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addictive and expensive!...whether collecting OR travelling..but great fun !!! dean

great set on a great nite john....got there a bit later than we planned was queing at the door half way through 7 days was on the floor by detroit soul and hardly stopped all night many thanx dean

dont want to talk anything up but in many years of getting and sending vinyl through the post only once has a record been lost (although received 2 broken ones)...the lost one was in last years snow... a few i bought from the states and italy in december where a couple of weeks overdue but got here..although i asked for tracking info for one and saw it didnt get sent for a full week after id bought it !...personally when sending i try my best to send the day after payement i give my postie a break,have left my mobile number with the sorting office,when a tune is in they put it to one side and ring me...i go in and as soon as they see me they give me my record so i dont have to que for ages while they hunt all over the place for it...there system seems to be a bit odd,first they look here...then there..then there .....and three windows with only one worker on most days! but when my regular posties is off ive had others put cards through my door....when im in !!!...and worse still a couple of times left under my scooter with the card saying 'left under 'motor cycle' (WTF!) ...as instructed !! WTF again !...had to go down and complain about that one...blatant lie dean

glad to say no 'politics' down here in bristol....soul train,hot buttered soul,getting together and go go children...all slightly different...all doing there own thing...all friendly toward each other...sometimes we may clash,cant always be avoided but upto the punters where they go...lifes too short! dean

sean chapman does a show on a small welsh radio station close to his home,you can get him on line every wednesday night 8 till 10 on GTFM,just google it...click on' listen on line.'.then cut and paste the bottom link into the 'open' bar in 'file' on your screen...good show with a bit of everything...listeners from everywhere...lots of texting going on and will advertise your night too.. dean

as ive said before never went ot the casino or torch,way too young and lived miles away but as i understand it wasnt the torch in a more residential area than the casino...even today its venues/pubs nthat are more residential that have problems with councils etc....and the casino was a lot bigger so a 'raid' could have been a lot more tricky?... and in reply to dogstoats post....its great to read a post from someone so passionate as a lot of us are but to be honest i dont believe we are unique in that.... the mod/scooter scene is still very much alive, has been for over 40 years...there are weekly nights on and rallies all over the country with people who have never got out of it since the late 70s and sometimes the 60s !....hip hop may be underground but has definately not come and gone....i know people the wrong side of 40 just as obsessed with reggae as soul,will pay just as crazy amounts of money for originals too....i think the one area we do differ and can feel proud of is the distance we will travel to go to a night...not sure any other musical followers do that...certainly not weekly !...anyway thats nuffin to do with the original post so i'll shut up ! dean

SOMETHING FUNNYS GOING ON-BERTHA TILLMAN-BRENT...... dont know if anyone else out there is playing this,not seen it on any play/sales lists....but out of all my new spins at go go children down here in bristol it seems to be picking up the most requests from long time soulies and newcomers alike... not in manships book ,picked it up off chapman records a few months back...described as mod/rnb dancer which it is but its also soulful enough not to be called 'rock n roll shit ' by rnb haters !! and its loads better than 'lovin time' dean

SOMETHING FUNNYS GOING ON-BERTHA TILLMAN-BRENT...... dont know if anyone else out there is playing this,not seen it on any play/sales lists....but out of all my new spins at go go children down here in bristol it seems to be picking up the most requests from long time soulies and newcomers alike... not in manships book ,picked it up off chapman records a few months back...described as mod/rnb dancer which it is but its also soulful enough not to be called 'rock n roll shit ' by rnb haters !! and its loads better than 'lovin time' dean

for those who dont know the edward hamilton,bobby womack and the experts are all great double siders...6 dancers for the price of three,never sure which side i like best on all of 'em dean

and i know the casino wasnt a place to go and pull...but there must have been some 'romance' there because according to shameless monday night franks firstborn was conceived 'in the toilets at the wigan casino alnighter '

already put my opinion on the film up many pages back (thought it was alrite)but would like to add....we have many youngsters (20s+)who are curious about northern at go go children and they ARE impressed with the dancers and thats just the basic footwork ! even if we could do the tricks there wouldnt be room anyway...they come up and ask about tracks are buying cds (and maybe one day original vinyl) and im sure this film will help rather than hinder...i mean less face it some of you (when you were young and less critical) were turned on to northern by wigans ovation on totps !!..even if you dont admit i never expected it to be exactly like the casino...i was too young to go so i dont know from personsal experience...but still wasnt surprised at casino goers replies...but at least the film didnt include some of the pop shite that got played there at times !...and danced to aswell!!...better run for cover now... dean ps please note i said 'at times.'..i know there was some great music discovered and played there and i would have loved it...

sadly we were made to finish early this month at 145 as our manager was away and the stand in was worried about only having a 1 oclock license so my second set was cut short...literally about 30 secs before the end of the tune !...anyway left them wanting more i suppose...still a top nite had by all i think U.S ORIGINALS UNLESS STATED 11 TILL 1130 LINDA LOU-LEROY WILLIAMS HONKY TONK WOMEN-FABULOUS PLAYBOYS ASK ME NO QUESTIONS-EDDIE ARNELL THINGS GOTTA GET BETTER-MARVA WHITNEY TURN ME LOOSE-LEON AUSTIN I'LL HOLD YOU-FRANKIE AND JOHNNY ONE MORE CHANCE-SHIRLEY LAWSON (UK SOUL CITY) WHAT CONDITION MY CONDITION WAS IN-BETTY LAVETTE MY MECHANICAL MAN-LEAH DAWSON FIRE-KOKO TAYLOR LEND ME YOUR HAND-KINDLY SHEPHERDS GOTTA BE A FALSE ALARM-VOLCANOS 130 ISH TILL 145 ISH QUEEN-BIG ELLA DO YOU STILL LOVE ME-COOKIE JACKSON LOVER-SHERRI TAYLOR AND SAM WARD CHAPERONE-LA BRENDA BEN SOMETHING FUNNY GOING ON-BERTHA TILLMAN (REQUESTED) BREAKAWAY-STEVE KARMEN JUST ANOTHER GIRL-FOUR PROS (REQUESTED) dean

'baby i love you' gets some spins from me at go go children in bristol and think nige brown played it last year at bridgewater too... what about 'night owl'..thought that was his most well known track on the uk soul scene.....sean parrys always got that in his playbox at go go ....on a british demo i think dean

think i can beat all of these..in fact dont think you will know it cos i MUST be the only one to buy it..blind i hasten to add !!...instrumental version of 'ive got something good' think it was the soul explosions on soul galore....if all your old 'poppy' floorfillers are crap this must be the crap growing on the crap !...didnt even make it to the end of the tune on my turntable at home..... dean

oh and after 5 hours in the snow (should have been 2) TOTS xmas special was a killer despite only 2 djs and 50 odd people being able to make it...a real party ! dean

its been a good year... normally only do a couple of niters...did 8 this year finally got to bidds and lifeline...top nites will be back...hearing angela davis for the first time on the dancefloor at lifeline will be with me forever... go go children has found a new and better venue and gone from an average of 70 + to 90+ and hit 100+ 3 times...more and more regulars...weve started having guests ,so far sean chapman (back with us this saturday by the way) ,des parker,pete tebbutt,matt from trowbridge and bristols eddie trueman ...all have been wicked... roll on 2011'things have gotta get better' still dean

a few i picked up at bidds on NYE... LET ME HELP YOU -AL GREEN ...nothing like you would expect from al,uptempo northern '72 but sounds more 60s RAMBING ROSE-TED TAYLOR...typical uptempo rnb from ted I KNOW-BARBARA GEORGE classic WHEN I LOOK AT YOU DADDY-CAROL FRAN early rnb,great guitar riff still to come in the post.. MY MECHANICAL MAN-LEAH DAWSON classic

talikin bout my girl/vic and the catalinas stuck on my baby/irene and the scotts things gotta get better/marva whitney i dont want to cry/pearlean gray honky tonk woman/fabulous playboys and still to come... breakway/steve karmen..to replace my reissue ...at last take your time and love me/grover mitchell and that will be it for a couple of months..... honest ! dean

the koko taylor is awesome and for a 20 quid record bargain!

love the lonnie lester and june bateman but gotta stop buying now for a bit !....lambretta engine needs some tlc...and dollars ! still got some tunes on the way to keep my addiction fed and the last 5 cheapies were.... nose full of white/mr d and the highlights ask me no questions/eddie armen call on you/chuck trois and the amazing maze linda lou/larry williams the phantom/herb and his cronies all uptempo funky northern of northern ish funk dean

updated...still some quality tunes and bargains to be had dean