David Bowie - Space Oddity

Lorraine Johnson - The More I Get, The More I Want [Rare Original 12 Inch]

Breaker 1 2 - 2

Happy Clappers - I Believe

Uplifting 90's piano house here from Happy Clappers, as featured on our most recent podcast by The Glue..

Podcast 006 - Tony Johns Edits

The mixes just keep rolling in and for this instalment we have the hugely impressive Tony Johns. The big guy hails from London but has been spreading his musical seed worldwide through regular guest slots on a wide range of stations including, we play jams radio (New York), grooveskoolradio, disco 935 (New York), and many more.

This man shows us that funk doesn’t have to mean disco which is the main reason we were so delighted to get a listen to the mix. In future we’ll be bringing a lot more dimensions into the Q&D sound and what better way to get the point across than to have Tony Johns lead the way with his ‘Hippity-Hoppity’, Old-School infused sound.

Already having collaborations with jay negron, alkalino, pied piper, choci roc, fingerman, 80s child, rob ouimet, dj jp-sol, discobody, appo ozone, chewy rubs, dynamicron and tony jacalone to name a few it’s a slight cout for us to have his name down on the roster for our podcast series which, if we do say so ourselves, is starting to shape up rather nicely.

Finally, for all you Q&D heads in Northern Ireland, don’t forget we have Dicky Trisco this Friday 24th January in Sandinos and we hope (expect) to see you there!

Enjoy folks.

Podcast 005 - The Glue

For our next, rather quick fire podcast, we have Norwegian disco juggernauts 'The Glue'. The costumes are reminiscent of a French DJing Duo but the styles are in stark contrast. Crate digging is their forte and grooving is their Modus Operandi. @the-glue


The duo have been kind enough to do an exclusive mix tape for us which offers you all a sneak peak into their eagerly anticipated new white label 12" 'Q&A' which was just recently released on 16 Dec 2013 on Untz Untz.

www.juno.co.uk/products/the-glue-q-a/514850-01/

Sit back and wrap your ears around this little disco delight.
Q&D x

Podcast 004 - Craig Smith Live @ The Gweedore

The first part of this mix come from one of our Q&D residents Barry Crumley. Baz has been continually expanding his music collection and has really found his own sound moving between slowed down melodic house and soulful and lyrically leaning tracks..

We booked Craig to play with us in Newcastle under Twisted Logic a few years back and it was one of the best sets we've heard til' date. He played an absolute blinder of a set, and it was an eye-opener for us all so understandably we've got him in to play at our Christmas Special. This mix is no different where Craig shows his now almost unique blend of house, breaks, and a wee classic thrown in at the end for good measure ;)

EVENT ¦ Dicky Trisco

                         Queen & Disco | Friday 24th January | Sandinos Back Bar

Firstly a massive thanks to everyone who came and partied with us in our first year, there were a few special nights along the way and hopefully 2014 can be even better.

To kick things off, we have a very special guest in the form of Dicky Trisco. DT has been on our radar for years now, and has been one of those DJ's we couldn't not book. His most recent venture, or most notable anyway, is his hugely influential Disco Deviance imprint that has Greg Wilson, Pete Herbert and Ashley Beedle as regular contributors to the re-edit label.

DT packs a little bit of everything into his DJ sets. So expect to hear disco, electrofunk, funk, pop, house and anything else he thinks will work the dance floor. An ever present in his sets are his own ‘DJ edits’ many of which are unreleased and exclusive. And it’s this hot and interesting blend of old and new music, originals and reworks that makes his DJ sets unique.



To top things off we'll be playing both upstairs in the Back Bar and downstairs in the main bar. Dicky will be providing the tunes upstairs supported by Alan Mooney whilst the Q&D residents will be playing records along the lines of funk, soul, alternative, jazz and everything in between downstairs..

Doors will be £4 all night for upstairs.

Groove Armada ¦ Chicago

Basslines and Licks...

Feature ¦ The Smoking Gun

29th March 2004, a day which for some reason, few saw coming, however which in hindsight seems like the most obvious and natural of progression in an ‘enlightened’ society. It was of course the introduction of the smoking ban in the Republic of Ireland. In European and indeed World terms, RoI was quick off the mark and this signalled a sign of things to come. Being from Northern Ireland it didn’t immediately affect me (not to mention the fact that I was only 14 at the time) but it did come into effect on 30th April 2007.

I may not have been old enough to be out partying to fully understand what it meant back in 2004 when the ban was brought into effect in RoI, however I do vividly remember the debates the ban brought about. Would the smoking ban ruin the clubbing experience? Forcing every smoker to leave the dance floor and stand outside in the unreliable Irish weather, often unsheltered, in order to get a smoke. Or was this just tough luck for smokers, who for far too long had been free to smoke all night in over crowed and under ventilated clubs.

The truth, as with nearly all arguments of right and wrong; lies somewhere in the middle of the two. This is not where the problem lies. Of course non-smokers should be free to go clubbing in smoke-free environments, but with smokers leaving every 30minutes to go and get a cigarette the atmosphere within the club suffers greatly and as a consequence, something is lost that cannot be resolved easily.

The answer lies with the forward thinking Republic of Ireland. Just like they were proactive with the smoking ban, they were proactive with finding solutions to the backlash of the smoking ban. Instead of bemoaning laws which aren’t going to be changed, and in reality are a positive thing, they looked to operate within the realms of the law, while in parallel trying to make the clubbing experience as enjoyable as possible.



The result has been triumphant. Shortt’s Bar immediately springs to mind in Waterford. A fully integrated “outdoor” smoking area which offers clubbers the chance to smoke, dance, drink and party without having to as much as leave the room. Smoking areas don’t have to be exposed to the elements. They don’t have to be on the sides of streets or down back alleys. If thought out properly they can add to your clubbing experience and not take away from it.

This may seem obvious, but it clearly isn’t obvious enough to some club and pub owners in the UK and Ireland. Surely now though, in a time when they are struggling to get ‘bums on seats’ it is time to make a change. To finally realise that customer is in fact king and sometimes that a little outlay is necessary for a little in return.

I won’t hold my breath for it but surely, someone has to do something to spice up the nightlife in Northern Ireland and in particular Derry where this fact is more evident than anywhere.
Until at least 2025, when the Republic of Ireland propose bringing in a public smoking ban. In which case, we’re fucked.

Portable ¦ A Deeper Love (Soul Capsule's Ghetto Mix)