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    Doesn't a Notts Palais reunion have to have original Notts Palais DJ's?

    I may be missing something here but wouldn't an event that doesn't have the original Notts Palais DJ line up be nothing more than a brand new event held in an old club? unsure.gif

    Hi Joan

    Im pretty sure there will be quite a few of the original DJ line up Andy Lee has passed away (saw it on another thread recently how sad cos I remember him from palais )

    but Im sure it'll be as close as it can be

    what you have to remember is they can say bugger off Im not workin in that flea pit LOLOL :huh:

    Im sure that most who will be asked will oblige would love to see Soul Sam doing an oldies spot again at the palais I remember he was one of the groundbreakers there and tried stuff out on us

    Mand :P

    Wont be long to wait now before details are revealed

    Eyup Mandy, which Mr. E are you referring to?? If it's me then yes i am a deejay and will be guesting in the U.K. in September. Six Hills is one gig on the 20th. Reckon you girls will be there eh?? Over here i run a monthly soul night, last month we had John Manship over to guest, BRILLIANT night. Can't wait for this reunion, it's long overdue.

    Have a soulful weekend. Best......Tony E. OZ.

    no Tony I was reffering to mark Etheridge :P

    I dont mind spins, as sometimes they feel right and you naturally spin as you dance, I hate high kicks and back drops... might have been ok when you were 16 and 9 stone - but at 17 stone aged 50 thier just fookin dangerous! and most of the time they're little to do with the music and folks get them completely out of time. So many people backdrop and kick but cant keep a basic rythm with their feet. Just kinda looks, uncooth and common :P

    Save your acrobatics for the musical breaks in the records dont do them all the way through it looks naff and doesnt fit in with the rythmn

    eg Coming to your rescue has some great ones where spins and floorwork fit in nicely...like in the olden days!!!LOL wink.gif

    no way - really dancing etiquette?.. this is a new one on me. I thought you just expressed yourselves how ever you saw fit. One thing that annoys me is people who watch and point at people when they're dancing, OR laugh at people's dancing style. I hate that, it's so rude. Just do what you feel!.. :P

    Staff at venue's are bad for this, especially when they've never seen a northern soul night. I told off some young bar staff at Radcliffe Civic for watching, laughing and pointign at people who were dancing.

    Jayne.x

    Jayne.x

    Jayne the bar staff at our regular night at the robin hood summer bar dance behind the bar and wear Northern soul bowling shirts and some of them are teenagers they love working the function

    hence billy the dancing barman on youtube thumbsup.gif

    they also love to watch the dancers

    Nice piccie Mandy - I see Steve walking up Brentwood High Street on my lunch break - he used to buy records at Jifs in Chadwell Heath.

    I have loads of snooker players pics

    my dad was a referee and I used to go with him all over the country

    I have pics of alex higgins jimmy white tony meo tony knowles ( phwoar) :lol:

    ray reardon

    and one of me sitting in steve Davis porche the first one he ever bought

    and ones that are autographed

    Mand :O)

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    Mand

    Ive got one, (cant remember which one off the top of me head), which has charactures drawn on the sleeve cover, obviously of mates of someones, they are very jazzy orientated how they are drawn, will have to trawl through the boxes and scan and post it.

    Dawn I have a great one here it is

    they are of one of my exes and some soulie mates I used to hang with

    Love the one of Dave spinning :thumbsup:

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    Hi,

    I was just wondering how many celebrity soulies there have been past and present such as people like Steve Davies - the Snooker player, Anna Ford the news reader anybody like to contribute to the list?

    this one you mean?

    such a shame cos I was into N/S when this pic was taken didnt realise he was too

    guess who the gorgeous bit of fluff is LOLOL :D

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    Well l wonder not about the records that have done the rounds and incured a scratch or 10, scribbled names, stickers etc, but l wonder about the rare records that cost thousands of pounds ( Rarity for whatever reason ) and it's most probable that they are owned by collectors and not DJ's, these collectors in some cases then instead of playing them, in fear of damage that may ( god forbid ) occur, protect the said record by placing it behind glass and framing it........l believe records were made to be played and played and played, so how the bloody hell do these very lucky super rich collectors actually #1 get the record on the turntable when the hole in the middle is covered up!!!!!!!! ( now thats what l call a cover up ) and #2 get the needle to play along the grooves through glass !!!!!!!!! uuuuuuuuuummmmmmmm what a dilema.

    Sorry lm just being naughty, could'nt help myself. :thumbsup:

    PMSL

    hmmm playing thru glass to protect the vinyl ..now theres a thought :lol:laugh.gif

    I think in the early days a lot of the 45s were in pretty good nick, having been stored away in warehouses / shops etc and being shipped over here by UK Northern dealers.

    But not these days when you are buying off E bay, You are picking up the used 45s that are the copy's that were actually sold to to people at the time !

    I was having this conversation with a mate the other day.

    IMO Soul fans bought up everything decent from the USA that did not sell in the 60s in the 70s and 80s and in quantity from the warehouses etc, and now we are clearing

    up the used issues with the many scratches, felt tip pen marks, stickers, the owners name, strange things written on them etc.

    These 45s are the ones I tend to spare a moment looking at and imagining where they have been for the past 40 years !

    A playing issue with a bit of ware and tear - Its a case of "If walls could talk" is it not !

    I completely understand your wonder ! :thumbsup:

    Mossy

    Hiya Mossy

    Can you imagine they venues they've visited the buyers /Djs who have touched them ???

    and that one person who decides wether it gets played to death or left in a dust filled attic

    as you say if walls could talk

    I wonder if anyone has written their name on a record to find it came back to them 30/40 years later

    wouldnt that have a story to tell

    Mand thumbsup.gif

    Mandy....

    When it happens you'd be better starting a new thread saying so....

    I think moving this thread means folk will have to scroll through all these previous posts to "find it's actually happening" rather than "checking out" a new thread stating the occuring event and all the info with it....

    So you don't miss interested parties....

    Just a thought like....

    Soulfully.... Mark

    Well hello Mr E

    We've never met but I've heard of you :rolleyes: could you be a DJ by any chance??

    Yes I totally agree with you

    When its a goer we'll start a brand new thread with all the info people need

    Don't suppose we need to tell them where eh?? LOL

    but yes headlines on events talk wont that be great?

    Thanks for your interest

    Mand :unsure:

    It's when you find records that have been 'personailsed' by their previous owners either by scratching their name in the run-out grooves (seemed to be popular with DJs once upon a time) or writing on the label or sleeve. My favourite is a French EP of the Mar-Keys with 'George from Fulham High Street. I brout (sic) it in 1965' on the cover. I still wonder who George from Fulham is whenever I see that record.

    thats exactly what I'm saying

    who is/was george

    who is

    KT?

    B Conway?

    the crescent soul club?

    Mand

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    lol....... ooutch..... :D best loosen them............... :lol: ............

    How many have we got on our saved list Mand ?..... and more to the point how many have you sold ?.............

    Just been passed some old flyers for The Palais...(christmas All Nighter) from 1984/1985.........

    ......DJ's were Shaun Gibbons, Dave Evison, Brian Rae, Pete Finn, John Vincent, Marc Farley, Steve Whittle, Rob Smith, Marc Linton................... they are described as 'STAR DJ's..........

    Betty

    x

    Wow brill do we know who the promoter was?

    Keb Darge was on there too

    I know that at least 6 of those DJs are still in circulation

    when those golden tickets get printed with the definite date on them I can start

    sell sell sell !!!

    Mand :D

    best organise a minibus for the Robin hood summer bar crew :thumbsup:

    scratch the minibus best get a 30 seater or summat

    Ever missed out on a record (or records) and regretted it afterwards?

    A mate sent me 5 copies of Joe Tex "I.W.B.F." asking me to sell three at £10 each and to keep two for myself, I tried flogging them but after one soul night I sent them all back to him as I never rated it!!

    In a record store in Memphis I picked up - and put down - an alternative version of Johnny Summers's "I.S.Y." on Yorktown and my friend picked it up and paid just $10 for it, I realised soon after my error - to damned late then of course!!

    Any more for anymore.

    David

    I have that particular Joe Tex tune for a ringtone

    as they say theres no fool like a soulfool LOL

    Absolutely love that tune

    I would have give ya a tenner for it

    Mand thumbup.gif

    A lot of them do go round and round - Sam's told me that he has had at least 4 Del Larks over the years. Buys one, sells it, buys another one for more, sells it for even more etc etc. Record inflation..... laugh.gif

    Records that come here though, stay here! I only ever sold one record and got £1 less for it than I wanted (£4 instead of £5) (this was at Wigan); the experience kind of put me of selling for ever. So ever since I've only ever bought records and leave the selling to others. ph34r.gif

    So how many babycham crates have you got full of vinyl Steve?

    Mand

    Yep i did put 2 and 2 together and yes Sue will be there in all her glory. Oh and the numbers are creeping up, over 2000 sticky beaks now. Might need to rent an aircraft hanger if it keeps going like this or have the alldayer inside and oustide the Palais. Imagine what 500 soulies dancing in the road would look like eh lol??? BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Would we need council approval ???? See yas. Tony E.

    STOP IT TONY!!!

    Im gettin those ole goosebumps and the hairs on the back of my neck are dancing laugh.gif

    How long you been in Oz mate?

    Notts is a very different place these days

    I was "in town" with my son (he works for the evening post)

    The lace market and hockley buildings have all had facelifts including the grand lady palais herself

    the city is looking soo clean and cosmopolitan you might drive past it and not recognise the old place

    Rob Smiths shop always looks the same tho (interior like steptoes parlour) laugh.gif

    dont forget the road around the palais is barriered off I remember vaulting over it

    Mand

    Often wondered about the "big ticket" tunes (ie - seriously rare - less than 10 known copies) do they just do the rounds with the world's top collectors or once they've got 'em they keep 'em?

    Epic

    do you think they borrow them to their DJ buddies to play

    I dont think so I reckon they'd rather keep them to themselves so it keeps that rarity going

    but theres sooooo many bootlegs these days it defeats the object leggers only need one record to boot dont they

    Mand

    Eyup girls, bloody ganging up on me now are ya? Remember i'm a Derby lad.Dreams, thats what keeps the world ticking, well dry ones anyway. Love your sense of humour, keep it up. Stay soulful.

    Best..Tony E. OZ.

    Tony ...didnt anyone tell you Im crackers LOL ...the nickname gives it away a little LOL

    Is Sue coming with you ?

    Mand biggrin.gif

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