Woodbutcher

And that's why Mancs never venture far from home , they'd get lost within 5 miles ...

Meant to add that if I were selling a cracked 45 I would do so via E-bay auction , with an accurate description of condition and clear pics , a reserve reflecting what I'd want for it and then sit back and wait for a pair of desperados to fight it out to a hopefully ridiculously high ending bid ... as long as no wool is pulled over anyone's eyes then those with too much cash and no clue deserve everything they get , literally.

Plenty of grading scales out there , all of which regard a cracked record as near worthless from a collectors POV ... 0-5% of Mint value. But there are plenty of desperate wannabees out there that seem to disagree and pay way over the odds for f*cked forty-fives on an hourly basis , especially on the bay. This will no doubt kick off yet another heated debate where a lot of folk will state that "Norvern Soul' is a "special genre" that doesn't need to use a proper grading scale as the tunes are so sought after that you can name your price regardless of condition. Personally I prefer to use the 0-5% rule as it's the generally accepted valuation across the globe regardless of genre or medium but that's just one opinion. I guess that a M- record that's cracked but plays through with a minimum of 'clicks' would be the origin of the so-called "OK for DJing" grade that has become so common in listings , still only 5% of mint in my book though , and that applies to any 45 whether it be a £25 tune or a £5000 one. Touch paper's fizzing , fire away ......

A little trouble at home with a 'burning bush' ... ?

I was just answering Ed's question regarding southern outings ...

"Drizabone - Pressure" was championed as a new release by Russ Vickers , couldn't get much further south than Pompey ...

Much prefer it when the "northern soul" stays oop north , with the incessant oldies , beer towels , baggies and vests included ... hat , coat , door , gone ...

That'd just be someone cueing up the 'wrong' side of another dreadful instrumental ...

Why ... ? ... it's just another "favourite tunes" thread with a slight twist "fave tunes I can't afford" ... another potential mp3 wannabe dj hunting for a setlist maybe ...

A very quick search threw up this one so I'm sure you can find others ....

No ...

So is it #2 or #3 that you're after ... ?

Minsh drove me mad with it , miserable grumpy git never did let me have his carver despite repeated promises ... Sounds kinda "Meh" when heard on YT these days but by crikey it was a different beasty altogether full blast at 3 am .... Keele was my earliest 'recollection' but CD was '91

Was plenty legit enough for me to go mental to when it was played out first off a CD ... ( B Rae at Keele before K Minshull started hammering it off a carver ... ? )

Japanese CD original release , just to piss the OVO boys off ...

Carla Whitney ... ?

£262 for 30 records , less than £9 each for a full set of historical memorabilia sounds a good deal to me , especially considering the quality of the pressing.

Today's winner has to be $5600 for a VG "Professionals" on Groove City ... !

With dog first press I believe.

Demo copies are Stereo/Mono.

For a real quality event near you look no further than the True Soul Weekender in September ... https://www.truesoul.co.uk/event/true-soul-weekender-september-2018/

Only ever be worth that if someone rounds up the other twenty thousand copies out there and recycles about 19,900 of them ...

V.O.E.H - Cashing In - £280 + p+p ..... ! Never has a more appropriately titled 45 been listed ...

Too many Mickey Mouse soul nights about at the moment , but enough quality all-niters about to satisfy . Back in the 90's the Manifesto Events guide ran to two pages , listing every soul night and niter covering two months ... and included a map showing locations , the core of the scene were at pretty much every nighter on the guide and a lot of the evening dos too . Today's offerings amount to 20+ soul nights every Friday and Saturday , problem is most are catering for the "DJ" and his mates that never venture out of their own area , most churning out the same old thing week in and week out , and almost none who actually stay up beyond midnight thanks to the copious amounts of beer swilled . Thankfully there are still enough classy nighters out there to cater for the core so in that sense the 'real scene' is just as 'exclusive as it was twenty years ago , there are just hundreds of tiny events that probably attract about 15 punters and these are easy enough to weed out from the good'uns.