Dave Rimmer

You haven't read this thread at all have you Chris The whole thread is about the postmen being on strike Thursday, friday, Monday, and Tuesday. So how do you expect people to get any records before next Wednesday at the earliest. Stick to Disco Dancin'

I'd love it, but ain't got the dosh

The Four Tops also walked off the stage, straight out of the back door into their Limo and off to their hotel. No autographs, no speaking to fans. Just do the caberet act, take the money and go !

It's quite a hard one this, you could go for all the top names and still not get the mix right, so I've tried to look at how the night would flow with these names Me (What the hell it's my niter line up and I like the records I play , and someone's got to do the warm up spot) Keith Money & John Weston double decking (Scotland's best export for years, with Birmingham's nightmare, superb together) Ady Croasdell (I wonder how many previously unreleased tracks Ady has introduced us to over the years ?) Chris Anderton (A DJ's DJ. I don't think I've ever heard Chris do a bad set, and someone's got to play some Disco ) Saus (The two nights when Saus 'took on' Butch at the 100 Club were awesome. So Saus is in for the gritty R & B he plays) Russ Vickers & Gavin Page double decking for an hour (Two top class DJs who can blend Sixties through to Modern seamlessly) Roger Banks (Playing Soul rather than R & B, he's rather good at it when he gets the chance) Shifty (Saffend's wide boy with a lot of front, and he had one or two decent records as well) Keith Money & John Weston again (Sunday nights in the pub at Prestatyn, the best set of the whole weekend, so they deserve two spots) Derek Allen (For his sheer enthusiasm as well as the records he owned. So many good memories of Derek) There you go, ten hours of top DJs and top Soul music, not all obvious choices, but I have respect for each and every one of these guys and am lucky enough to count most of them as friends.

I think it all depends what he wants to do with the records. If he wants to DJ it'll all go on rarer end stuff £100+, and his 16.5K won't go far. If he wants to have a nice collection of Soul records you can get an awful lot of vinyl for 16.5K. Guessing though, if he's not currently on the scene, I'd say he will probably spend a fair chunk on some big money Oldies because if he sold up years ago those will be the records he remembers, so they will be the ones he wants. Trouble is, the reason Oldies have rocketed in price over the last few years is because there are lots of people who sold up years ago and now have a bit of wedge available to them and are buying back the sounds they remember. If it was me with 16.5K I'd settle my mortgage off, clear the credit cards, and then waste the rest on beer probably, but if I had to spend it on records I'd add probably twenty records to my DJ box, but then again I'm well known as a DJ prostitute

And in fact that was me posting on Margie's laptop because my PC is in bits again going for the six million dollar man rebuild !

PM'ed ya

Personally I think if the Northern Soul HQ moves anywhere it's going to be Germany. A big, big scene that supports loads of Soul nights and at least five weekenders a year that I can think of off the top of my head: Nurenberg (Running as a weekender for over ten years now), Hamburg (Less than a fortnight to go ), Frankfurt, Bamberg, and Lubeck (Where N/S was the smallest room out of five and there were getting on for 3000 people on site), and whilst it might have all started from the Scooter scene, it's definitely evolved into a Soul scene now with very little scooter scene promotional involvement. Some of the German DJs are also top notch and could work regularly at top allnighters over here because they have the records and style to match the best of the UK's DJs. Ten years ago that wasn't the case, but the top German guys have spent just as much time, effort, and money as the top UK guys over the last few years which is an achievement to be proud of because don't forget that it's nearly all a foreign language for them ! I've been DJing in Germany for ten years now, and I love it. No politics, no oldies, no newies, just good Soul and R & B. Overall the country tends to be cleaner than the UK so there's virtually no litter blowing around in the streets, you feel safer in the cities, and the beer and food are usually superb. What's more nearly everyone speaks English which really helps this ignorant old git who never bothered learning German when he had the chance thirty years ago at school. I've got a reasonable grasp of French, but I've never DJ'ed there

The plan was to persuade Ady to let Hannah in as a guest, but of course she wouldn't get her single then, so Nick would have to sell his leaving him without a copy. I never got round to telling Ady about it though

Thanks for including me Kev, but I have to do two spots

Baz the moderator took it down and hasn't put it back up yet. i asked the same question about a fortnight ago.

There's also about twenty book reviews on SKM, but again it's not been updated for a while. I'll probably get round to that next week now. https://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/bookreviews.htm

'Friad not Mal. I've heard of it going for some ridiculously high proces as well recently.

Yes, thank you very much Mr Croasdell

Chuck Jackson - What's With This Loneliness

Thanks John and Tony. Sorted now.

Thanks Tony, Tomorrow will be fine. I've already pinched a load of dates and catalogie numbers from the very fine CD you compiled for Stateside, with credit given of course. Cheers

Hi Guys, Does anyone have the track listings for Patti Drew's 2nd, 3rd and 4th albums on Capitol (In other words, any of them except 'Tell Him') Thanks

I promise I'll try harder next time

just beat me to it there Mal

As far as I'm aware, you can't ! It's only when you play the track that you discover you've bought a turkey !!!

Same here. Nice one

Dunno mate. I got the Clovers info from a book called 'On This Day In Black Music History'. It's got a page a day through the year and has all sorts of random facts about black music for that day in various years. Unfortunately whilst there is a page for 27th May, there isn't anything for 1970. Didn't realise you were still such a young pup anyway, sure you haven't knocked five years off

The number 1 song on the R & B chart on 1st September 1951 was 'Don't You Know I Love You' by the Clovers. Happy Birthday !

I fail to see why this is a problem. I've always taken the view that a DJ's job is to get people up, otherwise why not just have a jukebox. So why is a problem finding DJs who play originals ??? The way your point reads implies that only DJs who play boots are capable of getting people dancing. Just not true.