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Can't see anyone else mentioned them, but apologies if I've missed it. it's not like soul fans to opt for the obscure and ignore those who had mainstream success is it🤣🤣. Any road, surly they deserve a mention

Royalle delight, was released in the UK, I have one somewhere

Top man I bent his ear many times at bids and saw him at the last class of 72. A real character with amazing insight and knowledge, a sad loss.

Really sad news, saw her at the Ritz Manchester a few years back. Her variety of material surprised and impressed me.

I do apologize, I have obviously mixed two stories into one, here both relating to acetates. My humblest apologies I didn't intend any offence.

An element of the discussion thats overlooked is why anyone would want to do this? As a commercial venture I'm afraid it's doomed to fail, look how many labour of love small labels put out stuff to little claim with little financial compensation. Without the added issue of wether it's credible to it's market because of the way it was produced. We really need machines to a style of music that's about human qualities?

Think this is the disc Maria and Karl had or another cut of it. If I remember right, it came from a west mids collector who had an indiscretion and this was all that was left of it after his missus caught him, as she couldn't snap it!

Exceptional talent, irreplaceable

Seem to remember maria and Karl, rest his soul playing an acetate credited to a willingham, and saying that sharing a surname it made it particularly special to them. Could it be related?

Poor old Dave, what a palaver for him a Sarah

Ok thanks folk

Is the stax copy of Otis redding/ Johnny Taylor blues in the night legit? Anyone? I know the album was the original source of this unissued track. Many thanks in advance

In a word derivative

Despite agreeing with many here I can't help but recall nighters 87-89 and thinking most I went to were as sparsely populated as nighters today, often moreso. I can recall a Blackburn with around 20 in. Some seem to elevate this era as a golden age. I'm having more fun on the scene now than then and personally the variety and range of quality sounds are better, but then I've always had a wide taste in music. Positive news with the addition Alternator in Burton cropping up, again Midlands but positive nonetheless. Id say I've seen nighter atendendence rise over the last couple of years too.