chrissie

Go to ITV3+1 and watch the last hour of Grace of My Heart, brilliant film, QoFxx

Nothing new there then QoFxx

You see Martin, there are some good things that come from wales...errrrrrrrr apart from me I quite like it, not sure if it's soul though QoFxx

Oh good and I will be well enough to go this time QoFxx

I will own up to using frozen mash once or twice for potato cakes but NEVER NEVER would I resort to SMASH QoFxx

............and Steve G is well over 6ft QoFxx

You've been peeping in my record box again Steve. This is exactly the point I made earlier. There are loads of good cheap records out there, you just have to take the time and energy to find them and if you can't be bothered to do this, you shouldn't be DJing. Can't see the attraction of just buying a ready made set of Boots etc finding them is 90% of the fun, playing them out is just an added bonus. QoFxx

Am I in the top 500 Phew..............at least I'm not a re-issue, cos if I was, I may not be allowed into venue's anymore except local little pub nights QoFxx

As I left the scene for some time and then came back does that make me a re-issue QoFxx

No you are not wrong, I want to hear the big money tunes when I go out, but know which venues with which DJs I am lilkely to hear them at and would'nt expect to hear them everywhere I go. I think it is about promoters/DJs pitching there sets correctly. I play the occasional warm up spots and am more than honoured and happy to be asked to do so, because that suits my style of music and my pocket. I know I will never be able to play main sets (or even want to) and fill a dance floor with my records or be able to finance the bigger floor fillers so I gear my buying around what I love and what suits my type of set and if she can only afford to buy cheaper records like myself I think she would be better of setting her DJ status sights a little lower for the time being and spend time looking for the great cheapies that are out there. Most of my records I play are around the £20-£50 region and with some I play that I have picked up for as little as 99p and a couple at the top end of my budget £200 so it can be done. I do take time planning my sets to ensure that they flow easily and this can be as important as what records you play. I don't class myself as a DJ and would never be so presupmtious to do so, I am just someone who loves sharing the music I love with like minded people. Too many people think they can just buy a load of records and that makes them a DJ, far from it. QoFxx

No its not all that should matter. If someone like me can't afford to fund big name tunes and she really has got soul, as you put it, she should be able to put a set together with some of the thousands of great cheaper records that are out there if you spend the time to look for them. Virtually anyone could fill a dance floor playing boots of top records but for us lesser mortals with less cash to spare it should be about pleasing a room with what you can afford and love not just buying and playing boots for the dance floor. By doing it this way I am sure she would receive more respect and support from the punters and it would prove her ability as a DJ. QoFxx

Nor me I was somewhere else QoFxx

Disco....enough said QoFxx

What with stop smoking patches, hrt patches and these I wont have any bare skin left QoFxx

Been thinking about this dilema since the thread started and think I have come up with a plan that may just stop me buying so much vinyl. If I compile my wants list with only records I will never be able to afford I will never buy any errrrrrrrrr do you think that may work QoFxx

Don't know about shoes, but you can never have enough records QoFxx

Try PM him "Tom Walsh" on soulsource QoFxx

All I cn say is thanks Mike......I nearly broke my vow of sobriety.......yeah right QoFxx

Always a difficult one this one, you don't want to offend anyone but here goes my top 5 current DJs.. Steve G Kenny Burrell Hammie (Bedford) Pete Hulatt Ginger QoFxx

Well Bearsy is a Lady, so not suprised he is fond of a bit of David Cassidy QoFxx

WIll you be playing it out at Lifeline then Chrissiexx

Think the seller off ebay thought I was mad when I bought it and wanted it shipped all this way. But it was worth the wait, lovely original 1960's girlie one. QoFxx

Just you the last 4 or 5 I have received have been like the bloody krypton factor to get in to. The record box that finally arrived from Tasmania after 3 months at sea took me about half an hour to get into. QoFxx