Mrs R's Retro Roadshow

11/12/2025

Owing to a cancellation I've got Mad Friday 19 December free - HMU if you're booking a last-minute disco and we can work something out! x

09/12/2025

2026 DATES! We're all done at The Red Shed for this year's residential, but GOOD NEWS, we start again on Sat 3 Jan to chase your post-Xmas blues away!

See you on the dancefloor 💃🏼🪩🕺

09/12/2025

Hey Featherstone! I'm up at The Prince of Purston on NEW YEAR'S EVE - it's *always* a stunning night at this unique venue, needle down at 7pm and goes on until silly-late. Expect a huge range of tunes from 60s beat to 90s indie, 00s pop-punk to 80s synth-pop, and good old 70s rock - all played from 7" vinyl singles.

James will be on cocktail duty behind the bar, requests are welcome and the dancefloor is OPEN 💃🏼🪩🕺🏼

📆 Wed 31 Dec, 7pm-late
📍The Prince of Purston, WF7 5LY
🎟️ Free in

07/12/2025

Selecting some awesome songs to play over at Chin Chin Brewing Company this afternoon 🍻 Cheers to everyone who came along, I had a blast and it was brilliant to see so many of you! Special thanks to hosts Dave and Gemma for having me, and hope to see you all again soon! 💃🏼🪩🕺🏼

📸 Our Helen ("the other Mrs R")

07/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who came along to The Red Shed last night for our final Wow residential of the year! I'm back there on 3rd January for a blues-busting night of big tunes to cure you of your post-Crimbo hangover, don't miss it 😘

Meantime, today I'm up at Chin Chin Brewing Company in South Kirkby for Chin Chin Christmas Brewtap, a fab Sunday teatime of great tunes, Christmas crackers, and great ale straight from the source! Needle goes down at 4pm and it'll be awesome!

See you on the dancefloor 💃🏼🪩🕺🏼

06/12/2025

TONIGHT at The Red Shed, it's disco time again - and we've got the Christmas box too! Lots of new 7" bangers and bops in the cases and I'll be playing some of them in a seasonal Crimbo Night Out - and it's ALL played from 7" vinyl singles with original 70s and 80s dancefloor lights.

Needle goes down at 7pm, requests are welcome and the dancefloor is OPEN!

It's a retro disco just like they used to be!

📍 The Red Shed, Wakefield
📆 Saturday 6 December, 7pm-11:30pm
🎟️ Free in, 18+
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly
♿️ Fully accessible

See you on the dancefloor! 💃🏼🪩🕺🏼

05/12/2025

I'm proper proud Mrs R's Retro Roadshow has been accepted as a member of our local collaborative business network We Are Wakefield 2025. This morning I was out meeting lots of new folk (and some old pals) at the First Friday event, talking about how the Roadshow's a bit different and how we can make your event go with a proper bang! Thanks to Production Park for hosting us (although their lights and sound are perhaps a bit too modern for us!).

💃🏼🪩🕺🏼

04/12/2025

Lunchtime giving my spare console (The Purple Meanie) a run-in before the weekend's gigs. Had the good grace to wait until the neighbours were out before blasting this one... 🎄

04/12/2025

RIP Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, off to join Donald "Duck" Dunn for a heck of an afterlife band - he died yesterday at the age of 84. I found him initially via the Blues Brothers film but then discovered exactly how much he'd contributed to.

Here he is playing guitar with Sam And Dave on "Soul Man" back in 1974. Awesome work. We'll have this on Saturday I think.

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02/12/2025

SUNDAY 🍻 with at Chin Chin Brewery in South Kirkby, I'll be spinning classic bops alongside Christmas bangers at the annual Christmas Brewtap! Needle goes down at 4pm and it'll be AMAZING!

See you on the dancefloor 💃🏼🪩🕺

02/12/2025

My new flyers have arrived - thanks to everyone who said lovely things! 😘

Time to get them into shops and venues now... 🚶🏼‍♀️

(Technics SL-1200MK2 for scale, obviously.)

01/12/2025

Once again it's time for the annual scrap about what the best - and worst - Christmas songs are.

Since last year I've acquired about 150 Christmas 7" singles for the gigs I have round this time. I could go with some obscure ones, but really the best Christmas song ever is *still* "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses.... although you may disagree ("Fairytale of New York" is a fave of many).

And the worst? "Wonderful Christmastime". Paul McCartney, really mate, it's a keyboard demo at best.