Dave Rimmer

As I'm off to DJ in Australia later this year, that works out at 9,991 miles each way. It will push me over the 30,000 miles travelled this year to DJ.

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Join the bloody queue please Chic.

From a pure financial point of view, DJ fees rarely cover my expenses because of the high price of train tickets and taxis. That's not why I DJ though, in most cases, I would have attended the venues I DJ at anyway, so it's nice to have some dosh to spend on a record when I get there lol

I'm the same. I've emailed the company twice and had no reply. I've emailed Mark, who has passed my concern on, but still no cd, or reply from the company. It does say on the website that it will be available 'soon', but it's said that for months now.

I went along to see this today, and I was, well, slightly underwhelmed. I thought, with it being the opening day there would have been some sort of presence by the organisers, but nothing, not even any signs, you just stumble across it when you walk into the building. The actual exhibition is fine, I'd have been more impressed with 200 photos than the 25 ish that were on display though, and there are some factual errors in the text with the photos. Oh yeah, all the records on display with the 'Northern Soul Memorabilia' appear to be bootlegs or British reissues as well. Good photos of quite a few of the Young Souls that are out and about regularly, a nice wall of photos of venues (The Benn Hall being one of them), but no shots at all at venues which I found quite strange. Overall impression ? Worth popping in if you are already in the area, but it took me longer to walk from New Street Station than I spent in the gallery.

I don't think there is one. LP only.

I wouldn't deny any of that, God knows I've bought enough LOL. However, the topic is about cue burn, at the start of a record, which is fairly obviously caused by back cueing a record.

So why does 'cue burn' only happen at the beginning of the record ? Surely, if you can't damage a record by cueing it in, the damage would be equally spread throughout the record, not just at the beginning ? Doh !

It's heat caused by friction that causes cue burn on styrene records. The way to avoid it is when you turn a record back to cue it, do it very slowly, and allow it to come to a stop on it's own, rather than stopping it yourself. I'm not saying this will eradicate cue burn entirely, but it will go a long way towards it.

I'm confused. Are these actual CDs, or just digital downloads ?

I'll rephrase my comment because I agree with what you say regards the Soundburger. These are pretty good for taking to allnighters and listening to records in the record bar. Never tried to use it as a USB turntable to be honest.

These have been around for at least a year. They are pretty good as well. Just looked it up. Mar 2014 is when they first became available.

Not necessarily, but I would have more money available to spend on actual records. I've just bought something that cost me £55.66, then Ebay's Global Shipping increased this by another £22.85, and I still have the risk of having to pay Customs duty and a PO handling charge.

The simple answer to your question is there are a lot of good DJs out there who play off original vinyl, and fill dancefloors, and try and introduce new records (Because let's face it, if DJs didn't try and introduce new records we would still be listening to the same 23 records that were played in the mythical first ever Northern Soul spot) The point you're asking about is quite simple. A DJ who plays to an empty floor, and continues to play to an empty floor just isn't a very good DJ. (Unless of course it's the sort of venue where the DJ is expected to play new and unknown things and not expected to fill the dancefloor (They do exist)) I always play off original vinyl, and always remember that it IS a scene where people come to dance. But I always like to try 'new' records out in my set. Sometimes they work, other times they bomb completely. That doesn't mean it's a bad record, just that other people don't share my enthusiasm for it. But if I clear the floor with a record, it's pretty much a certainty that I'll get it full again simply by playing a record I know people will dance to. The other thing that I think people forget is I've been DJing for a long time now, and there are some records that I am simply bored to death of hearing, and playing. I usually sell them when I reach the point of boredom, so that I can't play them again, Again, that doesn't make them a bad record, just one I don't want to hear again for a long time (And I can't understand why people want to dance to the same records for years and years either. Don't you get bored ?)

I think that was the people we were with that were the scary ones

Buyer picks up from where ? No point in making an offer unless you are close to me.

Do you want two copies ?

Not this month, but it's the only month this year I haven't, and I will in November and December.

The Drifters - Saturday Night At The Movies two all

That just means your prices are reasonable anyway, so people are happy to obtain the record without bothering to ask for discount.