Chalky

If memory serves me correctly there have been about half a dozen white demos through various sources for sale the last twelve months plus the issues both Christian and myself mentioned. The demo is not what you would call rarest of the rare

Hard one too? Is that hard to sell Terrible

If you can afford 400 quid for a record I'm sure you can afford just over a quid for postage

certain there are 4 designs....blue with silver lettering, black with silver lettering, black with the blue flashes at the top and black with red flashes at the top.

Thats the one... 123 (1727) Pat Peterman - Love The Way You Do Your Thing - You Gonna Reap It Bit more than £15 I think, last one I saw was £30 I think

There's another cheaper version, cheap, can't remember off the top of me head, Pat somebody...same singer.

a reputation helps..and the bookings of course. But there should be no reason why a young dj can't break a new record to the scene if his or her sets are good enough, presented right. They also need the bookings, which like I said if they are good enough will come their way. (all IMHO of course)

just palying devil's advocate or trying to get debate going As for a set of unknowns....I can think of three but they are all older 'uns Trouble is breaking new sounds, todays scene don't have the tolerance or patience of eras gone by unfortunately.

At the end of the day (IMO) it's not the young dj's who are the future but the younger dancers. It doesn't matter who plays the records. Some of the top newies, upfront dj's these days have yet to hit 40 so in theory have over 20 to 30 years in them looking at the age of some of the scene. It's also took many of the older 'uns years to get where they are as well so it ain't gonna happen over night for some sprightly 20 something What happens when some of the young ones, the future as some have said get married, have kids, careers start to get in the way?? They will go the way as many did years ago, drop off the scene, so where will the future be then. If the young guns are seriously the future then they also have to bring with them the scenes future newies and I don't see many out there breaking new records, simply for the reasons I stated in an earlier post. Granted some do have some unknowns, but where did they come from, chances are from one of the older generation. If that is the case then why did one of the older generation sell it???? At the end of the day it may be all irrelevant, I don't see enough young 'uns coming on the scene to sustain it for years to come.

I take it that was from JTrouble, probably an exception How many can you think of that can play a set of unknowns? Some names and an example of what they play would be nice

oh I see

not for me it ain't.....

why do you need new glasees?

god help us!!!

and so it should be, plenty of great underplayed/forgotten oldies out there that need playing. The only thing letting the young uns down is they just don't have the knowledge, experience or contacts of some of the older upfront guys to compete on an even footing, not on the so called "newies" scene. But then again they shouldn't really try and compete, just do there own thing, go with the records that they have some belief in and just keep plugging away, their time will come sooner rather than later if they are good enough

why does everyone associate young uns with an upfront music policy? In my experience I've often found young uns (not all I might add) to be some of the worst offenders when it comes to oldies and upfront

that was cause you were playing Elvis

errr..I agree

I try and be a little more experimental whatever the environment by that I mean I don't conform to the same old same you hear week in week out

as well as being very honest guy Pete your too cheap I'd want at least £150 nowadays. Granted it does seem to crop up all too often but hey if folk are willing to pay 250/300 then 150 is a bargain

Before the pressings turned up (legit or otherwise ) it only existed on a studio acetate. Biggie for Dave Thorley who got them from Jon Anderson, two 10" studio acetates, one had Baby What Has Happened on one side and on t'other Win You Over. The other one had All Of My Life and summat else on it The Four Temples was an original or previous name for the Ringleaders.

I was only being mischievious Any DJ worth his or her salt will come through eventually. I only hope that up coming DJ's look at the quality and not the value

realistically IMO 150/175...strange world of northern soul £??? last one on ebay nearlty 500 dollars. few weeks before £132

I agree they are the future and should be encouraged but they have to be able to do the business Just cause they are under 30 shouldn't automatically give anyone the right to dj Anyway isn't this being ageist or whatever they call it

I can think of many other records under the Northern Soul banner whose lyrics are trite and the record shite Certainly heard worse records, not that I'm fond of SITS.