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Brilliant book and also a good film which begs the question to all would you rather read the book then see the film, wouldn't bother with the film once you've read the book or visa versa. My experience of that has gone both ways, loved the film October Sky but had read the book first, the film enhanced the book in so much as it gave a picture of the place where the boys grew up. Further to that just the other month I found a book by Homer Hickman in a local charity shop telling the true story of the making of the film which was a very interesting read. I read Where the Crawdads Sing and thought it was brilliant then saw the film with Lou which wasn't a patch on the book in my opinion. Watched the tv series My Brilliant Friend and recently read the first book with the other three waiting on the to be read shelf, found the book a beautiful read but couldn't get the visual of the characters in the tv series out of my mind and found myself reliving scenes rather than my imagination creating the pictures in my mind. Non fiction wise a wonderful read if you like football is The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw, I read it many years ago when some of the names mentioned where still fresh in the memory especially if you watched lower league football. It's the story of Robin Friday who played for Reading. Again non fiction picked up this week The Secret Life of Trees, hoe they live and why they matter by Colin Tudge, which looks interesting, anyone read it?

Can't argue with any of the above, a couple of less obvious ones maybe The Wanderers, You Can't Run Away From Me/ I'll Know The Marvellos Piece of Silk / Yes I Do

The others are ok, just not as good as his first one

It's a great read, wasn't as impressed with the other two vinyl detective books though.

Cheers chaps for the replies, I will be checking out the books mentioned. I've bought quite a few of the books featured on Between the Covers and the Book Show on Sky. I do prefer personal recommendations rather than going off the blurb on the back of books. unless that book is The Vinyl Detective ,Written in the Deadwax by Andrew Cartmels,

I wouldn't claim to be an avid reader quantity wise, probably read two books a month. What would you consider a must read, an author you find consistently good, have you read anything that had great reviews that you found disappointing , what are you currently reading, what are your reading habits. To kick things off I have always been a reader, I used to read a lot more than I do now but have over the last year rediscovered the joy of a good book, being immersed in someone else's imagination. I tend to avoid Sci Fi, Horror and to some extent historical unless recommended. I don't usually read books by best selling widely popular authors like Lee Childs though there are exceptions one being William Boyd, his Any Human heart would be one of my recommended books to read, the first of his I read and slowly working through his other books. I haven't read one that i haven't enjoyed and like to read one of his every three books. I was about to start one of Boyd's when I found Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex in a local animal sanctuary bookshop, decided a bit of light relief was in order after reading The Island Of Lost Trees and The Couple Next Door changed tack and started Bob's book as I enjoy his comedy. Hopefully the thread will take off with any book related talk

I don't know if it qualifies for worst experience but definitely a frustrating one.In Athens there's an area with loads of junk shops and stalls.Piles and piles of records, very few in covers,the vast majority very dirty and in poor nick but you live in hope of finding something. Came across a few soul related but not many giving them a miss due to condition. In one place that was devoted to music with records in better condition plus with sleeves only found a Greek copy of Groovin with Mr Bloe , three euros,tempted for the novelty but passed on it. Another place with better quality stuff up reared the power of the internet, the only record I came across that you'd class as out and out northern the Tempests on Stardust, no big deal but after searching through piles of sh**e for a few hours and Lou itching to get on with the sightseeing i thought I'm not coming away with nothing.In a box where everything was three euros lo and behold the Tempests was twelve euros, when I asked the guy who spoke good English is this one not three like the rest he declared "that's a Northern soul record" . Determined not to come home empty handed the next day I bought three twelves for more or less the same as i could have got them over here after leaving them the previous day. In some ways for me it was as near an experience as I'll get to digging in the States regarding the quantity but without the realistic chance of actually finding something, something I should have realised after the first half hour.

No, I regularly have cereal for tea on days when I cannot be bothered cooking or cannot decide what I'd like to eat time passes until once again I can't be bothered cooking.By coincidence I had Weetabix last night.

That's a shock, lovely bloke, condolences to family and friends.

Not been to a night since Covid but the criteria would be the same as then 1 Hearing plenty of tunes that are new to me, then........ 2. Dancing to something I don't know, that feeling that connects heart to brain to feet and has you up within a few bars. 3. Enquiring be it from Dj fellow punter or internet and finding a few of said tunes are in my price range, 4 Good dancefloor 5 Meeting and having interesting conversations with people I've never previously spoken with and looking forward to seeing them at another event. No slight on the company I used to keep who I miss seeing as many were purely friends seen at an event and not in the wider world.

If this helps Steve Plumb posted on here some time ago he was selling his on Omega auctions, 50S OUL, went for £480

I was in a charity shop just last week, one with quite a bit of room, just by the door two guys were knelt going through to large bags of cassettes,, they were selling at 10 for a quid or a fiver per bag. Doubt they will be there next time i go in but if any remain I'll see if there's anything soul related. Got rid of mine ages ago but found a Luther Vandross Busy Body if you want it,pm me your address if so.

Me too, tried to reply came back email undelivered fortunately

Having just watched the Reckoning and followed to some extent the whole Saville, Rolf Harris stories I think there's little doubt they knew Mal. I just looked a little further into Tomorrow People and there is a link to the BBC in they employed the director of Dr Who to oversee the first series of The Tomorrow People so maybe he thought he would get a little dig in, pure speculation of course but makes you think.

Cheers for that one Mal, watched it yesterday, as you say a long one but it holds your interest throughout, the woman with the freaky eyes when she first went in set the tone of menace for me

When I look back I see what may be tentative links to my future love of soul music and the slow build to a life long passion, my Dad played in various brass bands for many years hence there were always instruments in the house, up until around the age of eight or nine I reluctantly attended the local Salvation Army where my uncle was the bandleader and taught, why I never took to learning an instrument remains a mystery lost in time but my future love of instrumentals, Jr Walker and the sax in general probably stemmed from there. I had two older brothers and a sister, I was the youngest by 7yrs , they had records, not a lot and none specifically soul related, when I reached sixty I did two cd's for those at my party, one titled where it all began ,the other where it ended up. The Ronettes and the Crystals were two of their favourites which maybe led me on to the Supremes and the like, PJ Proby I consider to be my stepping stone into big beat ballads. Luckily Cliff and the Shadows held no interest or I'd probably be listening now to Coldplay rather than the Loma box set for instance. Moving on a few years at secondary school a few of us used to watch the Andy Williams Show which had a fair few soul related acts as guests. This peaked our interest in Motown, a couple of slightly older friends were into soul music, Atlantic Stax etc this led to my first experience of the Motown in the setting of a disco in the local church hall. Hearing Edwin Starr and the Contours had me hooked. Limited funds at 14 or 15 meant trawling the second hand shops for anything soul related. Age 17 I get a knock on the door from a lad who lived further up the road from me, I'd never spoken to him and as far as I knew we had no friends in common, his opening question "I hear you are into Northern soul" to which I replied "you hear wrong, I collect soul music ". I'd obviously heard of Northern Soul , by then I'd left school and drifted away from the fellow record collectors there, my older friends had moved away from soul music which was great for me swelling my collection for little money. On seeing and flicking through said collection my new and future oldest mate pronounced half my collection to be Northern Soul. I guess I should have been wiser and looked into it a tad more, I started buying Blues and Soul, became more aware of what records were under the "northern" banner though to be honest to me they were still just soul records. Which is why after dating for a short while a girl whose brother was a Dj at a local Palais and being shown the caravan in the garden he used as a pad strewn with 45's, being told to help yourself, I came into possession of a quantity of Jay Boy, Atlantic and Motown green and white demos. I then happily swapped the haul of demos for the issues with my new mate, after all they were the same records weren't they? That was it for me, all about the music, no history of going to any venues, Wigan a couple of times, collected everything from chart soul, funk, sweet soul, saw most of the major acts of the 70's and early eighties, most if not all the name Motown acts, the big funk bands Ohio Players, War etc . Then in the mid 80's met up with an old mate who was still on the scene and started going to events, Burnley Miners (the one by the canal), Westhoughton Cricket Club, various venues in and around Todmorden , Parkers in Manchester the Trafalgar opposite Blackburn Rovers ground. Took a while to get there with that ramble but after collecting soul music for nigh on twenty years I guess I got into "northern soul" in the mid 80's, or did I?

The Knight Brothers Temptation Bout To get me springs to mind with that suggestion, not as a suggested play more how much money do you think I've got to spend on records, to quote another song Willpower Weak temptation Strong, that said there's always savings to be made when records enter the mix

B side of Guilty Al Green, B side of Sexy Mamma the Moments another, B side of Isley bros I guess i'll always love you was another i think, if not affordable then available, I bought a couple mentioned on another thread by Mal C, could be coincidence but one had sold same day he posted which begs the question once the cheaper ones have been bought is the bench mark set at what's there on say discogs which I think, could be wrong is the easiest port of call for many as a guide to a ball park price. Since starting buying again 4yrs ago and not getting out since Covid so not seeing sales boxes etc I've found it's very much a case of searching the net ,watching ebay etc to get a record at the price you want to pay, no dealer or site is consistently cheaper than any other though taking discogs again as an example too many on there are over ambitious shall we say in what they expect to achieve or maybe they are not actually bothered about selling.

3rd photo, beam me up Scotty...some lovely shots there

I posted a link to Youtube some months ago about a guy digging for records in West Africa, albeit not soul but still very interesting. If you put in Record digging in West Africa it should come up.

Something from Tony Troutman?

Obviously not a great photo but might bring a smile, ready for the Tour of Britain passing my house in Shuttleworth with a Lancashire welcome for Tom Pidcock. Before some pedant points out according to government boundary changes I'm technically in GT Manchester, never accepted that and never will, Lancashire born and bred and always will be.

Same here, gets a play every now and then

It's exactly like that, when I took it out of the box I expected the tape to have perished like masking tape does after time but rolling a couple of inch off the barrel the surface was still very sticky. Rolling it over the pop record made no difference,no trace of anything on the roller, maybe when new the tape was a tad more spongy, still wouldn't want to try it on any of mine either.

Usual great service, kept informed of delays from label, arrived super quick when available.