Steve G

Michael WATFORD

Mark PUTNEY

Between Bournemouth and Southampton - Every time I drive past it I think "Hmmmm great name for a cover up!

David SEA

The Ascots

In a word Yes. Just makes a pleasant change,

Has been done in the past and it's actually quite hypnotic seeing them records going round.

The Chesterfields

The Lester TIPTON thread got me thinking about how many soul acts are named after places in the UK like Tony MIDDLETON Jimmy RADCLIFFE Chuck BEDFORD Bobby WELLS Johnny BRISTOL any more?

Sam Dees was never a rare record though. Everyone has been after Lester Tiptons since the late 70s.

Lester Tipton will stay a rare record. It's just unlikely to turn up in any quantity now. Heard the same story as MarkP bout it being skipped

I regularly play original UK releases when it's right to do so - obviously not at upfront venues but oldies nights - Blue Skies in particular sees me with some tasty British stuff - Action, Stateside, Liberty, HMV etc. I really enjoy playing that stuff too, authentic particuilarly in a pub back room type venue - as those UK things are where the scene started before the imports came in from the end of the 60s

We've already done the previously unissued stuff, so I guess your question is aimed at stuff that has been out in the US but is now reissued in the UK....say like Willie Tee, Carbon Copies etc. in which case I don't have a problem with it per se as I get all those records myself. But you have to have a balance, and I would prefer to hear DJs play such things off of US releases. I mean you wouldn't want a DJ turning up with a box full of these reissues and building their set round it - except possibly as a novelty- it's not really what the northern scene is about in my opinion. Have never said your sets are samey - hence the line between comments - far from it. Nor are mine despite what old goaty beard Simon would have us believe with all his jokey one liners

Yes because he thought I was being disrespectful to his friend which I wasn't. What's your excuse?

I haven't said that have I Sean? ................................ You know this public don't care thing is quite annoying. It may be different in other parts of the country, but down here we have guest DJs at the gigs I attend and we don't just expect them to play the same old same old. We invite them to our clubs to hear what they've got to play. We don't always like what they play, but I'd rather that than having robots turn up and play Frank WIlson, Billy Woods and Billy Butler to us. Spoken as a paying "punter".

Not King Moses again Simon..... I am sorry I couldn't fit it in, and will play it next time I see you.

I have the OV of that. Besides it's been legitmately reissued on 45 I thought? Or does everyone else now also have the test pressing

Certainly a lot of people got into soul via the scooterist scene and they have always had a relaxed attitude to bootlegs. But I am from Kent too and whilst we very briefly flirted with bootlegs when I was still at school , they were also called "imports" back then, we soon worked it all out. West Kent has a fine tradition of OV.

Yes it was Bonnie Pointer

There was a petition to try and get him OFF Peter. Not one to reinstate him - that was seperate.

Boots are always unacceptable as far as I am concerned Sean. There is NO excuse for playing Boots in my opinion, except laziness. I don't care whether the DJ is 14 or 54.

A thorny subject indeed Sean. As an aside have heard that some legitimate reissues aren't legitimate at all - despite saying they are. We know Kent and Grapevine 2000 were legitimate, but there's some really murky stuff out there.......maybe I should start a new thread Legitimate Res v Fake Reissues

Sam was sacked from Wigan at the beginning of 81 I think. If he wrote about it in the March 81 issue of Blackbeat, he would have written those words in mid February 1981 (it took nearly a month to get it printed those days). And it would have been a talking point of the few weeks before then (i.e a recent development). Still waiting to see his letter to Black Echoes, which he says sealed his fate along with a totally 70s playlist, and of course the bloody petition.

Really? I still love it but thought it was a bit too frantic for todays middle aged spreads.

That's certainly happening too.