Steve G

Yeah I undertand this Dave. Had exactly the same thing with Groovesville that Andy runs. Steve

I take a 100 box, in a bag, as carry on. It's under 10kg. Put other stuff in there and it goes over......only once seen it checked, when an over officious Ryainair guy pulled this pocket weighing machine out of his pockets and was insisting on weighong everyones carry ons. The DJs I was with had to put their luggage in the hold Anyway enjoy it Dave.....Steve

Sounnds great Tony, look forward to it.

Hi Rod, I can agree with a lot of this - as Mike says maybe upfront is a state of mind. One mans oldie etc. But Ive also said on other threads before that for the vast majority of people whatever music they like, they tend to stop appreciating new music in their early twenties. Same with Metal fans, C&W and Pop. Do a straw poll at work of the forty and fifty-somethings if you don't believe me. Watch em all scrambing onto the internet to get tickets as soon as "Take That" or "phil Collins" anounces another comeback gig..... Round these 'ere parts though there are most definately two scenes. Play underplayed oldies, upfront, label it what you like, and a lot of folk simply won't get out of bed. As I said you can't even mix a few in anymore. Play "Right track", Drizabone etc, and people will travel 100 miles to a night. Very few pork pie hats though. Good point from Geeselad about sounds filtering through, essentially there aren't any anymore and that's one of the reasons that I think (maybe not everywhere) there are two very distinct scenes now. It's like a parallel universe. Of course we all go out to enjoy ourselves, have a mash etc. I would have thought that's a given?

At Wigan in the 70s I bought "love games" A-Z by the Royal Jokers on Wingate thinking it was Willie Hutch Also i found Willie Hutch "Get ready for the get down" on Motown for 10p one lunchtime - I thought I'd uncovered Richard;s big cover up (ZZ&C0) and was over the moon until I got home. Needle hits vinyl - joy goes to instant disappointment. I also got the Al Johnson Marina LP in 1980 in London, thinking I'd found Bobby thurston "Just ask me" ......

I am with Winnie on this. Maybe time for the upfront folk to cut their ties with the northern oldies scene. Seems a bit of "if I play some oldies as well the oldies fans will get into upfront stuff". That's true for some who like a bit of everything, but I don't think the majority of oldies fans ever will. Was talking to a well respected DJ at the weekend, and his observation was that at a local night he does the crowd dance to oldies but play something different and they all start to get upset going for fag moan breaks etc.. These folks ain't never going to get into 'upfront' in a million years. They're not interested in hearing anything new. At the moment I think there's too many R&U nights for the number of punters who actually appreciate this music, some DJs playing old soul pack rejects etc. Maybe there needs to be a "venue" cull. Instead of tagging onto the side of oldies rooms and calling it R&u or freebasing or whatever maybe put on a true upfront night, in the middle of the country - no oldies except last hour maybe - 9-2 (sorry Peggy not a Niter) just new and underplayed (like Chalky does) and try and get the younger folk along. See how it goes. Yer might be pleasantly surprised.

No great story Nev just know at least 4 people seem to have "acquired" copies in recent times. Firstly as you know popsike does not have everything that's on Ebay, I know not why. Secondly I believe a couple more sourced by means other than ebay - dealers etc. Still not many of em about though. Steve

Nope, as usual popsike only shows part of the story. The world beyond ebay........

All great records as well. Oliver cheatham in Butch / newports / Gaslight as I recall. And chuck Armstrong - the man never made a duffer. The one on Black Rock is a nice mellow crossover.

It's listed in Stak O Wax but that has loads of stuff that no one has ever seen.......

He does this about the football teams we support

There's been a few Pandella Kellys lately - has someone found some? Maybe Butch for Uderground Express.

Benzine "Village of Tears" "The Snake" "Marching" The Camp Neo "smile"....and that's for starters

eh?

It's always been rare. A couple have turned up this year. but less than a handful. 2-3 I think.

I lived there so long, I do appear to have said it twice Seriously, nice playlist.

It's alright I lived in Tun Wells for some years

It's alright I lived in Tun Wells for some years

Nice link, thanks Ian. One for the holiday reading pile, if I ever manage to get a holiday that is......

nice to see some decent northern on uckfield fm

Strewth guys seems like there is a lot of evidence against this bloke. Ernie/Steve, seems like you have in the responses here ample evidence to give to paypal that this user ID is a fraud?>

How long ago was it sent? I've had cases where despite clearly being marked "airmail" the pack has gone on the boat......taking 5-6 weeks. ATB Steve

You've been "uncovered" Pat

Oh wow! Drat too. A bargain then. Just shows how the market has collapsed for mid tempo 80s rarities then. Shame it doesn't have a funky B side

Nothing surprises me, but I'd be surprised if that was right John.....Over to Dave then....