Steve G

For the first issue, not the 2nd

Dave I couldn't bear to watch "Clowntown Pathetic" holding us to a drab 0-0 draw and then celebrating our relegation. The footie season ended as far as I am concerned with Southampton's injury time equaliser last Saturday. I went home resigned to the fact that next year it would be Wolves, Leicester, Leeds, Sheff Utd, Scumwall

Seems to be mixed race.

T'was a cover up Grant.

You wait til we get onto our trip to "Clifton Hall" in Randy's van - now that was an adventure....

And so you did - completely forgotten that I do remember a tortuous train journey back via Sailsbury and Andover because of "engineering works" and wondering will we ever get back to London town.....

Isn't this the "white girlie" who morphed into no less a soul singer than Lonette McKee at a later stage in her career? Or am I getting confused again?

D'Arcy told me that the St ALbans all nighter was at the Pioneer Club which is still there. So that's another piece of the jigsaw found

Now we know why he never appeared at Wigan then I always thought he was from the NE, and always thought "Name it" was quite a good pop record.

Yeah, that was a bit of a "gaff" on his part.

Rhythmdog, There has never been much of a UK market for deep / sweet / harmony - even back in the day, most of that stuff got sold to Japan, where there wasn't really the "club" / dance influence. There are some of us who buy it avidly, but not many. Tim Brown's book has some glaring errors in it, mainly around 70's, but that just proves the point that there are no fixed prices for some things, and nobody knows everything about the scene. Mentioning Tim he made a very good comment in the latest Manifesto about the scene "eating itself" meaning that many good northern records also don't sell, and more and more people are simply chasing "trophy" records at this point.

Very good programme, and some fascinating history (+ trains! ) about how divided the USA was less than 50 years ago.

Embarrasingly enough on a Stax subsuidiary label too - think they were trying to copy the Shangri-Las or something - but agree it's dire. Not been played has it?

I know I have posted it before, and I know Pete likes it, but "Cats eyes" by Life is just the biggest pile of Kraftwerk reject euroelectrogarbage as you'll ever here. A pox on anyone's house who played it at Wigan, let alone covered it up It should have been covered up by 6 feet of earth, and buried for good. "Lightning strikes" by Lou Christie - quite a cute pop record in it's own way, and played repeatedly at Wigan by Dave E. "Love Hustle" - Tony Hatch meets Bert Kampbert on heat with a funky twist. Had a brief spell of popularity in the late 70's then vanished (thankfully) from everyone's radar - for good. Ral Donner "Don't let it slip away" - Elvis impersonator finds fame on the soul scene. Yipee to that. "Theme from Coloredman" Teddy Vann - a TV series (allegedly), that didn't take off, and with a theme tune like that, no one can be at all surprised. "I ate the whole thing" - sure sounds like you did with that voice! And who could forget an "Afternoon on the rhino" with Mike Post? and more controversially folks "That's not love" Holly St James, utter drivel and not even a good pop record - should be banished from every self respecting DJ box Five and a Penny "You don't know where your interest lies" - Ken Cox finds Lincolnshire's answer to Wigan's Ovation - blah These and other nightmares, gone and buried for good....I hope! Now there's some controversy for you....

I agree it was popular at WIgan, and I was one of the schoolkids clambering for a copy at the time....But with the benefit of heinsight.....and a little more maturity... Everybody hates it because it's just a meaningless noise, with bad rhythm, no tune and a guy who can't sing and can't even shout very well. Moderators we still need the "toilet" clickable smilie to describe such waste.

Agreed on the quality - only ever seen red issues meself.....

It is quite hard actually - got minimal exposure as far as I know. Was the radio DJ rather 'obese' by any chance? Mine came from Rod Dearglove - think I paid 20 for it but it was some years ago, and you rarely see it mentioned.

Theres a few more as well - will try and post them up before the weekend if I get a chance. Also some "pop / rock" on the label :angry: and we never did work out what GSF stood for

Yeah by last count at least FIVE different records got smashed by old "Dead Eye Dick"

Last one on the label, yes there are issues, no idea on price (I am useless on pricing).

I really don't know why we bother sometimes Pete - this guy obviously knows more than us....perhaps point him to the thread a week ago where you and I collectively explained the differences / deadwax numbers etc....still he'll probably tell us that's all wrong....

Please see thread northern soul in the home counties - all the current versions of what happened are stored there.

How long ago was that? Seriously though the seller is normally quite reliable, and this is the first time I have seen him with "boot" so to speak.

Never seen anything but double sided demo.

Fac - I need this one for my set of Phil La - looks like I won't get it, not at that sort of price anyway....