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There's a bit of a Diet Coke moment when DJ Spoony
ambles into the offices of his dj booking agency
in Finsbury Park: keyboards cease their clattering;
eyes peep over i-Macs; smiles steal into the mouths
of the office girls, and one of them crosses the
room to coyly give him a present she's brought
back from her holiday in Spain.
The present is a set of novelty mini-forks to
eat corn on the cob with. As he unwraps the Lilliput-cutlery,
Spoony spins out a Breezy and impressively sincere-sounding
conversation about the trickiness of eating said
food: everyone smiles; birds are charmed from
trees; the atmosphere in the room shifts from
a workaday-weekday to bit-of-a-party. It's not
until someone mentions 'the radio show, that anything
like business resumes.
'The radio show' is the Sunday morning Dreem
Teem show that is currently proving such a massive
hit for Radio One. Playing garage, r 'n' b and
'anything with a groove', the Dreem Teem - which
comprises Spoony, Timmi Magic and Mikee B - have
charmed audiences across the country with their
quips 'n' cranks, with smooth-o Spoony taking
a leader role in the studio. They have also struck
a mighty blow for the UK garage scene they came
out of, and helped to build.
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