Welcome to the site of Charity Shop DJ
Celebrating who we are and the Music that has shaped us
Charity Shop DJ at Vintage at Goodwood. Find out what happened here
At Charity Shop DJ we create mechanisms through which people can express their identities and histories through culture.
These include intergenerational DJ sound systems, conflict resolution tours of disputed international borders, and the production of cinematic and music venues at festivals.
We also devise and deliver arts and social projects with partners which include Arts Council England, the British Council, schools, hospitals and museums, and international charities.
Charity Shop DJ Productions: celebrating culture, community and change.
“ You are telling a different story. It is a real story, about real people.” Tony Benn
Martyn Ware of Heaven 17
Charity Shop DJ at Vintage at Goodwood
Charity Shop DJ presented the Charity Shop DJ Lounge at Vintage at Goodwood 13 - 15 August 2010.
Thanks to all those who dropped in and shared their musical memories.
We had a great time - and got to meet some surprise guests, including Martyn Ware, keyboard player with Heaven 17, shown here with a 12" copy of their 1981 single, (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang.
The festival was held in the lush surroundings of the Goodwood Estate and combined the best of contemporary music, fashion, art, design and culture from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
Find out what happened here
Generations Together at Northampton Volunteering Centre
In early 2010 Charity Shop DJ was asked to create a bespoke project for Northampton Volunteering Centre: one that would help to create new communication between people from different ages and parts of the city, and that would help to increase the numbers of volunteers involved in projects in the city.
Over the course of 2 weeks in June 2010, artists Owain Wilson, Nicci Wilson and Andy Jupp worked in 3 different locations across the city, using music, lyrics, and visual arts to explore how experiences of life can be similar across generations and groups and individuals. Find out more here
Charity Shop DJ at Lyric Lounge
Sunday 13 June 12pm til late
The Lyric Lounge at Deda, Derby
Come along to The Lounge for a jam-packed day of world class poetry, music performances, and workshops. Join Charity Shop DJ for High Tea at The Lyrical Teatime and get your music played by the Charity Shop DJ team.
The day also features Polarbear's new show Return ( 4pm - 5pm), slam winning poet Sureshot and the gorgeous voice of Mellow Baku (The Lyrical Teatime 5.30 -6.30pm).
The Lyric Lounge will also showcase ˜Between the Laughter and the Tears" featuring commissioned artists, Joe Coghlan and Jo "Spice" Blackwood and participants from Baby Studios and the Hadhari Centre. The show is directed by Jean "Binta" Breeze and inspired by objects supplied by Derby Museum & Art Gallery.
Last up is the Lyrical Jam with open mic. Find out more about the Lyric Lounge here
Join us at DEDA, Chapel Street, Derby, DE1 3GU T: 01332 370 911 FREE
Sir Peter Blake with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Comedian Paul Sinha with Midnight Hustle. His favourite track on the album is Name of the Game by Abba. His dad used to play it on family outings
Charity Shop DJ at the Leicester Comedy Festival. Catch him next at the Y Theatre, Leicester, 20 February 10.30pm
missy tassles @ charityshopdj
Missy Tassles is a short film maker, model, illustrator, DJ, cook, radio show host, painter, collector of odd vintage miscellania, writer, maker of stuff, superstar and all round good egg from Sheffield. From time to time she will be sending us her cartoon diaries, doodles and musical musings which will feature on this very special part of the Charity Shop DJ website, the Missy Tassles page.
New Cartoon added - Wild Billy - check it out !
The Flip Side of the 60s: Charity Shop DJ Goes to Carnaby Street
Charity Shop DJ is untangling the Secret Histories of the Sixties as told by the charity shops of Swinging London. What were people really listening to? How much of it survives today?
Art Vinyl, Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, 2 - 5 July 2009
Psychedelic Suburbia?
Read more here
June 13th - July 12th 2009
Derby Museum Community Gallery
THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME AND GOT INVOLVED! YOU'VE BEEN GREAT!
Visit the Derby Record Holders here
Shane O'Connor's Breakfast Show BBC Radio Derby. Friday 10th July 8.50am
Send us your album cover re-enactments!
This is Derbyshire-based artist Arwyn Quick doing Help! by the Beatles.
Can you match that? Send your images to info@charityshopdj.com
28 July 2009 8pm
The Olde Bell, Saddler Gate, Derby
The Church of Vinyl, a Short Film about Music and Faith.
Made by No Parking,Derby, in association with Charity Shop DJ.
Catch the film at the Five Lamps film night, Tuesday 28th July at the Olde Bell on Saddler Gate, Derby. Starts around 8pm.
Five Lamps Films host monthly events which aim to give both established and aspiring filmmakers the opportunity to show their work on a big screen to other filmmakers, industry freelancers, film fans and members of the general public.
Derby Record Holders
The Exhibition
Between January and May 2009 community groups and individuals across Derby were invited to take part in a series of workshops in which people were encouraged to share their musical tastes with one another.
Stills photography and film footage were produced which formed the basis of The Charity Shop DJ Lounge exhibition in Derby Museum, alongside previously unseen objects and ephemera from the Museum collection.
The photographs and footage will also form a key part of a major new World Record Holders project.
By communicating these choices with each other, it is hoped that people of different ages and backgrounds across the city will understand something new about one another in a spirit of equality and respect.
Did you visit the Charity Shop DJ Lounge. Derby Museum and Art Gallery 13 June - 12 July 2009?
Charity Shop DJ Gets High
12,000 km, 15,000 feet above sea level, the greatest Indian film soundtrack ever recorded, the highest motorable road in the world. For the full story Click Here
"Is there room in our hearts for the leftovers of our musical pasts? Charity Shop DJ is bringing back to life the memories locked in vinyl"
John Humphrys, BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme
Click here to see Charity Shop DJ on BBC East Midlands Today
the charity shop DJ lounge presents
The Derby Record Holders
An exhibition celebrating who we are and the music that makes us
Thanks to all who came!
Derby Museum Community Gallery
Find Yourself in the Derby Record Holders Gallery
If you’ve been with us in charity shops, QUAD , the BBC , Community Centres, Bemrose School, the Churchside Walk Coffee Club, the Forum of Faiths, Derby Museum, the Assembly Rooms Tea Dance, Derby Constabulary... chances are you're in the Derby Record Holders Gallery .
Find yourself in the Gallery now!
Search our website and visit the Derby Record Holders Here!
Kate Hoey, Labour MP for Vauxhall, with Tell me More by Nina Simone
Charity Shop DJ goes to Parliament
Find out what rocked the House
Parliament is in session! Read more here
Derby Record HoldersTour launched at Derby Quad
Charity Shop DJ has been touring Derby - celebrating the people of Derby and the music that makes us.
A big thank you to all our friends who have hosted the parties where
we’ve been able to find out something about each other in the comfort of sweet music
Chris from Derby is a member of the EasyAction Intergenerational Soundsystem
The Daily Record
Chris with Stuck on You by Elvis Presley
Charity Shop DJ has teamed up with Dr Matt Connell of Nottingham Trent University to help bridge the generation gap through a shared love of music.
Talking About Old Records is an intergenerational music project bringing teenagers and pensioners together through a range of intergenerational DJ workshops, intergenerational music workshops, and performances. Read more
| Read about Talking about Old Records in The Guardian here |  |
Mick Peat with James Taylor
Mick presents Folkwaves on BBC Radio Derby
The Daily Record
Charity Shop DJ Goes Down Under
The International Sessions at WOMADelaide 2009
6 - 8 March 2009
John Forkin of Marketing Derby with David Bowie's Low
The Daily Record
We Want You!
Be Part of our Gallery Now!
Send us your image with your favourite piece of music - and tell us why you love it!
Send your image and story to gallery@charityshopdj.com
