The Scaremongers on New Years Eve

The Scaremongers are good friends with the glorious Pocketbooks, who just released their first single Cross The Line on Atomic Beat Records. I've known singer Emma for ages, and I'm thrilled for her that Pocketbooks are starting to get somewhere. And it seems the feeling is reciprocated - she dropped me this Facebook message yesterday:

"Not sure what your plans are for NYE, but I'm guest DJing at How Does It Feel To Be Loved in Brixton and I plan to play a Scaremongers song!"

Which is particularly kind of her. Unfortunately, both Armitage and Smith will be away for New Year, (in fact they'll be in a huge old farmhouse together with their respectives bopping away to The Scaremongers at the stroke on midnight), but I can state categorically that:

a) we are both made up that Emma thinks enough of the songs to play one of them out in the wild, (I forgot to ask which one - Emma, if you're reading this, which song will you be playing, or is it a surprise?)

b) at the time of writing, this is the first and only time The Scaremongers have been or have been pencilled in to be played in a discotheque environment, which gives Emma a first of some kind

c) we know Emma's got a fabulous pop sensibility and everything she plays on New Year's Eve will be absolutely first rate, so if you've got nothing planned for the festivities that night and London isn't too much of a stretch for you, a night at How Does It Feel To Be Loved would be the perfect way to dance into 2008.

Thanks for spinning whichever song you play, Emma.