Let’s Bop! and John Peel Centre in 2024

What’s in store for 2024?  We are still dancing at The John Peel Centre on the third Wednesday of the month, at 7.30 pm and YOU and all women are welcome to come and join us.  Please note, this year we have decided to have a break during the summer, for a couple of months.  We had low numbers in July last year, as lots of people are getting away before the children break up from school as whilst we have women of ALL ages 18 – 80 who enjoy Bopping together, most of our people will have older children or they have already, or just ‘flown the nest’.

If you are reading this from a Media organisation and would like to know more about Let’s Bop! Please contact Jane Spencer-Rolfe, or via The John Peel Centre

Mainstream Media, Radio & TV 2023  

MARCH 2023 ~ On International Women’s Day Jane was invited into a local radio, to have a natter about Let’s Bop! and life in general. She chose some songs – and they were all written by women – including herself!  Here is Jane’s track, written, performed by Jane, along with her fellow musicians, and filmed in early November 2020 during the pandemic – a few days after this film, Jane was diagnosed with cancer, and is now in remission.  

When The World Came To A Standstill 2020 – 2022

Let’s Bop! and everything else STOPPED in March 2020!
And, in November 2020 Jane was unexpectedly diagnosed with bowel cancer.
After swift NHS cancer treatments, followed by two operations during 2021, and her determination throughout, to recover and get back to life, Jane felt able to start Let’s Bop! again in May 2022 with the encouragement, and kind support, and the new operational collaboration, with The John Peel Centre for Creative Arts.

A post-pandemic fun footnote …

During the Covid pandemic in 2020, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Discos took off – initially via social media.  Jane maintains this proves the point, that her Let’s Bop! idea, conceived 3 years earlier, was already ‘thing’ with massive potential – people dancing ‘alone’ in their kitchens – as she had found herself doing, prior to starting up Let’s Bop! i

Jane says:  “Now I believe Sophie has moved her Discos out of the kitchen and is touring the UK,  BUT Let’s Bop! were already ‘on it’, and reinventing disco way before the pandemic – so whilst we don’t have Sophie’s celebrity or any of her many other talents – us women at Let’s Bop! were ‘murdering it on the dance floor’ long before Sophie’s Kitchen Discos were ever whisked-up.”
Jane was bang-on trend, and Let’s Bop! well ahead of the game on that score.

Media, Radio & TV 2017 Let’s Bop! startup

In early 2017 Jane Spencer-Rolfe had an idea – to get women back out dancing – or bopping! From a standing start, she got women up and dancing, and she Trademarked LetsBopUK

After first having the idea in February 2017, in the April she invited her friends to come and dance with her in her local church hall as a way of seeing her idea ‘in action’. Many of them turned up – and danced – they ‘got it’.  After watching what happened, she was convinced her idea to create regular Let’s Bop! events could work! Read the start up story here.

 Jane’s friends at her ‘trial Let’s Bop!’ April 2017

By November 2018 Let’s Bop! were on BBC Look East as shown here on this clip of the programme and also had some coverage on local BBC Radio news and the local press.  Following that there was no stopping them (literally!).   Jane, with Ronni were invited to Takeover The Show on BBC Radio Suffolk in January 2019.  A radio debut – they were in ‘the hot seat’ for their own 2-hour show with BBC Radio Suffolk – BBC Sounds clip of Jon Wright’s Takeover show with LetsBopUK

Jane got the chance to choose some tunes to play, while telling listeners about Let’s Bop! and chatting to their guests.  We even got to the bottom of what exactly it is that makes a good dance track, with Ben Bell a London based sound engineer, who has worked with some top dance brands, and bands, including the Ministry of Sound and BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.