This year sees the 30^th Anniversary of the Edinburgh Blues Scooter Club. As such we have a whole series of events planned to celebrate this, the first of which was this Valentine’s Day Ball organised by the Fife Blues S.C. The venue we chose was CJ’s Pool Hall in Rosyth just next to the Forth Road Bridge and it had a 2 am licence!! We sorted out the free packets of love hearts for everyone who attended – come on it was Valentine’s Day and everyone knows we’re old romantics at heart.

 The doors opened at 7.30 pm and although the do was never exactly packed it soon filled up so that there was a reasonable atmosphere. Some of the club had travelled up from England to attend (big cheers to Sam, Martin, Davie & Sarah (who just got engaged that day), Debz, and Gordy). The D.J.’s built the night playing an excellent set which included modern stuff plus the usual soul, ska, mod and sixties as well as some old punk and psychobilly tracks that I haven’t heard for a long time. They even managed to get Hailey from the Ghosts to come out of his shell, get over his shyness and join us on the dance floor! Whilst most of us were busy getting drunk and enjoying ourselves some of the girls from the club were busy doing the rounds selling raffle tickets. Just after 10pm we halted the music for a little while to draw the aforementioned raffle. Many thanks to all our sponsors who donated prizes. We also took the opportunity to hand out the trophy to the Best Turned Out Club which was the Wild Turkeys S.C. With the formalities taken care of it was back on with the music and see just how drunk we could get before things finally came to a close at 2 am.

 Obviously there are a lot of people we have to thank for the success of the night. All of the D.J.’s – Alex, Dood, Jimbo, Squire and Mark – Karen and Fi for helping sell the raffle tickets, and Marieke for doing the door and Squire for the Flyer. Thanks also to everyone who came along and supported the do – all the Blues, Berwick Bulldogs, Coyotes, Dunfermline, Ghosts, Lone Sharks, Peterhead, Wild Turkeys and anyone else who we’ve forgotten. And last but not least to Dunfy for his efforts on putting this together, IE advert in scootering, the date bargaining, the venue, the late licence, the doormen, the trophy, and even the love hearts and sherbet!