
08/08/2025
Amen! Forgive me Lord, I am a spinner. I was DJing from the Pulpit at St Lukes which meant I opened my set by looping the “Dearly Beloved…” intro of “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince. I only ever go on the mic a couple of times a night but I did acknowledge the fun of my location and mentioned I had been an altar boy (St Bride's in Cambuslang, facts fans). I also played “Faith” and inevitably as second last song, “Like A Prayer”. Normally I would cut out each of their fairly long intros, but on this occasion I kept them in and raised my hands.
In the same way as a good comeback to a school bully comes to you hours after they have punched you in the face, it occurs to me now I should also have played Father John Misty (I like “Chateau Lobby” so much it was on my highly prestigious fortieth birthday party playlist), and a few other things. Then again, I can run jokes into the ground, so maybe less was more here.
Speaking of more and less, Steph had given me clear instructions to deploy several vigorous remixes (e.g. Digital Dog x “Love Story”) “post buffet”, but Graeme appeared in the pulpit to instruct me to get back to the pop. I won’t write out here the half hour of early noughties pop that was played in case it hurts my valuable street cred, but let’s just say obsessive viewing of late era Top of the Pops, many nights in The Garage, and hungover mornings in front of CD:UK came into their own. Life is indeed a rollercoaster. A beautiful couple and lovely guests, I genuinely had something in my eye watching Steph and Graeme singing “I always knew” by The Vaccines to each other at the end – it felt really very powerful and romantic (swipe for a wee video).