Ian Dewhirst

Looks great

Wait til you see the You Tube clips of the interview we did with Tom at his apartment which should be ready for this coming Monday. It's every collector's dream to see some of the stuff he has in there. At one point the camera lovingly lingers over a master tape which says "The Volcanoes - 1966" on it so the mind boggles at what he has in that apartment!

A man after your own heart Steve, but much less organised in his approach to record and tape filing!

Ian D

Excellent, will definitely be purchasing a copy.

Ian i read with interest [ EMS] i think that you were trying to obtain access to a shed load of unreleased PIR stuff, hope its not to cheeky to ask how that's going.

Many thanks

Garv

Hi Garv,

Well these things tend to work at their own speed, which from our point of view can be slow. There's all the problems of the costs involved in transferring tapes, baking masters, formatting 'em etc, etc and no one really wants to pay for all that if they can avoid it. Then there's any potential legal issues which in some cases may mean the artists wanting to re-negotiate his/her/their contracts which can be a grey area at the best of times.....

However, with it being the 50th anniversary of Holland-Dozier-Holland as a songwriting team and the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia International Records in 2012, I'm rather hoping that these issues with H-D-H and Philly International can be resolved for the bigger picture. So watch this space I guess.....

Will obviously feed out any info as it comes in so stay tuned.......

Best,

Ian D

Pete S said:

What about this...this has surely got to be as good as any recent product played on the Northern scene...I think maybe we dismissed the 21st century northern soul project too easily without even listeni