All Entries in the "Playlist Features" Category
Nick Van Tiel’s Free NZ Download for Charity
Well Van Tiel’s skills don’t end at his ability to make awesome drinks the man is also a dab hand behind the decks (do they still call them that?).
Music Playlist Feature – Killer Riffs
Turn your bar into Mojo for the night with a Spotify playlist of killer riffs
Under the radar in 2010: Top tunes you might have missed
The biggest-selling tunes of 2010 were, by and large, rubbish. These weren’t big sellers, but they were aces…
Music Playlist Feature: Northern Soul
Party season is upon us, and the punters want to dance. Forget crunk, grime and X Factor failures… Give em’ some Northern Soul
Music Playlist Feature – Funk Juice
“Funky” is a description of the music made by LSD-addled space-dudes who wear boots so towering they’d make a steeplejack puke from acrophobia, and whose trousers are tight, sparkly and bulge alarmingly at the crotch.
Music Playlist Feature – Sunday and All That jazz
You don’t want your clientele suffering from the aural equivalent of ice cream headaches, so make sure there are soul-warming standards in the mix, along with some friendly modern sounds.
Music Playlist Feature – One Last Hurrah?!
“Oh, no! Four-o!” “18 with 22 years’ experience.” “Life begins at…” It’s no wonder people feel blue on their 40th birthdays, the messages on the greetings cards are real pissers.
Playlist Feature – Greatest Bits: Teenage Fanclub
They’re Teenage Fanclub, a band of such excellence that even their patchiest work micturates from high altitude on to the current batch of axe-and-drum twerps
Feel Good Hits for the Summer
Sun, booze and music go together like rum, lime and sugar. Daniel Selwood provides a musical garnish for Summer nights on the sauce.
Weekend Warriors: Louis W
In the first of an occasional series, BarLifeUK meets one of the many part-time mix-masters who are filling bar dance floors across the nation every weekend.
Hellbent For Leather
Your thumb should be facing away from you, as if you were offering the Black Power salute. Now fully extend your little finger and index finger, to give the impression of your fist having horns
Gettin’ Jiggy With It
Daniel Selwood confirms what we have long suspected… He’s a bit of a perv.
The Politics of Dancing
Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands war, Dynasty, bleached fringes, the IRA, yuppies, the Chernobyl disaster, MTV, shoulder pads, the miners’ strike, Aids, Ben Elton: the Eighties were horrible.
Anti Twat Music
If you want to make good pop selections with ease, you’ll need to first make a sacrifice. Give up three hours of your (spare) time on a Sunday afternoon and listen, really listen, to the Radio 1 chart show. It won’t be easy, and it won’t be pleasant…
The Whiff of Cheese
There are only two kinds of tunes: belters and duffers. What the legendary Gram Parsons said about country music is applicable to all melodic sound: “It’s music; either it’s good or it’s bad; either you like it or you don’t.”
