Birder66

Looking for VG+ or better copies of these on issue for payment via paypal with recorded delivery to UK. Thanks

OK - Thanks. Yes, that's what it looks like. What's a good price?

OK - so we're agreed that this blue and bronze swirl thing is a 7ts reissue - but is it worth anything?

Wish I could come down for this but got to do loads of Dad stuff this weekend. And I went to the Asher G do in London last Saturday and broke down at 4am in central London on my way back to Leicester - finally got home at 7am feeling very tired - just in time to see my girls wake up for the day. Nightmare. Have a great night Dave Mack aka Birder66

Used to have a yellow demo, but recently come across an issue, but it doesn't look very 6ts - certainly nothing like the yellow demo. Blue/grey colour with lion's head. Is it a 7ts issue?

Ha! not many bands were signed to labels at that stage - but there was a great netwrok of underground tape traders and fanzines. I had shed loads of tapes coming in each week, each envelope containing flyers advertising demos and rehearsals. That's how it was done until the boom of small record labels (and the massive reduction in band quality) circa 91. I've still got a bunch of flyers and fanzines.

Yes, I was hoping to bump into one for about £300. I'm weird and prefer demo to issue (regardless of rarity). Thanks

erm...yes. That's them. They burnt down the nordic equivalent of York Minster, Durham Cathedral etc Not that I condone what they did - it's just that the music has got a lot of very powerful energy (if you like that sort of thing). One of the high profile bands at the time had the slight problem that the vocalist blew his brains out and then the sesion bassist hacked the main songwriter/guitarist to death. Great debut album though! At the time, I used to write to a lot of these bands and so I've got shoe boxes full of C90's of rehearsals and demo tapes from all over the world. There's a lot of good death metal bands in Chile....

I think I asked this a few months back - this is a 45 that I have hardly ever seen. What is pushing the price to £600+? Just how rare is it? Does it get plays? What is the history behind it - where did it first get broken? Absolutely killer piece of mid-tempo northern, imo. Can't wait 'til I've got myself one.

Thanks - yes, I know Phil. We DJed togther at Set The Tone's 5th birthday party in London this January. Nice guy. I was stood next to him when Tommy started his set with this tune in London and we both just looked at each other with our gobs wide open.... Ha!! I want the original - only the first press will doodle do!

Think of speed/death metal as a 'diet' version of grindcore..... I'm guessing you will have heard of Napalm Death - their second album is grindcore (and one of the best grind LP's ever released). Extremely fast blast beat drumming, fuzzy distorted bass guitar, wasp in a beer can guitars and screamingeyespoppingout vokillz. My personal favourites are Repulsion (from America - only LP "Horrified", 1987), Terrorizer (from America - only LP "World Downfall", 1989) and Assuck (From America - various ep's '89-92). I am also a collector of the first wave of Nordic black metal and the current crop of black metal from eastern Europe!!

This was Tommy's opening tune in London.....so ok, I'm a follower, not a leader!! but it's an amazing piece of music and I WANT IT NOW!!! My idea of heaven is a real ale boozer and a small sound system playing this calibre of tune to NOBODY!!! And I want to be that loner!!!!!

I'm a ska purist, so can't get on with ska-punk. But I love a bit of doom metal - so I've just been checking out spider kitten. Not too bad. I like my doom a bit more funereal than that (NORTT from Denmark, early CATHEDRAL), whereas this was more Electric Wizard - but that also means that it was high quality!! I used to live in Newport, once upon a time. You knowzit clart.

Got a CD comp of Washington Phillips - that tune is probably the best. I like his stuff because it was so heavily ripped off by one of my favourite bands, Spacemen 3 (listen to the track DRIVE). They use a lot of his instruments 'riffs'. Now about to got to sleep listening to SLOWDIVE - killer shoegazer guitars.

So far, it looks like I'm the only 'greaser'. That can;t be right - surely there's a few more "metallers" on here

Ha.....Eine kleine plink-plonk musik!! The closest I get to that is my Klaus Schulze albums and a bit of NEU!

Grind....what are we talking? Terrorizer? Repulsion? Assuck? Napalm Death? Discordance Axis and Insect Warfare are this week's faves for me.

I'm a kid, when it comes to the rare soul scene; 35 years old and only been listening to northern since about '94/5. but I can still remember the tunes that first sent me into orbit and I haven't come down yet..... A guy who I worked with did me a northern tape (which I've still got) - his own 45s and they were real quality (he was a 'stafford' fan). It had taken me several months to get him to agree to do the tape and I was cycling home from work when I first put the tape in my walkman. "I hurt on the otherside" came out first - killer. Next up, "Don't take it out on this world" - ace. Can't recall the third tune as I write, but I will never forget the 4th tune....it completely sent me into orbit and before I knew it I'd crashed into the kerb and had gone over the handle bars in a complete musical daze. That tune - the tune that got me hooked on northern - was The Hesitations - She Won't Come Back (KAPP)***. I've never been the same since! Can you recall THE tune that first did it for you?? ***when I bought it, I was pleased to find out that the flip ain't bad either!

I've been mildly obsessive about northern since about '95 (more on that in another thread) and over the last 14+ years I have made some horrendous errors of judgement on northern 45s (wasting £1000's), as well as buying some really beautiful 45s that will stay with me forever - or at least will end up melting with me as the curtain falls in the crematorium..... But before that first moment, I was already heavily into Jamaican music ('60-80 era only) - and that love continues. In fact, it's my main musical passion. Before that, I had been pretty obsessive about a specific type of electronic music (between '89-91)......but my obsessive musical character started off on a completely different level circa '88 and I still (in 2009) collect records (both old and current) from these genres.......and it's probably much further away from northern than is good for you......the genre is "grindcore" (essentially, an extremely violent form of guitar music). So come on then.....get your anoraks out and confess to those "other" types of music that get your juices flowing....

What a killing KILLING tune - Impressions wannabes don't get much cooler than this! I missed out on a blank of this a few months back (£350) - still kicking myself. It just doesn't turn up anywhere. If you're sat on one of these and want to make a few quid, please get in touch.

"Getting Mighty Crowded, Don't Let Me Down, In A Bad Way Good clean copies wanted. Many thanks." Thanks to all those of you who got in touch - too many to reply to all. Managed o get one of each of these though all the enquiries. Thanks. NB: not a single US demo was offered, which was a shame.

Not my thing. I m only interested in getting the first release, usually the demo - but I'll take an issue if the demos are ungettable or 100's more. I can't see any point in owning foreign p/s issues (apart from to put on a wall, perhaps). This has always struck me as very strange - like why would someone want French Small Faces eps, for example? Thanks anyway - I bought a Metros last night, together with a Frank Dell.

I didn't see the Purple Martin on Shetland a few years back

got either for sale?

One on ebay right now - at about £420. Is this where my £500 goes?