Barry

Don't be so bloody stupid. Again - PM me mate - if you want to talk, talk to me.

Fair do's Chrissie, yours is a personal thing - I don't think that yours and KR personal dealings should cloud his personal media expressions that's all. So he had you off (and maybe in your eyes, others too) but wtf has that got to do with the bloke giving the watching world something to go off when it comes to furthering their NS knowledge?

Chrissie, I apologise for eulogising over a period in my life that I enjoyed - I also attended Rotherham Clifton Hall, Leicester Oddfellows, Hinckley Leisure Center, Leighton Buzzard, Samanthas, 100's Club, Morecambe - Da Di Da Di Da and so on and so forth....I know it's early (or late for some of us) but try and be positive mate - I'm not hear to annoy, just to remind myself why, at 43, I still bother to post to people I think (obviously sometimes incorrectly) may give a shit. PM me mate, save your fingers.

That's what PMs are for Chrissie, for you to air your grievancies to the bloke in question - posts on well- viewed forums such as this, are just nasty pot shots.

As the majority of us did. You loved it, I loved it and in the cold light of (my) day, nowt can, or will ever be able to come near it. A statement that will no doubt cause some ire amongst others but I've been here, there and every bastard where - week in and week out ever since, both here and abroad....and nothing comes near. That is, in my opinion. And you can't argue (with me that is) with that.

Over 50 Chrissie?

Was it early '80 maybe? Prob 200 outside, obviously not enough to warrant the opening (and staffing) of the whole venue. Just M's open - nobody ever seems to mention this period.

Ta! My Wigan 'seating' spec was under the stairs to the right hand side of the stage - dancing spec, in front-ish (depending on how busy it was) of the right hand speaker.

Right, I've read through it now - what a bastard awful, nasty thread.

Someone wrote he 'saw an opportunity' (KR) - no - he didn't - he had the passion to put his opinions in print - don't, stupidly, have a go - have the wherewithall to put yours in print too if you want to argue with a bloke who put his money and his mouth where his soul is (shite analogy I know). f*** me, if you put in, you should be allowed to earn a bob down the line from it too. I'm a fucking (happy) no mark on this scene - I'll always try to express my feelings, yes - but I hope I never go down the route that this thread and some of its posters have.

I've got about 12 posts down on this thread and its posts.....and have physically had to stop reading it...Paul S....mate.... really???

Ste....you were right.

Every dj that made it to the stage of being able to hold court for an hour at a nighter had attained status, one way or another. So their view, and record choices must be deemed relevant on this scene. Times change, and in the mid 70's things were right for the dancefloor - to newer ears, they may not be now, but, hey, lighten up. For it to be played and accepted on the floor, surely must prove that whatever particular track you want to pick on...was and is - Northen Soul. Anything that got played at a nighter for any length of time and was danced to surely - IS - Northern Soul - be it Hawaii Five O. Afternoon Of The Rhino, Condition Red etc etc. I haven't heard a record, really, at a nighter, that I hold in my memory (and why certain instrumentals are deemed ok and others not, I don't know? - as that is what seems to be the issue here) that I am not happy to hold there.

The beauty of todays scene, what with the internet and all - the information that is at hand (It can't be deemed a bad thing obviously)....or the graft that was involved learning your trade on yesterdays scene? I read the posts on this board and although I have a solid grounding on tracks that I heard in my time, I'm amazed at the amount of stuff I don't know. Sometimes though I wonder about hearing and obtaining stuff outside of the all nighter environment, dance floor side - the nitty gritty to me - does that make it a different thing?

Do the stickers still not carry the 'Gift' tick box?

Someone just lost the Bernie Williams at the death for the sake of £20 - £1345 - Ouch!!

Jackey Beavers - £1380.99

Cecil Washington - £1029.99

Mel Britt - £908.

Like I knew it would, even though I stupidly hoped against hope, my heartfelt and hopeful £750 bid has just been blown out - I hate not being rich!

Another Brian Rae ender at Wigan Maximes early 80's....just heart wrenching.

Love it, like the majority that will bother to post on this thread, I was a kid and it is locked into my childhood memories - listening to it now, it sounds so French/Belgian/European - think Channel 4's 'Eurotrash' or the 'Lounge' comps that Dimitri From Paris' has done. I'll possibly make a public faux pas here, but thinking of 'Casino Classic' released instrumentals, I still come over all young when I hear Ron Grainers 'When Love Grows Cold'.

You can't get a print from Ikea for £15.00 quid - nice lot.

Remember all the hullabaloo about who the 'Sisters Three' were in Blackbeat before it was uncovered? Was it Mari Wilson or Yvonne Baker and someone, I forget - oh, the conversation that cover ups spawn, you can't beat it.

"...and When he's not arou-ou-ound, what would I dooo?" Christ, I love that song! I'll have a stab at the break on a keyboard... "Da da der der der, der der da da DA DA! - how will I know if he loves me, when I never see him, nooo" Robin, stop it!