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DJ John Stapleton

Bristol-based long-term DJ, record collector, occasional promoter and owner of Wanted Records

12/09/2025

This month’s edition of my Field Trip show on Totally Wired Radio has now been uploaded to Mixcloud - what better way to spend a couple of hours on a rainy September day?

Music and records from Nigeria, Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Benin, South Africa, and Dominica.

Afrobeat, highlife, afrofunk, cadence, merengue...

Please have a listen, share, comment, favourite and so on - every interaction helps!

26/08/2025

An action-packed weekend over the Bank Holiday, record-buying road trip based around playing the Roots Corner at Shambala Festival on Friday night. Really enjoyed playing, and great to hang out (even though briefly) with old friends and make a few new ones! 339 miles travelled, and a boot full of new records for the shop - and a few for me, of course! Massive thanks to Roger (my partner in Wanted Records) for tour managing / driving / troubleshooting / digging. Great to finally meet too. Shouts to all the shops we visited!

25/08/2025

This Saturday! Proud to join many fabulous Bristol DJs for this benefit for the people of Gaza. Please come and join us - and stand with a community facing unbelievable hardship. 🇵🇸

14/08/2025

New Field Trip show is up on Mixcloud now, 33 West African 45s from Nigeria, Ghana and Benin. Please have a listen! Link in bio…

10/08/2025

A few interesting (for me, anyway!) gigs coming up. This Friday I shall be playing at the Roman Baths in Bath, as part of their Summer Lates series. No idea what I’ll be playing there yet, it’s an opportunity to play a few things that don’t get an outing that often - though the temptation to play purely Latin music in a Roman setting is obviously a strong one. On Saturday I shall be at the excellent Elmer’s Arms in Bristol playing 60s moddy psychy garagey things for Purple Heart Surgery. The following Friday it’ll be a return to African and Latin bangers for a late night slot at the Roots Corner stage at Shambala Festival. Always fun to switch it around a bit!

07/08/2025

Wash day!

16/07/2025

Looking forward to a couple of different gigs this weekend- playing ska and rocksteady at Ashton Court Mansion in Bristol for a sublime revival session with some very serious other people on the bill, then off to Wales with Boom Operator on Saturday for the Big Love Festival. Heard loads of great things, but never made it before!

❤️

25/06/2025

Off to with Will for a couple of days- playing Luna25 at 4pm…

22/06/2025

I’ll be playing records today at Bristol’s Festival of Saint John later - to celebrate Bristol’s twinning with the lovely city of Porto. Live music, DJs, barbecue and wine…

27/05/2025

Looking forward to my first ‘soul’ gig for a while- this Friday at The Curse of Love in Bristol. Might pull out some 60s classics as well as a little funky stuff… then Easton Standard Time on Saturday, of course!

13/04/2025

Spent a lovely few days in Marseille, shows that Record Store Day really is every day! Looking forward to playing some of these on a big system soon! Good to catch up with friends in a superb city as well… massive thanks to .marseille for great records as always

12/04/2025

Can any library music / publishing experts tell me anything about this charming artefact I’ve just picked up? Five LPs in a plastic wallet, with music lead sheets for all tracks… and some interesting things on there as keen eyes will see from the labels I’ve posted…

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Bristol

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https://www.mixcloud.com/johnstapleton/

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