With Record Store Day just around the corner we went crate digging with Thomas Maxwell Shore – rare vinyl collector and resident DJ at Picture House Soul Club.
COASTERS
THREE COOL CATS
Kelham Island is getting better for buying records, and this is one I found at Indie Arcade on Scotland Street. The Beatles spent four years trying to match this tune when they failed an audition for Decca Records (big mistake!). Visit Kelham Island Books and Music for more of the same and one adorable little puppy!
DEE DEE WARWICK
WHERE IS THAT RAINBOW
I discovered this on a wet Monday morning at the Castle Rag and Tag on King Street. It’s had a few spins at Picture House Social (where I DJ the second Friday of the month, come on down!) to a great reception. It’s a really rare soul track and the kind of music you’d want to drink a nice chilled cocktail to.
GENO WASHINGTON AND THE RAM JAM BAND
I’VE BEEN HURT BY LOVE
I got this record from West Street Oxfam in 2015. I think I paid about 49p for it which is probably about 1% of its value. This is the same Geno that the Dexy Midnight Runners sang that song about. He played a lot at the Mojo Club in Pitsmoor during the 1960s and his music can still be heard today in Sheffield at events like Room at the Top R&B Club and Pow Wow.
THE VIBRATIONS
LOVE IN THEM THERE HILLS
A recent find after a good old crate dig in Spinning Discs on Chesterfield Road. They’ve got lots of great second-hand records in the back room, which is what I tend to collect nowadays. Sheffield has great hills but you don’t see bands singing about them in the same way as the Vibrations do here – and I’m not sure a funk soul track about Gleadless Valley would work quite as well!
TIMEBOX
GONE IS THE SAD MAN
There was a really good charity shop in Woodhouse that used to stock a good box of 45s that I would go and look over time and time again. This track was easily my best find there – a dandy pop psych masterpiece – and a track that you’ll probably hear me play at my ‘Lift Up Your Skirt and Fly’ night at the Dorothy Pax in May.
