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Fair point Dan. I came in through the mod back door in the early eighties also. Nothing at all against new blood. Just didn't want to see a quality scene cheapend thats all.

Mark, ever been to Ibiza?

Excuse me :angry:

I hear you win. If I were a name dj though I would have turned that down, someone there had insider knowledge and did sell us out. Shame.

No that's a good thing, young people bothering to do research is good and getting hooked, spot on. As someone said recently, on Stuart McConie's show, this is the best music in the world. Easy on the badges! Cheers.

I hope so Shane. I wrote the letter two years ago. I've been waiting for a change but it's still running. I don't care whether chicken ad viewers show up at our do's, but some of my listed points do rankle. Anyway, I was just interested to know what you dudes thought. Cheers.

I think the general feeling is from most soulies, they don't really mind the Northern tracks that have been played on the KFC ads and well, perhaps that is fair enough. I must confess to (perhaps) over reacting just a tad when they first came out, tracking down the ad agency etc. They wouldn't give me a name, so I wrote to the marketing director and basically asked the question why was it necessary for them to play rare soul music, what's wrong with mainstream stuff, citizens love a bit of Freda Payne, or Aretha etc. Perhaps I was being naive and it would have cost them fortunes to play the mainstream stuff, but it got me thinking, someone there knows all this and that prompted me to include a particularly venomous line about "shame on you, shame on you". "How could you sell our wonderful music down the river for some fried chicken". I never got a reply, but I did hear later that a quite namey scene dj was behind it, so I asked him outright and he denied it. As stated some may say I need to chill, but I just knew these mofo's would come back from Ibiza with their rising inflections saying "yeah I know all about that fried chicken music you listen to". Sure enough I was dj'ing at a do in the Harpenden Rugby Club a while back, playing mostly Northern, when this bird came up to me and said "I really like those fried chicken songs you played". AAAAAAAAAAAgggggggggghhhhhhhh, I haven't spent the last twenty plus years, thousands of pounds, thousands of man hours giving this music, this scene my all to have some whip dick have any kind of insight into what wer'e about. Now tell me, if that's a fact am I over reacting?

Take it you are talking about an original yeah.

Johnny, have you got in touch with Kenny yet? I have his number if you still need it.

Stateside Live LP Side 1. The Miracles: Mighty good lovin - You really got a hold on me - way over there. Marvin Gaye: Stubborn kind of fellow - Pride and joy. Side 2. The Marvelettes: Beechwood 4-5789 - Strange I know - Playboy. Mary Wells: Two Lovers - Laughing Boy - The one who really loves you - You beat me to the punch. Had this for a long time. Thinking of putting it on ebay, if my scanner was bigger it'd be on there by now. I know I've seen it for stupid money, but if I got a fair price, I would be happy to let it go. Thought I would post it here first to see what interest there was. Sleeve condition & vinyl is VG++. Comments, offers etc welcome.

Yeah, as they've said below Back Beat is the label for Joe Hinton. No shame in having him in your collection. I bought 'you gotta have love' from Ben Summers for seven quid. Can't think of that many other records of that value that are that good - Awsome. What's the your track by JH?

Not wrong about Jerry Williams Rache, top tune. Didn't some soulie have the entire lyrics to that tattooed on his back!? Not seen anything about the late great Timi Yuro on this thread. I remember my sister telling me of how she had seen her ex with a new girlfriend 'paraded in front of her' - Insult to Injury. Or my young lady (of 14 years) telling me after we had got back together that, 'It'll never be over for me' had made her quite emotional whilst listening to it. I think those are the songs where the lyrics are true to life that have profound meaning...

Not to much of an exotic location in that we were at Camden market one Sunday, some years back. But I was with some pals (soulies) and my mate Smudge was enthusiastically looking through boxes of records, I think desperately trying to be the first to un-earth a biggie. So it was my turn to have second dibs on this particular box which was outside this shop and I methodically went through tortoise like when I stopped at a UK black Atlantic piece - "it couldn't be Esther Phillips" I remember thinking to myself and we're not talking the commonly sighted 'And I love him'. On closer inspection, stone me! It was a mint UK Esther Phillips - Just say goodbye on black Atlantic. Here's the best bit, the price was four quid! I paid the man and left the shop (smugly gloating) with Smudge bemoaning his lot for being too frantic and in doing so taking his eye off the ball!

At the 100 Club allnighters Ady always does the last spot and his enders will usually be - Dells Make Sure, Harold Melvin - Get out, or Four Tops - Baby I need your loving. All seem to fit well and are suitably poignant.

What happened at Plinston on Friday? I think perhaps a towny (non soul fan) may have spilled his pint on the dancefloor once to often! Anyhoo, he was descended upon by a number of soulies who beat the living shit out of him, claret everywhere! Kenny and myself followed the incident to the foyer where the bouncers had the offending person forcibly removed. Hats off to Kay who handled the incident admirably as Neil had gone home with a cold. In short I have only ever seen three disturbances at soul do's in twenty one years. Whilst the person in question may have deserved a pasting, the sight of such blood & guts was and is a little disturbing as we are all about music, dance and comradship. If anyone has any further info as to what happened or why, please do advise.