Biggest fan / collector

I've got a piccy of Shuggy taking a piss in an alley in Seattle...

Not very Rare Jeff, he pisses in many an alley

I've got, somewhere in my mums loft, a letter from Rob Gretton containing a laminated backstage pass for their aug 84 uk tour along with a sticker for the studio 54 barca gig.

so who's got the Stiff Kitten demo tape?

Not a great collector, moi... Just the albums and whatever singles I can pick up second hand, and as for coffee mugs and mousemats... Only music I ever religiously collected/still collect is anything on Sarah Records...

Snorri xxx

medium-sized collector, myself.

all of the original factory releases on vinyl (singles and albums); all the LPs on cassette and CD; item, 511, 316, NO story; 50-60 live gigs on CD.

Hmmm good question... I think nobody can be compared to Sultan. So let's try second best. I have over 400 NewOrder items, plus 250 for JD/OT/Electronic/Monaco. I don't collect live tapes, audio or video. I have a few (like 4) bootlegs CDs that I never ever listen to. And I just count them because they're not cd-rs. Most of my items are music - I'm very poor on memorabillia. I also collect KLF 808 State The Smiths and oh well Morrissey.

[white]I used to have a PSB collection, but they simply went to a way I didn't like with 'before' - 10 years ago. It's like NO recording a whole album of Working Overtime tunes.[/white]

Has to be monseiur sultan . He has without doubt the Biggest norder collecky in the world,hats off to the man for his dedication,Having said that he does seem to have a bottomless pit of money!

The rockets collection is probably the mintiest of them all,he did say that it was a cheap collection too,its bound to be when folk keep sending him promos!

Nick kings collecky is pretty similar to mine,although i think he may have a few more promos than i have .

At the last count i think i had 200+ promos inc side projects.

My own collection is as some of you know about 13 A4 pages long,certainly not the biggest or best,but i dare say that i have probably one of the most up to date and complete promo collections in the uk.

Having said that though,i find that i am getting "tired" of trying to get all these different promos that turn up on ebay.Jees there are bloody hundreds of them,so unless i can get them for a song then my promo collecting days are numbered.

Its not a race,its not showing off,mines bigger than yours mentality,its about dedication to the cause and to be honest i didnt even know what a promo was until 2001!

We are all new orders biggest fans whenever we buy there music,so does it really matter?

I would probably say the nicest thing in my collection has to be an absolute minty mint copy of the still hessian lp inc original ribbon.

there was a thread about this where you listed your collections... (handy for insurance purposes!)

but yeah, the sultan of bling defo has the best one - question is, now HOT1 has gone what does hooky use? HOT2?

i only have one crystal promo. i do have just about all their vinyl which i got when they first came out. before the wftsc single my last vinyl was technique.

hibster wrote: there was a thread about this where you listed your collections... (handy for insurance purposes!)

but yeah, the sultan of bling defo has the best one - question is, now HOT1 has gone what does hooky use? HOT2?

From what I understand, David had a 'HOT TOO' commissioned and swapped that with Hooky for HOT 1.

The rest of us, it appears, are fighting for second-best.

But collecting is one thing that's easy to quantify. How it compares to the dedication of the widely-travelled Vikings is a moot point. There's also something to be said for some far-flung international fans who've remained true despite the lack of tours, exposure, excessive cost of collecting, etc.

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Snorrimon wrote: Not a great collector, moi... Just the albums and whatever singles I can pick up second hand, and as for coffee mugs and mousemats... Only music I ever religiously collected/still collect is anything on Sarah Records...

Snorri xxx

Are Sarah Flexi's worth owt then?

Too right JT - i've still got all my Sarah Records stuff & still play them - cor remember Fieldmice, Sea Urchins, Blueboy etc. Those were the days. Bristol not Manchester eh. Pristine Christine indeed!! Remember Foxdude records down Leicester (i believe)- they used to get some quality stuff in, remeber getting a promo of 'Leeds Station' by Parachute Men. Ha the memories :)

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:

hibster wrote: there was a thread about this where you listed your collections... (handy for insurance purposes!)

but yeah, the sultan of bling defo has the best one - question is, now HOT1 has gone what does hooky use? HOT2?

From what I understand, David had a 'HOT TOO' commissioned and swapped that with Hooky for HOT 1.

The rest of us, it appears, are fighting for second-best.

But collecting is one thing that's easy to quantify. How it compares to the dedication of the widely-travelled Vikings is a moot point. There's also something to be said for some far-flung international fans who've remained true despite the lack of tours, exposure, excessive cost of collecting, etc.

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Now Hooky use HOT TOO as his main bass, HOT is the spare one.

Much respect to the Viking for representing all over the globe.

although i started buying in 81 my collection really started to grow when i discovered ebay. you never saw any promo's here in the Netherlands but with ebay they're all over the place. :) so my collection is ... NO - 660 JD - 260 the rest 220 i do collect live shows as well, now just under 200 :)

What would you save in a fire?

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:

There's also something to be said for some far-flung international fans who've remained true despite the lack of tours, exposure, excessive cost of collecting, etc.

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if thor heyerdahl could travel by raft....

i would say the only things that would be very hard to replace would be my vinyl acetates. the rest could be bought again if i had enough time/money. i would also save my pc as all the info i gathered on NO is on there and all the live shows i collected.

veronika wrote: What would you save in a fire?

Probably bugger all - I'd definitely try and save other things over any records/cd's etc... All things in a collection can be replaced at some point in the future, and for those that can't - ah well, such is life!

I had Fac 120 in red

but lost the bastard

coolest dude at school with that on my blazer :D