Recipe time!

Dinahmow is tutting again at all this "new-fangled stuff"...

Take a large dollop of this:

Vernon Burch - Get Up [1980]

...a pinch of this:

Herbie Hancock - Bring Down the Birds [Blow Up, 1966]

...mix together with a smattering of complete madness - and you get this!

Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart

This classic - a staple of house parties here at Dolores Delargo Towers - was the summer hit of 1990, and still sounds fresh today!

Your groove I do deeply dig

Heavens.

In the stress of adapting back to the world of work and all that goes with it after Amsterdam, I neglected another "fabulous at fifty" birthday on Thursday...

Many (belated) happy returns to a true example of a "triumph of art over nature" - it's Lady Miss Kier!

Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart

The chills that you
Spill up my back
Keep me filled with
Satisfaction when we're done
Satisfaction of what's to come

I couldn't ask for another
No I couldn't ask for another

Your groove I do deeply dig
No walls only the bridge
My supperdish, my succotash wish

I couldn't ask for another
No I couldn't ask for another

Groove is in the heart
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Groove is in the heart
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Groove is in the heart

The depth of who to groove
moves me too, I'm seein' who
we're going through too, hard nasty, who woo

I couldn't ask for another
No I couldn't ask for another

DJ Soles, it's time to roll
I've been told, he can't be sold
he's not vicious or malicious
just lovely and delicious

I couldn't ask for another

Lady Miss Kier

I've been to a marvellous party

We had a house full here at Dolores Delargo Towers for the annual "Bah Humbug" (aka Xmas) party. Food was Breton-style, with a buffet AND the most enormous "Kig ha farz" (Brittany's equivalent of the traditional French "pot au feu"), courtesy of housemate Lionel. Crates of booze were stored in the garden (colder than the fridge at the mo), and we made an admirable attempt to demolish the stocks while enjoying my selection of our weird and wonderful music.

And so, dear reader, I felt the need to share just a little soupçon with you...

Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart

Billy Cotton - The Marrow Song

Propellerheads feat. Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

Bananarama - Love In The First Degree

Madonna, Britney, Christina and Missy Eliott - Like a Virgin

Bernadette Peters - All That Jazz

Deborah Harry - I Want That Man

We had a fabulous time, as ever - next up is the New Year's Eve bash!