World's most retro DJ mixes his records on... gramophones

A disc jockey with a difference is taking the music world by storm - using two 1930s wind-up gramophones.

Dave Guttridge, 48, is the UK's only pre-vinyl disc jockey and uses two 70-year-old Picnic gramophones to pump out 'old skool' tunes - including old favourite The Teddy Bear's Picnic - using Shellac 78 records.

Known as DJ78, he owns 3,500 of the fragile records and blasts out everything from 1920's rag time, jazz and blues, to Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Cliff Richard and Elvis. LINK

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Dave said he was inspired to use the Shellac records by veteran DJ John Peel after he played one every week on his radio show .

His wife, actress Karen Hill, 47, has also started playing gigs using seven inch singles to take care of any music from the '60s and '70s.

Dave, who also counts Blur bassist Alex James as one of his friends and has played at his birthday party, said he is getting used to receiving the VIP treatment.