An EDM fan from Gloucestershire, England, has brought a set of “mint condition” Technics SL-1200s onto BBC 1’s Sunday evening geriatric aquarium The Antiques Roadshow.
Abbie Grainger, a seventeen year old Gregg’s counter assistant, claimed she had inherited the turntables from her uncle who had “left them in the attic when he moved to Australia”.
“Them big old things have been sitting up in the attic gathering dust for the last ten years,” Miss Grainger told show presenter Fiona Bruce. “With boxes of big, black, plastic CDs too. I think my uncle used to be a collector or something.”
“I can remember him playing with them when I was a kid,” continued Grainger. “It was kind of like what Hardwell or David Guetta does nowadays, only it looked a lot more difficult and the music was dead boring, Rihanna weren’t even alive back then so they probably had to get someone stupid like Mona Lisa to sing on the tracks.”
“Everything was way harder to do back in the past,” claimed the gormless Miss Granger. “People in the 1980s used to have to light cigarettes with two pieces of stone but now you can just get a lighter. That’s science, the same as what happens with music players. I heard that David Guetta actually worked as a scientician in one of the music labs where they made the new players and that’s why he’s so good at pressing the buttons on them.”
Show host, and fully qualified dinosaur herder, Fiona Bruce admitted that she was “truly taken aback” by Miss Granger’s statement and had to take a short break to compose herself before dealing with her entry.
“It’s very hard to speak to someone with such a low level of intelligence, it’s easy to see why EDM DJs think so little of their fans,” claimed Bruce in a catch up with Wunderground. “But I’m a professional and it was nice to see a set of 1210s in such good condition, I haven’t seen a set like that since the time I went around to Pete Tong’s house for a “coffee” after the BBC Christmas Party in 1993.”
“I explained to her exactly when the turntables were made, all of their features and how their high torque direct drive motors helped them to become the industry standard turntable back in the 70s,” continued Bruce. “I think it all went over her head but she was delighted when I told her she could get anything from £800 – £1,000 for a set in such good condition, hopefully they’ll go to a good home.”
According to friends of Miss Granger, the teenager was “dead chuffed” after finding out the value of her turntables and plans on selling them to pay for a trip to Tomorrowland this summer.
