They danced and drank and screwed...

I think for today’s entry I would like to focus on the phrase “dance and drink and screw” as referred to in the 1995 song “Common People by Pulp”. I tend to think about it a lot, especially when I sit down in a pub having a quiet beer on my own, gathering my thoughts… Back in the day when I DJ’ed in Nite Clubs I used to play the song a lot as it was a big favorite with the locals and it also had a lot of relevance to the people I played for and venue I played in at the time. They danced, drank and screwed ... that was the norm of the 80s and 90s… the common people that reveled the night spots that I once ruled.

ALCAZAR NITE CLUB Y2K

Today, however, like most things, it all changed. The norm is bored, if not drug addicted, poor people. I have now heard in more than one radio advertisement the advice as to how to handle your money matters so you can “afford” to go out. Well just looking at what the SA Night Line has to offer is rather shocking and pathetic to what “we” were used to in the good ol’ 80s and 90s SA. I still haphazardly visit the odd DJ Box as a guest to the venues that my brother now entertains – it is almost but not quite depicted as sad. Phuck-me… I guess the “common people” these days do not “dance and drink and screw” all that much anymore….

- ALL CREDIT TO AQUILA FOR THE NICE PICS VIA HIS ELUSIVE CAM - - YUP, EVEN IN THOSE DAYS -