Mark Bicknell

I think the best thing to do is open it, play it, enjoy it and treasure it, records are for playing stamps are for looking at lol

Get it opened, get it played, enjoy it, it's wonderful.

Sublime, stunning enough said.

Wanted nice clean copy Manhattens - All I Need Is Your Love - Carnival, contact here via PM or bicknellmark@aol.com 75 views and one of those was enough, cheers sorted now thanks.

proper record and a bargain.

Is there not enough money in simply just dealing and selling authentic records? often you can not improve on the real deal so why bother?

Donate some of the money from the numerous Wigan Casino Anniversary cash cow events there you go job done.

Time to change my mixer, great cakes sounds shit though.....I'll get my cakes.

I can speak from both sides here having been involved as a DJ playing pretty much all the top venues over the years and I always tried to mix it up, when I first started playing things like Reggie Alexander, Curly Moore they were nothing records value wise just became popular over time which is what most DJ's set out to do, it should never be about the value of a tune more the standard and quality being up there however we all know that many of the better records are the big ticket items its just the way it is supply not meeting demand and all that, nothing better to place a little cheap gem something like Syl Johnson - Try Me next to a big ticket item and it working or better still over shadowing the big tunes. Not really being too involved with DJ'ing anymore having moved on the big stuff when I do DJ the odd gig or at my own new venue in Hull I do my best to maintain the quality over being worried how much the records are worth, it's great to hear all the rare stuff but so many records get passed by and over looked because they cost a fiver and that can't be right, think Curly Moore cost me eight quid when I picked it up then bang up it went.

Here, Here Phil, this is exactly my thoughts and reasons I stepped back from it all, I've wanted to get back where I was with it but it's not the same.

Dancers Wanted for The Pete Smith Northern Soul Formation Display Team being put together to tour the venues of the UK, a bit like the Red Arrows but on speed,experience would help if not full instruction will be given by the master himself, silly trousers and vest provided, two left feet a must lol

You know what all this bullshit dance lessons actually lacks SOUL simple as that you might be able to practice the so called moves but if it ain't in you in the first place then it don't matter how many lessons you have, it's not a dance move or fancy foot work it's something you either grasp,get and understand or you don't, I know people with three left feet who have more soul than these people will ever understand, it's turning into a fucking circus.

For me you can take away all the veneer, the baggies, the badges, the tack etc. and at the end of the day it's about a young 17 or 18 year old black singer or group standing at a microphone and the engineer says ok roll the tape counts them in and bang there you have it their dreams and aspirations of having a hit record, the pain, the heartache, the passion, basically was the single most fundamental thing which drew me in some 37 years ago, what comes across to me in some areas of the scene is the music is so far down the pecking order of priorities the whole point of why we are all involved is lost or certainly diluted.`

Think he came second.

Nice dream Russ but I think is just that a dream mate.

PM sent, offered it to Daz first but if he's sorted I have one nice clean condition for sale, please get in touch. Mark

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