Sutty

Record is cut, metal stamper(s) made, record pressed from stamper(s). Anyone that then has a stamper, take it to a pressing plant and get the record pressed again and you get an identical record with identical run out, unless the plant has its own markings it uses to indicate where it was pressed. If the first and second pressing plants don’t do that, it will be identical in every way, and if they happen to have an over run of labels… bingo! Nobody will ever see the difference (not the case here, as the labels are not the same) cheers Sutty

Figgy Forbes? I went to school with him in Boston, he was a couple of years older than me and we became friends. I remember him coming into school with his tapes recorded the previous weekend on a portable tape player in front of the speakers. It as though him I first heard northern soul.

Yeah, you bought it off me in the Heart and Hand in Brighton and I spent half the money in the pub. It came from John Bowies brother in the Bronx via Butch. That auction price is mad, there are some proper mugs out there, it’s not that rare at all.

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The problem with the northern soul scene is that it was a youth movement that was never meant to last this long. It’s now a retro movement. There’s some great music in there though that’s more than stood the test of time. To imagine that the northern scene is going to, or should, embrace a Robert Owens 12, is fantasy. The modern-modern side of the scene maybe, and events that play anything in one room, yes. Leave the northern scene as what it is IMHO, it’s doing a pretty good job on its own, and people love it, and go to different events if you want to hear Robert Owens.

It’s a cover of Photek feat Robert Owens, a really sh*t one that sounds like some rock band on a minor stage at Glastonbury. Sam would definitely NOT play it lol

You should be thankful you got Gospel, at RHA she did Queen “we are the champions” to much be bemusement for some reason, when we saw Sylena Johnson recently at the Jazz Cafe, she did Phil Collins “in the air tonight”! Both stated to celebrate great British artists. Someone is giving these people appallingly bad advice…

She could five year back when I saw her at Blenheim, but a year or so back at RHA she’d pretty much lost her voice and struggled to hit any high notes. Same with Dionne Warwick, they are legends and you have to see them, but you’ll have to give a little leeway maybe…

I was DJing in a modern room in the north west over 20:years ago, in the warmup session someone played a Drifters 78, then in the northern room people were line dancing to what sounded like Rawhide to me. I’d never heard or seen anything like this before at any soul do, it felt like another planet, very odd! So it’s taken off now then?

That’s an acetate not a test pressing, done at the time of the cut to check quality, usually a one-off. If the UK press was cut at EMI its prob genuine

Laura - Eli and the 13th confession is amazing, a desert island disc for me The LP of covers with Labelle ‘Gonna Take a Miracle’ absolutely essential Carolyn Peyton Karen Dalton as above amazing voice Carole King of course… cheers Sutty

It definitely was, it was a regular play on acetate in Ady’s sets, everyone guessed the anniversary single would be the unreleased Ben E King and I was really chuffed when it was the unreleased TKO’s

I was just listening to Promise Me by LA Connection from 82 and found that the singer Roger Harris was also in Mantra in 81. The same “LA Connection” recording of Promise Me is also on the Mantra LP, yet the group line-ups are completely different apart from Roger, so it seems that it’s not even by LA Connection…

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