100 Club Update: Keith Money - an overdue welcome

This introduction has been long over due, but for those want the skinny on our recruit who officially started duties on the evening of the 26th Anniversary... here ya go!

Keith Money got into Nothern as a 17 year old going to youth clubs, the local Tiffanys and a place in Dundee called the Royal Centre which was the in place to go if you liked soul music.

At the time a huge number of people were travelling from Scotland to England especially from the East coast where there were bus loads every week going to the Wigan Casino and he was one of them that took the pilgrimage South to hear records they couldn't hear in Dundee.

He had some fantastic times and some unbelievable journeys but it was always worth the effort. Some of the beautiful records he heard back then are still some of his favourites today.

Moving on a few years and not going to so many nights as he was working offshore from the age of 21 - but he still loved the music. Because he was not out much he was buying sales tapes to hear different records from the ones he knew and as he got older his taste changed and he found he was buying a lot of mid tempo and crossover records without really noticing it.

He was still trying to go to things as much as he could but he didn't drive and a lot of the faces he'd had known on the scene had since left it.

The big change for Keith came at the second Cleethorpes where he met some other people from Dundee who recognised me from one the Soul nights they had ran and he had attended. They got talking about records and he told them he collected but didn't get out much. When he asked what records they were currently after, they said it was doubtful he'd even knew them if he didn't go out much... Ronnie Henney reeled them off anyway...Bobby Hutton "Come See" on Phillips, Kell Osbourne "Quicksand" on Titanic and Sam Fletcher "Id think it over" on Tollie.

Keith announced to a surprised audience that he had all three records and gave them a couple of his tapes to listen to whilst at the weekender. Those tapes eventually went all over the place and he got a call from the guys who ran the Claremont Hotel in Edinburgh to ask if he would DJ for them.

This was the first time he had DJ'd anywhere and it was at that soul night were the guys who ran The White Heather All nighter in Carlisle asked him if he would do the next one for them too. It all took off from there but as far as Keith is concerned, "the icing on the cake is my residency at the 100 Club and this without doubt does not get any better".