Winnie :-)

============= Was played last night at 'Diamonds', can't say its a fave of mine, but can't deny the dance floor action it provoked either

============= Saw them at Trentham Gardens, and they were rather good

============= Rehab clinics popping up all over the place......God bless Betty Ford

================ And the die was cast............... Think she found us at our strangest a couple of times I bought friends back after nighters and she was there. Incessant babble I think she said

============== Indicative of the inability to attract youngsters onto the scene. Think its time we had something like "Pro evolution northern soul 2006", now if someone can just convince Nintendo or X box

============== My son thinks we're the real 'cocoon', and my daughter after meeting some of my friends, thought we were all very strange. A couple of my sisters thought we were very 'formation dance troupe' when we were all 'cutting a rug'. Does the outside world really percieve us like this?

============= Van Dykes for me

================ It's just a nasty record full stop.

================= Can see what you're saying with the first bit, but would have thought all small record companies would have been attempting to imitate whatever sound was popular at the time, whether it be Motown or prior to it? At the time (7Ts) Levine was copying and creating for a current trend, the northern scene, so still don't see a world of difference to be honest. I'm not saying his creations are/were northern classics, cos IMO they're not (although I don't think they're all crap either) but I do think his statement has some relevance. Doesn't expansion do something similar, create sounds that fit current trends?

============== Winnie? Now that's an unusual name

============= Where's the world of difference? Small record companies also produced good singers who couldn't get a major record deal, and got them to imitate, for instance the Motown sound, or whatever else was popular at the time. Presumably they did this with a view to having a successful record by tapping into the current trend. Levine did similar as far as I can see? Winnie:-)

========== Hi Pete, yep, very well thanks I can see what you're saying re the vandals being easily available making it less popular with DJs, but still suspect it's 'questionable' origins to be the biggest reason it isn't played, which equates to, not judging a record on it's merits IMO. As Dave T said in an earlier post, probably better not to analyse things, but on these cold winter nights what else is there to do?

=========== Ok mate, it's only cos I've got no speakers, and miss out on some of these clips

============ Fair play Mikey, ever the gent

============ Mikey got told off, Mikey got told off Notice Mikey, it went from Mikey in the first line to Michael in the last.............

=========== Do they do transcripts of these interviews on the net?

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============ It's not unheard of

=========== Smokey for me I'm afraid Col. Dusty had a good voice but I'm not convinced she was naturally soulful. By that I mean she was probably asked to imitate a sound/style and whilst she could carry it off, that's what it sounded like ...... imitation.

============= That's the corniest lead in line to an advert for a nighter ever Think I'll definitely have to come to the nighter now, would be nice to be in the elite, even if it is only the once

============== I sort of thought you might think that Baz Well I like it, but then again I also like Joey DeLorenzo and the Oxford Knights

============== I bet she'll be chuffed to bits about you relating that story

========== I agree with that, but do find it interesting that if you take "Wrong side of town" for example, people everywhere were dancing to it. When it's background came out, suddenly it was a no no. The record itself hadn't changed, just the circumstances surrounding it's arrival on the scene. I remember someone saying recently judge a record on it's merits, so how come suddenly everyone was required to hate it? Is it really worse than all the records currently played?

============ That's a tough name to swallow.........