Pete S

pete.smith@freeuk.com Apologies for being quiet on the podcast front this week, I had hoped that last Friday's monster with those 16 unissued tracks might have done something to turn things around but sadly we got 3 donations after all that effort so I've had enough basically and this is what's going to happen. Everyone who has donated to the podcasts fund will be part of a new group I'm going to set up on yahoo. You will receive messages telling you about the new podcasts and where to find them. You can listen to them, download them, do what you like with them. This will last for a year, after which you'll get the option to renew your membership. Anyone else who wants to get them can send £10 for a years subscription to pete.smith@freeuk.com and you'll be made part of the group. There should be two per week, every week, for a year. If you don't want to join, absolutely no problem, if you still want to hear music I'll post links to the cloudmix podcast sessions I've been doing and you can listen online to those, but you can't download them. This will also mean that people who have no interest in podcasts won't have to see advertisements for them anymore. I'll keep the original 50 podcasts up on iTunes and Podcast machine for a while longer, then I'll close them down. I just can't keep chucking £50 away every month to provide free entertainment for everyone, sorry. Record lists may be few and far between the next few weeks as I've chucked most stuff on Ebay. n.b. a few people sent money by post - Jaco for instance - I need your emails guys so I can join you up to the new group Cheers Pete

The bloke probably just denied having ever received it, and if Darren produced evidence that it had been signed for, the guy probably says it wasn't his signature. So they give him his money back and he keeps the record.

Never had a styrene Curtis Lee, they've all been vinyl

First lot ending tonight around 6 pm cheers pete https://shop.ebay.co.uk/mayfairmenthol/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1

I've got over 100 British on Ebay at the moment including some rare pieces like an unplayed Lou Johnson Unsatisfied, they are barely doing anything more than a fiver each. Still, a hundred times five, better than a poke in the eye...

You just don't read other people's posts do you, I have explained that I was able to get loads of footage from a source at the BBC in the 80's, much of it unbroadcast, even down to things like "The Young Ones", I had over an hours worth of them rehearsing shows from the second series, you've never ehard of that have you? I have a BBC Nationwide special on David Bowie's Aladdin Sane tour, never rebroadcast in full though the odd clip has been shown. I've got tons of stuff like this, yet you don't believe there might have been a rehearsal for Footsee, next time you come here I'll show you Bowie doing an unbroadcast run through of Queen Bitch on the OGWT, guess what, supposed to have been wiped except I've got it.

I'm going to close this because it's going nowhere and getting daft. If anyone wants it reopened, shout up

Every time you post you make yourself look an even bigger fool, did I slag off Tim Brown, if so show me where. I complained about the fact that others had the book for sale before the people who had pre-ordered it, now which part of that is slagging anyone off, talk about clutching at straws...are you on some bizarre campaign to find a crime I can be convicted of to cover up your buffoonery on this post or something? Well it pisses me off because I've done f*ck all wrong on this post except to ask someone to supply a scan so give it a rest will you.

I was only reading this thread at the weekend, odd that you should stumble across it too, certainly made me sit and contemplate for a while, still a much missed guy.

On a similar theme, Richard Searling used to have a crafty tipple at the Casino some nights and I can well remember him introducing John Leach as "Put that whiskey down". Also introducing Ben Zine as "Village of paraffin". Comedy was different in those days.

Please do not PM me, they are being sold by a mate of mine, his email and mobile number is below name is Martin I have for sale 6 x Blackpool weekender tickets . £35.00 each plus £4.70 admin charge for each ticket. I over ordered by mistake, trying to sell them, only 3 days to go. martin247@hotmail.co.uk 07910946014

I would if I got 'em!

Excuse me. I did not know who the seller was. He replied to me with the name PAUL he could have Paul McCartney for all I knew! I don't the names of everyone on here, probably not half of them. I do know Paul, he's bought loads of me in the past, but I didn't know this was him.

Thank you Ric Tic, Billy and Paul, I knew that was Jethro and always believed 100% it was TOTP.

No he a demo mate. Fantastic Wigan spin at the time.

What makes you say that? They were a folk-pop group, nothing to do with soul as far as I know. Also may have been in house songwriters at ABC but not necessarily fake groups.

Which nobody else has ever seen, hence all the "fuss".

Nice post Nev. But you see the problem - as soon as this went up for sale, I had PM's asking if it existed, I could only reply that I'd never seen or heard of one and didn't know anyone else who had, I had no idea who the seller was, and even if the seller was Jesus Christ himself I'd still have wanted to see a scan of the record. So at least three of the moderators were a little concerned about it, so I try and get it clarified and see what happens? We just can't win.

Insinuating that those people who dared ask to see a scan are not 'respected dj's. What's your problem? You wouldn't be so sarcastic if you thought you were getting ripped off and you wanted the moderators to do something about it, would you?

Fantastic reason for not posting a scan. For f*cks sake.

I told him he was selling it too cheap, what's wrong with that? Was doing him a favour if anything. I want to see a scan of it, what's wrong with that? Shame you've got nothing better to do than shit stir Ian, if I was buying a £400 record I'd want to see what I was getting.

24 hours later we all await a scan Nige. I PM'd yesterday, soon as the ad went up. I don't know who the seller is anyway, it says RANDY, how am I supposed to know who that is, it could be Simon Soussan for all I know, so I'm not calling whoever it is into question, I just want to see a picture of the record. Had I seen one yesterday I'd have bought it on the spot.

I remember about 18 years ago, I photocopied the Northern page from every Black Echoes up to then, and threw the entire lot of original papers away. Earlier this year I came across the hundreds of photocopied pages. And I threw them away as well

What utter rubbish Rob, the only complete set of Black Echoes, I bet there are dozens of complete sets, how can anyone say they've got the only complete set of a publication? And until you can come up with something else, it's still Top Of The Pops, you can see the TOTP set. Oh but of course, if Tim Brown says so, it must be true...