Chalky

And we are back to what started this, why do they need the odd re-release, boot or pressing? Why not make a name for themselves playing something different, they are out there, very easy to locate and often cheaper than many boots nowadays. Why does anyone want to DJ with a boot of an already established record? This is all about revitalising the scene, young DJ's with fresh sounds and a different outlook on everything, not carrying on with the same old same I would be more inclined to employ a youngster who showed some imagination and brought something different to the table not offered up what every other Tom, Dick and Harriet is already offering.

Nobody should be handed anything on a plate, life isn't like that. Yes, a leg up now and then doesn't hurt but to get that leg up you at least have to have the right attitude, attributes and work ethic, you don't get a leg up in any other walk of life being a lazy tw*t so why should DJing be any different. Myself and many others never got a leg up when starting out and it was bloody tough then to get a nighter set, tougher than now that is for sure.

I don't have the records you think I have, I'm on my third collection for one reason or another and I certainly can't afford expensive records. I've always championed cheap records in my sets. I believe there's nothing worse than hearing set after set of records that are out of the reach of the ordinary collector. And many of those who have been at it yonks and have the collections have worked hard to get that collection, just like I have, not just thrown money at it like many wrongly assume.

The likes of the 100 Club has featured an all female line up several times. It even had a female resident at one time. Plenty of venues featuring female DJs.

Are you a comedian or summat? There's plenty of old uns who work for the minimum wage with kids with a mortgage.

Read the topic before comng out with such crap, the young promoters taking part in the topic insist on original vinyl. As for limited means he youngsters probably have more disposable income. As Andy said blind leading the blind.

You said "If it wasn't for pressings you wouldn't have been able to play any northern soul as a kid" not want you said above, you should say what you mean the first place.

There's nothing wrong with buy pressings or boots. What was wrong was the reasons you gave for buying them in the first place. Look I'm not knocking you or having a go, I'm simply dispelling the myth that no one can afford originals with little money.

It is nothing to do with hindsight, it's nothing to do with poverty. If you could afford a pressing you could afford an original. It might not have been the big ticket item but you could afford many a good original for the cost of a pressing. They were there when you had no money, they are still there now, you just didn't and most still don't look, like you say ignorance. You have to remember many walked home, cadged a lift home, knicked a car, jumped the train cause they had no money. As said build your collection slowly, trouble today everyone wants everything there and then rather than work at it, same with knowledge and information. Every thing is there for you, you just have to look. No one will look down on anyone for buying cheap records, the opposite in fact, you will get more respect for it than buying a pressing.

I've said it before and I'll repeat it now, Utter Rubbish. There's 100's and 100's of records as cheap if not cheaper than a pressing. Jock Mitchell boot recently sold for £110. You could buy most of Tyrone Davis back catalogue for that. You can certainly buy 11 records at a tenner each more than good enough for a northern soul venue. It's lazy collecting and a sorry excuse for collecting and playing pressings.

There has some seriously committed youngsters in the past, as passionate as any with collections to die for but other commitments make them leave the scene, mortgage, kids work etc. Nothing to do with negativity or worry, it is fact. It is great whilst you are still young with no worries and not a care in the world but you can't say what the future holds or how you will act when something unexpected is put in front of you.

Gis is active on FB.

Meanwhile daahn at Wheel.... Members o' t' committee, up next wi've Ginga Taylor n followed by northern bingo wi Dickie Searling t'folla, eh thee dealers at back can tha keep thee gobs shut whislt we do bingo...i thank thee

Posse - Evil - Janus Vg+ £60 SOLD Falcons - I'm A Fool I Must Love You - Big Wheel VG+ £25. SOLD Money back if not happy, please listen to the clip, it is the actual record and same for the scan. Listen on Soundcloud.com Big J.B. Stewart - Player - Smogville £50 Ex has "A" written on the Player side. Listen on Soundcloud.com Robert Winters - Soul motivation Part 1 - Ron's (Silver label) - £30 Had spins in recent times, funky edged soul. Better version on the Silver label IMO. Richard Knight - Back To School/Showstopper - Allen £15 More funky edged soul just right for today. Andre Odom - Turn On Your Love Light - Nation £15 Ex Great version Freddie Watson & The Restorators - The Unlucky Seven - Eloys Vg+ £15 Great up-tempo Northern. Lee Tillman - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye/Tomorrow Will never Come - Montel Michelle -Vg+ sol £50 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Hot Chills Cold Thrills & Fever - Dash Vg+ £15 Great!! Had recent spins. BB hole. Johnny Sayles - My Loves A Monster - Chi-Town Vg+ £20 Jimmy Earl - Strategy - Columbia WDJ Vg+ £20 ON HOLD Dan Brantley - Please Accept My love - SIMS Vg+ £10 The Conservatives - Who Understands - Ebonic Sound Vg+ £10 Robb Fortune - Crazy Feeling - Paramount - Vg+ £10 Brenton Wood - Gimme Some Sign - Double Shot VG £5 (has a mark on the disc NAP, look slike someone has written on paper with a marker as the mark is the shape of an "S" at about 5pm on the disc). Brenton Wood - Gimme Some Sign.mp3 Stu Gardner - Expressin My Love - Chisa Vg+ £10Vg+ BB Hole £10 The Emotions - I can't Stand No more Heart Aches - Brainstorm Vg+ £10 Slight label damage on flip where sticker once was, bit of writing on flip. The Chances - One More Chance - Bea And Baby Ex £20 UK P&P is £1.50 1st Class. Recorded £2.50. Special Delivery/Signed For £6.60. I will send all records recorded unless specifically instructed otherwise. Money back if not happy as long as the disc is returned as despatched. Please leave feedback and I will do the same. I do work away a fair bit, can be all week so a strong possibility I can't post until the weekend.

What is the going rate then for these today?

Kindle version as well, cheers for that, added to wish list. A few to read yet but will get round to it.

I've sold a few lately and I've scanned most records, sent a scan and sound file to the buyer if any doubts and kept a copy of the PM/E-mail etc....hard to argue with really. Trouble is too many chancers on ebay, over grading etc out to rip you off, with that and ebay and paypal charges it's not hard to understand why many are deserting ebay. A warp shouldn't be hard to spot, actually pretty impossible to miss if it goes on a turntable and no excuse for not stating it has a warp.

Morning Simon and a Happy New Year to you as well. The venue doesn't have to be posh, just a decent standard, not a grotty damp club with tears and rips in the furniture with chairs you wouldn't stand on let alone sit on. Great when you are a whipper snapper as you say when you didn't have a care in the world but me old bones these days require something a little more comfy I think the reason working mens clubs are so popular is cause they are cheap, often free as they are stood idle most of the time but the music all too often (not every-time before some jump down me throat) often reflects the club, past it.

Some of us older uns have no wish to spend their time in grotty working men's or social clubs. One reason I've stopped going to many places, many are dumps. I've no wish to sit in a shitty mucky damp club anymore. It would be great if it shrank and was refreshed and some of the deadwood left to drift out to sea.

I think Gaz in post 127 just about sums it up. All we've seen mentioned in general is three or four clubs, most in the same geographical area and that will never sustain a nationwide rare soul scene. He's also echoed something I said early on that once kids and mortgages come to the fore will they be around to carry the torch so to speak?

I wouldn't have thought there's a great deal left to discover and what there is to discover I would think would come via you regular sources, they have the contacts built up over decades. so hand me downs and reactivated oldies will be the staple diet, you only have to read the playlists to realise not much is unknown. But there are loads of records ignored by those interested in Wigan oldies only, plenty of records to satisfy them for years to come. But at the end of the day they sould carry on what they are doing and ignore what anyone "advises" them to do, carry on doing their own thing.

Must have been the one only then Steve.

I wonder how many Rod Dearlove had (Small Society) or did he just have the one? One of his shouts late 80's/early 90's.

Above is a topic I posted with a magazine attached about Grapevine. Think the PDF even has the prices I paid around approx 87/88/89.

Not so sure about buyers being hard up, I think many collectors have had enough of ebay and no longer use it. Many use other sites now preferring straight cash deals.