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BH

Always been a cheap tune,always used to be a pound or so in old money. But what a great sound. I was really pleased to hear it the other night (and dance to it) Mark - Reading hasn't been the same since you left. (so I've been told anyway) Tony

I'd dance to it

Found this on the Daily Mail website (hate the Mail, but was doing me mum a favour- honest!!) 'Ebay avenger' offers a truce00:01am 31st May 2006 Reader comments (22) The 'ebay avenger' who posted an embarrassing web page about a student who sold him a faulty laptop last night offered to take it down in exchange for his money back and an apology. Thomas Sawyer, 23, was so incensed after forking out £375 that he decided upon the most humiliating form of revenge. After fixing the computer and inspecting its contents, he designed a site entitled 'The Broken Laptop I Sold on eBay' and, in a mocking first person account, told the story of the sale in detail. He showed pictures of Amir Tofangsazan kissing a girl, sleeping and with a bare chest, a copy of his passport and pornographic images he claimed to have found on its hard drive. Amir, an 18-year-old A-Level student from Barnet, North London, said his life had been made a 'living hell' since the website was published and announced he was going to sue for libel. Yesterday, however, it emerged he is being investigated over at least one other eBay 'scam'. Mr Sawyer, who is in the final year of a degree in cognitive science and lives in Exeter, said: 'I still have the laptop and would be happy to hand it over to police if requested to. 'All photographs remain on the hard drive along with date stamps proving that they were saved onto it before i bought the laptop. 'I did not make any allegations against Amir, I simply documented what I found on the hard drive after he broke repeated promises to refund my money for goods which were broken when I received them. 'I am also sorry to hear that he has received angry phone calls from people, these are not from me and I did not post his phone number on the Internet. 'The site is genuine but I would be happy to take it down after a refund and apology from Amir himself.' Meanwhile, Debbie McInerney, a 42-year-old IT administrator from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, said she paid Amir £147 for an iPod in March but it never turned up. Amir banked the cheque but failed to answer emails asking when it would arrive. So Mrs McInerney complained to site regulators and took the matter to the police. It is still being investigated. Shortly afterwards, Amir's account - for which he invented the username 'thomasbuckly' - was deactivated. 'My disabled mother has come to live with me so I wanted an iPod so I could listen to music quietly,' said Mrs McInerney. 'I bid for this one on eBay and was asked to make a cheque out to A.Tofan, which I later discovered was not even the seller's full name. 'You have to trust people on eBay but he's the only one I've ever had a problem with. 'He sent me repeated emails asking when he could expect to receive funds, but never responded once after I started asking him when he would send it. 'I was really upset and became angry and frustrated wondering why anybody would do that to me. To other people it might not seem a lot, but to me £127 and the £20 for postage that he demanded was a lot of money and I had worked overtime to pay for it. 'Since then I have been contacted by somebody else who had similar problems.' Mrs McInerney posted 'feedback' to Amir's eBay account saying: 'Banked my cheque 31/3 for £147.00 - still not sent the item despite e-mails.' Another eBay member, who had agreed to sell Amir a Ted Baker tie for £2.50, wrote: He phoned to say cheque would be posted but still nothing arrived!'. Amir was exposed yesterday after selling what he claims to have been a 'fully working laptop' on the Internet site. But Mr Sawyer said it not work when it arrived at his home two months later. After mending it he was amused to find it contained all sorts of embarrassing information about Amir and set up the website to ridicule him. Included were a selection of '90 pictures of women's legs' that had apparently been taken on trains with a camera phone. Amir, who claims the laptop was not broken and that the pornographic images and pictures of legs were nothing to do with him, said he had been forced to go into hiding since the website was made public because of threatening and racist phone calls. He refused to comment on Mr Sawyer's offer. 'The police are investigating the iPod case and I can't comment on it,' he added.

Its bloody fab! Love this sort of slowie, real soul! Tone

got a studio acetate somewhere if that's any use tony

Dunno about selling, had a brain seizure once and swapped Toby Legend for a copy of Five and a Penny....dur!

For some stupid reason I let Levine persuade me to sell him the Rotations Put another dime D9 on Frantic in '74 for about sixpence

Mike and Bernie Winters

No complaints from sunny Surbiton, my postman even signs for my recorded stuff and shoves them under my back gate.

My postman is brilliant, he even signs for my recorded stuff and shoves them under my back gate. No complaints from Sunny Surb.

Robert John; Raindrops, Love and Sushine. What an uplifiting voice, always raises the spirits

I see Mr Rounce is having a slack morning again Tone

Hi Shaun Just wanted to say thanks, got the Pacific Gas etc album about 10 minutes after hearing it on the show. Tony

Godin's coining of the phrase Northern Soul (or any other name that identified a scene that was patently different) was necessary at the time as the North and South's idea of what was soulful had diverged. Southern soul fans had gone funky for the most part apart from a small band folk who used to travel Up North. But a scene still needs a name or else its not a scene, granted Rare Soul sounds better, but then you get rare deep soul, rare sweet soul etc, so its not so exact. Whatever you call it, outsiders aren't going to understand what its all about anyway, especially nowadays. Once you could say to someone "you know the beat of I can't help myself, well its like that" and that would sum it up, but with changes in the beat, speed (both types) and styles of music it's harder. But in a way we don't really need a name for the scene anymore we know what we're here for and thats enough, you don't need to state in flyers and other ads that its northern soul, we know...which leads me to my final point and thats a moan about certain djs who feel the need to tell us during their spots that we're listening to some fantastic northern soul, matey, we know why we're here.....!

Ian Dewhirst lives in Surrey now and is/was involved with the Mastercuts CD series

Ho ho, anyone would think it was April the ..........oh!

have to agree about Messing up a good thing - soul perfection

Don't forget ritually applying the Brut to a variety of body parts

No 1 Hey babe what am I gonna do b side of Inspirations Touch me etc or it could be one of the other 6 or so versions But I would love to own track 3 is brill

bit of a holy grail this one, I know of 2 copies - Mike Maguire in Norwich and Mick Smith. I've always wanted it since I heard it a t' Torch, had to be content with an emidisc, which doesn't count.

Never like the sound of the Contempo label, always sounded a bit naff and as for Contemporaries word fail me! Label snob, moi?

David Ruffin/Levi Stubbs

John Edwards LP on Aware Lou Courtney In need of love Jackie Wilson Beautiful Day

loved it, even though he was miming the excitement came through