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Dance Season No 12: Routes to madness

Ceroc Jamfest at Camber Sands and Ceroc Scorch at Southport. This is a blog post which mostly is grumpy about music and enthusing about music.  If you think I'm wrong that's fine: I'm often wrong. Please use the comments block below to say why. I will delete anything that is offensive to named individuals. There's a lot of good in weekenders - there are many good jive weekenders, there are some good WCS weekenders - they all far far away, if there was enough decent music there would undoubtedly be some good Tango weekenders and who knows what line dancers and swing dancers and Morris dancers get up to at the weekend meets. This blog is about music - it's not about DJs per se - it's what they play and why they play it when they play it.  For me the music at Southport was mostly terrific (but not everyone I've spoken to thinks that), whereas at Camber it was mostly horrific.  I offer no solutions, I'm no expert - there may be good reasons for the set...