100 Club Anniversary Singles 6T’s 1979-2009 – Various Artists CD (Kent)

The 6Ts 100 Club all-nighters are about to celebrate their 30th anniversary, an unsurpassed event in discotheque and youth cult history, as these nights have been going about 15 years longer than anything similar.

Yearly from 1986, strictly limited pressings of approximately 400 vinyl 45s have been given out at the September anniversary dances. Mostly unissued titles taken from master tapes, they have been an eagerly awaited event on the Northern Soul scene ever since. This compilation brings all the A-sides together on CD for the first time and includes the very first issued in 1984.

The singles become instant collectors items nowadays, with the first copy on eBay hitting the £50 plus mark immediately. Some are so in-demand that a three-figure price tag is not unknown.

Each track has an interesting history that Father to the Vinyl, Ady Croasdell, will tell in the sleevenotes along with all the amusing (and embarrassing) anecdotes.

It is the CD debut of Jackie Day’s unreleased Modern-recorded in-demand dancer ‘Get To Steppin’’ which is this year’s anniversary 45: but keep it to yourself – just say the last track will be the final piece in the jigsaw.  –  Ace Records