WHEN "techno gran" DJ Jeanne Nutter mixes the tracks the music is not quite what you may expect.

For the DJ is 59 and has switched her passion from country and western for techno, hard trance and trans core.

Jean says the loud, brash, thumping music is a way of life for her and husband David.

By day Jeanne is a weaver at County Brook in Foulridge, a company that manufactures fabric for Marks and Spencer.

But once she gets home, forget about watching the soaps, the couple, from Fountain Street, Nelson, like nothing more than listening to Radio One dance DJs and playing albums from their favourite DJs Gary D, M Zone and Mark E G.

Said Jeanne: "I like melodic German trance, the more banging and pounding the better, my husband likes it as well.

"I started liking this music when there were all the raves in the 1980s, but I never went to one and I have never had to guts to go to a club where one of my favourite DJs are playing."

Instead she goes into Burnley's independent record shop Astonishing Sounds and buy all their albums and staff have affectionately termed her "Techno Gran".

Jeanne said: "Where as other women go into a town to go to the clothes shops, I just go from one record shop to another!"

Jeanne, who will retire in May, even took her unusual taste in music into work one day -- but was ordered by bosses to turn it off, she said: "They said I wasn't concentrating on my work."

She admitted she was 59 going on 29 and her and David, 67, who retired from the same mill three years' ago, happily bop round their living room to their favourite tracks. Fortunately the neighbour is in his 30s and doesn't mind.

The couple have no children but Jean has two nephews whom she used to mix tracks for when they were at university.

Her second love is painting, working with acrylics and painting on China plates in an art deco style and so Christmas was no problem for her husband -- an art bin full of brushes and a pack of tapes to record more music.

But the two hobbies can't be combined, said Jean: "I have got to give the music my full concentration!"