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Does anyone know of a UK supplier for 7" polylined white paper sleeves? Only I'm just about to re-order from the only supplier I know and they are in Italy, be handier if I could find someone nearer

To get more information that might help you decide you can 'click' on the 'bids', this takes you to the bid history page, then click on the bidders 'name'. The next screen should show you that bidder's details: 30-Day Summary Total bids: Items bid on: Bid activity (%) with this seller: Bid retractions: Bid retractions (6 months): If they have only been bidding with the one seller and they have a load of retractions it might be a sign of suspicious behaviour but still not definite.

What is soul? For me it's when the music is greater than the sum of its parts, when your heart misses a beat when you hear it, when something inside you melts and your life is just that little bit better than it was. 'Bob & Fred's - I'll Be On My Way' , gets to me every time I hear it!

It would be interesting for me to see how many DJ's are in the top tier of Northern Soul DJ's, the ones who command the biggest appearance fees, are we talking about a dozen people or maybe two dozen? Would it be easier once we knew who they were to 'cost' a one hour set that they play to then work out what a 'top tier' set costs to put together? Then from those figures maybe a cost for a play box of 200 or 300 records. To start from scratch today to build such a collection would take a serious amount of disposable income! I'd love to have some of my favourite 'big money' records to play out but unfortunately I have very little money and even worse I have zero DJ skills, so I agree with the majority view that seems to be forming in this thread that it's the lack of DJ skills that sorts the 'best from the rest'

Hmmm, at the last Bournemouth 'All Nighter' there were half a dozen of us still on the dance floor at 6 and probably 25 people left in the club and that had been a brilliant night, the majority had left by 4ish. The 'second room' at that 'All Nighter' playing rare and underplayed tracks wasn't exactly packed at any time. Somehow I don't see enough interest on the South Coast to make a success of an 'All Nighter' playing rarer tracks with different start and end times to the 'norm'. My own humble opinion would be that to have a successful nighter you would have to start by building the enthusiasm and carrying on the 'Railway Club' ethos first. Having said that I'd still try and make it what ever the format lol

Went to see the film at the Empire, Leicester Sq on Saturday night, overall it was an enjoyable 90 minutes Some of it certainly reminded me of being 17 and back in the early 70's. Then again some of it was, as they say, ' artistic license' , true for most entertainment. But it's not a film about 'Northern Soul' , it is a film about 'boy meets girl' set in the 70's with a background of Northern Soul, as such it was brilliant to hear some of the music played out in a venue that wouldn't normally hear it. I'll get the DVD when it's available and play it every 10 years or so just to remind me of what it was like to be 17 and naive and slim and full of the joy of hearing certain tracks for the first time

The following records are for sale. Postage is free, records will be sent special delivery , I will not ship to countries outside of the UK. Records are shipped in cardboard record mailers with added stiffeners. Payment by PayPal only ( no fees). The price you see is the price you pay Please send me a PM if you need any more information about the records or are interested in buying. Chi-Lites - She's Mine - Blue Rock 4037 White Promo - Excellent - £175 Forris Woods - Stoned On Love - Abbot 2026 - Excellent (Slight rippling on label) - £35 Nancy Wilcox - Coming On Strong - RCA Victor 9233 White Promo - Excellent (A few paper scuffs, does not affect play) - £35 Harold Melvin - Get Out - Landa BNO 1(multi coloured label) - Excellent (A few paper scuffs, slight noise on intro) - £55 Janice - I Need You Like A Baby - Roulette 7083 - Near mint - £160 Liz Lands - Midnight Johnny - Gordy 7030 - (BB hole in label) - Excellent - £50 Derek Martin - Breakaway - Roulette 4743 White Promo - Near Mint - £50 Gene Woodbury - I'll Be Glad - Del-Val 1003 - VG+ (A few paper scuffs , does not affect play) - £45 Marie Knight - You Lie So Well - Musicor 1128 - (BB hole in label) - Excellent - £90 Notations - A New Day - Twinight 148 - Excellent - £45 Susan Rafey - Hurt So Bad - Verve 10390 Yellow Promo - Near Mint - £75 Donald Height - I Choose You - Dakar 4556 White Promo - Near Mint - £65 Roni Hill - I Wouldn't Give You Up - Roulette 7204 White Promo - Excellent - £20 Gradings: Mint,Near mint, Excellent, VG+ Thank you for looking

SOLD Sandy Wynns - The Touch Of Venus - Champion 14001 (With raised ARP stamp) - VG+ (Paper scuffs) - £30 SOLD

The following records are for sale. Postage is free, records will be sent special delivery , I will not ship to countries outside of the UK. Records are shipped in cardboard record mailers with added stiffeners. Payment by PayPal only ( no fees). The price you see is the price you pay Please send me a PM if you need any more information about the records or are interested in buying. Harold Melvin - Get Out - Landa BNO 1(multi coloured label) - Excellent (A few paper scuffs, slight noise on intro) - £55 Janice - I Need You Like A Baby - Roulette 7083 - Near mint - £160 Liz Lands - Midnight Johnny - Gordy 7030 - (BB hole in label) - Excellent - £50 Derek Martin - Breakaway - Roulette 4743 White Promo - Near Mint - £50 Gene Woodbury - I'll Be Glad - Del-Val 1003 - VG+ (A few paper scuffs , does not affect play) - £45 Marie Knight - You Lie So Well - Musicor 1128 - (BB hole in label) - Excellent - £90 Notations - A New Day - Twinight 148 - Excellent - £45 Susan Rafey - Hurt So Bad - Verve 10390 Yellow Promo - Near Mint - £75 Sandy Wynns - The Touch Of Venus - Champion 14001 (With raised ARP stamp) - VG+ (Paper scuffs) - £30 Donald Height - I Choose You - Dakar 4556 Promo - Near Mint - £65 Roni Hill - I Wouldn't Give You Up - Roulette 7204 Promo - Excellent - £20 Thank you for looking

The following records are for sale. Postage is free, records will be sent special delivery , I will not ship to countries outside of the UK. Records are shipped in cardboard record mailers with added stiffeners. Payment by PayPal only ( no fees). Please PM me if you are interested. Janice - I Need You Like A Baby - Roulette 7083 - Near mint - £165 Gene Woodbury - I'll Be Glad - Del-Val 1003 - VG+ (Minor sleeve paper scuffs , does not affect play) - £55 Notations - A New Day - Twinight 148 - Excellent - £45 Donald Height - I Choose You - Dakar 4556 Promo - Near Mint - £75 Roni Hill - I Wouldn't Give You Up - Roulette 7204 Promo - Excellent - £20 Thank you for looking

Thanks Tank I had a look at the YouTube information but there seemed to be even less reason for the 7" single to be worth any more than £20. Haven't found any reason as to why this should suddenly be a £200 record but I'll keep looking.

I have a mint issue , Enyx black label, of the C Henry Woods Troupe - Stranger , that I'll be selling shortly. Didn't think it would cause me a problem fixing a price, somewhere between £20 & £40 if I get lucky Then I saw on the 'Rare Northern Soul' web site a white demo on sale for £200. Has this track become incredibly popular over the last month and has the price really jumped that much ? I'd be happy to sell mine for £150 I'd be grateful for any information that throws some light on the pricing. Thank you.

Customs & Excise are as bad as the 'Spanish Inquisition' and NOBODY expects the 'Spanish Inquisition' I follow the philosophy of expecting to be charged on every item that comes through customs and when I'm not charged then I've won Every now and again I do have to pay up but overall I'm not paying anything like the amount I should by law. I agree with the other posts , I always bid the 20% less on a US item than a UK item just in case the 'Spanish Inquisition' get me

Oooops , the Carla Thomas is a hundred+ now a days isn't it Not exactly available for around a fiver

It would depend on the venue , there's a record for a tenner that would fill some floors and empty others Al Wilson - The Snake Personally I'd have to choose 'Carla Thomas - I'll Never Stop Loving You' as the least expensive floor filler there is, isn't that still available for a tenner

Sure, you use the vinyl record, which is a more robust material than the original acetate/lacquer master from which the original stampers were created, and put it through the same traditional vinyl record creation process by silvering it and then electroplating it with a nickel alloy before creating the 'mothers' to create new stampers which should be a perfect copy. The assumption being you use the best/mint copies of the record you can find, at least two, one for each side of the record. I'm not sure of the final quality but with the differences found in genuine records because of different vinyl mixes, poor stampers and actual playing it might be as good as an original. As for using the 'original stampers' in one of your previous posts, I didn't know any pressing plant kept them, they'd be long gone and useless, did you mean using the original 'mothers', which might have been kept, to make new stampers? The vinyl record gets wrecked in the process but you have new stampers to create as many copies as they can before they to fail, I've been told that's anything between 500 and 2000 depending on the quality you require. I'm not sure why either of you would want to hit metal covering a record with hammers , maybe you're stupid ? It would be interesting to find out from a pressing company to see if they could do it in theory

I know I might not understand the production of vinyl records 100% but surely the vinyl record is just a 'positive' copy of the original 'negative' metal stampers, so to recreate the stampers you can use an original vinyl record in a reverse process to create new stampers, so the bootleggers don't need the original stampers, which were probably trashed after use and thrown into a bin. Never mind bootlegging £300 records, something popular like 'Seven Day Fool' that goes for around £50 and is always a popular sale if you booted and sold 500 of them you could take £25,000 ...... I'm really surprised there aren't more boots and really glad that there aren't and I'm very thank full for this forum and the experts on it that highlight the boots when they find them as well as JM's and Tim's guides.

I have no real world experience of the record creation process but I'd assumed that creating almost identical boots of original records was achievable. Mind you that was with some BIG assumptions. Is it not possible to use scrap vinyl records originally produced in the 60's as the source for the 'booted record' vinyl instead of using new vinyl pellets? If you used an actual 'mint' record release as the master to create the stamps wouldn't that include matrix numbers, correct run in and out lengths? Then use the latest laser copiers to produce the labels, if 'villains' can source the paper to print fake currency then I'm sure that getting paper similar to the original paper used on a 60's record label is less difficult. I expect you would end up with a boot that all but a handful of the most knowledgeable record buyers would be able to recognise as fake. Didn't the american 'mafia' produce millions of 'boots' through the 50's and 60's that are sometimes accepted as originals? Not that I'll be going into the boot industry

The following records are for sale. The price includes special delivery postage in the UK, I will not ship to countries outside of the UK. Records are shipped in cardboard record mailers with added stiffeners. Payment by PayPal only ( no fees). Please PM me if you are interested. Thank you Two Tons Of Love - What Good Am I Without You - Paramount Promo - Near Mint Condition - £60 Donald Height - I Choose You - Dakar Promo - Near Mint Condition - £60

Ordered a few bits from 'Simply Soul' , for the first time, yesterday around lunchtime. The records arrived with the morning post before 9 am, that's the way to get customers to return, very impressive!

My new word for the year to encompass all the above is NOFI (Not Original First Issue) pronounced as 'nof-eee' When I can't remember if a record is a boot, pressing, reissue or a 2nd issue , I will now confuse anyone within hearing by proclaiming it as a "nofeee" , as in "It's only worth a tenner it's not the original it's a nofeee" I'll get my coat

The 'originals' are noticeably light blue. Here's an image of one from popsike.

Released in Argentina as a 33rpm single in the mid 60's on Warner, that's about as close to an 'original' lp release as I expect we'll ever see , one up for sale on ebay as I write

I agree with 'Billyboy' If Prestatyn is a 'celebration' of all things Northern Soul from 'classic' to 'modern' and all stops in between then it would seem appropriate for the main rooms to be shared a little more evenly.

Isn't this 'Road Runner' by Satan's Breed, it was on the 'Million Dollars Worth of Soul' cd, which is all I know