Steve G

Yeah I had to start proceedings up when everyone was let back in - the atmosphere was great and everyone was determined to have a good time after that.

Yes but a post bag full? Doubt you'd get a postbag of mail these days for any topic.

That was condensation coming off of the ceiling.

We had a bit of northern but only things like "My man a sweet man" and "The Kid" and what we took for the DJ to play. Remember when I got Kim Tolliver "I don't know which foot to dance on" at Wigan for 50p - took it along the following Sat to the youth club, and they had some flash fly from London down - tons of lights, big hat etc. Anyway I kept asking him to play Kim Tolliver, eventually he gave in. He played one and a half verses and then took it off announcing "that's enough of that sh*t". Think when he got back to his van he might have found a flat tyre or two Youth club music was influencial though - personally it was things like "Give me just a little more time" and the one everyone forgets "Breaking down the walls of heartache" that got me to explore northern soul.

He may well have been - also there were some run by Chris Burton where he facked off home without paying the DJ's .......great days

Sam tells a great story if you buy him a bottle of J2O. As I remember it when he told me...... he had this residency in Wrexham in the middle of a big estate and the music was all soul / motown and reggae. Anyway one night they book Radio 1 DJ Peter Powell to do a turn. This was quite a common thing in the 70s where the Radio 1 jocks would turn up, do a set, sign autographs then go home. Anyway Powell turns up in I think it was silver platform boots, "Star" jumper, big perm etc. and is about to go on when he tells Sam to dig out "some Quo" for his first record. Sam tells him he'll get lynched if he puts anything like that on, and proceeds to feed PP a series of Motown / soul and reggae records, which Powell is forced to spin. Sam reckons Powell didn't know what he was playing, but went down a storm with the locals for playing all the right kind of stuff. I am sure he'll tell it better than that, but that's the jist of it. Down south we had things like the "Teen & Twenty club" - they had a roster of DJ's - although they played some soul they also played pop / disco and even R&R for the wanabee teddy boys. I guess it was different oop't north

What period you talking about Paul? the Wirrina went through more than one period. Big in the mid 70's, along with the Cresset, but then the Fleet really took over; also some niters at the Wirrina in the Mid 80's (who can ever forget the one with the bomb scare?). Live acts in the 80s included Tommy Hunt, Jr Walker and Eddie Holman. Never went there in the 70's as I didn't live in the area then, so Paul and Nick are your men for that.

Yes agreed but I am one of their best domestic customers. Not only is there a regular flow of vinyl, but the missus is an ebay queen. Can't deny ours are friendly enough.

Now that is a good record.

ooh shute - bad luck. I just trod on a Scepter thing the other day trying to navigate round the record room, and heard that horrible noise of styrene cracking. Fortunately only a 25 pounder. Have previously "cracked" a Willie Tolliver and accidently ran over a Houston Outlaws when DJing on radio, when I launched my swivel chair back from the console in a moment of madness. Again that horrible sound :angry:

I know who bought it and you are right - think it was c 1400 or something. That copy resides with a well known and respected collector up north.

"Tell Laura i love her" must be the worst record ever made. I absolutely hate it.

Could easily do an hour of underplayed / lesser known Motown stuff several times over - B sides, LP tracks in fact I surprise myself sometimes with things on Motown that I have and don't know / recall. Think it might work better at an evening do - agree for an allnighter it's a "no no".

name and shame that's what I say Must admit whilst my post office have never lost anything in recent times, they are all over the place on actually delivering signed for / registered. Follow this - they temporarily lost a record, which they then found and said it was coming up on a van on Saturday. Fine. The van arrives and I get three parcels, but not the one that was lost. "It must be down the post office" says the man in the van scratching his head. So off I hot foot down to the PO. "No not here but I got two others here for you" they say. Get home and there's a card through my door the van has been back and I wasn't in So I ring the PO, and the kindly lady tells me when the van man returns she'll send him back with said package. In due course he re-appears with lost package which had been on the van all the time. As I say nothing lost but a few hairy moments.

Last time I saw it, it was being thrown in the bin. Mouth is sore as fek - on the Nurofen + for a few days and salt water Thanks for asking...

Am I being paranoid - but the sellers name is Russ!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Ask my heart"

Agree I remember reading in Steve Bryant's old mag the John Richborg SS& interviews that he just came in off the street with the demos cut it and left. I like the Garpax version as well!

About bloody time if it is. Easily their best 45.

Shorty Lovebone and the Three Inches.

If we're onto UK anyone seen the Spinners "It's a shame" on demo?

Eddie I can't stand that "Little golden band" - nor the Visitors version on Dispo. It just grates with me. Sorry.

I'd imagine loads of small label stuff wasn't demo'd - 300 runs etc.

Think if you had a small willy you'd probably want to cover that up as well

Fabulous record.