Play on!

It's Friday and in the UK that can mean downing tools and hitting the pub, putting on your glad-rags and hitting a club or just hitting your bed thankful that it's the weekend at last.

I know which one I'll be doing.

It's been a loooooong long time since I went to a club. I don't even know if they'd let me in. I might embarass myself in the queue, trying to be 'down' with the youth only to end up showing myself off for the old git that I am.

Still, back in the day, I was a bit of a fiend. I used to squeeze myself in my hot-pants, put on my make-up, bouf out my weave and wobble my backside to the discoteque. That's right.

Favourite music? Calypso which, like Nigerian music, has a beat which commands that you must move! No standing still and posing here. When the DJ starts playing, you start swaying.

Not sure though if club music now has anything I could relate to.

I can still shake my thang - once I've taken my cod liver tablets that is - but music today sounds so samey. Where's the originality?

I tell you what I'd like to hear on Radio One or Capital - a fresh piece of (ahem) 'ethnic' music to really show the Brits what rhythm is all about.

I'm not talking about sampling a little tune in a bedroom studio, I'm talking about melody, a beat, some bass and a hook that fastens itself into your brain.

Music is something you should feel. Anyone of us who have been 'back home' - whether it's Africa or the West Indies - will know that unlike the stiff-up codgers of UK Land, the old people overseas REALLY know how to move. And they ain't shy. They're shaking everythang they got, and why not? Music is the soul of life so play on!

And DJs of the UK's main radio stations - listen out for what you call 'world music' and put it on your show! The winter nights are drawing in and making Britain shiver? What better to warm us up than some sunshine music from home?

 
Posted by: Joycelyn Bruce on 17 October 2009

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