Richard Searling Book - Setting The Record Straight - News Richard Searlings forthcoming book 'Setting The Record Straight' is now available for pre-order fromAnglo American

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Still waiting for mine - anyone else still waiting?

Yes, still waiting for mine too. Hopefully it will arrive soon!

Still waiting.

And me

I was at Tim’s other day snowed under with books and just two doing all the postage, there is a lot, plus all the normal business. You will get them shortly. 

So does it just cover the  Wigan era or does it give insights into other clubs and how Richard got into the scene etc. Richard didn't just turn up on the scene when wigan opened. 

Still waiting for mine!

 

Just received mine!!!!.....looks like it's gonna be an interesting read....can't wait to commence reading it tonite...it'll be a break from 'war and peace', that's for sure!!!?

Still waiting but there was something like a 1,000 to sign and post out, that's a lot of franking for two people!

50 minutes ago, Stuart Bradford said:

Just received mine!!!!.....looks like it's gonna be an interesting read....can't wait to commence reading it tonite...it'll be a break from 'war and peace', that's for sure!!!?

Same here. Looks like a great read. 

22 hours ago, Kegsy said:

So does it just cover the  Wigan era or does it give insights into other clubs and how Richard got into the scene etc. Richard didn't just turn up on the scene when wigan opened. 

Mine arrived this afternoon - looks really good. It looks like the focus is strongly on the Wigan years but even just skimming through you can see that he does cover a wider era, mentioning Va-Va's and other clubs. Maybe there'll be a 2nd book to come - "Cueing up the B-side!"

I like that he's taken the theme of working through specific records as a sort of chapter sequence, and then spinning a story about the record and artist and wider aspects of the scene. And also that just like my filing of my singles, he lists the artists in alphabetical order by first name (e.g. Johnny Honeycutt and Johnny Williams are next to each other). I'm sure there will be many out there who think that's ridiculous, but it works for me!

Still waiting

 

Mine arrived today looks good

Number 963 of 1000 received this afternoon.

Would love to know what number people have. Mine's No 520 of 1000

Steve 

Number 398. Just flicked through it and on page 103 found a picture of my sister with "George from Hull with friend". I've still never found a photo of me. I must have avoided the cameras!

6 minutes ago, Paul r said:

Number 398. Just flicked through it and on page 103 found a picture of my sister with "George from Hull with friend". I've still never found a photo of me. I must have avoided the cameras!

Me too.  Got pictures from every where apart from the 6 years spent at the Casino 

Steve 

956

1 hour ago, Winsford Soul said:

Would love to know what number people have. Mine's No 520 of 1000

Steve 

493 for me. Nice touch on presenting the numbering within the image of a 45.

823

450 ... and I’m guessing my mate may have got 451 or 449 as I ordered two at the same time . 

When I called Tim told me 1000 hard back, which are now sold, then there will be a further run in softback. 

Im away with no idea if mines come through, very much looking forward to it though.. 🙂 

Mine arrived this morning #153 - nice looking book - glossy pages and loads of colour photos - looking forward to reading it

Next week 5th the softback is out. 

On ‎31‎/‎10‎/‎2018 at 14:04, stevegods said:

And mine ... and I bought one for a mate , and he’s just rung up very surprised .

At first glance , looks really good .

 

Steve 

Belting read , struggling to put it down . time machine to those fabulous records and stories 😃

#138

16 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Me too.  Got pictures from every where apart from the 6 years spent at the Casino 

Steve 

Same.

Although camaras in those days were not very good at capturing "speeding" images.

arrived today No 43

No 744

Bout mine in May still not received it yet just messaged Soul-Source pi**ed 

Got mine today , no 683 . Some great memories in there , will be reading this all weekend .Small pic of  myself with  Dave Molloy  on page 151 . Made up with that ! 

Still waiting...………...

#202 arrived today 🙂

6 hours ago, trevorq said:

arrived today No 43

I'd have liked to have got the '45' issue!

1 hour ago, seano said:

I'd have liked to have got the '45' issue!

Bit of a bookworm is our Seano!

Good lad, looking for'ard to a nice precis of the book now from you!

8 hours ago, seano said:

I'd have liked to have got the '45' issue!

Now that would have been nice

Steve 

On 01/11/2018 at 22:11, stevegods said:

450 ... 

Now where’s that Tipex .....

Just arrived today but Posty tried to deliver yesterday No 959 

Arrived Friday, no. 638

Shh.  I know who's got No1 . But not my place to tell. Chuffed for you mate 

Steve 

3 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Shh.  I know who's got No1 . But not my place to tell. Chuffed for you mate 

Steve 

Nice, but I'd still have fancied having 45!

Having noted my being pleased to see Richard's approach of listing the records by first name of the artists, I am intrigued to see him writing on page 41 (in the piece about Billy Harner) that he accidentally reversed over his record box in 1977, but that thankfully because "What about the music" was filed "A-Z by title" it escaped the worst damage and still plays with a hairline crack.

Come on Richard - what's the story, how come you changed your approach to filing, or was it only by first name for this book?

Also - chuffed to read that you are already planning a follow-on book!

13 minutes ago, seano said:

Nice, but I'd still have fancied having 45!

Having noted my being pleased to see Richard's approach of listing the records by first name of the artists, I am intrigued to see him writing on page 41 (in the piece about Billy Harner) that he accidentally reversed over his record box in 1977, but that thankfully because "What about the music" was filed "A-Z by title" it escaped the worst damage and still plays with a hairline crack.

Come on Richard - what's the story, how come you changed your approach to filing, or was it only by first name for this book?

Also - chuffed to read that you are already planning a follow-on book!

This and plenty more stories . Can't wait.  C,mon Richard what's the hold up ? 

Steve 

Arrived Saturday 750 the number not the time

Just got mine - looks fab. Limited edition number 600.

My copy number 754 arrived over the weekend whilst we were watching Richard live on stage in Manchester at the Bridgewater Hall presenting the Camerata Orchestra. What a fantastic night. 

Mine just arrived . No.188 and personally signed etc by the man himself which was a much appreciated nice touch . 

288. I'm on page 117, with Rob Marriott, Dean Penford, Garry Churm, Bri Beastall....oh and Edwin Starr.

Arrived at the weekend, number 653, interesting so far!

 

 

17 hours ago, KevH said:

288. I'm on page 117, with Rob Marriott, Dean Penford, Garry Churm, Bri Beastall....oh and Edwin Starr.

Correction - Dean Penfold......

Loved the Ann Bridgeforth 'Little Ann' page, I'd never seen a scan of the original acetate, I'm guessing that's the first time that had been seen other than via Richards Record box,  its a fabulous book... 🙂