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This page has been set up for customers
visiting the SEEDS
website who may wish to know a little bit more about me and my experience in entertaining people. The links
at the bottom will take you to the SEEDS disco
main
website.
SEEDS
(AKA Essex Discos) has been established for over 20 years, is run by NIGEL
WAYMARK, who formed a group of working DJ's together
to work under one name. Though we are not an agency,
if we are double booked, we are confident in giving our
another of the DJ's phone numbers/details, as all of
us are full time professionals and have loads of
experience offering a quality service. Nigel has been in
the mobile disco business for approaching thirty years, and
enjoys entertaining a crowd as much as he did when he
first started. Nigel's entry into the business came by
chance where in his first job after leaving school he was
talking to a work colleague about starting a mobile disco,
an older work colleague overheard this conversation, and
asked Nigel if he would like to join him as his
"roadie" and learn the business. Over the next
two years Nigel helped out most Saturdays around the
halls, function suites and hotels of London. "My
Tutor was older then me and taught me all the
basics", said Nigel " I learnt a lot,
like what a quickstep or a foxtrot is!".
At
the same time Nigel joined Basildon Hospital Radio "I
also wanted to learn the basics of how to speak to an
audience over the radio" and it wasn't long
before he was doing a couple of shows a week including the
all important Request Show, "it was a great chance
to get out around the wards to cheer people up a little
bit". At the same time Nigel purchased his first
mobile disco gear and started to advertise. It was not
long before he was working for a local disco agency in the
Southend area. "It was a baptism of fire, as I was
at first given the work other DJ's did not want to do, but
the agency boss got good feed back on the work I did and I
was soon promoted". Nigel was then picked up by
the now sadly missed Radio Basildon. He started doing a
few "off peak" shows, and then was given the
chance to work on the regular evening show. "He
sometimes used to co-host these shows with his girlfriend
(now his wife).
Nigel
flirted with the Pirate Radio, and was heard regularly on
Canvey Radio as "Steve Wymark". This was a risky
business, and it was time to make to some important
choices in his life. The first was to concentrate on
mobile disco work full time, and the second was to get
married (now separated but with two
smashing children). "I now concentrate full time
on my mobile work and have built up a happy customer base
who book me from year to year". I also enjoy
covering the slightly more mature discos, like Ladies
Nights at a Masonic Ladies night or being a
"informal" Toastmaster at a Wedding Breakfast. But
weddings and parties are what I enjoy the most. With
Weddings some DJ's see it as a problem when you get two
sides of a family together who have never met before to
enjoy themselves, but I love every minute of it. People
like to dance to the music they know & love, and
that's what I play! I am also proud to say that over 80%
of my work is repeat bookings or recommendations".
The
other big change in Nigel's life has been working back on
the radio, "all the DJ's who joined S.E.E.D.S were
involved with radio in some way, and kept on telling me to
get involved again". So dusting off my Headphones I
approached a number of station with a format, and the idea
of Nigel's Smooth Classics" was born!" The show
features Soul favorites from the last 40 years and
majors on Artists like Luther Vandross, Teddy Pandergrass,
Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross, plus some of those long forgotten
12 inchers from the 77 to 83 dance scene. The show is
taken by eight stations around the world including Holland,
Spain & USA. When the new FM station for the Maldon district
started (Saint FM), Nigel was picked up and now
presents a mainstream show on Sunday's from 11am. The show can be heard
in the East Essex area on 94.7fm or www.saintfm.org.uk and
Nigel is just about to get up early again Mon to Fri to do the
Gateway Breakfast show 87.7fm 6am to 9pm in the Basildon
and East Thurrock area or worldwide at www.gatewayfm.com (starts 27th November).
HIGHLIGHTS
AND FUNNY BITS
NIGHTS
TO REMEMBER?
I was booked at a 50th
birthday party, when I got there the lady & her
partner told me they had got married very recently on the
quiet! You have never seen so many surprised and happy
faces when I announced this to the audience!. Another
highlight was at a wedding, I knew the bride groom's mum
(from a number of other do's I had done in the area) &
asked her if she was enjoying the evening? "Oh
yes" she replied, "we're
having a great time, just like the time you did his
wedding reception when he got married to his first
wife!!"
TELL
ME MORE ABOUT "S.E.E.D.S."?
I got together with
the DJ's shown on our website so we could all work under
one name, and to pass on a reputable DJ's telephone number
to a potential customer if the DJ first called was already
booked. We all know that there are many
"cowboys" in this business.
WHAT DO I
LIKE?
Meeting People, and
making them happy (sounds a bit corny but it's true), and
people telling me what a great night it's been!.
WHAT DO
I
NOT MISS?
VINYL or records, when
I think back to all those dusty scratchy discs, all the
different formats 7 inch, 12 inch, and albums, it's so
much easier now with my PC based system.
