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Re: Northern Comfort V Darren Laws & Martin Brew.

Bara235 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:25:48 -0000

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Re: Salford City Radio – The Soul Show

Salfordcitypaul — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:21:09 -0000

New Show – November 15th 2009 @ http://salfordsoulfunkjazz.podomatic.com/

1.James Pants, Seven Seals - Thin Moon
2.Anthony Joseph and the Spasm Band, Bird Head Song – His Hands
3.Marsha Ambrosius - Costar
4.Oddisee ft Muhsinah, Odd Summer EP – That Day
5.Brother Ali, Us – The Preacher
6.Breakestra, Dusk til Dawn – Me & Michelle
7.Sk Radicals - No I Can Do (Bennson Remix)
8.Awol One & Factor, Owl Hours – Waste The Wine feat. Tha Alkaholiks
9.Gift of the Gab, Escape to Mars – El Gifto Magnifico
10.The Phenomonal Handclap Band, The Phenomonal Handclap Band – Baby
11.Matthew Hallsall – Colour Yes – Mudita
12.Breakestra, Dusk til Dawn – No Matter Where You Go
13.Maxwell, BLACKsummers'night – Help Somebody
14.Oddisee, Odd Summer EP – Chocolate City Dreaming
15.Anthony Valdez - Go featuring Wendisue, John Robinson

Re: Can we pretend?

Salfordcitypaul — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:48:43 -0000

Nice one for that link - I love No Diggity - neva knew it was a Bill Withers break!!

Re: Have Yourself A Marvy Little Christmas

xmashampers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:30:07 -0000

Christmas is just around the corner and I find your list of Christmas songs very timely. Love to receive the complete compilation of these golden Christmas songs...so soothing to the ear. More delightful if coupled in xmas hampers.

Re: Why I love Vinyl

Albion — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:29:09 -0000

I love vinyl but the city I live in only has mostly old Jimmy Barnes/John Farnham and Midnight Oil Records in the 2nd hand shops! All the good DJs I know out here mail order their stuff from Piccadilly!
(I live in Sydney Aus). Weirdly though the charity shops (or Op shops as they call them here) are full of Harry Secombe records...some things never change eh.

Re: Salford City Radio – The Soul Show

Salfordcitypaul — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:36:48 -0000

New Show – November 8th 2009 @ http://salfordsoulfunkjazz.podomatic.com/

1.The Large Professor, The LP – The LP
2.Raekwon, Only Built For Cuban Links II – Have Mercey
3.Cacique ’97, Cacique ’97 – Eu Quero Tudo
4.Braille and Symbolyc 1, Cloud Nineteen – Stay Together featuring Ragen Fykes
5.Nicolay – Nautilus
6.Dynas, The Appartment – Challenges of L.O.V.E. (Leaving One Virtues Behind)
7.Breakestra, Joyful Noise – Dark Clouds Rain Soul (Dub)
8.Tony Allen, Secret Agent – Pariwo
9.Mayor Hawthorne, A Strange Arrangement – Let Me Know
10.Strong Arm Steady, Stoney Jackson – Loose Girl
11.Marcell and the Truth, Synbols –Can’t Wait
12.Sam Blues - Milano Jazz-Dance Combo
13.Dojo Cuts_Dojo Cuts Ft.roxie Ray - The 1,2,3s
14.Mayor Hawthorne Green Eyed Love Remix
15.Much more Milano Jazz-Dance Combo feat Colonel Red
16.Robert Strauss - Odyssey Man EP - 01 - Odyssey Man Feat. Ayah

Re: Can we pretend?

phil — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:22:01 -0000

excellent. Had a Withers listening session the other day and came across Grandma's Hands http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxjNauWYFfc No doubt this is well known to seasoned diggers and sample searchers but I hadn't realised he was responsible for one of the best breaks ever until I heard this. And a brilliant tune to boot. Made me go and dig out the amazing D&B remix of No Diggity Fatboy out me on to years ago (the only record I ever bought from Spin Inn I think).

Re: Why I love Vinyl

Neko Neko — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:44:49 -0000

I love vinyl but my back and wallet does not!

Re: Why I love Vinyl

northerncomfort — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:08:22 -0000

Old? That must be from the 60's or something...;)

Re: Why I love Vinyl

Albert — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:53:46 -0000

You're just jealous mate.

That's just a really old picture - no idea where they dug that one up!

Re: Salford City Radio – The Soul Show

Salfordcitypaul — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:07:20 -0000

New Show – November 1st 2009 @ http://salfordsoulfunkjazz.podomatic.com/

1.Five Corners Quintet, Othello - Desdemona
2.Floating Points, Love Me Like This - Love Me Like This (Nonsense Dub)
3.Soul Sugar, Nothing but the Truth - Isaacs
4.Dudley perkins ft Med - Zoom feat. MED (Vocal Version)
5.Q-Tip, Kamaal The Abstract! – Do you dig u?
6.Five Corners Quintet, Othello – The Opening
7.Soul Sugar, Nothing but the Truth - Silver
8.Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family, Na Teef Know De Road of Teef - You
9.Timo Lassy featuing Jose James – The More I look at You
10.DJ Devastate – Movement/Silence - Spinnin' ft. Silvia, Svärd & DJ Create 11.Cacique ’97, Cacique ’97 – Come From Nigeria
12.Povo, On the Spot Reworks – City Blues
13.Guilty Simpson – Trusted (lying bitch)
14.Q-Tip, Kamaal The Abstract! – Blue Girl
15.Robert Glasper Trio, Double Booked - Downtime

Re: Why I love Vinyl

northerncomfort — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:00 -0000

I'm sure you remember them Mr Kent. BTW, what's with the picture on the Southport Weekender site? Suspiciously brown hair - don't tell me you've gone all Grecian 2000?

Re: Why I love Vinyl

Albert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:11:43 -0000

What's a local record shop?

Re: Why I love Vinyl

Albert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:11:14 -0000

What's a local record shop?

Re: Salford City Radio – The Soul Show

Salfordcitypaul — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:48:02 -0000

New Show – October 25th 2009 @ http://salfordsoulfunkjazz.podomatic.com/
1.Raekwon, Only Built For Cuban Links II - About Me
2.Cacique ’97, Cacique ’97 - Milfolo
3.Iron Lyon, Time Capsule – Medicine Music
4.Braille and Symbolyc 1, Cloud Nineteen – Found Her featuring Shawn Lee
5.Nicolay, City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya – Lose Your Way
6.Jerzy Milian Orkiestra – Gacek (Strange Breaks & Mr. Thing Vol. II)
7.Breakestra, Joyful Noise – Joyful Noise
8.DJ Vadim, That Lite - That Lite ft. Juice Lee
9.Dezaray Dawn, Chameleon Ep – Chameleon
10.Dynas, The Appartment – Crown Royal
11.Breakestra, Joyful Noise - Posed To Be feat. Chali 2na, Mixmaster Wolf & DJ Dusk
12.Floating Points, Love Me Like This – Shangrila
13.Simone, Astral 22 Presents Imperial - Starting Over
14.Soul Sugar, Nothing but the Truth – Winner Funk
15. Bugz in the Attic, Got The Bug 2 - Zombie 2003
16.Five Corners Quintet, Othello – The Murder

Re: Salford City Radio – The Soul Show

Salfordcitypaul — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:57:51 -0000

New Show – October 18th 2009 @ http://salfordsoulfunkjazz.podomatic.com/

1.The Herbalizer, Same as it never was – You're Not All That
2.Povo, On the Spot Reworks – Bennie’s Groove
3.Sounds of Blackness, The Third Gift – Story Song and Spirit Optimistic
4.Guilty Simpson – Guilt Trip
5.Q-Tip, Kamaal The Abstract! - Feelin
6.Dj Day x Miles Bonny, Instant Saddiq – What’s Life Like
7.Diamond District, In the Ruff – I Mean Business
8.Shanell Rene’s, Astral 22 Presents Imperial - From me to you
9.The Impressions, The Young Mods' Forgotten Story - Seven Years
10.Povo, On the Spot Reworks – Di Da
11.The Robert Glasper Experiment, Double Booked - Butterfly
12.The Herbalizer, Same as it never was – Stranded on Earth
13.Shafiq Husyan, Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka - Dust & Kisses feat. Noni Limar
14.Tony Allen, Secret Agent - Mina Lowo
15.Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family, Na Teef Know De Road of Teef - Ataa Onukp

Re: Fat City shut up (physical) shop

carlrecordshopcity — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:47:31 -0000

Ode to Fat City

And so it came to be…rumours and whispers drifted across the late summer afternoons, swirling around the Oldham Street detritus and buzzing anxiously through the windows of Manchesters’ soul brothers, beat junkies, funk merchants and just plain old believers. I consciously chose not to believe it, swatting away the ides of August with the Evil D’s and a back catalogue of Truth and Soul wax.

So the shop went and it was down to the basement, still trading Friday and Saturday, perhaps not as Fat, but hey many of us need to lose a few pounds. Three visits later and one quick cigarette break with Chris and it was gone, relocated to London in the back of Jazzman’s van.

So the Jazzman and our big city brethren get Fat City. What can never be traded however are the friends, joy, inspiration and moments created over the past 15 years. Chubby Grooves, Treva Whateva, Central Heating, Rae and Christian, Frying the Fat, First Priority, Tony D; so many grooves and faces which became friends and family. Relationships and pure love for the music built Fat City and that relationship followed me from hand shakes in Afflecks to the aforementioned fag break with Chris on the last day of trading. People come and go in our journey and I know that without Fat City my story would have been different and my shelves and soul considerably bereft.

Fat City take a bow as Manchester salutes you, now can we please have another soul and funk specialist asap.

Re: Barrie ‘Striker’ Leach – Bungo!

phil — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:26:12 -0000

*makes air horn sound*

Re: Voodoo Lounge

northerncomfort — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:03:30 -0000

HOW MANY TIMES? I DO NOT WORK FOR VOODOO LOUNGE. Jesus.

"I have an idea who put this reply in" YES. ME. My name is next to it, and it's on my site. I haven't done anything to your club; moaning at me won't help you. And replying to yourself under a different email name, suggesting that you should get yourself a lawyer, is a bit ridiculous.

Re: Voodoo Lounge

malexander — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:50:38 -0000

it would be nice if we had been allowed to go in the vodoo lounge to see if we would like it or not,but you are being rude to people oldier the 19 is it you said,there was nothing wrong with the people maybe they were not young but they were clean tidy and always looked their best they did not try to be young.but they still enjoy nights out,the clubs in manchester are only for the young this club was unique in that it welcomed people of all age groups no matter what.i have an idea who put this reply in and you cant justify what you have done.why do you think it was going for 20 yrs,the young crowd would not have kept on going that long after a few weeks they just move on

Re: Voodoo Lounge

northerncomfort — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:39:52 -0000

Right - comments now disabled for this one, I think the points have been made. As I said before - this site is nothing to do with Voodoo Lounge.

I've deleted a couple of the comments that were just repeats, and also one that was the same person commenting, but under a different name; I'm not stupid.

Voodoo Lounge have commented, and I think their reply is perfectly reasonable. Any new venture will have teething difficulties when trying to establish something new, and this is what we're talking about here. As for all the people complaining about it 'not being an over 40-s' night; was it ever? Really? Or was it simply that the crowd that went there 20 years ago haven't moved on? If there was a market for over-40s nights Manchester would be full of them.

The fact is that clubs in Manchester are having difficulties surviving nowadays, and each club has to reinvent itself for a new audience in order to keep going. All you over 40's - would you have gone to a club when you were 19 that was full of 45 year old? Of course not. And they're the new life blood for all clubs in this city. You don't want to know what the current raft of clubbers thought of the old Bookbinder; it wasn't pretty.

If you really love Bookbinders, then support it in its quest to survive. Everyone's sorry you felt offended, as per the comment from the club, but times move on and clubs need to survive and make money. If you think you're going to like the music, then come down. If not, I guess it's time to go somewhere else.

Re: Voodoo Lounge

malexander — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:20:57 -0000

its like the carrot and the donkey,you can come in on thursday but are not welcome after the age of 45.my friends and i want to go out on a friday and saturday not a thursday,he opened and closed on a thursday because he didnt try to make people enjoy thereselves.he was nasty to a group of ladies that had been going in for years so they too stopped going as far as i am concerned if i am not welcome on fri sat,why on earth should i give him my money and custom on a thursday,we do still work and thursday is not a good night.we will be going to cellar v,and meeting all the crowd from bookies.i think he is keeping his options open and if the vodoo lounge fails then he might change his mind about the age group

Re: Voodoo Lounge

mrsfab — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:35:59 -0000

Hi Malexander

Thanks for your message. I will tell my friends about cellar v. To be fair though I did get a text message tonight about evenings for 30 plus at the old Bookbinders club now Voodo Lounge. They are opening from 9.00 pm until 1.00 am from Thursday 1 October 2009 for the older crowd but most of my friends are working. I am very lucky as it doesn't really matter if I don't go to clubs because I am married but my husband knows I like music and love the atmosphere of town. He doesn't mind me going out with my friends sometimes on a Saturday night. He actually tried the old Bookbinders a few weeks ago and it wasn't his scene. He couldn't believe none of the men washed their hands in the toilet and they just walked straight out. I have always had a good laugh at Bookbinders and like the staff and the music. Maybe it means that over 40's will enjoy the Thursday night evenings starting on 1 October and also still go to Cellar V on a Saturday night. I have never been to Cellar V but will definitely be interested in trying it.

Going out for me on a Saturday in town makes me feel good and it is nice to know there are some places which cater for the 40's plus age group.

Re: Voodoo Lounge

voodoolounge — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:39:22 -0000

Voodoo Lounge does not discriminate against anyone - age, gender etc. As with any new venture there are certain teething problems that may need to be ironed out. All manchester doormen are registered and therefore have full training and experience & the management must allow them to make certain decisions on the spur of the moment. I am very sorry some of you feel you were treated unfairly. 'Bookbinders Nightclub' has closed after 20 years. When Brian used to knock back people on the door, as with any venue, he too got called a variety of derogatory names, however this is a business and not personal. Voodoo Lounge does not play the same type of music and will not necessarily appeal to the same clientele, however if any of you would like to try it we are open fridays and saturdays from 10pm til 3am playing funk, disco & rare groove.

Re: Voodoo Lounge

mrsfab — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:17:55 -0000

Is this a new young club. I was planning to go Saturday night with my cousin but may think again. If it isn't the age group of Bookbinders then it will be too young. What a shame the only nightclub where people of 40 and over could go and listen to good music has gone. Not sure where older people will go now.