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About Me

My brother Andy (RIP) was to say the least a Black music obsessive, if he was not hunting through boxes of dusty records in various broken down sheds, record shops and attics around the country he was dancing in a town hall, back room of a boozer or some weekender in a dodgy holiday camp... As you can imagine some of that rubbed off on me!!!
I live and breath Black music, I spend every moment I can looking for those hidden gems and dancefloor belters... I love Soul, Jazz, Funk, Disco, Boogie, Soulful House/Garage, you get the picture...
Work wise, well it bores the hell outta me, so I won't bore you with the details but it keeps a roof over my head and vinyl on my turntable!!!

My Interests

Ahem, have you not paid attention to anything I have said... Its all about the Music and the Dancing!!!

I'd like to meet:

Other nutters like me... hehehehe, to be honest I probably have, I may have stepped on your toes on a dancefloor somewhere around the UK or got my hands on that last MAW 12" in some record shop somewhere... hehehehe...

Music:

Oh Jesus... here we go...2000Black
4Hero
Africa Bambaataa
Al Green
Basement Boys
Bembe Segue
Bettye Lavette
Billy Davidson
Blue Note
Booker T & the MG's
Breakestra
Bugz in the Attic
Compost Records
Danny Krivit
De la Soul
Dj Spinna
Donald Byrd
Dr Bob Jones - Sorry I missed you off Bob LOL
Etta James
Fela Kuti
FishGoDeep
FK â€“ Body and Soul Days
Gil Scott Heron
Gilles Peterson
Grand Central
IG Culture
Incognito
India
Isley Brothers
James Brown
Jill Scott
Keb Darge
Kool Herc
Larry Levan
Laws of Motion
Leroy Burgess
Marshall Jefferson
Masters at Work
Moody Man
Motown
Nervous NY
Nugroove
Patrick Adams
People
Peter Brown
Phil Asher
Prelude
Prestatyn Soul Weekenders
Quincy Jones
Rare Earth
Rock Steady Crew Roy Ayers
Rufus & Chaka Khan
Sade
Shep Pettibone
Soul II Soul
Southport Weekenders
Snowboy
Stevie Wonder
Straight No Chaser
Strictly Rhythm
Talkin'Loud
The Staple Singers
Trouble Funk
Ubiquity
Unabombers
UnoMelodic
WestEnd
That covers most of it, use your imagination for the rest!!!

Books:

Anything to do with Black music...

Heroes:

See Music... Oh and my Bro, love and miss you, I bet you are dancing now Bubba!!!

My Blog

Wednesday evening kick back track

Home from a hard day and while in the kitchen sorting my dinner I popped Raphael Saadiq "Instant Vintage" LP into the CD player... Before long, BAM!!! "Skyy, Can You Feel Me" comes on, a truely emotio...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:28:00 PST

Tunes foir nodding too!!!

Going back in time here peeps... But I have been seriously nodding to the sounds of Suggie Otis "FREEDOM FLIGHT" (Luaka Bop)A 12.55m trip through pure chilled grooves, perfect for those summer evening...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:53:00 PST