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It's good to talk Steve.

Could I please ask you all to refrain from using that God-awful whistling gif. I mean, what does it mean|?

You know that is a fecking blinder of a question

As purchasing Northern of late has gotten us all OCD whereby you get all obsessive about how many times your vinyl actually comes into contact with a stylus and all that shit. You know wherbey you buy a record on the basis that it 'is okay to dj with' (?????) I read this as I read the prawn sandwich brigade: It seems that you either have to be that 'hard' or that financially secure to actually 'play' your records on this scene today. Stop it off lads. We all know that we have gone out of our way to obtain these tracks, we all know what we are able to do with our records...so, lets stop wanking each other off and admit the only sensible thing to do with our 'record collections' (cos that's what they are these days, just bad tattoos), is preserve them for the bloke you would like to be's perusal. Don't play 'em, just keep 'em in a box and feel good about that bloke that shows interest in one of 'em. Copy the feckers, play em and stop giving it the big machismo angle. Make sense? I honestly don't believe there's an argument against that,

Serial rapist don't you know - I think he's still banged up?

Fucker.

I'm not knocking promoters, I am one and I'm certainly not being negative - just pointing out the pit-falls and bringing about healthy scene-based pontifications. My point about the use of the word 'Re-union' as opposed the use of the word 'Revival' simply tells me a great deal about the person behind the use of each. I still do love Malc on the basis of the above. Next!

Don't forget your capitals and there are two 's' in 'discuss' son. Other than that your bang on.

Get this! Yorkshire folk and it's immediate area have always been what I would call begatting of the true meaning of 'Northern Soul'. And I'm a Lancashire lad.

Oh! Sorry did you take barbs as well mate? Now everybody on the board knows you did 'em too. Which kind of brings you down to my level then doesn't it?

Sssshhhhh!

G'night!

Ay! They were Red-caps Malc, give me bit of due mate!

I never got to Wigan that night, all I remember is waking up on a hospital bed in the knack with nowt but me DMs on, then following the drip-feed that I spotted in me arm down to the Glucose bag and spotting me Ma & Da at the bottom of the ward shaking their heads. Then I passed out in RE on Monday.

The owd Cockneys did lean heavily toward the old JB sound at the time.

Speaking of Tuianol, me and the missus worked out that the week she was born I was having 6 'Chewies' pumped out of me stomach in Leigh Infirmary.

Hiya Paul, great to see you on here mate. I give you my wholehearted respect.

I agree, it's a bit regionalist that innit?

I used to knock about occasionally with Yogi (Pips, Rotherham etc) before he left for the kilt-wearing end of the country, attended his dayers up there in the 80's and I think the last time I spoke to the little genius was when he attended one of the nighters at Bradford when I was involved - he was in his Judge Dredd 'perp' phase at the time (don't ask). Anyway I got a lovely call from him this evening and he is putting together a Weekender in Dumfries in 2010. That's it. I'll keep you posted.

Funniest line in that film is the line: "But Mam look at the fuckin' state of 'em!?" Referring to his flares and being bullied in the playground because of aformentioned apparel.

Aw Andy mate no need for that attitude. I think you'd really like me, you know, as a friend like.

What did happen to Rosemary anyway? CSI Wigan.

I understand that the term Northern and what is deemed as such in reality is very much judged over a certain period when the term 'Northern Soul' actually meant something as such. But, over the years the music that is judged to be acceptable and allowed to be put under the banner of 'Northern Soul' has surely been brought to the fore by people adjudged to be of enough credibilty to be given the job of playing (new/undiscovered/unplayed) music to a dancefloor. The DJ. The myriad of wanky terms that have been spewed forth to encapsulate the new forms of music played today at All-Nighter level have done nothing more than fuel a divide about what truly is Northern Soul. This is complicated and I'm about to fall over my own mouth. Blame the DJ's - or more to the point, blame the people that have appointed them such. Therefore: It's all the punters fault. Is it f*ck.

Am I right in believing that 'Don' Thomas was in reality Charlie Thomas from an early 70's 'The Drifters' line-up? Just as a tasty morsel for the masses, I must add that Welsh-Ravers (??) K Klass did a cut up in about '94 of 'COT' which wasn't half bad.

One that disappeared from my collection. Anyone?