Big Mick

THAT'S the one... knew I wasn't far off, thanks. What's that other track I get mixed up with...? OH yeah, Vera Lynn... I'm a good woman... Never been much good with records... but you're certainly correct thanks for putting me right.... BIG MICK..

Click on the 'swimming' picture for a giggle.........

If I were stuck on some desert island with a solar charging record player and could take 10 tracks (soul or non-soul) I think these would be my choice. The reason is they are all easy going tracks I could relax listening to and chill out whilst my blubber was browning in the mid-day sun... Out of the 10 I think my fav' would have to be the Birdie Green track... I would also have a man Friday....... a woman for the rest of the week though ha ha ha ha .... BIG MICK.. 1. Ain't that just like a woman - Dougie Banks 2. You've got your mind on other things - Beverly Ann 3. I found my place - Johnson sisters 4. Big mistake - Timi Yuro 5. Get a hold of yourself - Birdie Green 6. Don't ever leave me - The Admirations 7. When - Joe Simon 8. I can't wait until I see my babys' face - Madeline Bell 9. Love charms - Diane Maxwell 10. Is it a sin - Timiko

yep Barnibus = bloke... BUT this Barnibus with a ladys' voice sings about .."the things he does to me to get me under his spell"..... If you've never heard it then I ask that one day you serch it out.. Never a BIG sound but was extremly popular in the Wigan era. I think it was pressed on the SOUL GALORE lable around 1974... I may be wrong.. I do have a copy somewhere and it is a really beautiful track.. one of the tracks which gets overlooked because it was a bit .."GIRLY"... Always will be an old fav' for me and I bet you will like it too if you like tracks with pure soul and feeling.. . BIG MICK..

Gotta have the great Barnibus Collins.... LOVE BANDIT....wow !!!!

I always used to say that when a dj plays his tracks he plays to the floor... to entertain and leaves his ego at home.. A good dj will probably personally like a certain genre of music but not what he is playing.. BUT if he is employed to play a spot at a venue he must be flexable enough to believe he is there to do the job he is being paid for and to deliver the music his audience want NOT what he wants THEM to dance to.. An open minded and accomodating dj who can deliver and not 'educate' and gets a kick out of people enjoying themselves is a dj I want to listen to and a dj I wanted to be when I spun those little placcy disc wotsits.... There is still djs out there who think they will play anything and the audience should be greatful for the privilidge to hear his/her tracks... CRAP... These are the ones who should get off the stage and give someone else a chance. A dj is only as good as the demand to hear him.. NOT as good as he/she thinks they are. How many times do you see an army of djs on the stage patting each other on the back and pretending to be interested in a record thrust under their nose by another of the bretheren in an attempt to get a big smile, nod of approoval and a few words of briil track mate.. wow... Then they look down on the audience to see if everyone was watching.. God looking down on the sheep...???? Certain tracks are better played at venues were they will be appreciated.. a good dj will recognise this and adapt his play box accordingly.. Wouldn't it be fun if there was a guy in the wings with a bloody big pole with a hook on the end and when the dancers got fed up with a djs choice of tracks the guy in the wings would come on and yank the poor dj off by the hook around his neck and a replacement takes over.. (discuss).... BIG MICK...

Actually you'll never believe this but............. when out shoplifting one day.. I got caught and ended up in a cell at my local nick.. after being officially charged and taken to cell 4b for an internal I remember hearing the ominus smack of rubber on the hands of the big hairyarsed officer as he pulled on his marigolds with a huge grin on his face. Bend over fatty he growled.. Now the funny thing was as he probed with his huge jumbo sausage like digits I seemed to think through painfully tearful eyes, eh up fatboy there's something odd here...as you do... I think it was about the time I was examining my shoes and thinking how funny they looked without shoe-laces when a voice from behind barked out... Here.. haven't I seen you before... didn't you used to go to Wigan Casino umpteen years ago?... Well would you beleive it? It was only the same hairy arsed copper who turned me over when I was 18 and I remember thinking, like, ain't it funny how you meet people you knew before because of the soul scene in the strangest places...???? Oh well !! BIG MICK.....