Bambi raises a finger

We at discofinger.com had nearly managed to write off BLOC weekend as a bad dream punctuated by permanent hearing loss and fake moutstaches, when we stumbled on a treasure trove of discofinger videos.

We've long tailed after Irish celebrity DJ Barry "Bambi" Donovan in the hopes of catching him in one of his signature languid discofingers. Donovan spends most of his time with his finger firmly on the pulse of Dublin's "bird" population, but occasionally deigns to raise it skyward for a particularly deadly tune. This time it was "Soft Emotion" by Azoto during I-f's set.

Alexander Robotnick discofingers at the last Electric City

The last Electric City in Dublin was a sad night that was only slightly tempered by Alexander Robotnick doing his trademark discofinger.



For the entire night discofingers were out in force, a fitting tribute to the end of a fine club.

Niko exhibits one of the less subltle forms of discofinger

Ibiza party discofinger, baby!

The youngest recorded discofinger, ever. The magic starts at 20 seconds.

Alexander Robotnick: King of the Discofinger

Alexander Robotnick is a long-time, consistent proponent of the discofinger; it is perhaps due to his influence that italo and discofinger are inextricably entwined. Therefore it is with great pleasure that we present his video 'Obsession for the Disco Freaks'. The discofingering happening in the 35-45 second range is classic.

We had the good luck to see Robotnick's recent performance in Dublin, discofinger videos will be forthcoming.

Chandler of TV's 'Friends' discofingers

"You stole my moves!"

Croatia discofinger

Thanks to Barry for sending over this video, taken during Electric Elephant in Croatia. We wish all discofingers took place during the day because the video is of stellar quality.

The ghosts of Electric Picnics past

After witnessing so much discofinger at this year's Electric Picnic, it occurred to us to check the YouTube archives and excavate the discofingers of Electric Picnics past. It appears as if discofinger has been happening for many years at the Electric Picnic, and we are cautiously optimistic that Ireland may well be the discofinger capital of the world.


Bodytonic discofinger in 2005.


Dancepig, a quiet supporter of discofinger, inspires the same during his 2006 Electric Picnic set.


Discofinger during Hot Chip at the 2007 picnic.

Smells like discofinger

Famed Lunar Disko DJ Andy Doyle enjoys some tunes at Electric Picnic 2008 with discofinger extended.

Modeselektor Electric Picnic discofingers

More Electric Picnic discofingers

Hang Tough types Mark le Tough, Lil Dave and Paddy Canada discofinger during Trusme's set in the Bernard Shaw tent in Bodytonic village.


A can of Dutch Gold and a festival tent and Shane O'Meara is ready to discofinger his socks off.

The festival discofinger buzz

This year's Electric Picnic in County Laois was especially fruitful, giving us many opportunities to both discofinger and capture discofinger videos. The below were taken during Barry Donovan's (Lunar Disko) set in the Bodytonic tent.

A hot cross-cultural exercise

In case you did not believe our claims that discofinger is integral to Bollywood, check out this amazing video.



In this article about Bollywood aerobic dance moves, much attention is given to the discofinger. "Pointing: Disco-inspired. Index fingers of both hands point with the rest of your fingers curled. Arms extend toward the ceiling or toward the floor, either alternating or together to the rhythm of the tabla hand drums. Often the movement is a literal interpretation of the Hindi lyrics of Bollywood music. For example, the singer may be referring to the heavens, so dancers point upward."

A more recent take on the Bollywood discofinger has an impressive discofinger silhouette at 2:12.

Incredible India

When we were recently strongly encouraged to take a Bollywood dance class, in India no less, we did not think it would change our lives. Until we learned that the discofinger is a both crucial and ancient move in Indian culture. This was then reinforced when we went to a club/pub and witnessed the move live. Unfortunately, the videos are of poor quality, but we are choosing to share them in the spirit of global unification.

Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto (Tokyo discofinger)

In our hearts, we've always known that discofinger is one of the true languages of universal communication, as primal and expressive as anything mankind has seen. However, much like the fragmentation of tongues described in the Book of Genesis, there are wildly different dialects of discofinger, and some cultures have nearly lost touch with it altogether.

After noting the serious lack of discofinger on our recent visit to Tokyo, we feared that Japan was inhospitable to this language of Paradise. The Japanese appear to enjoy throwing enthusiastic peace signs instead. Then, we were confronted with a young lady named Yuki who said with one delicate finger raised to the sky, "This is how you dance in Ireland?" and began passionately discofingering. Our hope was restored.

Shinya, seen above at Womb, is an ambassador of discofinger to both Dublin and Tokyo.

Bla does not mess around when it comes to discofinger!

Bla clearly has a natural predisposition towards discofinger! She can't stop doing it! Even at 11 in Wicklow!

Frau Holly discofingers

Discofinger: Hugh, party, Greystones, etc

Nothing like a disco finger episode in the morning to keep a session going.

Discofinger: Lil' Dave Represents

Lil' Dave discofingers while DJing at the DowntownSounds vs. Hang Tough extravaganza at Kennedy's. I'm assuming that this takes a fair amount of coordination. Nice one.

"Wow, it's like a rave for yuppies."

Discofinger: Warm Up at PS 1

Massive discofinger in Greystones

In case you ever doubted the Irish enthusiasm for discofinger

Brian of Brian Squared at Lunar Disko

Discofinger: D1, Dublin

I'm pretty sure this is when Mark Broom played Shannon's Let the Music Play in D1 at Rogue

Discofinger: Chantal in Manchester

Discofinger at the Electric Chair

The last Electric Chair in Manchester

Evin's discofinger

This was the day that I fell in love with Evin--I'm sure you can see why. Unfortunately I don't have a video of the day I fell out of love with Evin, but it certainly plays an endless loop in my tortured mind

Disney discofingers

Disney on Ice nee Conor was basically put on this earth to make you feel crappy about your weak discofinger attempts

Michelle at Electric City discofinger

Michelle does discofinger--in fact, it appears that she can't stop--at Electric City (Wax, Thursdays)

LED discofinger belt

52Funk discofinger

Check out Benway's discofinger 14 seconds in. Deadly. 52Funk anniversary, October 12, 2007

DJ Hell discofinger

Alexander Robotnick discofinger

Niamh's discofinger at Lunar Disko

Rikard discofinger at Electric City

Fearghal does discofinger

Orla's discofinger

Remember discofinger

Discofinger in Galway. A terrible video but I love this song

Lucy's Jersey discofinger

Discofinger at the Junior Certs

I know this is a crap video, but I was a chaperone at the Junior Certs rave and I just had to post some of the discofinger action that I witnessed

Smurfin' discofinger

Mind-blowing double discofinger

Watch this one closely. The guys on stage are discofingering all over the place, but wait, they have a fan in the audience. Surreal

Lederhosen discofinger

Senorita Jo's Seville discofinger

Funkytown

Steph's last night in Dublin

Mike, a feather duster, and a finger

Sara's sexy Artland discofinger

Miguel's Garden Party discofinger

Please note the wailing of "dirty techno" whilst discofingering.

Swedish crayfish discofinger

(The other) Lina and Johan discofinger to celebrate something Swedish and crayfishy

Jennie's back

One of our spazzier discofinger content providers is back for an east coast rendition of her famous Cali DF

Pam's Brooklyn discofinger

Rancho Relaxo discofinger

Frances the freakaholic

Steph and Jay do discofinger

How they discofinger in Poland

Jennie does discofinger