Steve G

....and that's in the golden area I metioned earlier - easy for trains etc. Does it have 25 rooms to accomodate all the DJs?

Yup and the Somerset and Dorset crowd - I mean Waterloo is in that general area too just over the bridge.....

OK fair enough, misread the post Mischief. If you did it think it would have to be within the south eastern sector of the Circle Line so to speak and probably near Charing X - Liverpool St so all the Kent / Surrey / Sussex / Essex crowd could stay late

It would work for the handful of "suits" etc. who work in central London, but really are people going to come up to town after work for a do with an 8 30 finish?

................But some very good thoughts nonetheless Maria. Can't say I disagree with any of your thoughts on attedances

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I think you need to go abroad to experience it Mark Promotors seem to work together, there's very little politics, and the attendees are enthusiastic and dance to new sounds they haven't heard of before. Not like here with 35 events on every Saturday, all the "Wigan" baggage + all the musical bigotry "we only want to hear one element of northern soul music blah blah " nonsense I keep reading about.

1976 The advent of Oldies niters. What others have said is right you simply can't play new / unknown stuff all night at a Niter - sorry Paul S - it does not work these days. Best you can hope to do is mix some in with some oldies. Same thing on the "70s / crossover scene" incidentally have noticed particularly more weekeders just becoming more and more like "anthem-fests" every year . Almost as hard to break new stuff on that scene these days. Think for any allnighter to survive it has to play a blend of styles, not one style like a few have tried and not succeeded at.

The story is it's a one side of an album acetate (a bit like Sy Hightower in that respect) that never came out. Richard eventually sold it, to Colin Dilnot I think. Sam has had a carver made of it (somehow) and stuck on a Prelude label too. I am more interested in what the rest of the elpee sounds like Steve

Yup Mainline LP came before the Prelude ones, but after his excellent Avco 45 Must admit I thought he had died.

Yup so many tunes around then, none of us had enough money though!

No doubt some on here would call this "Mid tempo beat ballad boring sh*te"

Nah Simon was well down the pecking order then....as now. John only had the one copy at the time (mid 80s) when Sam got his, and as I said earlier it was so left field I couldn't understand why Sam bought it.

Yup one of those trips he used to pick me up in Peterborouigh and we'd go on to Soul Bowl.... ANyway long list of people want this 45 - whether some think it's good or not.

Yes you are right. I was there, it was in the 80s, although the record came out in the 70s. AT the time I thought "Why is he buying this? Far better records etc"....But that's the story of my life to quote another song title.

Yes he got it recently. Rarer than his upate of "Thats enough" called "That's it " on the same label (his own). But I can't get to excited over a cover of a sublime 4 Tops song. It's a bit like all the fuss over Mr Clean and Marvin Gaye's "What's going on". In some cases the £5 original trumps the expensive cover version!!!!!

That would be his copy gone then...... Sam I think got his from Rod Dearlove. Mick H's came from the US a few eyars ago - a vg+ copy - I know cos he beat me to it. Think there are a couple more out there. Somewhere. But let's not go down the road of "naming and shaming"

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nice post Dave. So up your way the oldies events are still healthy. Then maybe the problem is not enough want to hear new sounds (of whatever genre / decade). Down here it's generally unhealthy, and thankfully there isn't so much of an oldies scene per se - most of the venues have always been mixed. There are some pockets and some exceptions, but hey ho! Enjoy it while we can!

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thing is it works on many levels, played it to a load of jazzers and they liked it too!

Great tune, And yes Mel Britt on lead vocals. One that always turns heads whenever it gets played.

A serious rarity, and will cost a four figure sum. There's a queue of people waiting to get their mits on this one.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So Phil....the obvious (and genuine on my part) question, why did the Burnley allnighter not attract enough numbers wise? Said it before but think there is a limited shelf life for all nighters with an ageing population and weekenders every other week. Steve

Not saying we should ignore them but they don't see themselves as part of the scene we recognise. As I said they think we are too old etc. They just don't attend the venues we'd be familiar with and have created their own scene in a parallel universe to the one we live in. Weird but true. ATB Steve

Oh go on then....Innerside is another one,

_______________________________________________________________ Just waiting for his next thread "Are toilets better in NS venues or MS venues"

Some venues do this astra - Lifeline always have "non big name" guys on early doors. And they get paid too!