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  1. just a pop record, pure and simple and like all the other crap that poses as music, its got no longevity or influence...is it that the guy's a northern soul lover, as he's used a formulae backdrop. in defense of the video, at least its shot at a legible speed unlike 99% of todays product which ought to carry a flashing images warning. at least it involves REAL DANCING, not bloody beyonce and every other one of her ilk who feel it is necessary to do aerobics shoots that have precisely FUCK ALL to do with dancing...WHEN will these people learn?.
  2. dosn't matter whether we know the person or not, its always desperately disconcerting when one of ours is ill..here's to hoping you pull through brother, we're all keeping the faith right now.
  3. kev murphy's top 5 THE SOUL SET - WILL YOU EVER LEARN - BI ME DANA VALERY - YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR INETREST LIES - COLUMBIA GROOVETTES - THINK IT OVER BABY - RENESS THE INTICERS - SINCE YOU LEFT - BABY LUV THE OLYMPICS - I'LL DO A LITTLE BIT MORE - MIRWOOD ovo...nothing more, nothing less...does what it says on the vinyl!
  4. just mine for now, but the other guys have been alerted so hope to see posts soon! main room plays: MER-LYN - PROMISE - ABC PARAMOUNT FABULOUS PEPS - WITH THESE EYES - WEE 3 MONGUITO SANTAMARIA - HEY SISTER - FANIA SUNDAY - AINT GOT NO PROBLEM - CHESS CONNIE STEVENS - TICK-TOCK - BELL
  5. mixed bag alright!......manfredo fest - jungle kitten...extreme jazzfunk 77/78 i think on tabu...great album as well, most outrageous version of "send in the clowns" you will ever hear!.
  6. that wouldn't have been a little ginger headed fellow, would it john?, anyway, give us a chance mate, i haven't begun...oh, and whilst we're on the subject...what about yourself??...j.p., top man if ever there was one, living with that debilitating threshold, as you do and stilll being up for a barnstorming set as you have on countless occasions as well as engendering us pupils with your pearls of wisdom, you deserve the plaudits as much as anybody and a whole generation would understand exactly what i'm saying if they got the chance to see you in full flow. lea manor for me was the eye opener, bought me back to the scene good and proper but instilled in me a broad spectrum of musical styles and i haven't looked back. i missed the stafford era, but for me the manor carried the mantle of diversity forward and has since, spawned a myriad of events in a similar vein and likeminded dj's who CAN see the wood for the trees
  7. very modest bloke len, just so laid back, been to his house on many occasion and simply blows you away because you get to think you've heard it all til he starts: "do you know this?, do you know this?, do you know this?"........and you end up with a list as long as your arm!!...the last time i went there i ended up with connie stevens...yes, its a pop record but philly and how good?, and he wouldn't tell me who it was at first!, just kept me guessing. always good for trading with as well. a good many people will remember the double deck set he did with jordi at the very last trentham gardens all-nighter....sublime!, check out the playlist on soulfulkindamusic, totally awesome!...so many folk have learned from him and doubtless, he could do an entire northern set as good as anyone else, never mind crossover, such is his knowledge and how to read the dancefloor.
  8. isn't he doing this gig at walsall wood?, just seen the playlist paul's posted...another connoiseur and unsung hero...and a big subscriber to the mr. holyman appreciation society
  9. look bro, i have enormous respect for you on here, but i beg to differ, i cannot honestly believe that richard would tell anyone he's booked to tow the line, especially when it come to a specific billing and r.o.t.r. clarifies that, play from your box, play what you've got that's rare, that wouldn't be heard anywhere on any other night, that's why it was once a year and it gathered together the cream of the top spinners...what about butch's sets?.....same as what was being played at the 100 club at the time, full of glorious cover-up's and one off's and adey's deluge of original studio acetates. it clearly goes against the grain to say it was dominated by regular rare oldies, thats why these people were bought in, kenny in particular, was always willing to try something different and break the mould and that's despite him having all the big numbers. i'm definitely going to push it with richard now and we'll see what comes about...he can only say no...i'm not going to argue the toss with people though about the justification of using the ritz as it's still standing, and from what i hear, it still has the atmosphere and there ain't many venues that command respect as much as the ritz does.
  10. i think the scenario is what have retired djs got in their collections/boxes that haven't already been heard that are both rare and good...BUT MOST IMPOTANTLY, GOOD, and just for good measure tunes that have genuinely been forgotten about and deserve a revival....seems then that there must be tens of thousands of cheapies that vastly outweigh the meagre crop of "current" mega rareities for both value and quality...you only have to look at people's playlists on here to see the continuity and preference for the journeyman tune.
  11. is your view that it was PREDOMINENTLY a rare oldies all-nighter?, it was billed as rarest-of-the-rare and nobody said anything about it being an oldies fest. you probably witnessed as i did, the likes of carl willinham, shifty, butch, mick smith, andy rix, adey croasdell etc as well as bob hinsley, ginger, richard and other various guests and nobody could accuse them of playing to a set theme.......yes, i WAS at the same gig and before any clever bastards chime in, NOT ON ANOTHER PLANET....REMEMBER soul sam's premier airing of MARGARET LITTLE? not a person in the building knew what it was YET it rammed the floor from the off...and what about when shifty knocked everybody for six with the MELLO SOULS?...alright, so thats two records, so what?....it wasn't the case of "well i've got that and fill the rest of me set out with bogstandard"....you must be relating to the first 3 or 4 hours before the watershed at the other bank holiday events...am i right?.
  12. chalky, you've quoted yourself how many great undervalued cheapies there are that should be played, these should be part and parcel of a rarest of the rare event BECAUSE they dont get the opportunity on a big stage, just as much as the actual RARE records. i didn't say that everything played at stafford was a cheapie, but lots that were considered bargains back then and were snapped up by collectors, have by definition, become rare becuase the supply has dried up and the value has subsequently gone up e.g. nobody wanted joe douglas at a fiver ( because it wasnt known?, it wasnt rare enough/, it was too slow? ) some did have faith though and in time people came to terms with it...so the copies dried up, it got played, it became acceptable and it sells ( or has sold ) for 15 times more than it originally did when nobody wanted it. because "she's wanted". " because of my heart" & "im gone" are oldies, does that make them any less worthy of being played,...they might be oldies but they're nontheless rare and a fortunate few can own them and despite them being oldies, they're still major quality material, proper soul...and it goes without saying, especially on here that people frequently pass comments about some of the rare records, of recent discovery/ attempted revival e.t.c., being played on the scene as total dross....because they don't match up to whats gone before??...so lets do what you suggest is right, and persue the 15-20 pound records because mountains of them are eye openers and a large proportion of people can afford them and more djs can play them....and there's nothing to stop a potential r.o.t.r from moving on as you say. incidentally, i've emailed richard on this subject again, i'll see if his response differs.
  13. gary holyman, the silver fox as he's known, great collector, mine of information, a profound ear and has probably influenced many others, amongst them being, the ripolles brothers...im sure jordi and dave wont mind me saying that
  14. the RAREST OF THE RARE all-nighters were always held on may-day bank holiday...without doubt, my favourite all-nighter EVER, and thats not to knock stoke or the 100 club either as these are my 3 all-time favourites...one a year, a chance to hear the biggest and mostly best rareities from the likes of kenny, butch, shifty, ginger and mr. searling but also stalwarts like bob hinsley, carl willingham, andy rix and on occasion adey croasdell & mick smith...it was a proper fest. chalky, im not knocking either, the issue of the twenty quid record being equally as good and 1000's are...it was just then wasn't it?.....stafford had gone some 16-20 years beforehand and the cheapies had, in effect, BECOME the rareities of this period, so richard & co weren't necessarily missing an opportunity and,....if he relaunched it now, i believe you WOULD hear what you're suggesting because they ( the djs ) have become more streetwise in blending their sets. i agree with the likes of young dyson & kitch getting in on the act, though they aint newcomers to the scene and uncle ted as well...fortunately they are getting a look-in now at stoke, thanks to kev and are lining up alongside mick.h, so the punters are starting to get the real deal, which, in the case of the kings hall & togetherness, is a proposition hard to resist...i suppose the ultimate anorak dream would be to see the lifeline & stoke set-up merge for a special...but then, it would have to be at the ritz, would it?. i have asked richard about this on a number of occasions and yes, we've already seen him & neil launch a sort of h.e.s.c revival gig there, but rotr was always richard's baby and i see him as being the only person capeable of putting it together in a manner befitting the scene, he knows all the angles and still has that aura to hold people's attention, he's a great friend and STILL a great dj.
  15. come on now guys, don't start throwing dummy's out of prams...this IS an interesting and sensible debate, lets not spoil it...i know i'd love to see KB back as would a good many others, but to his credit, he's resisted the temptation and believe me, he could, quite easily...he's got an amazing collection still, i know, i've seen the record room and will be visiting it again very soon...some phenomenal tunes but he just likes to listen to them at home.
  16. who's running a book then?....3k on frank beverley....no form on the other one though, so its sold for 2k before, there's no reason why it shouldn't do again...TIME'S ARE HARD? WE'RE ALL HAVING A LAUGH!...somebody's swilling in cash out there.
  17. of course you're right nev about wednesday, the story didn't run in the national papers til friday morning though, i remember picking up copies of the sun & mirror from a petrol station in littleborough and reading about it, im sure they even put a pic of dustbin in just to commercialise it.
  18. correct pete, that is the alternate version, think its the australian one that you mentioned or, got mentioned here, the original version has him doing the intro in a deep, husky baritone where this is positively, almost falsetto, a bit like eddie holman before he goes up another octave!.....that, im afraid mate, is where we differ, i prefer the haunting original......nevertheless, still a great record and you can so easily cast your mind back and see the dancefloor at station road totally rammed to this. i remember having to loan a copy of this to someone at sammy's allnighter because nobody else had it and at the time it was THE tune.
  19. oooh.......could be stretching it a bit jools
  20. i wasn't far out was i?...7k plus a bit more...thing is, from the point of view of its true rarity, it overshadows frank wilson ever so slightly....frank got as far as the demo stage, but it would have recieved a national release and stood a reasonable chance of getting wider recognition....not that it hasn't anyway, just that it took over 3 decades to recieve the notoriety that it has. equally, larry clinton has been around for a long time but its promotion bombed from day one on a tiny label, in hindsight it was only ever going to be rare in a northern soul perspective hence, in my opinion, the valuation you see today is a true reflection of a truely classic record that hasn't been glossed over with the commercial treatment....from that first explosive bass chord, you know you want to dance to it and, for the rest of your lives you will want to dance to it...its the spirit of wigan and every other venue since.
  21. gobsmacked moreso, that its four years passed since it was auctioned, remember the day well.....friday afternoon, on the way back from an expedition to deepest darkest tod and professor tim brown's cellarful of soul...unfotunately, i didn't have 25k to spend...doh! but i did get a few tunes

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