A grandmother who recently developed a new found love of electronic music after taking ecstasy for the first time, has invested her life savings into setting up a Nu-Disco label.
Betty Jones, a sixty three year old tea-lady from Cardiff, Wales, claimed her first brush with the popular party drug was completely accidental and a life changing experience.
“I was visiting my youngest son a couple of weeks ago and I asked him if he had any pain killers because I had a bit of a headache,” revealed Betty, who lived through Cardiff’s golden disco generation of the late 60s and 70s. “He told me I’d find some in a drawer in the kitchen. I had a look and found these two funny looking blue pills, they looked a bit like that ghost out of Pac-Man but I thought nothing of it, I don’t know what kind of medicine young people are taking these days so I just got a glass of water and swallowed both of them.”
“Twenty minutes later I started to feel a little woozy, like my head was a helium balloon and it was trying to float off into the sky,” claimed the grandmother of four. “I asked my son what kind of pain killers he had given me and he just said ‘oh shit you didn’t take those blue things did you?’ I told him I did and he just started to laugh, got me a pint of water and told me sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.”
“After that point my memory becomes a little bit blurry, all I can really remember is the feeling of complete happiness and making a real connection with the music that was playing,” she continued. “I haven’t experienced music like that since I was teenager. It took me right back to Cardiff’s disco halls in the 70s. The music was almost the same, only it sounded newer. A type of new disco. I knew straight away that I needed to do something to bring this sound to my generation so I decided I’d set up my own record label dedicated to it.”
“I’ve named it S.O.A.P., which stands for Strictly Old Age Pensioner, and I’m expecting my first release to be out around the end of next month.”
According to reports, S.O.A.P.’s launch party, which will be free for people with bus passes, will be held in Cardiff’s PRYZM nightclub on Saturday 19 March and will be headlined by Norway’s biggest Nu-Disco DJ, Todd Terje.
