> I mean, me, and I imagine I speak for Andy too - I'll go for whatever
-
> as long as it's good - you know? quality music.
> I couldn't care less who recorded it, and how much it costs to buy on
> vinyl.
> If it's good it's good - and I'll like it!
Yeah, but what happens once you get bored of it? Higher and Higher is a
decent enough tune, but if it was played week in week out everywhere you
went I can almost guarantee you'd end up preferring to hear something
less common even if it was 'worse' just for the variety. Plus I don't
see where this is leading - Matt and Ed have both expressed same opinion
as you - it doesn't matter how much a single costs and that some DJs
favour rare records over good ones - and let's just add right here that
the Northern scene is hardly alone in those attitudes. So I don't see
what (or who) you're getting at.
Go to the other extreme and you get to crowd-pleasing wedding disco DJs,
or in the middle ground a club like Move On Up - which does play well
known Motown tunes and attracts an audience to match - students,
secretaries and hen nights (and a smattering of mods and soulies, but
mostly they have got bored and moved on) - but doesn't have the
progressive policy of a club like the Hideaway.
> Yeah I know. But I thought a fair bit of the stuff was recorded in >the
> early 70s.
> Wasn't it?! (can't think of an example..... YOU're the expert!)
> > You mean unlike Indie music which covers anything from indie-label indie
> >
> > to
> > actual big record releases and welsh bands to crap 90's British
> > pop......
>
> No I don't mean that silly! I think that's a stupid term too!
> What are you trying to say anyway?? Trying to fob me off with the old
> 'don't dig northern soul must be a stupid indie kid' thing??!
No Paul, it's just that we remember when you joined, and might be a bit
suspicious of pronouncements on the Northern Soul scene that aren't
backed up by club and track names, rather than stereotypes.
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