Briles

I got a demo off Pete Smith last year for £50, which was a very good price imo. It's a shade under mint, maybe VG++ or excellent, depending on how you grade 'em.

Thanks for the honesty Andy, and all the encouragement. Reality is we aint that far away, and yes 'It's Nailed' and I'm happy now I've aired it mate

That's exactly the reason why some of these DJ's are still playing at my Club. They wanted to get involved my venture and helped me out when I was not in a position to dictate or question the originality of their records, or even pay them. That has now changed, but I'm at the point where I'd like to put our name the OVO only thread, but there would be moral issues with that from my point of view. Currently thinking that I'm happy being around 95% plus OVO and as Chrissie said encourage rather than demand, then see where it goes. Keep the input coming please.

I've enjoyed reading the other thread but didn't really want to post this on that thread as it's a little off topic so have started a new one, about my dilemma as a promoter Let me start this debate off by saying that I'm a firm advocate on playing OVO - fact. This does however present me with some personal issues with the Northern Soul and Motown Night that I promote and run on a bi-monthly basis. Over the last year I've had a big variety of 17 DJ's behind the decks, some of them been DJ'ing years, with great collections, and some who are relatively youngsters at 25 years old. Easy to determine which DJ has the big expensive OVO tunes, a which one is developing and building a collection, which at this time contains quite a few pressings. Four of these 17 DJ's fall into the pressing playing type, but these four are very, very reliable and help me out big time, and if I were to tell them they can't play again it's gonna hurt them and hurt me. My way of dealing with this is to give them early spots, and when we get to the business end of the night ie. 9.30-12.30 it's OVO only. On more than one occasion a pressing played early is on a planned playlist of one of my main DJ's great OVO set, and me as the promoter is told by an unhappy friend and DJ that he aint too happy about it, and I can see his point completely. I'd say 90% of the punters who come and enjoy the night don't give a toss about all this, and that this discussion would sound ridiculous and send them asleep, but personally I'm more than a little torn. I'd like to hear opions of other promoters in the main, people that run your typical 100-150 punters Club Soul Night.

R.I.P. great man. As has already been said lots of times, a total genius, who laid down very deep foundations for many of us.

We were spoilt quite badly that nite