Jazzy D's Soul Notes

I went to Canterbury to sell some records at Vinylman Jr. in Castle Street. This was the second occasion I visited the store and last time received £25 for a good few. This time I had 33 Lps and left them with him for a quote. I have not received the quote yet, but I suspect he was busy and phone me tomorrow or I will contact him. I am hoping to get £50 for these.

I will let you know the result.

I had lunch in the city at the Wetherspoons pub. Being that it was steak day, I opted for a chicken dish instead. I had the lemon and herbs chicken with chips.

When I arrived back in Favesham, I sold a few books to Past Sentence, and picked up my blood pressure prescription from Boots.

For my evening snack, I had a banana and peanut butter sandwich on malted bread. Separtely they are nice but together it is a real delicious sensation.

I found three for fifty pence each and the fourth one was free in the end after complaining of the condition via Discogs. After judicious cleaning, it plays fine now. That is the Hal Willner tribute to Kurt Weill.

So i hear that the "Now That's What I Call Music" compilations has released its 100th edition is some kind of landmark BUT It is still crap - all the cahart hts i really hate and do not listen to.I have never bought one but these double CD's do seem to fill a gap for boring unimaginayive and exploratory music buyers and mainstream chompers,despite sites such a



Happy 100th Now That's What i Call Crap!

Here is another massive vinyl collection by Disco Patrick.

http://hotpeasandbutta.com/an-afternoon-with-disco-patrick/

Thanks to Masa Sutala for the link.

Not much doing today. Watched a live football game on the television in which Liverpool took Arsenal apart 5-1. Colin and his son came round as he supports the scouse team,

Earlier i watched a recording of yesterday's Mastermind in which a record shop manager from Manchester triumphed. I wonder which record shop he managed? Last time i visited Manchester i went round all the extant record shops seeing what cheap bargains i could get. A couple of them specialized in soul music, and of the region, particularly Northern Soul music. Mind you, this was a good few years ago and hence some of these shops may not even be around anymore.

So i thought to myself the days i am in Brighton i shall visit Wax Factor ,Across The Tracks, Borderline, Rare Kind,  and in Hove, Fine Records. That will prick up Julian's attention!  Note to self - take some classical CD's to sell or exchange at Fine Records.

These are the records i got cheap in Faversham for 25 pence each on Saturday -

Shakatak - Nightbirds (Polydor)
Shakatak - Down In The Street (Polydor)
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Epic)
Credence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum (Liberty)
Various Artists - Living Stereo (Contour)
Dan Hartman - I Can Dream About You / Instant Replay (MCA 12")
Brass Construction - Walkin' The Line (Capitol 12")
Alton Burnell - Live (CSA Records)

A journey towards the Medway towns today. Beforehand I visited Gravesend to do one visit and picked up four paperbacks from a charity shop for £1.50. At that price I could not resist. Bought the following -

“The Essential Spike Milligan” (Harper Perennial)
Sebastian Faulks “Charlotte Gray” (Vintage)
C.M. Palov “The Templar's Code” (Penguin)
Frank Mc.Court "Angela's Ashes" (Flamingo)

Then in Chatham I purchased a book from The Works , an Insight Guide to The Baltic States, for a quid. In Rochester some quality pipe tobacco, Old Dublin, another flavour in a tin.

Afterwards, i popped into Rainham to see if that record emporium still had the free albums outside the shop. They did , so i picked up five for free.

David Bowie "Changesbowie" (RCA 2xLP)
Nina Simone "To Love Somebody" (RCA)
Hall & Oates "Rock n' Soul Part One" (RCA)
Van McCoy "Disco Baby " (Avco)
Joyce Sims "Come Into My Life" (London)

Finally, in Sittingbourne i picked up some bird seed for the garden visitors.

Saturday I went out to the Northern Lights to have some food and particularly a fish dish as I have not had fish for other a month. Tim hates fish.

I had their smoked herring with potatoes and salad. Lovely.

When I arrived at the joint Ville and Gareth were unloading decks and record bags from a taxi. Ville and Ally Smith were spinning the vinyl for one of Ville’s friends birthday party. I still had a bag of records which Manu put away and played about an hours worth of funky vibes.

Sunday I saw Brighton Phil down at the Evening Star to give him his second book her ordered from me. I stuck with the splendid Six Hop Ale.

Afterwards I took a train to Worthing to do a Weatherspoons mystery shop and to see another friend I have not seen for ages. He was visiting relatives down this way as he still lives in Rugby, my birth place.

 Weather was poor with heavy precipitation that spoilt the day. In the end we just stayed in  a pub and I got back to Brighton for about 4.30pm.

Last night I watched the BAFTA awards on BBC1. The King’s Speech grabbed most of the awards which was expected but glad to see Inception pick up a few which I have yet to see.


Got quite a few records and CDs to post today from Discog sales and i want to see Mark at Monkey Music to sell off some vinyl.

It has been an incredible few days selling items on the Discogs website. Eleven items to a guy in Glasgow and another 10 to somebody else plus six more to another person. This has made me feel quite elated and i hope that it will continue at this level but there is a two day postal strike coming this Thursday which may dampen things.

Yesterday i picked up my records from the H place. Didn't realize i had so many records there , about four boxes.Had to get a taxi to do the short journey back to my place as it would have been quite impossible to try to walk home with them. I shall sort them out later into two piles,one pile for keeping and the other for selling.Sorting out records to play this Friday as well.

Sunday GC and I went to Cup for a lunchtime snack. We had two pizettes and an expresso coffee.It was her turn to do the mystery shop as i did it last month.The service was very slow and the guy who served us made a large blunder dealing with GC's debit card. It took awhile fro him to charge the correct money. At least the food was delicious.

BBC 4 has had some fascinating documentaries of late. The three part ELECTRIC DREAMS going through the technologies of the last three decades was riveting.It was revealing to look back to see how little technology there was in the 70's and that we only had three TV channels. I remember the old radiogram i use to play my first singles on way back in 1970.

The other documentary is the one on SYNTHPOP BRITANNIA. This was a history of the Moog and other synthesizers in British pop music. I had forgotten how much synthpop there was in the early eighties.I once owned The Human League's "Dare" LP. Favorite moments in that documentary was seeing Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, both more experimental than pop orientated.

Today seeing a film at the Odeon and tomorrow seeing a film at Cineworld down at the Marina.Reports later.