Marc Forrest

Don`t think there can be one distinctive answer to the original question. It will always depend on the records demand, rarity and and how much the crack is affecting the play. Nobody would b willing to pay 100 UKP for a cracked Sam Fletcher yet I bet there are people out there who would be more then happy to pay 5000 UKP for a cracked but OK playing Frankie Wilson (to name just one example). Marc

Another musical genius has left...and lleaves us with a big gap. I once had the pleasure of meeting him in 1989. RIP Willie Mitchell. I am sure you will be sitting up there with the best of them. Marc

Maybe till the wallet is full again LOL ! Seriously though, if both sides of a record are great it doesn`t make sense to me to go for a destroyed copy (the one on ebay is destroyed for 2/3 of its lenght). I would sit back and wait for a better one to come along. A rare one yes, but as we just have seen not an impossible one. Too many other good 45s out there to buy which would not bring a tear to your eye everytime the needle hits the flipside. Just my opinion of course.

As I love the flipside "baby" -but then I am a su**er when it comes to group harmonies- a copy in this condition is nearly worthless (to me) and I would wait for a better one to come along. Still I can understand other people hunting it down just for the uptempo side. So maybe a lot of people who think they can make a "bargain" here will just end up spiraling the price up and up and up. Wouldn`t be the first time and I bet not the last time..

so true. and if you have one you are very lucky! One of the rarest of the rare, I only know of Val Shively`s and my very own copy although Steve Smith once told me he found two copies ( he discovered it back at TOTW).

Great, we will party hardy..as you know "the new year starts here!" ;-)

OUCH, you will have missed the Hip City by just three days then. Try Funkyouariat @ near tube station M¤rkisches Museum (2nd Hand 45s) Downtwon Records Brunnenstraí…¸e (opposite tube station Rosenthaler Platz, specialized in Black music, old Vinyl etc.) Platten Pedro in Schlossstraí…¸e Berlin Charlottenburg (second hand) and if you like contemporary Soul as well Scratch Records / Zossener Str. (Underground station Gneisenaustr.) That will keep you busy I believe

yes, and price seems to be very much okay as well IMO.

Awesome Brian, many thanks for sharing. Love this mans output, to see him kicking it "live"...phew! Marc

Cheers Dave, your Houston Outlaws C/U definitely one of the top 45s for me this year...although I first heard you play it already back in 2008. Followed DEFO by Salt & Pepper "Man Of My Words" and Lee Fields "Take Me Back"...think this must have been the biggest reactivated tune ever in 2009 ? My personal top three 2009 tunes though would be completed with Keith Curtiss / Smoke

Another one originally first championed by Andy Dyson who found a (very) few copies. Think Tim Brown was the seocnd to play it as aC/UP "Bring Me My Coffe In The Morning". It nice to have guest DJ´s like these so we could hear it twice this year at the Hip City without any of the residents owning a copy

Yes, an Andy Killick spin originally.

Great 45, was a Hip City spin some years ago. Only two 45s on Ree Flair I know of and have. Originally championed by Andy Dyson mind!

Still, as I never ever told you nor anybody else (so I wonder about your quote anyway but what the heck), I wanna tell you. 10 Vinyl that is. But I do change between these ten regulary..´cause I am not the "Daddy-O" but the "Daddy of them Hot Boxers"

Judging from the fact you tend to call everything that dances "cats" you may have mixed it up all totally. So you seem to think this thread is about the Overseas Rock & Roll scene ? If thats the case indeed we will understand fully your disbelief and obvious opinion of course.. Marc ""the jive cat" Forrest

Don`t worry, thats only because I am at the decks. Happens to me all the time.

Its no wonder Simon aka Imber Boy is dissappointed by the way us continental Soulboys and girls are dancing as the quote shows its "his" dancing...so what ever we do it will be only a carbon copy of the good old English traditional Northern Soul dancing to him anyway. The video is very slow, much slower than the music Something Imber Boy should have realised given he really watched the video as often as he claims he did. So obviously the dancing in the video seems to be much slower than the actual dancing in reality was. As a matter of fact, and you can ask all of our English and Scottish friends who were there on both nights, the whole crowded room with an estimated capacity of 500/600 hundred people danced from about 11pm to 05am non stop. Atmosphere was fantastic to say the least. Imber Boy confesses he never was out and about on the continent for soulful reasons. Not only would I suggest you better do so before you judge on sth you haven`t experienced yourself yet, I almost beg you to do so in order for you to do yourself a favour. Some of the best venues and weekenders these days you will find also in places such as Bamberg, Hamburg, Nürnberg, Oslo, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Malmö, Barcelona, Gijon and loads of other places. Just like Dave Thorley said, collectors and DJ`s such as Franz Heidl, Puresoulie, Lars, Sebastian Fonzeus and many many others are real vinyl vendors awho are not only able to find their own vinyl gems but also to create their very own individual plays. Still people like Soul Sam, butch, Andy Dyson and again many others are leading the way soundwise over here as well as they do in England. But if Wigan - styled retromania only is what your looking for dance- and soundwise you are indeed right in staying away and a visit would bring you nth but dissappointment. Rare Soul on the continent...like a baby whose birth and genetics were given by the English (although the music is American, Afro-American, I might add..) but now grows up strongly self-determined and develops its very own style. Which ain`t too bad. Marc

Just to state it loud and clear Tommy and I have no problems with each other, he is one of my friends. And a top bloke as well. Marc

which is the copy that went to person "x" and then straight to me

Coconut Groove ?

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yeah, sounds like a good plan.

Dennis Edwards Johnnie On The Spot Well, both told me they were the first to play it. Tim then said to me "well, maybe Steve (Smith) was first but then again I was the first to have played the flipside" So, Johnny On The Spot = Steve Smith I Didn`t Have To = Tim Brown

Butch played it at your club when you invited him for your last anniversary. If you didn`t like it back then you wouldn`t like it at the Hip City neither.

Steve Smith