In the very late sixties the band I was running around with were getting really good. They’d made a record. I thought they were going to go a long way. So I was investing quite a lot of time, not money, but time, in them. And sadly, they just suddenly broke up. And that was the end of them. But before they broke up i’d met a couple of lads who were DJs. Both of them worked at Mecca and places like that. And I became very friendly with them. And when they heard that the band had disbanded they suggested that we buy the PA equipment and the amplifier, speakers and things and we get some double decks and start a mobile disco. I still had my van so I could carry the kit about from place to place. And we could do mobile work in between them working at Mecca.

Within about three weeks of starting we got a residency at a pub in Menston and the landlord wanted us to do several nights there. And of course the lads were committed to working at Mecca quite a few nights so I stepped up and became a DJ. Not a very professional one to start with! But I honed my DJ skills at the Hare and Hounds at Menston.

And so that grew throughout the seventies. I was DJing and I actually started working at Mecca as well. Doing different sort of jobs to them. I mean, there was a whole fleet of DJs working at Mecca. Not every night but different nights. And they had nightclubs that were open till 2 in the morning so sometimes you’d work at those and sometimes you’d work at the dancehall which finished a lot earlier. And the DJ work went on like that.