Whenever I've had a bit too much to drink I end up uttering random catchphrases such as the title of the blog post which pays homage to Dermot O'Leary's rather ridiculous entrance line on The X Factor.
I'll go onto those in a bit more detail later.
The night started off at around 7 where I arrived at the Undercroft at 7 where member of bar staff and Chris's other half Aoife told me to immediatley get on the decks and start spinning whatever I had brought with me.
The tunes I played went down pretty well with those present, which included "Lady Sun" by Earth, Wind And Fire from their 1981 album "Raise" which has to be in my top 5 EWF tunes. I even felt the need to loop the part of the song with the line "shine like, the sun" as it has a superb chord progression, similar to the one in Incognito's "Everyday" where it changes from the more relaxed middle 8 back into the main chorus. Unless your a die hard EWF or Incognito fan you'll have no clue what I'm on about.
Other tunes I played included a tune by Matt Bianco which went down well with a Spanish student who loved their "faux latin rhythms" and "Spiral" by the Crusaders by a fella who recognised the tune immediately despite the fact that I've only known the tune for a few months. I'm tempted to play it on the soul show tomorrow and have got quite a good link to use into it.
Chris and Phil arrived in good time with a few extra CDs and a much needed pair of headphones to make my beatmatching spot on and on the advice of the bar staff I started mixing the soulful stuff with a few up to date tracks from artists such as Estelle, and The Pussycat Dolls.
Chris and Phil took control of the music by the time the Auction went into action with Nana Charlie as the compere.
Those in attendance included fellow TV students Matt, Rupert and "Producer James" who present one of the best daytime shows on Smoke, as well as the majority of Flat 16 who put themselves up for bidding as a collective.
This is where things got a bit too bonkers because as the bidding progressed, whenever they asked for offers at £7, I immediately shouted out "seVEN!" a la Len Goodman which resulted in Chris unable to control himself as well as a few others despite them not being the biggest fans of Strictly as such.
What was even more irritating was that Barry who was present with Denis and the Irish lads was asked to come up but didn't bother although I felt a bit stupid when asking Steven and Caroline if they were putting themselves up for bidding when it's more than obvious that they are an item.
By the time the night ended Phil H was spinning some rather bizarre tunes such as "54-46 Was My Number" by Toots And The Maytals which I felt the need to join in with. The plan was to head up to Trinity but not before helping Sarah, J.C. and the Undercroft bar staff to do a bit of tidying up as well as drinking a bloody revolting shot of The Famous Grousse and tieing me up in festive ribbons.
With that all out of the way we headed to Trinity but not before stopping off at a Barclays to get some money out of one of a "Hole In The Wall". This obviously resulted in me bellowing Dale Winton's infamous line "Bring On The Wall!" and making myself look even more stupid.
When we got into Trinity we met up with those who had spent the night at the Junction.
These included Potty Lottie who I've actually changed the name of her number to on my mobile, Sophie, Alice, Matty I.D and Rob who I've felt the need to start calling "Leslie" as he shares the same surname as the fella who presented "The Price Is Right" before Bruce Forsyth.
The music they played was pretty much contemporary with the likes of The Kaiser Chiefs, Artic Monkeys and a few songs that involved whistling such as Peter Bjorn and John, and Noah And The Whale.
Towards the end of the night they played a few older tunes such as "Help" by the Beatles "I'm A Believer" by the Monkees and "Message In A Bottle" by the Police.
As soon as we left quite a lot of us headed to the kebab shop nearby where Lottie managed to get a quite a bit of grub including a pizza which she accidentally dropped as we were walking past the libray on Harrow campus.
Quite a lot of people were walking back eating rather unhealthy stuff but when you're really pissed you can't blame them.
The catchphrases kept on coming as I said goodbye to everything when I went into my flat by uttering Bruno Brookes' legendary line "Whatever you're doing tonight, have a nice night!", a line that I've more or less stolen for the end of just about every soul show I've done on Smoke Radio.
I haven't even gone to bed yet as I've barely eaten since lunchtime and plan to gorge on some lovely mince and penne pasta as you do.
I've even got to be up at 10:00 for an appointment with Viju in the Harrow counselling department but I know it can be done as I only spent about 3 hours in bed after getting back from the Student Radio Awards two weeks ago.
It's a tough task but someone's got to do it.
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