Music:
Member Since: 10/23/2006
Band Website: dj78.co.uk
Band Members: DJ78 - the UK's premier gramophone DJ!
Influences: Sheila Ravenscroft (The Pig) and her big 78s, her dear late husband John, Any music that sounds scratchy, His Master's Voice 101s & 102s
Ron Diggins - The world's first mobile DJ - still going at 90, Ambrose & his Orchestra, Max Miller, The Sons Of The Pioneers, The Nightingales, Little Richard, George Formby, The Cramps, Howlin' Wolf, Rev. Fred Lane, The MC5, Hank Williams Sr, The Stooges, The wonderful instrument that is the Ukulele, Duke Special
Photographs by Diane Arbus, David Hemmings in Blow Up, Wilko, Lee, John B. Sparks & The Big Figure, Benny Goodman, Eric Gill, Dickie Dansette, Little Walter, The Sugarcubes, Willie Dixon, The Midland Hotel in Morecombe
Gene Krupa, The Mekons, Fats Waller, Alfred Jarry, AsbestosLeadAsbestos, Pere Ubu, Alan Guttridge, Nigel Molesworth, The Crickets, Paris esp. Montmartre & Pigalle, New York City, Cambridge, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Spike Jones, Spike Jonze, Link Wray, The Fall, Rob Da Bank
Toe Rag Studios, Louis Prima, Kevin Rowland and Dexys in all incarnations, Tove Jansson, Louis Jordan, a fair bit of Northern Soul, Mark Lamarr, The Bad Livers, Gustav Holst, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jacques Brel, The Kaisers, Henry Purcell, Literal Music Videos (eg this one by Fuck Dress)
Jake Thackray, The Monks, Microdisney, Jimmie Rodgers, P.G. Wodehouse, Lester Young, Magazine, Slade, Kurt Vonnegut, The Ealing Comedies, The Minutemen, Ms.Lora Stimson and her evenings at The Birdcage, Marion and Y'all in Norwich, Steve and Ali at What's Cookin and the lovely wife Karen.
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Record Label: Regal-Zonophone
Type of Label: None