Roger Williams

One of the greatest of the all time greats, may he rest in peace.

https://en.mediamass.net/people/ben-e-king/deathhoax.html Always google these things these days.

This would be my 'modden' tip right now. Lovely smashing super great as that bloke who lives in that old Carnforth disused railway station might say. Roger

Couldn't agree more on those choices, Steve, especially Shirma Rouse, as you say, superb. Cheers Roger

Hardly anyone anywhere knows everything about other scenes, Barry, people can only ever express their opinion from their own usually limited knowledge and experience, it doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing. I agree though, and I think I've said earlier, if it breathes new life and further exposure into these tracks then yes, absolutely it's a good thing.

It's not well known in our house, in an 'only known copy' kind of way.

As I've said Ian, I'm genuinely chuffed that they're a big success for you, I'm only expressing a personal opinion from my own point of view on the tracks. Cheers Roger

That's actually really quite excellent, at least somebody's picked out something that's not that well known and done something with it, rather than taking a now-tedious Philly record we've all heard a million times and adding another 27 minutes to either end. Roger

I can see how the 'Harold Melvin' might fool really stupid people.

Anyone remember the 'male' version of Drizabore 'Pressure', where somebody had simply changed the pitch on the female vocal, that was classic. There truly are some thick muppets around who fall for this stuff!!

Slow music to walk around the dance floor slowly to with your arms outstretched and eyes closed.

Has Hampsey got your Soul Source password?

Even the new soul aspect has been squeezed out of the LSW for the most part, I find that really sad to be honest, another nail in the coffin for truly 'modern' soul.

I packed in DJ'ing at venues, Steve, I was worn down by the "something we all know" brigade, it became too much like hard work and impossible to play anything new to any kind of response, even at the purportedly 'upfront' gigs I was doing, and it sucked the enjoyment out of doing it for me, so I walked away from it and honestly haven't looked back since - the straw that broke this particularly camel's back was when I did a gig where I was told it was an open-minded crowd and within 15 minutes of my set got harrassed for Drizabore "Real Love' about half a dozen times, to the extent that one of the other DJ's who had his lappy with him, downloaded the track from the internet and burned it to CD so I could get people off my back about it - after that I just wondered what 'the scene' had come to when the tail wags the dog so much, it wasn't why I started doing it many years ago so it was simply time to turn it in and let others be human jukeboxes if that's what they're happy being. Roger

To be honest I actually love a re-edit when it's done well, it's just that so many I hear don't do much to add to what is generally already a classic except lengthen it, the majority seem pretty pointless, but the odd one or two do breathe new life into some tunes, but I do take Ian's point about the artists and originals being given exposure to a far wider and younger audience than inhabits the soul scene, that can only be a good thing with the added bonus that it gives a lot of sales to record companies who find it hard going in this day and age. Roger

As it would be if you wanted to hear something you've never heard before or didn't want to hear something you've heard thousand of times previously.

Edited. Thought better of it LOL.

100% right Steve, in a musical sense it's the blind leading the blind now, it has been for quite some time. Roger

It's the clueless DJ's that play the rubbish who kill it, not the music itself. Roger

Well either way you can guarantee there'll be a few noses out of joint when it's announced. We only ever used to travel down to see certain acts, such as Phil Perry, Incognito etc., seeing as it's under an hour away, but the weekend overall had little appeal to me - aside from the acts, the best part was watching various factions in that big foyer that stunk of hot dogs, it was like a special needs convention.

I actually agree with you Conrad, it would be wrong for them (and the rest of the stalwarts from the previous events like Mark Randle, Fish etc.) to be ditched, Richard's not daft, I'm sure he'll take it all into consideration. And then draft in Andyterrygarybobbiggermikedeanjimjohn anyway!! I'm not involved, and wouldn't want to be, I never liked the event and the place is a smelly dump, but I'm actually very very intrigued to see what the final line up will be myself.

Plus they're your best mates, but that would have nothing to do with it, would it.

Just out of curiosity, were you one of the DJ's who had the records in their boxes at this gig?

What a drama queen!!!