Mark Bicknell

I've said it before and I'll say it again this scene is about passion for the tunes and has nothing to do with how old you are or how long you have been on the scene, time is the only thing that will at some stage catch up with it and then perhaps it will slow down or possibly end. I'm very much a 60's child coming in bang on 1960, been doing this Northern thing since the summer of 1976....you do the maths....lol met some of the best people on the planet on this scene and I can honstley say I'm very proud to be part of such a diverse unique scene, I love it all! as for getting new or young blood interested I don't really have an answer on this one? but I'm sure many of you know 'Robbo' from Stockport pretty much summed it up to me a few years ago by saying "you either have it, feel it, live it, embrace it, or you don't".....'It' being something very special and inside you and with us all. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Three more shows to go this coming Sunday regular show, Sunday August 26th with my final special guest Mr Dave Greet which shold be a superb show with my old friend, top bloke, collector and DJ and finally Sunday September 2nd will be the last show, for any special requests, mentions and dedications please contact bicknellmark@aol.com Thanks again for all your support and comments. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Marion James now sold - Thank you. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

He's alway's liked Donkey's ever since the incident when he was a small boy in the school nativitity play...lol Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Tee Fletcher - Josie Demo - Now sold. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

More titles added 13th August 2007. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Just to let anyone know who's interested that the final 'Soul Shack' will broadcast on Sunday September 2nd, regular shows until then, thanks again for all the messages, emails, phone calls showing support and good wishes for my efforts over the past seven years. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Jo, I know exactly who you are talking about, he used to ask for that tune at every North Cheshire soul night Jacqui and I ran for almost ten years and to be honest that kind of blinkered attitude is one of the main reasons we pulled the plug on the gig, so it's not always about the money as the NC was still are very well attended night but you can only play Johnny Caswell, Vibrations etc. so many times and it becomes a total bore. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

List now revised August 13th 2007, sold items deleted, more titles to be added.

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Jesse James Now Sold - Thank You. Regards - Mark Bicknell. More titles to be added later.

Hi Des, the previous CD of this album had no sleeve notes, added tracks etc. it was a staight repro of the original album cover and track listing nothing else. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Good points Russ there mate, regarding selling Peps, Marvellows etc. all I do is check the price guides, what I paid for the record and price it accordingly, you will notice that I've put a 'will haggle' comment on my current running list so there is room for negociation, you raised the point on the price of The Peps which I took on board but it is listed in one of the guides at £75.00 so who's right? I reduced it and it sold same with The Marvellows 45...I really don't think it matters if you are known or not whatever that means???...lol like you Russ I'm just one of the lad's with a few tunes mate alway's have been. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Good point there Steve, we booked a holiday to Florida last March to do the Disney thing with our son, as ever time flew by and the holiday was upon us.....Jacqui mentioned the small point of spending money...lol without even thinking about it I outed four tunes resulting in a fantastic holiday.......slightly the other way round from your point but confirming that there is more to life than records, I've not missed the records either be they were top tuneage. There is always something new to buy, chase and enjoy, my original post here was more an observation of the vast amount of 45's that seem to be out there on offer and perhaps not as many collectors out there anymore which has been touched on so far here with the replies. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Just an observation really that has got me thinking is there a Rare Soul record mountain out there building up? as there seems to be a huge amount of records in constant circulation and being offered up for sale. Recently I started to look at moving a few records on, swap, sell, trade type of thing to generate a bit of cash to buy other stuff etc. but when you actually start to look at the bigger picture there seems to be a huge amount of people selling records from the major dealers through to private collectors with a glut of similar titles on offer, on Soul Source alone the turnover of records on offer is incredible, add Ebay and other sites into the mix and the supply of records is vast, with the advent of Ebay in particular some records which were to a point rare and hard to find appear to have constantly surfaced through that channel on almost a daily basis now it seems in some cases there are simply too many copies of certain records on offer making the demand for them almost zero of course you are always going to get the big ticket items and rarer records which will sell and do have a worldwide market. Has it got to the stage where there is a huge backlog of records which infact nobody wants anymore? I know several people who have vast amounts of records who trade in them with box upon box of 45's which at times are proving difficult to sell, some of the major dealers must be sitting on thousands of records many of which must be just sitting there unclaimed. The choice out there at present seems to be vast and is far more a buyers market than ever before, records which once were desired and less common are turning out to be far less rare than we once thought, again the indemand tunes will sell forever and a day which we see from the many auctions out there but if you look under the surface there is without question a huge mountain of records to choose from. Some records which come up on Soul Source for example you think wow nice tune! and they struggle to sell or gain very little interest, often the original asking price is dropped and I'm sure many deals are done this way, records listed on other sites and lists seem to be either re listed if they don't sell or there is more than one copy in stock or on offer which repeat every so often and so it goes. There is alway's going to be a demand for Rare Soul records, the passion and the desire to own records is the key to keep the wheel in motion but it seems to me that just because a record is valued at x,y,z it can sometimes be a very different story when you come to try and sell certain records? of course demand, style, taste and collecting patterns change as time goes by, certain records will alway's hold their book price and often improve in value but others flutuate, many drop and others it would seem simply go off the scale and join the excess of vinyl out there. For many of us I'm sure it's about the tune, desire to own it and simply down to the music rather than it's value and should never be treated as an investment, easy to perhaps say but a bit of a shock to the stystem if you ever deside to sell part or all of your collection to find that some of your treasured tunes are infact not that easy to sell?or less rare than you perhaps thought, is the market flooded? are there more records out there than people collecting them? or is there an excess of good records on offer? like I said just an observation. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

New Additions added 11th August. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Just finishing off doing me gardening and will be adding a few more tasty titles. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Nice one Pete....lol I simply smile and pass the buck onto the next DJ and so it goes...lol Regards - Mark Bicknell Now back to me gardening...lol

I already asked Ady that one Mark in an Email....lol Regards - Mark Bicknell.

lol Richard.....more friends helping friends oh and the hint of a freebie...like I ain't had plenty of those off Ady over the years...lol Mark Bicknell.

Running times. 2.45 2.23 2.22 1.56 2.03 2.34 2.14 2.47 2.08 2.18 2.15 2.28 Writers. Ashford- Lewis - Hunter Williams - Scott Martin - Coulter Ashford - Lewis - Hunter J.Hunter Lawson - Kreiner - Hunter - Willis Kelley - Aiston H. Williams Banks - Kelley - Skau Ashford - Scott - Terry Scott - Ashford - Terry J. Allen Hope this helps Ady. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Freddy Butler - With A Dab Of Soul Kapp - KL -1519 A Pied Piper GWP Production Side One There Was A Time That'sWhen I Need You I Like Your Style I Fell In Love Never Let Love Go They Say I'm Afraid Side Two This Thing Just Because You've Been Hurt You'd Better Get Hip Girl Give Me Lots Of Lovin' She's Foolin' You Deserted Ady do you need any more information? Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Dave...what about that time you DJ'd at The North Cheshire for us and someone came in from the party in the back room seperate from the Soul night and asked you for some Beatles...lol you never let me forget that one mate....well it's my excuse it was someone from the party or was it one of our regulars???? Happy days...lol Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Having been round the block with this DJ thing for more years than I care to remember, I've more than had my fair share of requests and I'm almost sure it's been the same people following me around or so it feels like...lol during this time, as Mark said some like to play 'catch the DJ out game' asking for the one off's and ultra hard to finds which when it's true if I owned the request I explain I sold x,y,z twenty years ago for six quid which normally works, if I have the tune and it fit's in to the spot then of course I will play it, I feel that most of the time at the venues I now DJ at from time to time I pretty much get left alone and do my own thing. The ones I really have a hard time with are the people who come up and ask for a tune and I reply sorry not got it with me (and I only say that if I happen to own the record) or sorry I don't have it...then you get the looks or comments like "call yourself a DJ?", "play something I know?"...... this is true what I'm gonna say next...I was booked to DJ at the Ritz in Manchester for Richard Searling I only did it about three or four times so it was always a joy to do, packed venue, fantastic atmosphere etc. I was stood by the DJ booth about ten minutes before I was due to go on and this chap came up to me totally off his face and asked me what time I was on? I told him in about ten minutes with that he said "can you play some stompers"? I said "like what" again he replied "you know...stompers...Wigan stompers" again I aked like what? "give me some titles"? with that he said "stuff like this" and proceeded to stamp his feet in front of me clapping and waving his arms about as a way to explian to me his translation of the term stomper...priceless! It's nice to be given space when DJ'ing and be able to do you own thing without being told how you should do it, read the floor and go for it...I played 'Lee Andrews And The Hearts' I think for my stomper friend at The Ritz that night and yes there he was 100mph on the dance floor so I guess I really knew what he meant....lol Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Hello...Mark calling Phil!!!! my reply was a joke Phil reference your comment about being your theme tune...wake up lad where's your sense of humour gone?...lol I just had a feeling that it was pretty hard to find as I can't seem to find it in any of the books? Pretty good little record that would seem to not be that well known even though it was on a very early Goldmine CD way back. Regards - Mark Bicknell.