The producer was spinning a wide and superb range of tunes from both CD and 12" vinyl ranging from Earth Wind And Fire's "Brazilian Rhyme", The Blue Velvet's funky version of "Summertime", and best of all Side Effect's cover of "Always There" which drew quite a big but not too packed crowd of people ranging from those in their late teens to mid 40s.
Other tunes included a few bass heavy breakbeat tracks from the 80s and even a selection of rare ska tunes which lead nicely into the ever popular "Get A Move On" from Scruff's debut album "Keep It Unreal" from exactly 10 years ago.
The set continued until around 6pm although by then I was at the Furthur stage watching "School Of Imagination" with Paul and his sister who had come specially for today.
After their performance had finished I bumped into David again where we spent about half an hour chatting about various radio and jingle stuff and how himself and the South East Today team have to come back here tomorrow to collect various cables and equipment.
Other stuff I chatted to Laura and Paul about included how bad the sound set up was at the Cowshed which was literally that, involving acts performing in an empty cowshed with a specially set up stage.
Roots Manuva was there last night as were the Horrors on Friday and quite a lot of people were let down by the acoustics. Edwyn Collins is there tonight so goodness knows how the former Orange Juice vocalist will fare.
I pretty much stayed at the Furthur stage for the rest of the evening as that's where JTQ were performing, and didn't they give off a superb performance.
Joining them on vocals was the delightful looking Yvonne Yanney who performed "It's All Over" from the 2006 album "A Taste Of Cherry" as well as a few impressive covers including Carole King's "I Feel The Earth Move", and Donny Hathaway's "The Ghetto".
The highlight overall was seeing them perform "Starsky And Hutch" which went down well and there was even someone stood behind me blowing bubbles onto the stage. The band returned for two encores and James was selling copies of his "Live" CD for £10 at the end of the performance.
John, one of Mum and Dad's friends wanted to buy one but he only had a fiver on him, but buy a bizarre chance James had ran out but gave John a copy of his latest album "New World" for the £5 note which having heard a few of the tracks I'd say is definitely a good bargain.
Here's a few more photos taken throughout today;
Scruff on stage.
More unusual attendees.
An unsteady shot alongside Laura.
JTQ take to the stage. In two minutes
the area was packed.
The ever attractive Yvonne.
The plan was to then head back over to Hoedown to see Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip but they'd been delayed due to the preceeding act just starting 10 minutes before my arrival.
I decided that it was best to leave whilst I was still enjoying things and it has probably been the first festival I've genuinley enjoyed.
Having it near to home has been an advantage but it's proved that there are people within the area who live for such superb performances and tunes overall with today's acts being a highlight.
If I'm still living here I will definitely be attending the 2010 Lounge and I'd love to get a few of those from London to see what they have been missing, in favour for the overcrowded and possibly over hyped fusstivities of Reading, Leeds, Glasto, and so on.
Then again if anyone reading would want to come to Lounge next year, you'd have the advantage of staying at my house, as opposed to camping.
For me it was definitely enjoyable overall, and well paced in terms of how I spent my time there.
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