Pete S

This is true, the other night I opened my eyes just at the moment she was pulling her top over her head so silhouetted it looked like a f*cking vampire in the doorway...

Yeah I did mate, I replaced them with a pair which are the same, no apologies from the sop though, they look at you as if you've done it! Terrible customer service. Anyway I have to say the results are remarkable. I put the ipod on random and it played, of all things, Rock On by David Essex - it sounded like a totally new record that I'd never heard before, just couldn't believe the hidden detail it was bringing out. Playing Dub nearly takes your head off with the bass. So as a sceptic, I have to say you really do appear to get what you pay for.

Tell you what I hate most, can anyone relate to this, you go to bed early, lights off, listening to music, then for some reason you open your eyes - and someone is standing there, and you jump in the air and think you're having a heart attack. Or is that just my missus trying to put the sh*ts up me...

Totally agree with you. £50 tops.

It's like an early test press mate, I've had tons of acetates of things that came out on UK Polydor, Pye etc.

I didn't even know John Holt had died. Some fantastic music, especially with The Paragons. Good look with the show Stephen.

I think this is Danny Williams on United Artists

Don't think you can download onto dvd, you'd have to download to hard drive then burn to dvd...I think..

What's that like a pay to view film service? Like Sky box office? Surely not a download to keep?

But what if you were offered to chance to have it sent signed for but declined and were told that it would be sent by normal post at buyers risk...I'm always getting overseas customers asking me to send by normal post and not signed for, of course it had to happen and one went missing last month, he didn't want signed for..

How much was it?

Well I enjoyed the film. Has it got that repeatability that one or two other films have got - I mean, would you watch it again today after watching it yesterday - I'd say no, maybe in 6 months or a year. Beautifully made, period spot on, just not a storyline strong enough to want to keep coming back to it. My only gripe is - why were nearly all of the records pitched up too high, it was not like this back then, the second time they play Towanda Barnes it must be at 50rpm at least.

Was also thinking, if the DVD release had been put back they'd have been able to use some of the review quotes to splash over the cover, not just the "Excellent...Fantastic" quote from Ian Brown

Have just checked and there are now three separate pirates of the film up for downloading, over 1000 people downloading as I write this, and about 155 people seeding. 1000 x £7.99 down the drain...unless of course, people like it and go and buy it, but with no extras on the dvd...(why not?)

Good work Chalky

Sorry Rob but who are we talking about here, I think I might be missing the point, do you mean the film distributors?

Route acetate - £15 or £20 maybe? I'm still regarding the recent auctions as freaks.

There's not much they can do online except block the torrent sites, and thats exactly what all the main ISP's have done, if you are on Sky or BT etc try typing in Pirate bay and you will get a message saying it is blocked. However, type in the same with the word Proxy added and you'll find a dozen or more back ways in.

Said this would happen today, I purposely bought it this morning to stop any temptation of me downloading it for free tonight, which I normally would have done with any other film or tv show, I still think they have shot themselves in the foot with the straight to DVD release, after fridays review on Radio 5 and the fantastic audience figures, I'm sure they could have done another week or fortnight at the cinema, but who was to know. Current figures on Pirate Bay are 54 people seeding (thats people who have the full film and are sharing it with others) 401 leechers (people receiving the film from other users who have the complete thing) all this comes from one original copy being uploaded at 17:57 today, that's 400 downloads in less than 90 minutes, will be over 1000 tomorrow by the looks of it.

Don't know how old you are Phil, I'm 54, in answer to some of your points: yes we did swear that much, I left school and worked in a factory (all men) and the language shocked me even if we all swore already. Don't remember really using the expression cheers until emails came in People did have tattoos but they were usually the old type like swallows etc, I got my first at 18 I had my ear pierced when I was 16 and had 5 earings when Wigan closed, they were de rigeur round here.

Just bought the DVD for £7.99 in HMV. They had a fairly decent NS display too.

Neither Jim. I was going to be selling on my list and on here. But I sold the entire lot to one person to make back the money they cost me, leaving me with about 300 pressings and reissues and British to try and make a profit on. Shame, but they would have all sold, had it taken one day or a couple of months.

I do understand. But there were always going to be difficulties with the Who's music as well - recorded way after the period that the film was set in.

I find that strange that a film is ruined for you because people are wearing the wrong clothes and non-period car goes past in the background - never mind the fact that the film is just so brilliant at portraying a way of life for so many people - any wrong period clothes in Northern Soul? I swear I never met anyone who complained about the cinema showing Heavan Can Wait until the internet came along..

Not a great start, these headphones are actually broken in the box, there's no way these are brand new, some of the packaging inside missing too - what a disgrace...45 miles round trip to take them back tomorrow