
I was at the age of 15 years old working on a Frampton farm in the nights and on school holidays.One of the women that were picking cauliflowers next to me did say that she wanted to rent a disco for her sons 18th birthday party function and how much it was to hire a mobile disco eighty pounds for 4 hours. We were working 12 hours on the farm for forty pound in 1984 but that 40 pound a day was very good money at that time.! So I think 4 hours for two days money wow…! That day all I could think about was starting a disco stage lights & sound equipment hire rental service so I start to ask the women what did the discos do and what discos offer why they were good or bad disco’s.
That night I go home and look in the local paper the Boston Target then find advert for a disco for sale. 150 pounds so I phone up the number. And that night me and my dad go to Boston in the car to the address of mans house to look at the music equipment. That night was the time I first met Mr. Stewart Dixon He was selling his second Sound & Lighting hire unit. I look at the Fal disco decks 150watts, two Fal 12*2 inch speakers and pulsar light controller I like them so I bye it.


Them Stewart started to tell me what you had to do to run a good disco! ”I am doing a disco hire this Saturday at the old hospital do you want to come along and see what I do”. So I get my Dad to take me in the car to Boston on the Saturday to the old hospital. I go in to find a very big professional road show disco setup. That night Stewart starts to teach me how to run a mobile disco hire service. After that I went along with him every night he did a disco rental. I don’t think I could have got a better DJ as teacher to show me the ropes of running a disco. Mr. Stewart Dixon was an exceptional high quality professional disk jockey.
After a couple of weeks I get my first sound rental job was at hedgehog bridge center for the venture scouts party for only 15 pound but was ok and the night when well did not have many records them. The scouts most of them had brought along one or two of their own records that they wanted to be played.
After about two more weeks my friend Stuart had a double bucking for the disco. So Stuart past me the job of a children’s party at Gosberton Spalding church hall. That night my friend from school Darren Grooby came along to help me with the disco 7-9 o’clock at night I got forty pounds for the night. I was so happy my sound equipment hiring it was starting to work.
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