You're right mate, I dont get it now at 22 and I probably wont get it at 42, the northern scenes music taste baffles me. I know what you mean about the scene moving on but surely not in the direction of records like Debbie & The Lads, If people persist on playing records like this for the next 10-15 years the scene will be well and truly fucked . We're all trying to find that record that is unknown and scare the shit out of people when they hear it( I think James Trouble has found one in that Little Willie Johnson record) and this just seems to come across as a fairly ordinary middle of the road northern record, If someone offered it me for £25 I'd offer them a £15(tight arse) . Tunes like the awesome Jonthan Capree, Parisians, Jimmy Phillips, Wendel Western, Liberation St Singers are the ones that will move the scene on with the younger crowds. I know it's difficult to play a set full of tunes like this and you dont want to overplay them to death but why on earth would anyone resort to playing stuff like this just because someone says it rare and gonna be massive . Each to thier own and all that we've all got opinions records
P.s - black or white as long as it's got that "Bloody hell whats this ,I've gotta dance" about it, thats what counts.
Callum.