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I’M A MUM BY DAY, DJ BY NIGHT’

Claire Sweeting, 42, is a writer and editor. She lives in Surrey with her husband Ed and their two children.

‘You’re a dark horse.’ I must have heard this half a dozen times when the mums at my daughter’s school found out I was DJing at the Christmas party. Fair enough – the dad who usually DJs does Ibiza residencies. I don’t have that level of skill, but I’ve been DJing for fun for 20 years, albeit with a large gap when I was too busy with babies to stay up past 10pm.

‘It’s brilliant to see grannies, aunties and kids dancing away!’

My teenage life revolved around Top of the Pops, poring over NME, and convincing friends who’d passed their driving tests to ferry me to concerts. When I headed to university in 1995, Britpop was blaring out of every hall of residence, and I jumped at the chance to write music reviews for the student newspaper.

Soon after,