Clee93

I have a mate who's good friends with one of the employees who works there, always tips me off when they've got a collection in... Also said to me, a lot of the time most of the big ticket items are picked up before going on the website and sold direct to collectors/dealers.

Hi mate, I messaged you on facebook about how I got mine!

Theres 4 or 5 instances where I've had to message US sellers recently and had to either give private email / whatsapp / discogs account name etc... Just so you can begin to negotiate because theyre all so shit scared they're gonna get done over by the police / ebay accounts restricted. I've got a couple of records i'm buying now off a guy and the only way they'll do it with a bit of discount is if I pay via paypal goods and services. Absolutely mad!

Immediately thought of this, was only talking about album only tracks the other day to someone. So, here’s an obvious one…

Is he still alive?

Few on discogs, 1 issue, 2 demos ranging between 83 - 100, Understand if you want to deal direct though, I do mostly.

I’m only a bit older than you and like the large bulk of people, buy with my ear. Not many in our age category can afford to get involved with the acetate side of things but those who do - you have to take your hat off to them. I always like to include some obscure stuff that’s either out of vogue or just never played within the rare soul circuits these days. One of them is a jazzy bit of garage soul and the other hardly anyone has heard cos it wasn’t spun by a top DJ or a massive sound at the time. There’s only one picture sleeve without the disc on Discogs and I’ve only ever seen one other copy go on eBay for less than a fiver which I missed - I ran it past a veteran DJ who also does mod stuff and a younger guy who does a lot of obscure 6T’s stuff and neither of them had heard this tune and the other one is the flip of an old Nev Wherry spin from KGB / Cleethorpes Winter Gardens, that ones a psychedelic stomper. (The side Nev played is a bit more standard 6Ts fare which is known but I prefer to play it’s twisted/funk edged b side. I’ve been told they’re ‘a load of shite’ to the standard of one of my good mates who’s more than double my age. However, when I recently did a set for a long time mate band’s single release, the crowd of just shy of 90 were all below 35 minus 2 older people received both of these tracks really well along with the rest of the stuff and had more people dancing than the bands on that occasion. There seems to be more and more mixed genre events that draw younger people a bit like Crossfire that have a broader lens in terms of what’s played rather than dedicated oldies / modern do’s. I was at a rocksteady / soul event last weekend that would ruffle purists but was a good time with good tunes played all night.

Good to know, as any one worth their salt should! That part of my comment was referring to the clientele who go to DNSC specifically and not all of the clubs mentioned in the article and I wasn’t speculating about the authenticity of any of the clubs either but was just noting how the attitudes of younger people who go to those kinds of events aren’t the same as their seniors. They’re more bothered about the sound it’s self where some older people will only dance to originals and proudly tell you that. There are plenty of young DJs in the UK who have incredible collections and push great stuff rare, new, unknown & old alike and everyone knows who they are.

Academics or not, it’s no secret to say there has always been appreciation of black music within the youth/sub culture throughout history by working people in the UK and probably a tangible link between most of us having to work jobs all week to keep heads above water and wanting to do something a bit different on the weekend but I don’t know if they’re linked and wouldn’t agree it’s for any singular reason or what the article alludes to… It reads more or less as if it’s written for a journalism module on a media course. Definitely below university standard, anyway. There aren’t a lot of young people at nighters, weekends or alldayers in reality, you can probably count people below 35+ on two sets of hands at any given do. I will say I’ve never been to Deptford Soul Club I’ve seen photos online and as mentioned earlier it seems largely to be a uni crowd that you’d see going to Ministry of Sound, KoKo (they don’t look like typical crowd) and seems to me a more or less convenient opposite to the original ethos of the clubs in the 60s/70s/80s etc… I.e: Less focus on pushing ‘new’ sounds, all original sets and it travels to the clientele instead. Young people these days aren’t totally loyal to one thing and individualism is a lot more fragmented. Not really sure why they’ve declared their difference to other clubs, prerty much everyone in those photos vests and vintage clobber? It’s Techno on a Tuesday, Soul on the Saturday. Main part is they’re enjoying the music.

NOW SOLD

NOW SOLD EX+ CONDITION ORIGINAL RELEASE OF THE NORTHERN CLASSIC BY THE CHIEFTESS OF RNB. £45 INCLUDING POSTAGE ONLY SELLING AS UPGRADING TO THE DOUBLE SIDED VERSION WITH QUITTIN' TIME ON. THANKS NP

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Lmao the northern soul banksy

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