Boots N Blisters American Line Dance Club

Given 'The Boot' IT WAS champagne all round last week for the Boots N Blisters Line Dancing Club in Dulwich when they won the coveted Crystal Boot Award, the Oscar of the line dance world.
Very much an international event, the Boots N Blisters is the only London club ever to have been nominated.
And out of all the thousands of line dance clubs in the UK the judges were most impressed by the Dulwich dancers. To celebrate the team returned from Blackpool to a huge party at their base in Lordship lane

Southwark News March 13 2003


	Given 'The Boot' IT WAS champagne all round last week for the Boots N Blisters Line Dancing Club in Dulwich when they won the coveted Crystal Boot Award, the Oscar of the line dance world. Very much an international event, the Boots N Blisters is the only London club ever to have been nominated. And out of all the thousands of line dance clubs in the UK the judges were most impressed by the Dulwich dancers. To celebrate the team returned from Blackpool to a huge party at their base in Lordship lane Southwark News March 13 2003
	Their art's in their boots LINE dance maestros Emma Wilkinson and Robbie McDonald have clinched the industry's most coveted award. The heel clicking duo have led Dulwich based Boots N Blisters to national fame. Members are delighted after the Lordship Lane club won Linedancer Magazine's award for best in the country. Emma said:"It's amazing - like the Baftas of line dancing. "We've been nominated a couple of times before but this is the first time we've won." Emma and partner Robbie from Nunhead, set up Boots N Blisters over six years ago. It now runs three times a week from St Thomas More Social Club in Lordship Lane and the St Cyprians Social Club in Braxfield Road, Brockley. They have approximately 700 members on their books, with 250 regular visitors. BLISTERING: Emma Wilkinson & Robbie McDonald who run Boots N Blisters, the best little line dancing club in the country © South London Press Friday March 7th 2003	'Richard and Judy Show' Emma Wilkinson is to appear with her South London based Club, Boots N Blisters on The 'Richard & Judy' Show this Friday, the 28th March. At extremely short notice Emma Wilkinson was asked to get ten of her members together to dance with Richard Madeley and Hollywood heartthrob, Colin Farrell. That sounds easy enough, until you consider that it was 7.30pm, and they were due at the studio by early lunchtime the next day. Midday, and they were there…ready willing and able. Colin Farell, the guest star of the show, had professed to be a bit of a star on the line dance floor the last time he had met up with Richard & Judy. The celebrity couple had therefore challenged the Dubliner to a display of his expertise, the next time he visited, accompanied by Richard. There lay the next draw back. Richard Madeley had never line danced before. Emma says, '…being a novice, I was promised an hour with Richard, to teach him a 'Tush Push', but when push came to shove we had little more than five minutes, and a few snatched moments in corridors…. a bizarre situation, believe me! And not the best advert for my teaching, though I have to say, if Richard had been given the time to learn the dance, I believe he would have done very well" Emma says, "It was all good fun, and I sincerely hope that it comes across that way. It's always a worry with this sort of thing, how it is going to be edited, and what it'll look like…my biggest nightmare is always to get caught up in the old 'Emmerdale' type situation!" "It was a pleasure to meet both Collin Farrell and Richard Madeley, who was a true gentleman, and great fun." The Crystal Boot Award winning club will appear on 'Richard & Judy', Channel 4, between 5-6pm (though a little birdie tells me it will probably be the last article on the show) Friday 28th March.