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Im not blaming anyone my wife bought them to me, but they simply haven't broken in, I suppose its like everything, try before you buy. She didnt know that though, and she cant do anything about it now,

Weejuns (American through Bass) do a nice range of loafers with importantly hand stitched smooth soles. Obviously style is important, best shoes I found was at an Italian cobblers in Marylebone again. Like velvet on your feet

I have to say all my Loakes do is pinch me, my dear late wife bought them me, I always go in them and switch to trainers; Ive smashed my legs up in the past so they're what's comfortable... I did look at a pro dancer shop in Marylebone, hand made from scratch best part of £2500 but stylish AF I think you can get them cheaper-place in Wales near Aberystwyth too, as I recall. go into a shop, try on- don't order online is a good enough tip

Just found shes on Lack of Afro single flip side to Joss Stone-take you home-Fires Glow-it aint that good either-3 songs now where she mentions drinking, is she sponsored by Bass? She did well on Woman of the World, after that, anybody's guess. Miss as well as the latest one.

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That's is awesome, in a nutshell. It's like stepping back stepping forward at the same time, 60s style RnB but fresh from the udder. Luckily I got one of the last copies by the look of things Shabba!

Some nice ideas here everyone thanks for the thought!!

Look spot on that Chalky is it the one with doors or without?

HM...a little over budget for my motley crew I think but

Just wondering what people are using mainly for 7s as I'm totally useless at home improvement. I've looking at Kallo Kubes but if anyone has rigged out their music room and has better ideas I'm all ears.

Hm...yes Ive heard it more than once, cant place exactly where.

I was hoping for compensation for the whiplash injury I got when I saw the price!

Having read the article, I suppose the answer now has to be more processing plants unless this vinyl resurgence is a passing fad-I think not because quote Meanwhile, ''the number of CD sales in the UK fell by almost a third to 16 million in 2020'' in same quote as 4,800.000 vinyl sales. the demise of top of the pops, the rise of the cd and MP3, streaming created new markets, but word has maybe spread about future invetsments or the wake up call for the need of real music, going out, seeing bands ...I still maintain that booking out all pressing plants is down to Adeles management company, not her personally. Ed Sheeran in the same article. “So you have to do it like really upfront — and Adele had basically booked out all the vinyl factories, so we had to get a slot and get our album in there. It was like me, Coldplay, Adele, Taylor [Swift], ABBA, Elton [John]: all of us were trying to get our vinyl printed at the same time.” 5 500,000 pressings of the album have been ordered, admittedly the pressing plants hardly going to turn down that sort of cash. Just have to be patient, but I really truly hope this doesnt mena small labels, unable to produce, going to the wall, after so much hard work, and whose work I and many othrs support and appreciate, some of those sold on these pages MD, LRK Izipho Hit&Run etc Incidentally saw a Taylor Swift album at £90 in a record store last week, so the new ltd releaee (I suppose thats what it mustr be) market is vibrant.

There is a downside/darkside victim of owm success? Adele. Who has scuppered many artists and producers opportunities by monopolising the pressing plants until end 2022 for the release of her latest gas. It's. A bit naughty that. I can't work out why anybody would want to listen to that on a two bob Crosley turntable. So my guess is sales will be generally down this next year.

NIc little mix to blow away Tuesday afternoon that

Listening to an 80s soul mix tonight has revived more memories Another feature I do remember is when the rave scene started breaking out of South of Wandsworth Bridge...(just before the press started with their acid house tales of people freaking out and dying at ' raves) near abouts the Rasta temple in 88. Everyone was still pubbing on Fridays but there was loads of black and white youth walking about together dressed in sort of what I'd describe as cultish garb flowing clothes, none of that smiley face bollocks... smiling a lot, they was definitely not going in the pubs, the area had been a frontline down that way with the black people the law and the whites and it seemed to melt away over night..like peace and broken out all over, nobody could handle it, the cops twiddling their thumbs, other youth cults shaking their heads asking what the f*cks going on, and I believe a much better development and understanding between black and white youth in many areas football hools got into it of course and mellowed for a long while... completely .the fashions changed obviously but the attitudes remained cool v..another point .as regard NS scene similar in that if a record charted it was generally gone as the Indy record production was so fast and furious this is borne out today in places like Notting Hill music exchange they have an ocean of that in the basements...I remember Doop being dropped at the first light of dawn at the end of a long night in Hackney and it was as you'd imagine an absolute banger. After that never heard it played in the Indy clubs as it hit the twat farms a fortnight later in Leicester Square

Thanks for that Mal, Im justy listening in now

And yes Wolverhampton Ithink youre right Gabba at that time.

Neil Surreal is a name that rings a bell for me. Im sure hes still about. Epic nights

Id kind of drifted out of the soul scene in what 1988 after which I was still into my music went to the odd do in Camden town a place i think called the Cardinal, an upstairs room at a pub where there was hardly any dance space but very very atmospheric, sweat pouring back down from the ceiling.. I was living a very humdrum existence in Leicester after bailing out of London, one night a group of friends, some who i didnt know ranted at me down the phone that I had to come back down as it was all happening. I said hm okay..well pick you up!! They packed up my gear into a barely roadworthy Commer Van, the windscreen wiper went flying offdown the A1? half way in a torrential so we got a new new one at services and rigged it in driving rain ...7 lads in a house, then off to warehouse parties, making loads of friends because of the pills probably, the house was conitnually visited by table escorts, crusties, neerdowells, scammers, who were very curious about the rave scene... the first techno party I went to in Hackney Id just necked my first ever pill and could hear and see a bloke by the door of the warehouse saying he was going to come back and take the doormens heads oiff with a shotgun (Hoxton) I thought whoa this is nice!! Then the pill kicked in, and I was off Musically it was all very onedimensional, about the beats nothing else very primal, I couldnt equate that to anything in Soul, also the dancing was very different, more swaying bodily movements at that point, girls boogying, lots of baggy stuff obviously, neat white tee shirts youd belucky to get three uses out of before they ent yellow, carhaart jackets three stripe hat for me Sambas as ever! Someone mentioned same brotherhood as NS niters, that held, classless for a long time. Big equalizer though, people from all walks. One thing was complete lack of attention from the old bill, we didnt cause trouble for them, theyd occaionally drop in and say everything okay here, then off. I eventually started helping out with moving sound systems about, helping rig them up the lads at the house produced a record which was mind numbingly dull but charted well in the independents-one time we broke a warehouse loaded the stock on a truck, it drove off, sound system in, and it was replaced in the morning with a brand new lock. So that as har graft because youd get there at four, do all this work, party all night and then, undo all the work in the morning, in the end I said screw this. I was a student nurse at the time, andI needed my rest. there was a lot of chancers thinking they were djs-one such inherited £4,000,000 and I could already see his wife had the measure of him-had his £55,000 sound system stolen and his trust fund wouldnt let him replace it- it began to get messy about 96, I knew I was struggling, one morning when I my hand went involuntary 90 degrees and poured a cup of tea on the floor, some kind of short circuit going on, I was going out 3 nights a week at this point. As with other posts, there was kids who bought parents, whod been around in the 60s,70s. There was a place in Dalston Kingsland a stand alone five story house or pub, struggling for money so turned into a free for all, whuch was literally shaking with the sound, again sweat pouring down from the ceiling, electrics fizzling at the fuse box, its a wonder we werent all immolated...trying to get from floor to floor was an issue with all the bodies on the stairs-the noodiness was creeping in and I found a liking for cleaner places as a lot of crusties were now in the scene, it became a little unhygenic and people were lounging rather than dancing (comedown drugs) I started looking through Time Out for abit of different and found Happiness Stans in Farringdon, a veyr old club, playing 60s, 70s, soul, funk...I took the lads along and that was there eye opener, I became a regular there, front of the queue all that, so that was another brick in the path back to the roots. About 96, soulful house was making an inroad to my conscience, soul...David Holmes, a techno bod for example had begun sampling Funk and Northern tracks on his early albums This Films Crap Lets Slash the Seats-and then full circle back to soul. Couple of years after the oceans settled, I took a look through the double doors of a place called Ashwin Street, which used to be bouncing... my pal pointed it out to me...I didnt remember the location ..we looked in .it was just corpses everywhere, I dont think there even music playing in there if so it as on knackered speakers, the placewas enoloped in a flithy gloom. We kind of went that could have been us. 414 Coldharbour Lane Ashwin Street Zero Gravity Embassy Bar Angel -this was where funky records started to be played-Zoe Ball begged for ages to get a spot there, my pal Jonno built it up House of God Digbeth Institute Birmingham Clays Lane (Hackney Housing estate which had an open community do once a month, fire eaters, trapeze artists allsorts, free for all) Field on the M4

One-Junior Parker You Can Make it If You Try/My Love Is Real. What's on the labels is a piece of dubious quality by the New Vaudeville Band. (F-1573 Amy/Peek A Boo) Can't find any reference to how this might have occurred. label is definitely legit 2nd misfire Bunny Sigler Let The Good Times...is actually Girl Don't Make Me Wait. So same.label both sides. Strange days.

Art & Honey for me please. Looking through now

In half hour less blah more music. To be honest o don't have a lot to say of any worth

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