I got there late (10pm) after our car broke down on the M25 and we had a cold 90 minutes in police provided silver blankets on the hard shoulder (the policeman looked too young to have reached 6th form btw - I am old now) before it was fixed.
I also went in my usual disguise of chefs trousers so that no one would know who I am.
I do know that Funky Lush is so very different from the majority of the other MJ events that it is going to be something you either love or hate. I have been to a few of the FL events when they were at Southhall and one at Burnham and a lot of the music I find very challenging (along the lines of - what the hell am I supposed to do with this). But being someone that spends the whole weekend in the blues/WCS/chill room of weekenders, slower, more expressive and interesting music is my spice in an otherwise dull MJ scene.
However
I found the music at FL dull, even to the point of boring me. It reached a point when I was dancing with a really fantastic follower and she suggest we dance the next track as well and I had to tell her that the music was not saying a thing to me. It was different to a normal MJ night but I found the music uninteresting within itself.
I returned to my partner, hoping she was having a better night than me to be met with the question "can we leave?" and me to reply "oh, yes please".
I don't know if the music that Toby plays has changed so much since my last visits to FL or if our tastes in music has changed since more involvement in WCS and cha cha. I do feel that our tastes and Tobys' have diverged but I think Toby should stay with his vision of the music he wants to present. Some will like it, some new people will come to like it, and some, like me will like it and then its' attraction will fade away.
It's really pity to have something like Funky Lush move closer to where you live only to find that I have moved away from it.
Well I didn't have one bad dance all night (from my point of view anyway ) and I'm sorry I didn't get around to asking you. I'm afraid I'm not very good at remembering to introduce myself and ask the name of the person I'm dancing with, so there's a social aspect of dancing for me to work on.
Quote:Was nice to hear a different style in music and see the non forumites that were in to their WCS.
Hi there, not only are we WCS dancers, we are Forumites and have been there for a long while, and we have been on the MJ scene way too long to talk about.
The WCS fraternity is quite close knit, our numbers were down on Saturday.
I think, cos:
1. The men were extremely busy (Woodface, particularly, from what I saw), and it was often hard to find a man to dance with, let alone stand chatting to.
2. Given the amount of WCS music, I didn't feel very confident asking men to dance until it was music I was more comfortable with.
3. I did actually spend a lot of time catching up with people I already knew but hadn't seen in ages.
4. I've learnt from the past that it can get quite embarrassing starting conversations with random strangers along the lines: 'So, um, are you on the forum?' [Usual response: Huh, what? What forum??]
But you're right - it would have been nice to have made contact.
I guess it won't help to say that I was the one in the little black sparkly dress, as I think that's what all the women were wearing!
Rachel
.......so there were nearly 30 forumites there.
As a proportion of the total number of people there, is that unusually large? (A record?).
If I go to my usual places (St. Albans, Stevenage, Luton, Watford, Berko, Hatfield, Chesham) - I don't meet any forumites (apart from seeing Rachel in the Blues Room at Berko, Icey, Lory at Chesham)..................and as Rachel says, you don't go up to someone and say "Are you in the forum..........".
Maybe there are forumites at those venues (most likely Berko....)...who knows.......? It's not a big thing, however, it can be nice to share a connection in that way.
I'm sure my path must cross with loads of forumites, without me ever realising it! And I'm bad enough remembering people's real names, let alone their forum alias. In fact, we danced before we realised we were both on the forum, didn't we, Jivelad?
But I'm not overly worried. If a connection is made and you seem to be getting on well with someone, then it's likely to come out sooner or later if you're on the forum. If you don't get on with someone, then having the forum in common is not going to make you like them any better. So I'm happy to sit back and not push myself as a forumite - just let conversation take it's natural course.
However, people to ask if you ever want to know who anyone is, including forumites, are:
Minnie M
Lory
WittyBird
Fletch
Between them, they know everyone!
R.
I was a little bit worried when I saw the women flocking into the venue ... but all in all I had a terrific night ... probably because there were some women that put up with my terrible lead and my even more terrible WCS lead!
btw thanks to those who helped me get another WCS move into my repertiore (Modchick will be particularly pleased as she is a little bored of my two and a half WCS moves)!
There were plenty of usual suspects missing ... not sure where they were!
Lovely dance with Gav ... what a smooth and gentle lead you have .
In fact lots of lovely dances (with one spectacular woosh moment while dancing with Simon Borland - oh I do like a good woosh!).
The only thing I would say is that I didn't get a WCS dance with a man all night which was a bit dissapointing (and yet the norm) - if you dance with those who aren't part of your tight knit group then you will have more good dancers to dance with ...
Finally, I still have no idea who Jivelad is OR David James ... please put me out of my misery and introduce yourselves!!
And Almost an Angel is 100% correct ... you can hardly miss me - am 6'2"!!!
SuzyQ
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