pop/chart dvds

[djjonesy105]

Hi, just wondered if anyone could reccommend any good suppliers of pop music dvds especially from the seventies and eighties. I have got a couple from ebay but can't seem to find many at all. All the usual dvd shops don't
seem to have much. The only place I have found is cd pool but they are quite expensive and it seems that you get about 6 decent tracks on each cd and the rest are just fillers. Also is there a license you should have to show them in public in the UK and if so where do you get one from ??? thanks

[sleepytom]

http://www.promoonly.com/
not cheap ether
the licence scheme is run by the VPL (http://www.musicmall.co.uk/vpl/vpl_content.nsf/contentview/p1?opendocument) but its the respocability of the venue to sort out not the DJ / VJ

[djjonesy105]

Yeah, thanks for the advice on the license. The promo only website that you mention is the same site as cd pool. Any other suggestions as I could do with building my collection. Thanks for taking the time to reply

Paul

[nommo]

www.mixmash.com

[3YE]

I heartily recommend the following sources for video material of all types from the seventies and eighties (assuming you can spend the time to capture and process):

Local market: In every town there is a solitary stall holder who seeks to defy the passage of time by stocking not only pirate DVD's, but also out of stock, end of line VHS tapes from a bygone era. My local market is particularly well blessed as there are two of these stalls in keen competition with each other, and the discerning buyer can use this to thier advantage. I myself was very fortunate to get copies of 'Alice in wonderland' (old BBC version with free book!) 'Yo-Yo tricks for beginners' and Mister Mister's seminal (some would say pretentious...) 80's AOR work 'broken wings' at the bargain knockdown price of all three for ?5

Charity shops:It's a sad fact of life that people die, and it's only slightly ameliorated by the occaisional donation of a persons wordly goods to a good cause. people who work in charity shops have thier own idea of what's valuable and what's not, so prepare to sort through five hundred jazzercise aerobics videos before you'll get lucky and find that uncertificated roman polanski film...

Skips: at the end of every tax year landlords evict people from thier homes and throw thier treasured possesions into the nearest skip. If you can get them before the rain does, there's a rich seam of old eastenders episodes and pornography waiting to be tapped.

The nice thing about VHS is the way it degrades, ie slooooowly. I don't have a single CD I burnt at home that's more than a couple of years old (damn shitty CD-R's:grrr: ) but the VHS just keeps piling up, as good today as it was ten years ago. plus if a tape breaks, i can get the scotch tape out and effect a repair, whereas if a CD breaks, I can only bin it, tears of loss welling in my eyes for all the data that will never again be loaded into ram...:cry:

Hope that helps

Matty

[nommo]

also... check the latest release from UMTV - "rewind" - has dvd videos such as hardcastle's '19' and bush's 'cloudbusting'

look out for more DVD bonuses with compilations...

peaces

nommo