Ady Croasdell

let it out baby

No, nice chap but he was proclaiming Northern was dead 15 years ago

Oh yeah, another thing Most of the still photos they used were from the Northants/Beds scene that was running parallel to the North at the same time but of course didn't get a mention as it doesn't fit the white working class northern soulies blueprint.

I thought it was poor, full of sloppy generalisations and completely inaccurate assumptions like the factory workers and miners bit, the 70s north of England depression and the "you worked for a pittance and spent your Saturday nights on the dancefloor venting your anger". Even as a skint student in 1969/70 my weekends always started on a Thursday night at North Park Kettering dancing to 'Here I Go Again', 'Judge Baby I'm Back' etc and took it on from there. The country may have been depressed but we weren't. I could waste the whole day going through it so I'll just mention two points. Norman Jay did a disservice to the singers, producers, songwriters etc when he said something like "a lot of the records played were just demos". That's a lack of knowledge about 60s black American music and the Northern Soul scene which makes you wonder why he was asked his opinion if he cold get it that wrong. The Tony Blackburn sideshow doesn't really deserve correcting but as it shows the state of Wigan at the time I'll tell it how it was. Mick Smith and I were record hunting down Portobello Road and went in a shop that only had a few LPs. I found the TB Polydor one with 'I'll Do Anything' on it so we bought it for 50p. Back at the flat we realised how dross it was but for a laugh decided to get an acetate cut and send it up to Keith Minshull who was DJing at Wigan then. We called it Kenny Gamble (the writer) and didn't tell him who it really was so that the joke would go further. Unbelievably it did and went massive which confirmed our view that Wigan had gone a long way downhill in those recent months. It was contrived as a joke about Wigan and worked.

Super Gabby, thanks i could use a sound file too if poss. say hello if you're coming over for any LCFC games

yes, plenty before and plenty since and some were/are even better

Pete, You appear to be disagreeing with them getting it wrong on punk but saying its reasonable to ignore the last 35 years of Northern. They should get both right, they get paid enough. If i made as many mistakes as that in producing a CD I'd expect to lose my job

Charlie Rees doesn't trust me watching it on my own; he's afraid I might do something I'll regret so is coming over to watch it with me. Hopefully Dave Cleggy will entertain because I'm not sure Marc Almond will.

Could well be Eddie, I believe Gama is a Washington east coast label.

Possibly legit as the flip is from the same licensor

the Rita and the Tiaras on recent Kent CDs was from the original multi track ao sounds better than the record

Nevereardofit

It sounds to me like I started tippexing and gave up halfway through. Poll to see the rarest!

400 anniversary. The Horace's probably did 1000 first press and another 1000 with the bar coded second press. Either are good to play as the Horace's was the first issue available to the public, the anniversary was promos. And the Kent ones currently available are OK too as the audio is better. I use one of those when I DJ

mid 80s Tippex is hard to find nowadays

Somebody spiked my tenth pint

it was first on Deep City on the flip of this Derek

so what number was wrong?

we didn't do them for the 3rd4th & 5th and possibly the one after Melba? A couple of times they weren't ready and you had to swap your ticket for them

in that case, yes to Tony's question. Though i have no recollection!

No

The 6th anniversary was 1985 so it must have been then.

Have you got one?

I see the problem now 2367 is One Little Dance too but has Someone on the flip; sorry everyone I was being exceptionally dozy and looking at posts on a mobile ain't a good idea. Thanks for your help. Ady

If you look on Popsike the original press of One Little Dance is that number. Or I've flipped