Following a conversation with a friend recently they mentioned A listers on the scene, ("they only talk to you untill some A listers turn up") whilst I respect many people on the scene I never would call them A listers, I know I dont get about as much these days but is this really the case and are we copying society in general?

Just curious

Blake

Humm! personally I would role out the red carpet for Kenny B, Keith & Bob, Flynn,Butch, Ady C, Mick Smith and the H one (could go on all night) all great DJ's and worth their weight in styrene any day.

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someone put it on here earlier a listers usually have a top box of hot sounds albeit expensive and rare ticket items

im sorry but every time i hear these djs they play nearly the SAME records all the time..and hardly hear them spin anything different.

but fair play to them..but its the normal collectors that do it for me as they often play imaginative and often superior playlists

but its all down to personal taste,,,

oh well

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by wiganer1

i never understood a bloody word of that

Join the club mate

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someone put it on here earlier a listers usually have a top box of hot sounds albeit expensive and rare ticket items

im sorry but every time i hear these djs they play nearly the SAME records all the time..and hardly hear them spin anything different.

but fair play to them..but its the normal collectors that do it for me as they often play imaginative and often superior playlists

but its all down to personal taste,,,

oh well

Been thinking this myself recently, the overplayed oldies brigade get a lot of criticism on here but nobody mentions the fact that some of the top line DJs have been playing the same set for a long time.

Surely some of these tunes need a rest by now

Got to disagree with both of you hear.

I see these DJ play month after month and the backbone of the tunes they have is quiet frightening they are constantly change their sets with new sounds to play.

Even a collector gonna repeat himself if he plays 2 or 3 times a month 12 months a year

As I said the list goes on with your Andy Dyson, Kitch, Darge & Guy.

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by Prophonics 2029

whose been ignoring you Blake... apart from me

don't know about A listers so much now - but theres always been cliquy groups of folks... if they're all together, you'll be lucky to get a hello - but if out alone they're suddenly your best buddy!

personally as an A-Lister , sometimes I'll talk to people, sometimes I don't - I'm not always in a chatty mood - though am always happy to oblige with a kiss and a smile

ps. Blakey are you and that stunning bird of yours coming to Thorne tomorrow?

But if we talking about a list DJ's in just soul music/Northern soul then yes but not in the world of celebrities where people are put into a list and z list and so on.

Would Ian Levine be ranked an a list with Simon Cowell would you expect Ady C and Soul Sam etc to be a listed with The Beckhams and so on. point being no so in our own world of Northern soul yes they are a lists but not in the general world

Think these imaginary lists only exsist in the minds of those who would like to be on them,another thread were nobody actualy has the nuts to say what they mean.

well, I'm saying what I mean. I'm surprised you haven't come across it too Andy, re:Middleton. I've lost count of the number of people who've expected

to be put on our guest list over the years because of who they are or what they do. Or the other side of it, where people aren't really that interested in you

until they realise you run a venue and they go out of their way to make friends with you and are really interested, whilst always trying to get a spot too. I've had that conversations with loads of promotor's who've experienced it.

Jayne.

Edited August 11, 200817 yr by Miss BurySoul

There are no 'A-Listers' on the Soul scene - just the odd characters who think they should be regarded as such by lesser mortals!

Edited August 11, 200817 yr by mel brat

we are all treated as 'A' listers when on way to the record bars with £ to spend

Ummmm....me neither.

KTF

Baz

i never understood a bloody word of that

well, I'm saying what I mean. I'm surprised you haven't come across it too Andy, re:Middleton. I've lost count of the number of people who've expected

to be put on our guest list over the years because of who they are or what they do. Or the other side of it, where people aren't really that interested in you

until they realise you run a venue and they go out of their way to make friends with you and are really interested, whilst always trying to get a spot too. I've had that conversations with loads of promotor's who've experienced it.

Jayne.

I know what your saying jane,dont really suffer from it to much myself i have a small social circle and aint over sociable to start with,and i never do the door at any of the events im involved with.

Following a conversation with a friend recently they mentioned A listers on the scene, ("they only talk to you untill some A listers turn up") whilst I respect many people on the scene I never would call them A listers, I know I dont get about as much these days but is this really the case and are we copying society in general?

Just curious

Blake

A listers

Dj's who turn up just before their set and disappear straight after,oh and usually have someone else carry their records for them

How about dj/ promotors who ,only invite fellow promotor/dj's for return favour,sit on same table as each other ,dismiss punters as under classes .They mingle all night with fellow promotors and wallow in self importance until they get up for work the next day and realise they are just ordinary people .figments of their own imaginations

Cringeworthy!

A listers

Dj's who turn up just before their set and disappear straight after,oh and usually have someone else carry their records for them

How about dj/ promotors who ,only invite fellow promotor/dj's for return favour,sit on same table as each other ,dismiss punters as under classes .They mingle all night with fellow promotors and wallow in self importance until they get up for work the next day and realise they are just ordinary people .figments of their own imaginations

Cringeworthy!well said that man

Edited August 12, 200817 yr by spikey

Would agree nev lots of promoters djs do trades for spots etc not a problem for me dont get on with most of em ,pet hate for me promoters who pretend to be everyones m8.Promoters job is to put on the best nite he can,djs job to impress the dancers not himself as for lists who cares. And your dead right bout djs just turnin up for there spot unless they are djin at a club on route to middleton a total no no for me to turn up 10 mins before and then piss off,would never book em again no matter who they are.

Edited August 12, 200817 yr by Soultown andy

Have only ever come across the term 'a' list once, and that was a DJ asking me to book them, and giving me the price they wanted paying for doing me this fantastic service...

My response was - thanks, but no thanks.

A listers??????....do they exist...do they b*llocks...its pretencious crap when people go on about..big sound coz so and so is playing it..so it must be good or someone talks about how fantastic their collection is i squirm

the guy i admire is the guy/gal who works hard all week for feck all, n scrapes their last pennies together to buy the tune they love..isnt influenced by the massess loves all soul not just the dancers... isnt interested in impressing a bloody soul, loves their £1 tunes as much as their more expensive ones but can talk and understands their art and love with a passion...and dont pretend to know a tune when they dont!

ive talked to one or two "big Hitters" who are clueless about soul in general apart from those with a price tag and play to impress, not to fill a floor and inevitably their set is a cobbled miss match.

give me a true soul lover anyday and im tickled pick...feck the big buck tunes...or perceptions

None pretentious people who are f**king A list gurus to me..Joe Dutton dave n Bri Pinch , angus oldfield, rory sykes, russ steele...they'll all kill me now, but their real life soul afficionados who live for their music , with no glam and most of you'll be saying "who are they".......EXACTLY...but i dont go on about them or swoon when they enter the room i just want to know when they are buying the next round

Geeoooordie

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Spot on.....more so because the people considered 'A listers' (DJ wise that is) by the people who are concerned with pigeonholeing, really don't give a toss they're there (hopefully) because of their love of the music...& if they do feel they deserve to have some kind of demi-god status, that just goes to show how pretentious they are....as said nobody knows everything, & we're all in it to win it.

KTF

Baz

A listers??????....do they exist...do they b*llocks...its pretencious crap when people go on about..big sound coz so and so is playing it..so it must be good or someone talks about how fantastic their collection is i squirm

the guy i admire is the guy/gal who works hard all week for feck all, n scrapes their last pennies together to buy the tune they love..isnt influenced by the massess loves all soul not just the dancers... isnt interested in impressing a bloody soul, loves their £1 tunes as much as their more expensive ones but can talk and understands their art and love with a passion...and dont pretend to know a tune when they dont!

ive talked to one or two "big Hitters" who are clueless about soul in general apart from those with a price tag and play to impress, not to fill a floor and inevitably their set is a cobbled miss match.

give me a true soul lover anyday and im tickled pick...feck the big buck tunes...or perceptions

None pretentious people who are f**king A list gurus to me..Joe Dutton dave n Bri Pinch , angus oldfield, rory sykes, russ steele...they'll all kill me now, but their real life soul afficionados who live for their music , with no glam and most of you'll be saying "who are they".......EXACTLY...but i dont go on about them or swoon when they enter the room i just want to know when they are buying the next round

Geeoooordie

I really can't think of anybody with an exaggerated sense of their own importance but I will get my P.A. to check.

ROD

I really can't think of anybody with an exaggerated sense of their own importance but I will get my P.A. to check.

ROD

lol.. it's not the people with the exaggerated sense of their own importance that really piss me off the most, it's people who will chat to you until

someone they deem to be more important walks in and they blatantly (sp) break off from your conversation or (even worse) interupt you to talk to

said person who has just walked in.. it is SO rude.

Jayne.x.

A listers??????....do they exist...do they b*llocks...its pretencious crap when people go on about..big sound coz so and so is playing it..so it must be good or someone talks about how fantastic their collection is i squirm

the guy i admire is the guy/gal who works hard all week for feck all, n scrapes their last pennies together to buy the tune they love..isnt influenced by the massess loves all soul not just the dancers... isnt interested in impressing a bloody soul, loves their £1 tunes as much as their more expensive ones but can talk and understands their art and love with a passion...and dont pretend to know a tune when they dont!

ive talked to one or two "big Hitters" who are clueless about soul in general apart from those with a price tag and play to impress, not to fill a floor and inevitably their set is a cobbled miss match.

give me a true soul lover anyday and im tickled pick...feck the big buck tunes...or perceptions

None pretentious people who are f**king A list gurus to me..Joe Dutton dave n Bri Pinch , angus oldfield, rory sykes, russ steele...they'll all kill me now, but their real life soul afficionados who live for their music , with no glam and most of you'll be saying "who are they".......EXACTLY...but i dont go on about them or swoon when they enter the room i just want to know when they are buying the next round

Geeoooordie

Well that just goes to show you can lean something new everyday.

Now i know Angus,s surname

Think these imaginary lists only exsist in the minds of those who would like to be on them,another thread were nobody actualy has the nuts to say what they mean.

true enough there fella.......

A listers

Dj's who turn up just before their set and disappear straight after,oh and usually have someone else carry their records for them

How about dj/ promotors who ,only invite fellow promotor/dj's for return favour,sit on same table as each other ,dismiss punters as under classes .They mingle all night with fellow promotors and wallow in self importance until they get up for work the next day and realise they are just ordinary people .figments of their own imaginations

Cringeworthy!

if thats what they are ......there are loads in this area....you dj at my crap do and i'll dj at yours,i'll playe my c.d's and you can play your bootlegs. I go to soul do's ...........but only if l dj and so on lol......but true

if thats what they are ......there are loads in this area....you dj at my crap do and i'll dj at yours,i'll playe my c.d's and you can play your bootlegs. I go to soul do's ...........but only if l dj and so on lol......but true

spot on.....i was once asked once to play at a venue...only if i turned up and supported their venue and let them dj at the friendship (my old venue) first..... i told them to feck off ...when i read this i thowt ud overheard the conversation

They only exist in their own inflated egos

QoFxx

and self built ivory towers , trouble is they keep getting pulled out of them

rob

Im working my way up the alphabet...think im about a U lister at the moment

if thats what they are ......there are loads in this area....you dj at my crap do and i'll dj at yours,i'll playe my c.d's and you can play your bootlegs. I go to soul do's ...........but only if l dj and so on lol......but true

kinnel well put Darcy mi'owd

rob

just had another thought....there are plenty who should be on A list ......shindlers lol