Bond 77 on a Friday night...
Moonraker 5
Ayrshire, ScotlandPosts: 1,821MI6 Agent
I'm curious as to whether anyone has heard any Bond tracks - and I don't mean theme tunes - used in DJ set pieces or played in packed pubs, clubs and bars.
Reason being was that last night, a Friday night, in a packed bar in Glasgow's west end (Brel, for the locals), I was floored when during the jazzy, cool DJ set I heard the opening strums of Bond 77.
Although I probably didn't need convinced anyway, this track can really hold it's own in such an environment, and I was particularly surprised at the reaction too. OHMSS was on straight after, though didn't seem to fit in with the chilled out vibes that had preceded.
As a sidenote, it actually came on at a very appropriate moment in quite a surreal evening. I was actually chatting to the deputy leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon (it's a long story, but I'm still at the political opposite
), about Sean Connery, who she knows through his campaign work for the SNP, when both these tunes came on. How ironic neither were Connery tracks. 
Reason being was that last night, a Friday night, in a packed bar in Glasgow's west end (Brel, for the locals), I was floored when during the jazzy, cool DJ set I heard the opening strums of Bond 77.
Although I probably didn't need convinced anyway, this track can really hold it's own in such an environment, and I was particularly surprised at the reaction too. OHMSS was on straight after, though didn't seem to fit in with the chilled out vibes that had preceded.
As a sidenote, it actually came on at a very appropriate moment in quite a surreal evening. I was actually chatting to the deputy leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon (it's a long story, but I'm still at the political opposite
), about Sean Connery, who she knows through his campaign work for the SNP, when both these tunes came on. How ironic neither were Connery tracks. 
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I haven't been to Brel, but I've heard of it- very busy, I'm told- and I've not heard a DJ play Bond stuff other than the themes, although I have heard some secondary music played as piped music from CDs or tapes.
Are you sure you heard this and not the Bee Gees "You Should Be Dancing" which Marvin Hamlisch admits copying ?
If I were a DJ I would do a great mix of the two tracks together.
Are you not thinking of 'A Fifth of Beethoven' from the Saturday Night Soundtrack? I would imagine if there's anything Marvin was ripping off, it'd be that!