Ashtons

[foxylady]

Went to Ashtons for the first time last night, and what a fab night it was.....


It was busy but not too busy - the crowd was very friendly - a good dancing standard - a lovely floor (although I'm told it wasn't in the usual hall) - a great set played by the DJ (I've never seen him before) - and I had a lovely dance with Mikey (who I never danced with before).... - and danced with a number of other Hipsters regulars...


I'll certainly be going again.

Other than Mikey there weren't any other forumites I recognised - were you there ??

[frodo]

Originally posted by foxylady
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It was busy but not too busy - the crowd was very friendly - a good dancing standard - a lovely floor (although I'm told it wasn't in the usual hall) - a great set played by the DJ (I've never seen him before) ...

Agree with everything you've said there (especially the DJ).

Does anyone know who he was ?

[DangerousCurves]

Originally posted by foxylady
Went to Ashtons for the first time last night, and what a fab night it was.....


Other than Mikey there weren't any other forumites I recognised - were you there ??

It was my second visit - and I really enjoyed it too! I was over in the corner in Mikey's group. We must say hi next time!

[Minnie M]

Originally posted by foxylady
Went to Ashtons for the first time last night, and what a fab night it was.....

Other than Mikey there weren't any other forumites I recognised - were you there ??

There were lots of forumites at Woking last night - and what a great night it was - danced my little socks off

The evening started with TWO fantastic dances with the gorgous James followed by ChrisA, LL, JonL, Roger and the King of Cool himself (DavidB) - had about 3 luffly dances with ChrisA (no Pammy or Mary) - great floor, good music, and not packed (larger venue than Hipsters) AND great air conditioning

There must have been more men than women as I didn't have to ask ANYONE to dance and was dancing all evening

[Mikey]

Originally posted by frodo
Agree with everything you've said there (especially the DJ).

Does anyone know who he was ?

The DJ's name is Bob staal and he does the music at Ashton's in Criclewood.. if anyone wants to e mail him it's

bob@familystaal.co.uk ... it's nice to get praise when a good set has been played... And aprt from wearing some funky T Shirts, he's a really nice guy to talk to as well..

[Mikey]

Originally posted by foxylady
Went to Ashtons for the first time last night, and what a fab night it was.....


It was busy but not too busy - the crowd was very friendly - a good dancing standard - a lovely floor (although I'm told it wasn't in the usual hall) - a great set played by the DJ (I've never seen him before) - and I had a lovely dance with Mikey (who I never danced with before).... - and danced with a number of other Hipsters regulars...


I'll certainly be going again.

Other than Mikey there weren't any other forumites I recognised - were you there ??

Why thankyou kind lady.. i sincerely hope you dance with me agian too..

[Lory]

Originally posted by Mikey
The DJ's name is Bob staal and he does the music at Ashton's in Criclewood.. if anyone wants to e mail him it's

bob@familystaal.co.uk ... it's nice to get praise when a good set has been played... And aprt from wearing some funky T Shirts, he's a really nice guy to talk to as well..

I just Rang Bob and told him his praises were being sung, he's just lost his Dad so this cheered him up alot!

I can also confirm he's a really nice guy!

[Andy McGregor]

Last night Sue and I discussed where to go. We had a choice of Ashtons, Minstead, Woking or Brighton Marina.

As we were busy with the kids we couldn't leave 'til 9pm so we chose Brighton. It's run by Jeff Jasper who I didn't like the idea of giving my money to as he recently told me to 'go f**k yourself' when I asked him if he was going to continue to allow smoking at his Hove Town Hall dances. But this dance was advertised on the internet as free so I went, knowing that the David Lloyd Club is non-smoking, expecting to get in for free. Here is the copy from the relevant section on his site.


BIG SATURDAY DANCE IT’S FREE
At The David Lloyd Club,
Brighton Marina Village
Saturday 3rd JANUARY
2 BIG DANCE FLOORS
GREAT NIGHTCLUB ATMOSPHERE
OVERLOOKING THE SEA
SO DRESS TO IMPRESS
GREAT MUSIC, NON-STOP DANCING
AND A GREAT SOCIAL OCCASION
8pm ‘TIL LATE
MODERN JIVE BLUES & SWING
OR DO YOUR OWN THING….
It’s Free

Guess what?
It WASN'T free!!!
:reallymad :reallymad

By the time we got there and found out we didn't have time to go anywhere else and loads of people were waving hello so we had to cough up our £10 - how that hurt

It sounds like everyone had a great time at Astons and Woking - I'll know better next time

[Jon L]

Woking last night was how Friday should have been with plenty of space.

As well as Minnie M on the ladies side we had of course the lovely Mrs. Barker in attendance.

[Lory]

I had a much better night tonight, thank goodness!

Even though there were a LOT of VERY good female dancers (some of the BEST IMO) and sadly not enough good men to go round! But luckily I managed to have a good time anyway, sometimes its nice to sit out a few, if theres something or someone worth watching! and I did watch, IN AWE!

Bob the Dj did a good set again! and I loved the latiny '10pm Hotspot' track Bob!

[Peter]

I'm glad we had the Latiny one twice! It was fabulous!

You are right about the loads of excellent female dancers last night .. I had a complete ball ... thanks to Lory (tell me honestly, was there enough eye contact?), Linda, Ellen, Amy ...

[Lory]

Originally posted by Peter

You are right about the loads of excellent female dancers last night .. I had a complete ball ... thanks to Lory (tell me honestly, was there enough eye contact?), Linda, Ellen, Amy ...

Just like to point out, I think Peter's thanking me for pointing out all the good female dancers ...(we had a nice time standing on the balcony watching! great vantage point, isn't it?)

And Peter, your eye contact is juuuuuuuust right! IMO

[Lory]

Anyone going to Ashtons tonight? It's the first Friday party night!

[Zebra Woman]

************************************************** ********
Val and Dave, The King and Queen of Blues, show you how to ceroc the blues at Ashtons. Guest DJ Peter Phillips
Wednesday 8th December

Ashtons, Cricklewood Broadway, NW2
************************************************** ********

What a Fab combination

Anyone else coming to this? Miss Conduct and I will be here.

ZW

[Lory]

Anyone else coming to this? Miss Conduct and I will be here.

ZW

Me!

[SilverFox]

Anyone else coming to this? Miss Conduct and I will be here.

Me

Now let me thi....Sold!

[Zebra Woman]

What a night!!! That was the best weekday dance night EVER! Great music right from the very start, well done Bob. Only 3 Bob-erration tracks at the end of the night

Brilliant blues class by Dave and Val

And LL certainly delivered the most excellent set

Wonderful dances..thank you everyone

I did not have a drink all night , and I had to eat two muffins on the way home.

Last night I wore a freshly laundered cardi and this morning there was the faint smell of smoke .So I'd say Ashtons is still a smoking venue but not as smoky as it has been in the past and not nearly as bad as my local Ceroc venues which seem to have smoking clubs at the bar. C'mon Linda you're nearly there. Ooops wrong thread

ZW

[foxylady]

What a night!!! That was the best weekday dance night EVER! Great music right from the very start, well done Bob.
/snip
ZW

So jealous - might have to skip the jive bar and head to Ashtons on a wednesday ! Specially now you and Lory have poached (I mean enticed) SilverFox !

FL

[latinlover]

What a night!!! :

GNGNGNGNGNNGNGNGNGGGNGNNNNNN!!!!

we were all set to go but the baby-sitter was sick.
so we did an hour of salsa each at a local venue
it was ok but a poor substitute (I still have the L plates)-and of course we couldn't dance with each other

[Lory]

What a night!!! That was the best weekday dance night EVER! Great music right from the very start, well done Bob. Only 3 Bob-erration tracks at the end of the night

Brilliant blues class by Dave and Val

And LL certainly delivered the most excellent set

Wonderful dances..thank you everyone

I was in 7th heaven!