Sutty

There’s loads of Blaxploitation films on YouTube, many obscure ones. Having said that, most of them are not actually that good… but some of the soundtracks have great tunes. I used to be many many years ago in a video swap group of the genre and we got together to watch them, also had a night I Dj’d at called B-Movie where we showed a film each night on grainy VHS as part of the night. Black Belt Jones is good and has the greatest ever car wash fight scene of course… but Black Belt Jones 2 is so bad it’s hilarious… Coffey in his platforms with goldfish in the soles… Truck Turner who is so bad he chins someone in a wheelchair getting out of a lift.. Blackula… so many funny moments if you can make it through the film…

Presumably you are obliged to remortgage your house to pay for the app, to then not get paid to DJ? Never take off anyway, everyone knows the average set is 25 minutes with other the 14 DJ’s on the bill…

From memory - The song hadn’t been registered with the BMI for copyright purposes. If the artist has a publishing deal the publisher will do it. If not, it’s down to the artist to do it. If it’s not registered the songwriters won’t get any publishing royalties from airplays and performances. The other big copyrighter is ASCAP.

These fit inside all the card sleeves I have and are cheap https://www.juno.co.uk/products/big-fudge-7-vinyl-record-paper-inner-sleeves/1001792-01/

It was a windup doctored pic. Ian’s a nice guy and he liked a windup, I remember being with him when he had convinced a couple of hip hop breaks collectors that a Sesame st LP had amazing breaks on it and they spend the next 20:minutes trying to find them lol lest we forget he was a graphic designer…

Yes Dave. The awful Shapeshifters was the one I couldn’t think of, seem to remember it was on a TV ad around that time and the original became just about the most requested record when playing out which made me sick of a record I loved for a long time, but I’ve got over it now lol

Record is cut, metal stamper(s) made, record pressed from stamper(s). Anyone that then has a stamper, take it to a pressing plant and get the record pressed again and you get an identical record with identical run out, unless the plant has its own markings it uses to indicate where it was pressed. If the first and second pressing plants don’t do that, it will be identical in every way, and if they happen to have an over run of labels… bingo! Nobody will ever see the difference (not the case here, as the labels are not the same) cheers Sutty

Figgy Forbes? I went to school with him in Boston, he was a couple of years older than me and we became friends. I remember him coming into school with his tapes recorded the previous weekend on a portable tape player in front of the speakers. It as though him I first heard northern soul.

Yeah, you bought it off me in the Heart and Hand in Brighton and I spent half the money in the pub. It came from John Bowies brother in the Bronx via Butch. That auction price is mad, there are some proper mugs out there, it’s not that rare at all.

Discogs sellers are ONLY allowed to take payment by PayPal goods and services via their checkout system . Any other method is an instant alarm that something is not right.

The problem with the northern soul scene is that it was a youth movement that was never meant to last this long. It’s now a retro movement. There’s some great music in there though that’s more than stood the test of time. To imagine that the northern scene is going to, or should, embrace a Robert Owens 12, is fantasy. The modern-modern side of the scene maybe, and events that play anything in one room, yes. Leave the northern scene as what it is IMHO, it’s doing a pretty good job on its own, and people love it, and go to different events if you want to hear Robert Owens.

It’s a cover of Photek feat Robert Owens, a really sh*t one that sounds like some rock band on a minor stage at Glastonbury. Sam would definitely NOT play it lol

You should be thankful you got Gospel, at RHA she did Queen “we are the champions” to much be bemusement 🤷🏼‍♂️ for some reason, when we saw Sylena Johnson recently at the Jazz Cafe, she did Phil Collins “in the air tonight”! Both stated to celebrate great British artists. Someone is giving these people appallingly bad advice…