Pete S

Wait til I do my next order mate, it'll be this week sometime, I'll give you a shout, pick a B side as well!

I've got it Rob, do you want me to get you one cut? I did it myself last month cos I stupidly sold someone the acetate 5 or 6 years back, I might have even given it him for nothing, idiot I am

Just saw this on Ebay. Handy looking machine. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WARPED-VINYL-RECORDS-REPAIRS-FURUTECH-DF-2-/231059942654?pt=UK_WSJL_Wholesale_GL&hash=item35cc3eecfe

Surprised that didn't end up on the Kenny Everett album..

It was, there's two different versions of this topic going around

Now THAT is a proper record. Not sure what it's got to do with this topic, but great to hear it again.

Not a pressing though - they were done as promos for the first Soul Time compilation on Sony Music. Fortunately I got 50 copies for helping out with the compilation.

Another stack of Northern / R & B 45's added to Discogs today, am nearly up to 1000 items now. If you're after a bargain, please have a look (you can make an offer on the price of most items too) https://www.discogs.com/seller/pete.smith

First Class - Beach Baby

£35 overpriced I reckon

Fantastic. When I've listened to the lot I'll date it for you but it's definitely 1975

Boy is that average

Just as an aside, yes it's a lot to do with the quality of the music and dj's but also don't forget none of us are getting any younger, circumstances change, from having kids to the price of petrol making travel restrictive. So maybe a lot of people who normally would be out there on the front line just can't do it anymore, even though they might want to.

I disagree slightly. These records, like the ones in my podcast above, are contemporary releases of the time, but they are mostly uptempo 4/4 beat type things. Even now things like Creative Source, East Coast Connection, James Bynum, I've never thought of these as being anything else but Northern. Maybe because they didn't cross over to the charts. Cameo, great record as it is, was very catchy and a bit poppy and I can understand why it's never been reactivated, up to a point. These records carried on being played after any split took place. The quantity played was reduced simply because the sound and the beat changed and most became unsuitable as "Northern Soul" dancers.

That was one of the clips from 1988

I can turn it into a video and post it on youtube but thats gonna take ages and the missus wants to go to merry hill

Where to post it though? Can't post it up here

Not what he told me 2 months ago! Said he was just a backing singer on it.

Some of the inserts and interviews in this show are taken directly from the Whistle Test Northern Soul feature (Blackburn) from 87 or 88...

Steve wasn't lead singer with The Professionals, if he was, he wasn't on their only single. Ask Chalky.

Well there is a lot of in fighting and bickering isn't there, there always has been. Whether it's 60's vs Modern, original vinyl only vs pressings, retro baggy trouser fashions vs contemporary clothing - there's always going to be something that people bicker about. The one thing that has never changed though, is the friendliness of the scene, and the way people are accepted straight away.

Yeah I guess it was, but there's no going back after that.

The last time I ever dj'd, and there's a reason why it was the last time as you'll see in a minute - I was playing Siky Hargraves, Natural Four and other well known but hardly common oldies, I was asked for Jimmy Mack (the song not the artist), Brainstorm, Because Of You and Nine Times Out Of Ten. I didn't play any of them because I hadn't got any of them "what do you mean you have't got Brainstorm" (er, nobodys played it for 35 years you moron) anyway one guy kept asking and asking for Tell Me It's Just A Rumour Baby so I eventually borrowed it off someone else - and he didn't dance. I had a very poor dance floor reaction and as I finished, the next guy put on Because Of You and rammed the floor and proceeded to play the commonest Motowns etc to a very busy dancefloor, I said never, ever again, and nowadays I just do my DJ sets via podcasts where it doesn't matter if people dance or not!

Never heard that before Steve but if I'm wrong I'll hold my hand up. I checked in Manships guide - which I don't usually need to do - and he only mentions the yellow one as well. Same with Tim Brown.

I'm not disagreeing about the record Steve, I just think that our mystery DJ is in a Catch-22 situation. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.