Woodbutcher

Back on track , for a while at least ... The Poets on J2 and "Johnny on the Spot/I Didn't Have To" will do for me ...

Now I get the latest Met Office offering , little thing blows in , gets named Erik , gets all self-important , huffs and puffs a bit , then wafts away ............. 🌪️

Why not upload the track to SoundCloud and then post a link to it ... "Beginners Mindreading" and "ESP" were the only Cubscout badges I didn't get ...

Shhhuuussshhh ... Careless talk costs exclusivity ... keep mentioning what they're missing and you'll have them turning up at the best nights out there with their packed suppers and bulk bags of the substance that mustn't be mentioned ....

You're welcome sir ...

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Proof positive that pulling three random "dick-waving" 45s from a box does not a DJ make , kicking off with a stormer like Ray Agee and then going straight down the fluffy midtempo route might have the "glued to i-phone chinstrokers" getting semi's but it would not endear you to the dancers ...

If it were up to me they'd be handed in at the door or admission would be refused ...

Your wagon must have a bloody sight better seat than my Mondeo has Karl ...

It was the eight hours sat on my arse in the driving seat there and back that killed me , I'm on my feet from dawn 'til dusk and sitting's never agreed with me ... that's my excuse anyway ... lol

Glad it's not just me Karl , I'm still only running on about 40% and it's the Wednesday after...

Luckily the dreadful quality of most of the videos posted on YT are as easy to spot/ignore as the dodgy soul nights that plague the calendar ... (footage shot on first generation potato-cam phones with talc-clogged microphones are embarrasing in their format let alone their content ) ... and from what I've seen the two seem to go hand in hand so I rarely encounter them ...

No need for it , wouldn't attend a do if I knew it was filmed/photographed on a regular basis. I want to be in my own little world when I'm doing my thang not a part of someone else's little YT world , it's bad enough having someone wandering around the dancefloor setting off a flash right in front of you ... lucky for some I know the value of cameras/lenses otherwise there'd be a coating of crushed glass to replace the talc ...

Give or take one every six weeks , mostly nighters and the occasional all-dayer. There are enough 'must attend' events to feed my needs and they jump out at me from the events guide. Not for me the "same old , same old , week in week out". There may well be umpteen things on every weekend but as the majority are in my opinion 'Mickey Mouse' soul nights they get for the most part ignored in favour of the 'proper' events that cater for my increasingly selective tastes. There are those that are out every weekend and fair play to them , but as I recall from the nineties when we were out somewhere every weekend it all becomes more like a chore than a night out and the spark goes out .

Personally I'd rather listen to a good DJ playing top class 'OVO' than a bad one playing boots ... Hence I shall be making a 4 hour drive up to North Wales tomorrow to hear the likes of Colin Law , Kitch , Roger Banks , Dean Anderson , Chris Anderton et al rather than wasting my time at some Mickey Mouse "Keep the Faith" soul night in a pub full of clown suits and piss'eads , and then counting down the days until the next 100 Club in February.

Says someone who just last October had a mini-rant about boots/reissues .... "I'm getting real tired of all these reissues and bootlegs. It took a lot of time and money to get some those, particularly the Love Crime EP, to just have every one and their mother get those. It's gonna get played out quickly ... 😡"

Especially when it was his old lady doing the booting ...

Hope to see it rise somewhat on Saturday sir ...

So how come you advertise your Brighton do as ...... "BRIGHTON'S LEGENDARY DJs SPINNING ORIGINAL 45s NORTHERN/MOTOWN/R&B - (WITH STUFF IN-BETWEEN!)!" Soul bobbies might have a Perjury case in the making there ...

Real one styrene , vinyl booted demo with Gypsies on flip.

Soul Police Care in the Community Support Officers more like ...

Trust me it couldn't have been the real soul rozzers , they'd never be seen dead at a soul night full of 'kin' 'andbaggers ...

"Chicano Power - Thee Midnighters" ... La Raza. "Socking Soul Power - Simtec Simmons and Wylie Dixon" ... Toddlin' Town. "The Power of a Woman - Spencer Wiggins" ... Goldwax. "Green Power - "Jesse James" ... 20th Century Fox. "Green Power - Lewis Clark" ... Fuller. "Green Power - Katie Briggs" ... Columbia. "Soul Power - Abraham and the Casanovas" ... Murco. "Power of Love -Amanda Humphrey" ... USA Records. "The Power of Love - Kitty Love" ... Dade.

Thanks Dave , And now I have "that" scene from 'Spartacus' in my mind but with the chorus of "I've got Eddie Parker ... " resounding repeatedly ...