Baz Atkinson

WILLIE WELSHES BAND FEAT SHARON ELLIS-WHATS EVER FAIR-BLACKBYRD - SUMMITS-SOPHISTICATED LADY-LA SELLE - WILLIE WILEY--JUST BE GLAD--KING - RIVINGTONS-WITH RIVINGTONS BAND-YOR GONNA PAY-QUAN -

same drill folks accepting paypal as a gift £2 postage condition stated !! willie welshes band feat sharon ellis-whats ever fair-blacbyrd demo mint £50 [got t be worth a punt folks at 50-book is treble this is a spare copy lovely!! SOLD SOLD SOLD . summitts -sophisticated lady-la selle mint £60 very popular at the momment mint copy. willie wyly-just be glad-king mint £30 cracking double sider folks . rivingtons -your gonna pay-quan mint [just went for a few quid on the bay ]cracking sixties soul £35 all records out same day.

VERY SLOW COME ON FOLKS MORE POSTED TONIGHT IF I CAN BE ARSED LOL. BAZ A

CHRIS HARRIS SOLD!!!

same drill folks paypal as a gift £2 next day delivery condition stated !!!cheques etc accepted!!Please note this is a quick soundclip. Judson Moore-hey lisa-Chicago Music Bag mint [nice folks steve green spin at lowton,got a rare demo so snap it up -one to watch really really nice track-£40 invitations-love has to grow-Polydoor british mint £40 GOT MINE ON SILVER BLUE THIS IS A NICE RARE THING FOLKS AND WELL WORTH £40 top tune very soulful. Chris Harris+soul invaders-why can we get along-Dial mint £25 really worth a punt this -uptempo in your face dont see alot!!# SOLD SOLD. Cecil Shaw-what do you want from me girl-BIL Mar white demo £20 release date wol miner [great record spare] Sandra lopex-im so lonely-phila of soul w/demo vg but very good example rare on demo £25 .## also folks got 100 or so gospel spares nice for 50 quid and another 20 or so collections builders for £20 cant be arsed to list combined some nice stuff !!Postage on these a TENNER.

Great track-ill get some of the lp only stuff up at the weekend if I get time!!! BAZ A

Cant believe Gene Redding has not sold-the flip is one of the best known secrets out there -what an incredible double sider of pure soul and hard funk-someone get it ffs -one of the real gems !!! BAZ A

Most eloquent and succint post yet on this topic,Jock me and headsey are doing lifeline if you want to get down to the north east you can hop in with us-if you made no plans, BAZ A Hmm I normally stay out of this argument even more as it is been done to death, but in recent times this view is seen as majority and I think that is not the history of the scene I know. I am not totally sure about the point you are making here, but I suspect you are holding this up as positive reasons why the "retro Northern scene" deserves to exist, I think it actually highlights very nicely why it was such a negative thing. These scenes, as does the current Northern retro scene, always seem to focus on a very limited point in history and pay an everlasting tribute to this time and its fashions, forgetting that these fashions were worn only by the most modern of that time, often any musical content is just an equal part, or in my opinion sometimes less important part, than the fashions and in reality people are far more into the scene than the music in isolation, and it almost always turns out to be just a fad, which in my opinion, although arguably I accept, is a parallel for the Northern retro scene. To many people, ironic as it may seem, the Northern scene was never about looking back, it was always about looking forward to next new sound and during all of the 80's and most of the 90's that was the scene completely 100%, and the attitude, of which there was lots, was directed towards keeping the scene like that, and dare I say it preserving its integrity. Even the fashions were the fashion of the day, particularly the early to late 80's, then followed by whatever people wore to go out. The scene you champion in reality only reflects a very small period of NS history, and parts of that period seems to reflect the worst in musical times for NS. I think what annoys many of us who weren't around for lots of that, I only started going in 79, is that many try and portray now that is and was the only NS fashion, which is just historically incorrect and for many of us it washes away the fantastic scene of the 80's and 90's, in reality it is rewriting history, which as a historian seems a strange choice for you. In all honesty it is embarrassing for many of us as that is how people assume our scene was, when in reality nothing could be further from the truth, I do accept the over the top slagging may not be necessary, but sometimes raw emotion is evoked when something precious to people is patronised and bastardised. Since in reality the scene you champion and anything I was involved with are actually now only distant relatives, probably step relatives with only one birth connection, I genuinely do believe in the live and let live principle, however on recent times it has almost become sacrosanct to defend any alternative on here, leading to accusations of "being up our own asses" and such like, I think sometimes there needs to be a reality check, and in reality the scene you champion is far closer to those in the images you have here, but what you and others seem to forget that these were the kind of scenes many of us were rebelling against by being into Northern, and yes being nearly 50 and relatively comfortable in life, these rebellions may be not as relevant but what is important to me, in case its not obvious on this thread, is integrity, and presenting the Northern scene as purely a retro scene does no justice to the integrity that was so evident on the NS in my nearly 20 years of being a regular participant, and indeed led to my current apathy to anything called Northern. I genuinely do not get involved in the debate as I think it has been argued before and nowadays any progressive Northern scene is being strangled to death by people who consider themselves a part of it, with repeated new nights playing the same old "newies" that have been played for years, therefore the retro scene in reality is of little consequence to that scene. But to me the reintroduction of the retro scene seriously damaged the healthy progressive Northern scene, however that is long past, but I think your arguments to live and let live go 2 ways, surely you can see why many of us do not recognise your vision of the scene, and indeed why sometimes it grates to be told that you represent the history of the NS, when it is not our history. There is a very thin line between moaning and informed opinion! This isn't really to debate any further, it's really to present the other side, which is generally ignored out there these days.

I agree with Keith tis a top slice of group souL as good if not better than bear with me which also blows me away!!!lOOKS A SNIP COS ITS A HARD ONE TO FIND!! BAZ A

Hello Jeff hope your well mate best to you and yours mate!! BAZ A Hi Baz...great record i played this at the coachman last year and it went down well........see you soon jeff

Tom most of the talent from Chicago and Detroit ended up in Philly in the mid seventies -sigma studios esembled the A LIST of whos who -thats why the sound is so distinctive imho,not to mention the wide acceptance of Philly inmternational-there seemed to hit the nail right on the head with incredible soulful mixes which had mass appeal!!! BAZ A One track I particularly like from this era is "Where do we go from here?". Probably around 1974 ? Really great vocals right across the scale and that brilliant Philly sound from that time. Why was the Philly sound so memorable from that era ? Was it something to do with Music Studio where it was recorded, the production team, the session musicians - or all of this ? Cheers................. Tom. Banbury.

SPENCER WIGGINS SOLD ED WINGATE SOLD LARRY BANKS SOLD.

The tramps were simply awesome their pil lps are supreme -trusting heart had one eye on the explosive disco market -but wow did it turn out right -incredible Record. TRAMMPS - TRUSTING HEART - BAZ A

HERES MY FAV FROM ONE OF THE ALL TIME SOUL SISTERS!!! BAZ A BARBARA BROWN-SOUNDS OF MEMPHIS..... -

YEP CAPPED OFF A PRETTY SHITTY WEEK ALL ROUND FINDING ABOUT THIS AND A FITTING TRIBUTE FROM CLIFF-INCREDIBLE SONGSTRESS HAD THE LOT IMHO!!! BAZ A

THERE YOU GO FOLKS.

USUAL DRILL FOLKS CONDITION STATED FOLLOW SOUNDCLIP -£2 RECORDED POSTAGE ! DOWNLOAD MAY TAKE A WHILE BUT WORTH IT. FREDDIE WATSON+THE RESTORATERS-THE UNLUCKY SEVEN-ELOYS MINT [bIG TIP THIS GOT A FEW-GOOD FUNKY STUFF] £20 [2 SOLD ONE LEFT] LEON COLLINS-JUST WANT TO SAY I LOVE YOU-ELF DEMO MINT £25 [bOUT TIME THERE WAS A BUZZ ON THIS] GREAT STUFF. TOMMY WILLIAMS-FROM ME-GOING CRAZY OVER YOU-BACKBEAT DEMO [GREAT FLIP ALSO]MINT £25 BOOK 75. ANNETTE POINTEXTER-YOULL GET IT RIGHT BACK-BRENA MINT - [CLASSY RECORD]£25 BARGAIN LARRY BANKS-WE GOT A PROBLEM-SPING DEMO MINT WITH THE BRILL FUNKY DONT PULL AWAY £25 sold. FAMOUS CHROMES-I GOT A GROOVE ON -DRIVE MINT £20 BUTLERS-LOVE IS GOOD-GAMBLE MINT WITH THE BRILL SHES GONE ON FLIP £25 ED WINGATE AND MODERN TIMES-STOMPING GRAZY LEGG-GOLDEN WORLD [RIC TIC PUB]100 BOOK VG+ISH £35 sold. SPENCER WIGGINS-LONELY MAN-VG+ISH 75 BOOK BRILL DEEP FLIP ALSO £25 SOLD!!

Back to work now lol,please no emails folks protesting the right to be a womble ,or the right to play oldies,or the right to be nostalgig,or the right to buy a pastie-cos i dont give a flying f--k lol. BAZ A

F--K ME HAVE YOU GOT ORDER DETAILS FOR THEM MATE -KNOW LOADS OF KINKY GAGE FIGHTERS I TRAIN WITH WHAT WOULD LOVE THEM - THERE WOULD LOOK A TAD BETTER IF THE GUY DOING A KICK WAS A WOMBLE LOL PMSL. PMSL -- brill Bet he's wearing his NS thong

SIMON YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO THROW ME OUT - IM NOT PART OF A NORTHERN SOUL CONSPIRACY -I JUST WANT TO WORK MY SPLITS AND BACKDROPS!

SIMON GETING READY FOR THE WOMBLE FACTOR IN ANTICIPATION HE HAS GONE BALD AND JUST ORDERED HIS SPENCERS SOUL BAGS!

By far one of the funniest threads ive ever read -pmsl on a dull over-worked Friday the wombles of wigan lol,makes me want to go to costa and knick a patch and start a revolution,i reckon SIMON COWELL is on this thread now planning the WOMBLE FACTOR -f--k me the perliminarys would be funny all those rejected 50+northern types smelling of sweat and getting there spins mixed up, "yes i think you have talent butyou could of at least sqeezed another spin out and wow that back drop" tell me did you have any formal NORTHERN SOUL DANCE TRAINING "? AH CHERLY SAYS -HES CUTE ISNT HE WHAT A LOVELY TATTOO AND BALDY HEAD -WE SHOULD LET HIM IN ANYWAY,Simon says oh go on then me little geordie chirrup -maybe his back drop and double splits will be exposed when we speed up the volumme in the next round and get them to dance to linda and the funky boys on an escalter on the way to GREGGS for a pastie!! THE WOMBLE FACTOR -!!! GET YOUR NAME DOWN NOW !! BAZ A

To me its a record that puts it all into context -it moves me to the core along with choice of colours,people get ready,and wake up everybody,you could write a book on these 4 alone and their affect on a myriad of things.Awesome version by Al -looks like AMAZON HAS BEEN BUSY TODAY!!! BAZ A.

ive got numerous contacts for New Jersey mate if you want to cross the bridge and get out of the big apple-Lou Silvani at times square is cds now so no luck there-used to be downstairs records on 42nd street but fleeced in the early nineties with numerous others!!Id just enjoy the city to be honest!!!tHE DIRECTORIES ARE GOOD -i dug loads of contacts out for Mick H when he went -ill see if I still have them- BAZ A.

Dont mess about Baz ,Get to the point:wicked: Take care bud ATB salmon HOW YOU DOING MATE DROP ME A PM TO LET ME KNOW. BAZ A