Chalky

Connoisseur reissue? I thought it was a bootleg? Is it right to encourage the purchase of bootlegs? It is a practice that is getting more and more prevalent of late.

It is a bloody good dancefloor the majority of the time at the Stables, no need for talc whatsoever. The reason the ban came in was some scruffy tw*ts were cleaning the talc from their shoes on the chairs. Fcuk me, it is a function room, weddings are held there and people are cleaning their shoes on the seating :/

All I see when when above is talked about on here is opinions 99% of the time. If other wish to take that as rules then they have a problem. If their dress sense makes them uncomfortable when they are out and about then maybe someone has a point, it shouldn't do. People can dress how ever they want as far as I am concerned. Those that do wish to dress bags, flairs etc are more than welcome at Lifeline and will be made to feel welcome, I would imagine the same goes for most other nighter promoters?

I was asking you as it was you who mention there were rules and regulations Win. I'm aware of don't take your drinks on the dance-floor, respect your peers etc but that is simply common decency and good manners IMO not rules or regulations. The only rule we have at Lifeline is a no talc rule and that is from the management of the place.

What rules and regulations? I don't know of any? The only thing myself and like minded mates prefer is not to hear the same old same every week. It is as Byrney says we are doing the same as what we did when we were in our youth, we have continued with what the very ethos of the scene was about and have no need or any desire to stay in Mr M's for 35 years. As for unwelcoming, I don't know anyone who is unwelcoming....do you? BUT when attending a venue that advertises and plays something different and not the same old same who should do the embracing? If you I go somewhere you embrace what the promoter is promoting not the other way round. As for new blood I think the scene has gone past the tipping point now and is in slow decline. There are simply not enough new and young blood coming through. It would need a large influx to sustain this scene and that ain't gonna happen.

Fantastic.

I'm not surprised Cornelius Dwyer sold.

People can go where they want, listen to what they want and dress how they want as far as I am concerned. The point I am making is practically every time the media is involved it focuses on Wigan Casino in 1977 and that the scene today is exactly the same when it isn't. A lot has happened in the 30 to 40 years since then, a lot has happened in the last ten bit that is never portrayed or focused on. The scene must be a laughing stock to those who watch these documentaries. I really hope Elaine does this documentary of the scene from start to finish, she will do it right that is for sure.

The fact the scene was underground and was different to what the mainstream were getting up to was one of the appealing aspects of traveling hundreds of miles every week. It is a cult scene or was, it isn't what every one else does. The fact your work colleagues couldn't understand or get what we were doing made you feel better than them. It was cool because it was underground, we were different to everyone else. That was the whole point of travelling that and to listen to music you couldn't hear at home. Yes it is the love of the music above all else but that is there whether I or we travel to a venue or stop at home. The wearing of fashion items from a period that covered just a couple of years, and some of the worse fashion at that isn't cool. It isn't how the vast majority of us behave but it is how we are being perceived, that is what irks so many. Why can't people understand that? Why can't documentaries show the scene for what it is rather than keep focusing on 1977 and people trying to recreate 1977?

Voltaires is far from unknown but as good as it may be it just isn't what the scene in the UK go for Can see why it is liked on the continent. Limitations is far from unknown or even semi known or even underplayed. Everyone who has a copy seems to play it.

Great cheap record. I've given it the odd spin. Old Gary Rushbrooke play.

Here you go....

Someone after one of these last week, try the wants section?

I will show him how to add a smiley when I go down to his next Steve

Have seen between 80 and 100 plus in recent times. One last week for £90, Andy Garside selling it I think.

They have been to Lifeline, danced most of the time they were there.

Nice one. Richard always speaks well and talks sense. Will listen to some of the others as time allows.

There's a few different takes of Andy Fisher.

He was also a piano player playing on Marvin's Let's Get It On.

Looks like another boot.

Some of those in circle skirts and baggies aren't even dancing in a northern style, dunnowhat some are dancing too at times but it ain't the record playing.

Spencers are still making trousers in Sowerby Bridge, mainly sporting trousers, golf plus fours etc.

But many of those in baggies aren't very good with the footwork, just throw themselves about. Same in dance competitions, all the best dancers sit down as they know the judges will pick the acrobatic ones. I'd sooner watch good footwork, with the odd floor trick, in the right place at the right time, than some one who simply does acrobatics for the sake of it!

The program covered nothing really in little detail, as usual.

Is that 2 or 3 or two thirds Win? I've never in all the time I've gone to the 100 Club seen two thirds dressed up as though it was 1977. Odd ones yes but never the majority. LIke you I don't go very often now, probably once a year so it could have changed.