DJs in pinstripe suits.
According to the Financial Times‘ How to Spend It supplement, investment bankers are now getting into DJing:
… with the explosion of clubbing culture and people genuinely feeling younger for longer, people are taking to DJing later in life. Bankers and lawyers who might annually let off steam in resorts such as Ibiza now want to be able to take to the decks themselves at after-hours villa parties.
Point Blank Music College is currently running intensive DJ and production courses for the be-suited ‘professional market’. Ali Marij, an investment banker for IMG and a Conservative candidate hopeful, is an alumni. He says of a recent gig — the Conservative Party’s Black and White ball:
I played some great US funky house music rather than Dancing Queen, which they’re more used to at Tory balls. One of the best things I did in that set was to play The Weekend, a track by Michael Gray, with Margaret Thatcher’s ‘This lady’s not for turning’ speech over the top. It was great — all these lords were jumping around going crazy for it.
Aaaargh.
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