Sunny Hunny Soul Weekend

Back in 1975 as a young and very naive 14-year-old at the local youth club disco watching the older lads playing records on the cobbled together Heath Robinson double decks, I thought I’d like to have a go at that and as the saying goes the rest really is history.

Very soon it was me playing the records at the disco. 12 months later I had my own disco system. This then led onto the usual weddings and parties circuit. In 1980 I was offered my 1st DJ residency on a Sunday night playing jazz funk and soul at The Jenyns Arms in Norfolk and this ended up lasting 20 years. During this time I also had many other DJ residences in and around East Anglia.

My biggest influence has always been Peterborough-based DJ Steve Allen who, to this day, still has my utmost respect.

In 2007 I was offered the chance to promote my very own soul weekend in Hunstanton on the Norfolk coast the weekend was soon affectionately known as the Sunny Hunny Soul Weekend.

Initially mainly a 60s & 70s Soul & Motown weekend that also featured a jazz funk room this room has now evolved into a very successful Dance Arena.

In 2013 Soul Family Affair was also born off the back of Sunny Hunny, since then the event has gone from strength to strength.

I have been very lucky to DJ at various venues up and down the country playing mainly Northern Soul and Motown classics, 70s soul and occasionally jazz funk anthems covering soul music from the mid-60s to the mid-80s … Yes, I am a dinosaur that still plays vinyl!