Ged Parker

I also rate this at around the £200 mark (at least) getting a good condition one is the problem. I think I've had 4 copies each getting better in condition I think I still have a spare somewhere just waiting for it to take off again. Not technical enough to add a sound file Dan sorry but I guess it'd be right up your street. May get a spin in the rare room on Saturday .

All the very best you two when you get round to reading this that is, but I'll see you before that, so why am I even posting this DOH. Ged

or Garfield Fleming 'Don't Send Me Away'

I know lots of DJ's with that very policy . Ginger kept telling everyone how much he disliked "Wake up to the sunshine girl" but seemed to play it all the time

Paul, Far from it being easier to apply for longer hours it is much more complex. This will involve an application to vary the licence unless the new licence has been granted already for the longer hours with the attached condition that the LA and Police will be notified say 14 days in advance when they are going to be used. An application to vary requires the statutory notices to be posted etc and can open up the application to objections from 'Interested parties' under any of the four pillars of the Licensing Act. The alternative is a Temporary Event Notice which may not even require a DPS presence in some instances. In terms of selling 'til 2 am and people drinking until much later that is fine if no other 'Licensable Activity' takes place dancing and the provision of music is certainly 'Licensable Activity' so this is of no value to soul venues. The operation Plan for the outlet will also be 'conditionised' and added to the license as conditions and any deviation from this operating plan will be deamed as operating outwith the conditions of the license and therefore in breach of it. You are confusing the 12 times a year issue with the ability to apply for a TEN not the right of a PLH to operate new hours in their own venue. It is a minefield without a doubt and I have been discussing this all week - Sunday nite was the Best Bar None Awards in Manchester, Monday I was addressing the Institute of Licensing's Conference in York, Tuesday - was the 'Responsible Drinks Retailing Awards' and the Corporate Social Responsibily Conference at the the Park Lane Hotel London. I have spoken to Journalists, Licensing Solicitors, Police Officers, Licensing Proffessionals Jon Collins from BEDA and both Paul Goggins and Hazel Blears. The ministers were understandably defensive but everyone else would appear to be convinced case law is going to be needed to sort out all sorts of issues. The review of the Guidance to the Act has been brought forward to Feb rather than Nov next year and the third AMEC (Alcohol Missuse Enforcement Campaign) is now in full flow. The enforcement agencies will have many more powers to review licenses and as one Inspector put it to me 'Strip Out some of the over capacity in the trade' What was being touted as a socially liberal measure has changed significantly sing the 'If You Dont Give a XXXX for closing time vote Labour' campaign. Don't be too sure this is a brave new world. I would caution anyone making assumptions and advise in all but the most basic cases a licensing solicitor is consulted by the venue operators. Its been a long week as you can probably tell sorry for sounding off. Ged

I have I asked him "If you think I'm falling for that do think my head zips up at the back" Funnily enough he hasn't got back to me.

https://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZdalovermaneQQhtZ-1 Is this seller the luckiest man alive ? shame the lables are too big, not circular, a title is wrong and the run out grooves are massive. Other than that they look fine to me.

I thought Hawiians wearing shirts like that was a cliche . A bit to quiet a hawiian shirt for Nige Shaw

Well I'm supposed to be writing a keynote speach for delivery at the Institute of Licensing annual conference in York on Monday. So thinking about records is way way more interesting. Still I could look a bit of an idiot in front of 450 people reciting a playlist if I'm not careful. .

That's the answer Tony the Orwell CD didn't know it was on there. I put it on a CD for Steve Cato about 12 months ago, having rediscovered a number of copies of it lurking in a dark corner of the record room. I've had them since Flanny was playing it at the Saints club. I may even spin it at S.O.N. on 26th. Funny how us purists feel about CD's when used at venues but they really do have a real place in opening up forgotten sounds to new audiences. Ged

Where is the demand coming from for this track? I've sold three in the last 12 months £25, then £30. then £35 seems like no one wants to haggle and what ever I put in the sales box at it goes for. Just like the Kelly Brothers Crying Days are Over - always goes straight away. I know they are both great cheapies (though cheap is becoming a relative term) but who is playing them to create such a buzz about records that have been know for years?

Well if we're not counting: Look at me a king on the throne With everything a man could ever own But without you by my side No girl to be my guide I am nothing, nothing at all look at me a thousand slaves at my hand waiting to obey my every command Cos without you by my side No girl to be my guide I am nothing, nothing at all Give up my castles Give up my slaves For just one precious moment in your embrace Here I stand with tears in my eyes Though I have everything I can only sit and sigh Cos without you by my side No girl to be my guide I am nothing, nothing at all girlies: Here I am a king of no one else, baby baby ?? Ooh I'm nothing I ain't got no love Oh baby I'm a king And I have everything Oh but love is what I need now

Serious answer to a serious question from me. In terms of getting a room of 'oldies' fans 'up for it' what ever you think of him or his playlists Johnny Pearson takes some beating. Mad as a box of frogs of course but nice bloke all the same.

Finding new sounds is both costly and time consuming. We all seem to remember who was responsible for cover-ups in the past and that is precisely because they were covered up. When Butch's Masqueraders track is finally uncovered I suspect it will become firstly widley available, secondly played by lots of people, thirdly booted, fourthly overplayed by lots of people. Long before it reaches the forth stage it will have lost it's current appeal to me. If it had not been covered up at all this process would be speeded up and the much slower rate at which new things are being uncovered mean that anything that slows the process down, for me at least, has to be a good thing. I'm not sure anyone would describe a record they play as one of "MY records" in the sense you imply, but many people can and do describe records as THEIR descoveries and why not? It is the people that spend time, effort and cash doing just that this stops the scene being just a nostalgia trip. Am I to take it that your expectation is for the "artists / writers / producers / copyright owners" to be used to anounce records ? What happens at venues where they don't even supply a mike? How many DJ's / promotors do a PRS / PPL return with the appropriate payment to ensure royalties are paid to artists etc? What would DJ's need to be paid if they did? How much would it cost to get into your local venue then? Your comments on "power, ego and greed" have little validity. There is no more power in having cover-ups to play and there is the money spent by 95% of serious DJ's way outstrips what they get paid so greed is well well wide of the mark. As for ego (An individual's awareness of what constitutes his or her essential nature and distinguishes him or her from all others) I would use the word reputation. This is, or at least should be, important to each and everyone of us. It is why we put DJ's names on flyers or even have names for our events. I think we all have a desire to be associated with something we admire, that is part of the human condition. INVHO of course

Posted one of these earlier this year /index.p...pe=post&id=2228 here you go.

This all assumes that the correct spelling is "do" and not "doo". If the correct spelling is "doo" then the apostrophe in "do's" could be omissive (indicating the ommision of letter or letters) rather than possesive (indicating possesion). Anyway Moses Smith is a classic, not particularly my cup of tea but has more of a place on the scene than some of the records from that era IMHO.

If i'm on the road early in the mornings or lat at nite I listen to radio 2 between 3am and 6am the Alex Lester show hes funny but anything is better than the farming stuff on radio 4 at that time Anyway he played Bowies young americans, followed by Ojays love train then the new track by Bob Marley slogans the other morning and it struck that kinda followed the progress of my mainstream musical taste outside northern. and all in the space of 15 minutes lol I must say tho I DO NOT wear a cardigan whilst listening to radio 2 is that illegal?

Donkey is it you thats selling this?

I would and have bought in less good condition as long as its playable. I may have the intention to replace but if the choice is a better condition copy of one I already own or a copy of something I don't; the something I don't would win every time. But maybe thats just me

Could be many answers to this - Johhny Barnes - Beggining Today on AMC no one knows it or the Strollers track I posted up for info on no one supplied any But I guess your after know stuff rather than possible one offs and I suppose it would be my demo of the Del Larks but that was easy to get into my collection I bought it blind before it was known I did leave about 13 issues behind though How I miss Sinfonia and those boxes of imports for 9p each.

Another reason ebay is getting worse and worse. I bit on a lot of 61 records which had some nice peices in including Douglas Banks 'Aint That Just Like A Woman'. I was out sniped rather than out bid these things happen as you will all know so I contacted the winning bidder to see if he particularly wanted the Douglas Banks which was clearly listed as part of the lot with the description Douglas Banks on Guyden (Very Rare Killer Northern Soul 45 - VG++ - Beautiful Promo copy) The winning bidder replies saying that the seller wasn't including that record in the lot. The seller then proceeds to relist it seperately . I know I didn't win the auction but that is so underhand it's untrue. It did make more on its own than the 61 records made but that isn't the point he should have put a reserve if he wanted a certain amount for the DB. Ebay are very clear that you are entering into a contract when you a placing a bid so how can a seller get away with that. Is it any wonder I rarely buy off ebay any more.

Oops I've got both in the CD changer in the car. Thats a good advert isn't it two of your CD's in my top six at the moment.

Haven't read that for a while Pete so good to read it again thanks Ged