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Just a day left on these ..... .... then on to single records

What a disingenuous question! I suspect you type with one hand because the other is holding a very large wooden spoon. People promoting weekenders are entitled to charge whatever they like, if you think the ticket price is too much to pay: don't go. Simple as that.

3 days to go on these, just starting to get bids

I thought, it was really, really good. Very danceable and would sound brilliant out loud. I hope someone manages to prise it out of him and get to play it at a venue. Best of luck. Cheers Paul

About a day left on the last few of these

Just put a few soul packs up on ebay [here] 10 records for a tenner - total book price for each pack is over £100.

Had this sent to me asking if I knew what it was, evidently an acetate with artist unknown. The email was a mass mail out so maybe everyone has got it. nice tune. Mystery Record short.mp3 Mystery Record short.mp3

Whoever Dj'd with KevH at The Riley Smith warm up a while back when Jo and I Dj'd played it. (Was that you?) I wandered across to see what it was and finally got a copy last week off the bay. JM lists it at 75 - how realistic that is I have no idea. I paid what a Yorkshireman is happy with for mine Good tune.

A day left on some of these motown packs

Just over a day left on these - still cheap

To be honest, I doubt that people who are abusive to DJ's are representative of the majority of people at the venue, certainly weren't in the examples I gave. It doesn't happen all the time but when it does you remember it.

It was only Papa Ooh Mow Mow that bloody shut you up!

I've never come across a DJ at a Northern Soul night that does it for the money. I thought the idea was that you booked a DJ for the style of music they are known to play and their own selection of records. If a DJ is expected to play whatever requests people come up with on the night then you might as well just get a juke box in. In my limited experience as a DJ the people who come up and ask for requests are generally not representative of the audience as a whole. They are people who want to hear specific records every time they come out regardless of a venue's music policy or the DJ's style. 8 out of 10 become rude or abusive if you haven't got the record they ask for. When I was very green I was playing at a do in South London, one of the first times I had ventured behind the decks on my own when not in the club I was running. I had got the floor going and was working at keeping it that way when someone came up and said "Could you play something more modern?" I duly obliged with a couple of 70's tunes, floor clears, lady in question still stood next to decks looking bemused, dawns on me she is a pillock who has wandered into the wrong club and wants chart music, back to work getting the floor going again. At Lowton someone came up at the end of Jo and my set as the last tune was on the decks and the next DJ was getting ready to take over. They asked for a record and we explained politely (whilst cueing in final tune and doing thanks, next DJ etc over the mic) that this was our last record and could they ask the next guy as he was about to start. Received a torrent of abuse that continued through most of last record. Half an hour later when going to the bar, another torrent of abuse from same person as I walked by their table. When Jo and I DJ'd at The Attic recently (music policy is DJ's choice ) we were pestered by one guy throughout our one and a half hours. He asked for tired oldie after tired oldie. Despite trying to explain what had been asked of us and the fact that probably everyone else in the venue didn't want to hear them, he ended with "Come on! You must have some f*ck*ng oldies in your bloody box". None of these incidents are representative of the nights in question or the enjoyment of the majority of the people in the venue or how the individual sets were received generally. They are just what a small minority of people think is an OK way to behave. They too probably think "I'm paying your wages" whilst they are directing their bad breath in your direction. Please someone start a thread about the things people say to DJ's. Most people (apart from serial requesters) would not believe the things that people say to you when you are behind the decks. Or maybe it is just me.

Added anothe 4 packs of motown singles to my ebay listings [here]

Have a look at my ebay listings [here]

There's one on ebay [here]

errrr ... Voo Doo Like To Swing On A Star (Carry Moonbeams Home In A Jar)

He's getting desperate now, he's put his whole "collection" up, 172 paintings! [here] I'm clearing some walls Mind you he has also started listing records ....

Tamla Motown TMG 5 Series - pack of ten just gone up on ebay [here]

Attention span is the issue you're raising here.

The idea was to list records that are considered played out that are actually really, really good. Not to list records that you're sick of hearing. Why am i bothering to explain FFS Two more; Ruby Andrews - Just Loving You - Beautiful tune! Bottom & Company - Gonna Find a True Love - great tune but reached a stupid price for some reason, a 25 quidder all day long.

I'm sorry, I don't get it. Just thought it was a more positive thread than looking for the worst of records. Wasting my time again I suppose.

Three to start: Jackie Wilson - Because of You Ace Spectrum - Don't Send Nobody Else Pat & The Blenders - Just Because

That's the price of fame ...............

What does it matter?