An up and coming DJ, keen to assert his oldskool credibility, has claimed to friends that he once owned a copy of New Order’s Blue Monday on vinyl when in fact he didn’t.
Mikey Murphy, a 22-year-old deep house/techno/disco DJ from Dublin made repeated claims to have owned several classic tracks on vinyl while enjoying an old skool session with friends via Youtube.
“We were just having one of those days with a few drinks and playing some classics from the 90s like Nalin & Kane Beachball or Tall Paul Rock Da House,” explained Mikey’s friend David. “A few of the lads made passing comments about having had some tracks from the 90s on vinyl like Carisma Let Me Show You or Legend B Lost In Love but they’re in their late 20s or 30s so it made sense.”
Witnesses say that having lyingly claimed to have owned copies of The Whistle Song, Where Love Lives and Rhythim Is Rhythim despite not being able to identify the opening bars, David then made the bold claim of having owned an original 12” pressing of New Order classic Blue Monday.
“I put it to him that he wasn’t born when half of those tracks came out and only stopped listening to The Strokes about a year ago,” continued David. “But he kept insisting he definitely owned the tracks and that he used to play decks when he was 11 before he got into rock music.”
“He kept just saying ‘I have them in my attic at home’ or that he sold loads of them off when he got CDJs,” continued David. “The thing is though he can’t even mix vinyl.”
Mikey however is adamant that he did in fact own Blue Monday as well as a bunch of other rare first pressing vinyls, “I used to have loads of them which as you know means I’m well versed in my tunes and am probably a rapid DJ with massive amounts of old skool pedigree”.
“The lads think I’m lying when I claim to have owned records that don’t exist any more and first prints that would cost thousands to collectors,” he added, “but they’re just jealous of how knowledgeable I am about the scene and therefore worthy of respect and kudos.”
“If anyone continues to doubt me then I’ll just post links to the tracks on my Facebook with a pithy claim along the lines of ‘I used to play the balls out of this back in 98’, that should eliminate any doubts,” he added.
