The Tempest

The Mainline original album will set you back £150 + , the reissue on Hi Hut about £20

A few years ago , my postie would very kindly put any albums for me in my blue recycle bin , this would save me having to wait until the next day to get them from the post office , HOWEVER I go away on holiday for a week , come back , expecting to find three albums waiting in the bin for and my new next door neighbours had very kindly put it out for the recylce truck along with over £100 + of vinyl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the comments so far , absolutely love this ladies work , anybody know if she's still on the go , retired , etc ..........

Village Sounds , great record and had'nt heard it in donks , spent the last hour trying to find it on an old tape ,

Not often I'm stumped !!! but either this is very rare ! OR nobody is selling so value / rareity sought

Don't wanna do the Wigan v Mecca thread again , BUT I have a live tape of an unknown DJ at Wigan slagging off the sounds played at the Mecca for a good 5 mins during his spot ,and how the scene in general should ban the current " disco " sounds , I think mid 77 , can you imagine nowadays standing at a venue and a DJ doing this , to be met by a huge applause !!!!!!!, OH YES ONE BIG SOUL FAMILY INDEED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still looking for this , it's the one with Clarence Hill , Brenton Wood , etc .....

non working off site images links dropped And a few more !!!!

I knew if I started this thread somebody would agree !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fair enough chum , we will , sneaking a 60's moover in ! Don't be shy , I've got you started on this one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have looked back till 2005 till they started !!! You tube links are for the c4 doc and the other for Babs St Clair - Teacher Man , thats it ! But no definitive list of sounds , we've had dj's / dancers / live acts / and fights , myself included on the last one !!!! Feel free to carry on

Two of the outstanding tunes that remind me of this venue to this day Why No Cd compilation ???????????????? If so what would be your top pier sounds be ??????

Great record

I love this scene , you get educated every day , was totally unaware of this album MUSIC FOR THE DANCE CROWD is a classic sleeper LP that is totally unnoticed in the garage underground!! "Music for the dance crowd" is a collection of tracks culled from the BRENT label out of New York, the label run by Bob Shad in the late 50's into the 60's before he concentrated on Mainstream. As a matter of fact, many artists released 7" singles under Brent and then went on and released the same under mainstream, for instance the "pot of flowers" Lp on mainstream is singles compiled from Brent releases, to cash in on the psychedelia movement. 
Clarence Hill serves up some serious Northern Soul styles, " When Sunny Comes Strollin' Home" and "A Lot Of Lovin' Going' Round" Fantastic songs. These also appeared on the very rare "Brenton Wood
Introducing Boogaloo" LP along with garage latin punkers "The Golden Boys" and their tracks, "Modernistic", and "mira mira" , THE TOADS with "backaruda"
More Go Go/Freak beat energy tracks create the continuity here, The IN CROWD with "cat dance" and Grapevine, and the OFF SET with the garage gloomer "just a little smile" AMAZING!!! 
The rest of the tracks are very strong, I just don't know who composed them. "the froggie", lifeboat", Boss walk", "el nubio", "bo do diddley", "the cobra", "rice and beans" "yeah yeah" and "beach bum" all are freak beat instrumental feasts for the senses, fuzz guitar, big drums and go go rhythms, they all sound like the same composer. 3 different releases of this LP. 2 from Canada (on allied records) and one from the USA (on time) The 2 canadian versions, one is a standard LP and the other is a box set of 3 LP's with different running order and some tracks ommitted, while others substitued. "I'm just a clown" for instance is not on the single LP, only on the box set. These recordings are in true stereo, but the track "just a little smile" to my ears sounds rechanneled from MONO (i have the 7" version of "just a little smile" and it is boldy MONO, sounds way better than the rechanneled version) And to my ears, the USA pressing sounds cleaner and better frequency range than the Canadian copies. The 3LP box set has less information per side (3-4 songs per side), therefore lends it self to higher bandwidth and sounds pretty close to a 7" single in terms of how hot they can press the tracks.

When I first started attending the scene in the early 80's in Scotland this record was huge and still is to this day BUT , only in Scotland and more importantly on the East Coast , Aberdeen , Dundee and Edinburgh ............................. After 25 yrs I am still to hear it down south , any plays in England / dancefloor reaction ????????????????

NICE