness.

It was a nice surprise to see you two walk in, I also got chance to watch a few dances which dosen't happen very offten, i'm normally dancing or chatting. TB has a loverly style she does some really nice flicks, I think I might try and nick

DTS just sparkeld, you spangly pearson you.

and Joe asked me to mention when Trouble lifted her dress to reveal her stocking tops, wow mom she has loverly legs.':respect:

I have a new pearson I keep making a bee line for every time I hear a 'good track' TSH sorry i'm becoming your stalker. :eek:

Just have to mention 'rock on' by David Essex, I had such a crush on him when I was young :love:


hey did you bogaloo did ya, and where do we go from hear ? :worthy:

Fab night Sarah roll on next week for 'The Tor's party

Lost Leader
8th-June-2008, 10:36 AM
Rugby free-style last night was a really, really good night. Several things worth mentioning:

- The early 7:00pm start allowed room for a 1 hour blues class and an earlier than normal start to the free style dancing.
- Though I wasn't able to get there in time for the class I did catch the end of it and it looked really good. You can obviously cover a lot more ground in a one hour class than in a 30 minute ice-breaker class. Really pleased to see that the class was very well attended. Huge :respect: to Marc and Rachel for offering this sort of added value. A few more classes like that will really help to improve the standard of blues dancing which can only benefit everyone.
- Switching these events to Saturday has several advantages, I doubt the early start and the one hour class would have been possible on a Friday, more people are willing and able to get there in time for a class at starts at 7:15pm, and people have more time to dress up (there were some fab outfits on display). There were also quite a few dancers there who I don't remember seeing at the previous Friday Rugby free-styles.
- Marc played an absolute blinder on the decks. Track after track I just had to dance to :worthy:
- Because we had a long blues class to start the evening off the general feel of the music was more "bluesy" from the start :grin:.
- The miracle of the toilets, I simply could not believe it. The sinks were spotless and there was an array of toiletries provided (deodorants, talc, hand wash, moisturiser etc.). The ladies loos even had nail varnish. Who performed this miracle? Rachel of course. Thank-you :hug: it was wonderful.
- Loads of great dancers there, both male and female. I didn't have a bad dance all night. Nice to see Joanna C making a guest appearance and dancing so delightfully.

Yep, this was without doubt a great night, and for the next one Marc said he is trying to arrange for an even later 2:00 am finish. How :waycool: is that.

dep
8th-June-2008, 11:38 AM
............ when Trouble lifted her dress to reveal her stocking tops, wow mom she has loverly legs.':respect:Next, you'll reveal whether there were suspenders as well.
Oh, stop it I'm getting all flushed.

tsh
8th-June-2008, 11:46 AM
- Though I wasn't able to get there in time for the class I did catch the end of it and it looked really good. You can obviously cover a lot more ground in a one hour class than in a 30 minute ice-breaker class. Really pleased to see that the class was very well attended. Huge :respect: to Marc and Rachel for offering this sort of added value.

I made it in time for the class, and was impressed by both the amount Marc managed to fit into an hour, and the enthusiasm of the dancers there. Even though they seemed new to blues, they were easy to lead, which was great.
I was a little disappointed with the general dancing after that, quite a lot too modern, and the floorcraft was pretty much non existent. It quietened down a bit towards the end which was a massive improvement.
I did have a few dances which were good enough to make it a worthwhile trip though :)

Sean

DavidY
8th-June-2008, 12:55 PM
The miracle of the toilets, I simply could not believe it. .The first thing Lost Leader said to me when I arrived: "you simply must go to the toilet!".:rofl:

Actually the thing I most appreciated was the hand-wash at the sinks, rather than having to rely on disreputable scrag-ends of soap bars.
I was a little disappointed with the general dancing after that, quite a lot too modernSomeone said more-or-less the opposite to me - I think they wanted more fast, modern tracks. Who'd be a DJ?!

I thought it was a fair balance of music overall- it wasn't particularly branded as a musically different night on the Ceroc Central website for instance, so I guess some people would have come expecting "normal Ceroc" music. The music was probably a bit different to other Ceroc Central freestyles, but not outrageously so.
I did have a few dances which were good enough to make it a worthwhile trip though :):yeah::D

dep
8th-June-2008, 02:13 PM
Love dance, will travelI thought it was have dance, will travel, but maybe you're older than me.:wink:

DavidY
8th-June-2008, 02:22 PM
I thought it was have dance, will travel, but maybe you're older than me.:wink:Well actually it was meant to be a variation on "Have Love, Will Travel" - recorded by The Sonics amongst others.

dep
8th-June-2008, 03:32 PM
you're a lot younger than you think.
Have gun, will travel comes from the 50s.

jivecat
8th-June-2008, 03:55 PM
- The miracle of the toilets, I simply could not believe it.

I never got as far as the toilets, must've been a good night then.:grin:

The cute French brothers were a real find! Thanks, lads!

Easily Led
8th-June-2008, 05:15 PM
I n

The cute French brothers were a real find! Thanks, lads!

I have to agree with this - both excellent natural dancers :worthy: and I don't think I have seen them before. With the early class the night seemed to go on forever ..... in a good way! Well done again to Marc, Rachel and Kirk :clap:!

Caz
8th-June-2008, 06:42 PM
I never got as far as the toilets, must've been a good night then.:grin:

The cute French brothers were a real find! Thanks, lads!

Wasn't there but I think the French brothers were at Camber last time.......:flower:

jivecat
8th-June-2008, 10:19 PM
Wasn't there but I think the French brothers were at Camber last time.......:flower:

One lives in Cheshire, the other in Milton Keynes, I think, but they did mention Camber.

Trouble
9th-June-2008, 01:38 PM
Pics from Sara Whites Purple party now on facebook.

Great night was had on Friday and again last night at her charity do. She raised lots of money whilst we all had a great dance.

click on link,, you have to be my friend to see it though guys xxx


http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28181&id=703675948

Moondancer
9th-June-2008, 03:37 PM
I had a terrific night at Rugby, not been there before, but I do plan to go back (hopefully to the freestyle with the late extension). The music was good, I had some fun dances, and I was dead impressed with the stuff in the toilets! I got there a bit later on so I missed the class, unfortunately.

…I didn’t know that accent was French, but I enjoyed my dances with those guys too!

Lory
15th-June-2008, 01:07 PM
As someone who readily confesses to being completely nonplussed about Hammersmith, I went there last night with no great expectations!

The football was on and I suddenly thought, blow this for a lark, I'm going dancing! :devil:

Well, to say I had a great evening would be a complete understatement, it was FAB, I'm not sure if I can put my finger on why, cos some of the music was pants but the dancers and the dances, more than made up for that! :worthy::waycool:

I didn't sit down once! :clap:

Although I admit, I did save the powder-room breaks to coincide with some of the really naff stuff!:whistle:

Agente Secreto
21st-June-2008, 11:07 AM
Red Hot and Blues - Edinburgh - Brilliant Night

Agent 000's been in Edinburgh this week and not feeling too perky for a variety of reasons. Going out last night to RH&B helped blow away some of the problems for a few hours. I always enjoy RH&B, and make a point of timing my visits to coincide with the 3rd Friday of the month if I can. I hardly sat down all night - had some outstanding dances which really helped lift my spirits after a very stressful week.

The Good

Music was superb - Dance Demon's sets always do it for me - I like the way he plays with the mood of the music and I hear tracks from him that I don't often hear anywhere else. We also had a guest DJ last night, DJ Chill from Wetherby. Unfortunately technical problems meant that we didn't get to hear 50% of his set - better luck next time Pete. Only one challenge, did I miss the blues tracks? I must have been changing my shirt or making the duty phone call back home when the blues tracks came on. I should have come and made a couple of requests because I needed a couple of more bluesy things last night, but overall the Demon delivers as usual.
Dancers - couldn't make a call on the guys since I didn't dance with them :waycool: but so many good lady dancers there that I hardly missed a track all night and I had loads of great dances which were all very playful. I met ShinyWeeStar and she joins the growing list of ladies NOTB that I love dancing with. Good to see Est101 (almost managed to accommodate her playfulness :devil:), Claire S (can she ever dance without her tongue poking out:innocent: - and do you have to match that action if you're properly connected) and Little Monkey (see below for comments). Also Firefly who I only ever manage to catch when I'm at RH&B and who is a real pleasure to dance with. Ladies :love:, my head wasn't quite in it last night at the start but you were all superb to dance with and by the end you'd all helped tease me out of my temporary shell.
Venue - Harvesters Centre is located in the bandit country of Wester Hailes, not a place to go for a late night stroll, but the venue itself is good. The dance floor is a good size and the drinks are relatively cheap. RH&B has such a good atmosphere, people are very friendly and even occasional visitors like myself feel part of things straight away - mind you many more visits and I'll start being a regular.The Not as Good (can't use the word bad in association with RH&B - totally inappropriate)

Time - Although the venue kicks off at 20.30 and finishes at 01.00 I always find a problem getting enough dances with the ladies that get my creative juices flowing - probably because many people seem to arrive around 21.30.
Little Monkey - you're in the not so good category because we only managed 2 tracks last night which is simply not enough :mad: - this will have to be sorted next time. You can't just whet a man's appetite with a couple of tracks and leave early you know - we're complex creatures.All in all, as usual Dance Demon serves up a great night at RH&B, well worth a visit if you're in striking distance of Edniburgh.

straycat
22nd-June-2008, 02:50 PM
Well - this may not quite be approved of (if not, mods, feel free to remove this post) - but I had an absolute blast last night at the (our) second Urban Blues event.

We had a great turnout, and it was such a pleasure to be able to really indulge myself on the DJing front, play all the blues music that I love, watch everyone else really throw themselves into it, and snatch some great dances with folks while I was at it.

It's been a dream of ours for a long time to have a great pure Blues night up in the Northeast, and in consequence, we're pretty much on cloud nine at the moment...

stewart38
25th-June-2008, 10:05 AM
Went to bicester last night for the first time in 9 months and only my second time

Quite a change to last time, a nice crowd (60+) and great music (reminded me of Southport blues room cira 2005 )

Amazing how I live less then 3 miles from this venue and have only ever been twice ,plan to go again

Good teachers, good Taxi dancers and cheap bar prices soem air conditioning and decent loos and easy to park :waycool:

gebandemuishond
26th-June-2008, 07:29 PM
Yes last night at Northwich was amazing, largely thanks to the lovely Rosie (rubyred) :flower: with whom I had some fantastic dances, I can't believe you've just started tango (must be a natural...).

Also had the chance to do some WCS with the northerners, which is always fun :nice:. After seeing so much slating of the NW dance scene here recently, I've got to say I was very pleasantly surprised by the standard, lots of very good dancers (followers anyway), and some decent music to be heard.

It might also have been my last regular night in the UK, so thanks to all who danced with me :grin:.

Dan

rubyred
26th-June-2008, 07:34 PM
Yes last night at Northwich was amazing, largely thanks to the lovely Rosie (rubyred) :flower: with whom I had some fantastic dances, I can't believe you've just started tango (must be a natural...).

It might also have been my last regular night in the UK, so thanks to all who danced with me :grin:.

Dan

Thanks Dan I think it was all in your leading :clap:Really glad you had a good night and I can't wait to dance with you again soon.:flower:

rubyred
28th-June-2008, 02:00 AM
Well the night was suppose to start with a tango lesson at a club Cuba Cafe in Manchester and end with a Milonga at the Dance House. Couldn't leave Cuba Cafe....the club is tucked into one of the little back streets of the Northern Quarter of the City. Small little place with loads of atmosphere and brilliant music. I stayed on to dance tango, then salsa, then cha cha, and even more tango and more and more. Had a magical night of dancing. :flower:

Mini Mac
28th-June-2008, 10:04 AM
Well i didn't actually go dancing last night i went to my year 11 prom and it was amazing, i never left the dancefloor and i did teach my friends some modern jive, i think the highlight was when candyman came on and i started trying to jive with my girlie friends and then my best mate lee who does ballroom and latin and his parents all teach it came over and said we'll do modern jive and he was really good and as soon as everyone saw us dancing they all crowded round in a big circle and then lee said we'd do ballroom jive so we were chasaying away and one of my hopes was that he'd dance with me properly and he did so it totally made my night and everyone was cheering so i was so happy.:awe:

rubyred
28th-June-2008, 10:28 AM
Well i didn't actually go dancing last night i went to my year 11 prom and it was amazing, i never left the dancefloor and i did teach my friends some modern jive, i think the highlight was when candyman came on and i started trying to jive with my girlie friends and then my best mate lee who does ballroom and latin and his parents all teach it came over and said we'll do modern jive and he was really good and as soon as everyone saw us dancing they all crowded round in a big circle and then lee said we'd do ballroom jive so we were chasaying away and one of my hopes was that he'd dance with me properly and he did so it totally made my night and everyone was cheering so i was so happy.:awe:

What lovely memories you will have of your prom, so pleased for you baby :hug:

Mini Mac
28th-June-2008, 02:35 PM
What lovely memories you will have of your prom, so pleased for you baby :hug:

Just to show you how much fun i had here are a few pictures of us jiving to candyman lol:love:

SilverFox
29th-June-2008, 07:02 PM
Dance Junction – Rochester – Ceroc Kent Monthly Freestyle - 6 June 08

I think I’ve stumbled across the best regular freestyle night I’ve ever been to!

Location:

Very easy to find. Just off the M2 at Junction 3. Don’t be put off by the fact it’s in a trading estate, you will be pleasantly surprised. Lots of well-lit free parking right outside the door.

Venue:

One word. Wow!

This venue was purpose built and paid for approximately 6 months ago by a salsa dancer.
It’s exactly what you'd want in a venue. Clean, spacious and modern with one of the best dance floors you’re likely to find anywhere. It’s gorgeous. I've included a pic below.

Along one side of the room is an entire mirrored wall whilst at the other end is a lovely bar and lounge. The bar is staffed by dancers who are so polite and friendly. Prices are good and the beer is ice cold. Attached to the bar area is a cosy modern lounge, A great little place to chill and chat in comfy leather sofas and chairs.

The venue has some serious air-conditioning throughout as well as floor fans to help dry us soggy sorts out.:cool:

Lots of dancers of all standards but still ample space to express yourself.

Upstairs is a dance shop. No, not a couple of folding tables with shoes on them. A proper dancewear shop selling everything you could want for all dance styles. It stays open very late too.

Music:

I was totally blown away by the music at this venue. Going to a regular freestyle night in the sticks I wasn’t expecting to hear such quality sets.:blush:
The 2 DJs Garry and Kam played a cracking combination of main room tracks as well as what I can only describe as Utopia style music. In the last hour leading up to the 1.00am finish, they played a delicious mix of chilled out soul, R&B and blues.:drool:


In summary this venue has such a good feel to it. With so much space to play in combined with that floor and great music I’d challenge anyone to have a bad night. I’m hooked and am going back on Friday 4 July.