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Just looking at this again, you've asked for "dancers and original northern soul fans" to come to your small club - don't you already have any of either group? You seem to be trying to produce some sort of fake club just because the BBC want to come and film. What is your music policy? Is it going to be the same this Friday. What is it that you hope to gain from the BBC filming? More people coming to your club? It seems fairly small so if it was half decently promoted you ought to be able to fill it fairly easily. Ask yourself what you want out of it and then how you know that's what you're going to get. Saying that you'd be mad not to let the BBC come and film sounds like you are a bit star struck by the thought of it. Maybe you should ask yourself what their angle is, what there intended story line is. If you don't know, they may arrive, set up, film and interview away and seem like really nice people. But if their intended story line is "bunch of pensioners living in the past" or "fancy dressers dance weirdly to outdated music" you won't know until you see the 5 minutes of edited stuff on the local news. Their agenda might be "lovely little club needs promotion" but who'd want to watch that? i hope it goes well, but be careful what you wish for, you might just be promoting your club into a scene laughing stock without realising it. i know I'm wasting my breath but telly people have an agenda and they couldn't care less if they tread on people to produce what they want their end product to be.

Been there done that (about 15 years ago), the BBC were really nice on the phone initially but after a bit of pushing it turned out they just wanted to take the piss. Thankfully, I turned them down and our small club continued to be as obscure as we all liked it to be. Hope you have a better experience but at the end of it all they just want telly footage that is interesting to the general public. The general public tend not to be on the soul scene.

They will come down in price, at Christmas Universal were selling the motown box sets for £20.00 after pretending that the first one was a limited issue. Money grabbing scum.

I doubt anybody is going to buy these unless you put sound files up

Actually, here's a previous topic about the seller:

I'd never really grasped what a cottage industry modern day bootlegs has become until today I spotted what looks like a boot of a Stardust 45. I had a look at the sellers other items and many show the number sold, which in some cases is in the 50's Given there are a few sellers out there pressing things up the demand for bootlegs must be massive. It must be getting to the level where the label owners are missing out on a potentially large market, surely it would be worth policing this now. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/soulful-records12/m.html?item=141622766038&hash=item20f95fe9d6&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

This is the worst of his videos, presumably this is him putting it all into practice.

This is the sort of bootleg that the label owners should really sort out, whoever owns the Chess/Cadet label rights should have enough clout to get this prosecuted by trading standards. Its no different to fake trainers really. None of them do anything though, Universal has failed to police the Motown stable of labels for decades.

I thought all label ring wear came from the way juke boxes pick up records, didn't know it was astorgare issue.

If you look at the seller's completed items, it seems that nobody does. Well apart from 1 or 2 e.g.: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Temptations-Meet-The-Temptations-LP-Tamla-Motown-TML-11009-Soul-Northern-Cro-/111345607292

Thanks Mike, hopefully somebody will let him know. I couln't think of any other way of getting a message to whoever runs it. I've "unhacked" a few wordpress sites and the diversion bit is normally the last element of a series of malicious actions most of which go un-noticed by the site owner and legitimate users.

Anyone know the people/person that runs soulbeat dot co uk? They need to check their site

A lot of money for a VG record https://www.ebay.com/itm/Northern-Soul-45-CONSTELLATIONS-I-Don-039-t-Know-About-You-GEMINI-HEAR-/321696113138

You buy a record somewhere at any price with dirty cash, sell it on ebay, get paid using paypal, transfer money to bank account. Dirty money to clean money at not much cost in a week.

West Ham 75 FA Cup Squad - I'm forever blowing bubbles on a U.S. Demo (wtf !?) in San Francisco - $1 It's got to be incredibly rare, why would this be put out in the states? why would anyone keep a demo? I used to put it in my sales box half way through just to see if people were paying attention. I priced it at 150 so it always got pulled out for a view - with mixed reactions :-)

Sometimes you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I've DJ'd with every scenario; taken over a half empty dance floor and slowly filled it up only to have someone say "shame you didn't play your usual set". Played to a rammed floor for a full set only to have someone come up on stage and tell me that I'd played a shit set. Played what I thought was a good and interesting set in a place known for rare, upfront etc and had an empty floor for half of it until I played some well known stuff, came off at the end and then had loads of people congratulate me for playing a great set. In my limited experience, occasionally you do a set where it seems like everything you pull out of your box is a winner, you get an atmosphere where you feel the audience is in the palm of your hand, floor rammed, atmosphere electric. You change the tempo and genre up, down, round and about and it all works fantastically. I think I've had that experience about three times and it makes all the shit ones worthwhile. If anyone knows how to do it week in week out, bottle it and sell it.

Can't beat a good roll on the kettle drum! https://www.mixcloud.com/paultp/listen-to-the-beat-of-the-drummer/

I think it is up to the buyer and seller to sort out the payment method. I prefer payment by bank transfer as there is no cost to either party, same with F&F but there is no buyer (or seller) protection either. If I offer an expensive record then I offer the alternative of using standard paypal but buyer pays the fees (about 4%) then there is protection both ways. I stand the paypal fees on discogs and my web site but adjust record prices to account for them. But I'd rather give people an option for more expensive records. If the standard to be used is standard paypal with seller absorbing the fees, I'd price my records accordingly and offer a 4% discount for bank transfer or PayPal F&F.

I rarely look at JM's actual auctions as stuff tends to go for silly prices, just look at the results on here. Wish I'd bothered with that Kell Osbourne, I think anything under 300 is a good price for that IMHO. Hopefully this sort of stuff continues to be out of fashion for a good while yet!

Pm'd you re the superlatives

A bit late but my excuse is I've been ill for the last few months. Finally saw the film tonight and thought it was absolutely brilliant, packed a lot of story into a short time, possibly too much, but did it remarkably well. Portraying the scene as full of scary people mostly off their faces chimed a bit as that's how I remember it. Probably why I never really got involved and just messed around on the edges. Some artistic licence with the music but if you want to epitomise the music to today's youth you couldn't have chosen better. All in all a really good film, Elaine and everyone involved should be incredibly proud of producing such a fantastic film. Well done!

That's My Girl is on Sylves isn't it?

I have thought that about my records for a couple of years now (time to offload) but I've tried twice and realised I actually like having my records. I've sold the one's that I only bought to have a copy and keep the ones that I absolutely love, I buy more of the one's that I absolutely love as well. My thing is mid tempo Detroit and it seems out of fashion at the moment which is great. You can buy records as an investment but they are a massive risk, prices go up and down with demand not time. The worst reasons for buying records have got to be investment and knob waving. Personally I think it obscene for someone to spend 12k on a record no matter how much money they have.

That has got to be about the most barking list of prices ever.

Roddie Joy - He's so easy to love - red bird PM me please (I've seen the one on ebay - ouch!)