I’ve not posted anything on my blog for a while, mainly because I’ve lost a bit of motivation on the record collecting side of things. I haven’t bought a record for ages to be honest! In fact, in the months before Christmas I decided to sell my collection and stop collecting altogether. What I found […]
Ramblings
Gay Jamison – Stay Another Day – Turntable 714
Surfing round some Belgian popcorn sites listening to tracks, my jaw hit the ground when I heard this one. An absolutely awesome, haunting mid-tempo tune. Obviously I’d never heard it before and in my ignorance knew nothing about it. Knowing my unfailing ability to go for expensive records I reluctantly reached foe JM’s guide to […]
The Attic, Mansfield – Play list
A rare outing with my DJ box to The Attic in Mansfield on Saturday Evening. Accompanying the Lovely Jo Wallace, we double decked from 10:15 until about midnight. The Attic is a great little venue with the refreshing music policy of allowing the DJ’s to play what they want. The residents also steer away from […]
The Diplomats – Honest To Goodness – Minit 32006
An in-demand record at the moment, this is a proper uptempo piece of Northern Soul, it has a suggestion of latin with just a hint of R&B. In fact it sounds almost garage-like! The diplomats were a group from Washington DC who had a number of label changes and group line-ups. This is essentially the […]
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Not one of the least known songs on youtube but this is my favourite video of Marvin and Tammi doing this classic. There is another video of this tune up on youtube but it seems a bit more commercial; slicker production and a bit of a staged feeling. This one looks like it is recorded […]