Rob Wigley

Edwin was a regular at Wigan all the Scottish lads know him , I once pulled in to the car park and Steve Strange was in the next car with his mates all done up in make up --did me bloody head in !!

Also check out Orange Juice 45s you can hear the Northern all over them

Speedy recovery to Edwin as well

Hi everyone just a quick note to confirm Melvin Davis has arrived safely this morning from DETROIT, bringing the detroit weather with him!

He is really looking forward to his stay and we hope that during the next 3 weeks as many people will be able to get to see him as possible.

A quick reminder

New Century All-nighter in Manchester Sat 26th Feb--be early or buy tickets now looks like being a full house

PRESTATYN WEEKENDER- a Modern Room set--SOLD OUT

Stoke on Trent an Audience with Melvin Davis--wed 9th march tickets £15 limited availability--your chance to ask Melvin about his music

Tickets available from the New Century Soul Club website

https://newcenturysoul.co.uk

OLLERTON MINERS WELFARE ALL-DAYER Suday 13th March superb venue tickets

£10 Melvins farewell performance don't miss it tel Rob & Karen 01909 473915

or 07900 131 119 COACH & MINI BUS PARTIES WELCOME ring for ticket discounts

He will be on DEAN ANDERSON radio show Sunday 27th feb available on line at

www.boundarysound.co.uk

7pm to 9pm

also available his new 45 limited edition collectors vinyl price £10 from the above gigs or website up soon https://www.melvindavis.com

Cheers

Rob & Karen

Melvin and Bryan say hello to everyone he met at Prestatyn last year hope to see you all again during the Tour

THE DIASIES "COLD WAVE"

BAD WETHER INC "LOVE STORMY WEATHER"

AND BY THE WAY WHEN DID YOU LAST HEAR COLD WAVE PLAYED ? GREAT RECORD !

Lonnie Hill - Cold Cold Winter in the Ghetto

Paul Kelly - Chills & Fever

JJ Barnes - Snowflake

Bill Harris - Am I Cold Am I Hot

Alvin Cash - The Philly freeze

Tyrone St Germain - In A World So Cold

100% Proof aged in soul - 90 Day Freeze on her love

and how about

Ruby Winters - B(i)tter 

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BEST REPLY YET !

OK So it's snowing outside and i just had a thought about a radio show for PRESTATYN if the weather's still bad.

I will start it off with a couple of titles, have a laugh and see how many we get

Tina Roberts "SNOW"

Art Freeman "Slippin' around"

over to you lot....

Talking about Aussies What about Kylies version of "TIME WILL PASS YOU BY" on some CD from the mid 90s I think. I kid you not raid your childrens Cd collections !

Miss a turn as you change out of that once white but now brown spotted T- shirt.

Jordi

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Instaed of buying houses/Hotels you could buy a Record Box(50) Dj case(300)

Player pieces could be in different colours ie green/Clear, Black, french blue, two-tone pink, brown and chalky(white). Wasn't our youth colourfull !!

Saw Chris marriott out last night and the 12" is selling really well get one whilst you can ! details above

You can't beat the Kids record player FISHER PRICE around £10 off the car boot

INDESTRUCTABLE STYLUS and plays 45s 33 s plus a niffty centre addaptor which folds into the centre spindle

Watch out for the rare "Big Bird" seasame Street US limited edition if you are in the USA !! I kid you not !!

PRESTATYN 4,5,6,7 MARCH 2005 SOLD OUT BUT CHECK FOR PEOPLE WITH SPARE PASSES

MOTOWN LEGENDS Gt.YARMOUTH 14TH ,15TH, 16TH, OCT 2005 (3 or 4 MOTOWN/NORTHERN RELATED ACTS T.B.C. 4 ALL-NIGHTERS 3 ROOMS )

www.soul-weekenders.co.uk

for details on both

two things here, I had a john manship tape, not sales tape, but stuff he was playing at the end of his Dj era, Paris Blues was on it as was Geradine Hunt "Winner take all" ABC around 1976 Ive never heard anyone play "winner takes all" out, still sounds good to my ears !

And on the subject of Paris Blues I think it is the title music to a film of the same name from the late '50s early 60's, I'm sure there is an Elmer Berstien connection with that. Anybody know more or even seen the film ? it would tie in with Tony's

image etc

THEY AIN'T POSTMEN & WOMEN ANYMORE THEY ARE "SERVICE DELIVERY OFFICERS" . MY OWN "SDO" * HAS BEEN STICKING OUR MAIL THROUGH A DOOR THREEQUARTERS OF A MILE AWAY ! BUT GIVE THE POOR LAD HIS DUE THEY BOTH HAD "23" ON THEM !

* MAKES A NICE ANAGRAM OF "SOD"

A good friend of ours sent us a record as a wedding present.

And of course he used Royal Mail as the means of getting it to us.

Well, the postman knocked and i went to answer the door......

JUST IN TIME TO SEE HIM BENDING IT NEARLY IN HALF TO GET IT TO FIT THROUGH THE LETTER BOX!!!!!!!!!

...... ?????????? !!!

Loads,

Joan

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ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REPORT HIM TO E-BAY FOR SELLING COUNTERFEIT GOODS AND THEN TO TRADING STANDARDS IN NOTTINGHAM www.nottingham/gov.org I THINK THATS RIGHT OR TELEPHONE DIRECTORY ENQUIRIES. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE COMPLAIN HE WILL BE STOPPED

Knew one didn't come over Ady, memory not what it used to be 

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WE WILL BE DOING SOMETHING AS A TRIBUTE TO RAY AT PRESTATYN, CERTAINLY ON THE RADIO MAYBE IN ONE OF THE ROOMS.

A GREAT MAN EVEN GREATER PERFORMER , WE WERE VERY LUCKY TO GET RAY AT THE FIRST PRESTATYN, HE GAVE A SUPERB PERFORMANCE TO THE 900 OR SO WHO WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE HIM, WE HAD PLANNED TO BRING HIM OVER AGAIN. NON OF US ARE GETTING ANY YOUNGER, SEE THESE ARTISTS WHILE YOU CAN !!!!

ROB & KAREN WIGLEY

I HAVE THE FOLLOWING THREE RECORDS FOR SALE

CONTEMPLATIONS "ALONE WITH NO LOVE" c/w THE DONTEE STUDIO BAND INST. ON FLIP SIDE on DONTTEE 101 (Cond ex -play perfect)

First £400 secures this very hard 45

SUNLINERS "ALL ALONE" c/w "THE SWINGING KIND" GOLDEN WORLD GW31 EX Cond. £160 (DETROIT CLASSIC)

SYNG McGOWAN "THAT'S WHAT I WANT" c/w "PEGGY DID" HOPE

EX/MINT £100

E-MAIL robw@yelp.fsnet.CO.UK

OR 07 900 131 119

THANKS Rob Wigley

FIRST DEBUT DISC FROM BLACK MARKET RECORDS AIMED AT THE CROSSOVER/MODERN MARKET 12" Ltd Edition of 250 in a special sleeve

Contains 4 tracks from some of the great voices of soul music.

Side 1 Angela Winbush "Inner city blues" Bobby Womack "Colour him father" Side 2 Lamont Dozier "Feeling each other out" Mark Johnson "Daydream" Of special interest to the Northern Crowd is Bobby's version of The Winstons "Colour him father" which has agreat vibe.

Chris Marriott & Dave Kettle both names familiar to the Northern crowd have put this excellent quality package together as their debut disc. They are following with both northern and modern/ crossover 7" singles during 2005 in limited edition pressing runs. with over half the first 12" already sold now is the time to get a piece of the collecting action and snap these last copies up before they all go !

Copies are priced at £15.00 each plus postage (£1.50) please call Chris Marriott to order your copy on 01623 646 524 or send to 15, Colwick Close, Mansfield, Notts NG19 6NW cheques payable to C.Marriott please.

lorraine Chandler stole the show at Stafford, came out from the wings singing "tell me your mine" and the hairs stood up on the back of your neck ! eddie was filling the show up with soul classics (knock on wood) both were excellent at Vauxhall weekender. see if they've still got it at Prestatyn in march, by the way can anyone name all the backing singers at Stafford, Rob Marriott, danny Everade, a young Butch ? maybe Keb ? i think there were 5 in all !!

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All previous quotes taken from "Lets learn French"

(simple words and phrases for beginers buying records off dodgy continental types) Manships, Kev's and tim browns versions to follow.

My apologies then.  It was 4 am and I had just got up in my defence 

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Bonjour, comment tu t'appelles ?

Je me suis perdu

Combien coutent les records ?

Combien coute un timbre pour postale pour Angleterre ?

Voulez-vous autre chose ?

Je voudraise une tranche de quiche !

C'est interessant, n'est-ce pas ?

In buying records it is important to know le nez from le coude

if it looks too good to be true---it probably is !

take care children

Good luck to ya John, but can I have the rest of the stuff that was about to be trashed !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ?

Made me smile Chalky, remember your first trip to the canal tavern when gary welsh was running it ? before Rod took over. you nearly wore a groove in that dance floor that night !!

more new stuff was played later on at the Tavern when the Cream of the Crossover rod had been building up started to run out, plus he was getting New stuff from the States via richard carrington what ever happened to him ?!

I think it was Voices from the shadows main man Rod Dearlove circa

1987/88. I wrote an article for Echoes around that time after visiting the Canal Tavern at Thorne, Reflections at Liecester and The Collesium in Derby Danny Everade was running with Tats. All 3 venues were playing

70s soul music which was popular at the early weekenders. Rare Groove had just taken off in London. I was looking for a name to describe the music being played, it wasn't Modern nor was it Northern, I put a Tag of Goodtime Soul music which fitted as we were all having a bloody good time (a solid hard core of about 50 or so people travelling with another 70-80 on the fringe ).

rod kept writing about this scene and the records that were played, Bobby Reed (Bell £8), Stan Ivory (£5), Chestnut brothers etc which he was also selling via his mail order list under the general section, then under the title crossover soul as more and more of these records were played or re-discovered.

there is an excellent article that Rod wrote in Voices No 16 1991 which gives an insight to these records that were played at thorne, Parkers and morecombe/early southport weekenders which eventually lead to the birth of the Soul essence weekenders in yarmouth, all good stuff basically Crossover is 1969 to 1974 that was ignored by the stomping northern scene and over looked by the Modern scene because it wasn't "new". generally mid tempo but good dancers with soulful vocals.

perfect for todays 40 plus arthritic crowd with bad knees and very sought after by people who missed them at the time .

hope that helps Rob

THEY CAN ONLY SUE YOU IF ITS A LIE, WHAT ABOUT WIGAN DJS GETTING SACKED FOR BOOTLEGGING ? SPEEDED UP TURNTABLES, STOP PUSHING AT THE BACK AND ALL THE LITTLE POPETTES THAT VISITED THAT LOCKED OFFICE IN THE BACK OF THE CASINO ?

I ONCE HEARD A FEMALE SAY TO A CERTAIN CASINO OFFICAL "IF YOU DON'T SORT IT OUT I'LL TELL THEM WHAT GOES OFF IN YOUR OFFICE !"

YES SHE IS STILL ON THE SCENE !