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CSC Dome 3rd Anniversary Plays
Thanks to the CSC lot have ripped a few off the playlists ( hit read more ) from that nite, and if want to read more inc reviews and quotes from that nite...
just get your arse over to csc web site
Gregs set list not in order of play
Gwen Owens - Just Say Your wanted & Needed - Velgo
Fuller Brothers - Moaning Groaning & Crying - Keyman
Utopias - Girls are against Me - La Salle
Flash McKinley - Ill rescue You - Bombay
Mayfield Singers - Don't Stop None - Unissued Vocal
Gloria Edwards - My love Keeps getting Stronger -Unissued
New Wanderers - Aint gonna do you no harm - Ready
Moses Smith - Try My love - Unissued Virtue
Judy Freedman - Hold On - Unissued extended version
Groovettes - Think it over baby - Reness
Other Brothers - Its been a long time - Modern
Johnny Maestro - Stepping out of the Picture - Scepter
Explosive Dynamiks - Whole lotta love - Lemco
Gary Dean - You can say - Young
Purple Mundi - Stop hurting me baby - Cat
Districts - One lover just wont do - Nile
Pat Lewis - No one to love - Solid Hit
Nat Hall - You just dont know (how i feel) - Loop
John&The Weirdest - No time - Tie
Troy Dodds - Try my love - El Camino
Ty Karim - You really made it good top me - Romark
Curly Moore - You dont mean - Sansu
Kindly Shepherds - Lend me your hand - Checker
Pete Hulatts sets:
Set 1
Tangeers - Let my heart and soul be free - Okeh
Monclairs - Hey you - Arch
Seven Souls - I still love you - Okeh
Yum Yums - Gonna be a big thing - ABC
Patti&the Emblems - Gonna love you a long...- Kapp
Jackie Wilson - Because of you - Brunswick
Majestics - (I love her so much) it hurts me- Linda
New Yorkers - I dont want to be youre fool - Tac-full
Ivorys - Please stay - Dispensa
Cashmeres - Don't let the door hit you... - Hem
Eula Cooper - Our love will grow higher - Super Sound
Pamela Beaty - Talkin eyes - Tip
Four Voices - Our love is getting stronger - Voice
Set 2
Fascinators - In other words - Bombay
Capitals - I cant deny that I love you - Omen
Joe Matthews - Sorry aint good enough - Kool Kat
Sandi Sheldon - You gonna make me love you - Okeh
Del- Larks - Job Opening - Queen City
Donna King - Take me home - Hot Line
Illusions - You dont have to leave - Lamon
Ty Karim - Lighten up - Car-a-mel
Martha Starr - Love is the only solution - Thelma
Tamala Lewis - You wont say nothing - Marton
Tempos - I'll never forget - Diamond Jim
Chuck Flamingo - What are my chances with you - Rojac
Carol Fredericks - I couldnt care less - Stonel
Bobby Kline - Say something nice to me - MB
David Flynns Playlist
Limitations - Im Lonely, Im Troubled - Bacone
Chandeliers - Fading Day -Loadstone
Les Chansonettes - Don't Let Him Hurt You - Shrine
Monique - I Wouldn't Believe - Maurci
Fran Oliver - Searchin For My Man - C/Up
Sidney Barnes - Safety Zone -Jobete Acetate
The Jokers - Soul Sound - Sko Field
Six Feet Under - Soul Over Easy - Le Cam
Del Larks - Out Of The In-Crowd - Jet
Hyperions - Why You Wanna Treat Me... - Chattahoochee
Diplomats - I Really Love You - Arock Unissued
Adams John - So In Love - Silver Bull
2nd.Set Double Decking With Carl Fortnum
Nomads - Somethings Bad - Mo Groov
Soul Inc. - My Proposal - Coconut Groove
Major Lance - You Dont Want Me No More - Okeh
Detroit Rhythm Section - I Know Something - Unissued
Helen Troy - Bring That Man My Way - C/Up
Joey Delorenzo - Wake Up To The Sunshine Girl- Mi Val
Ralph Graham -She Just Sits There - Upfront
Alan Hs Sets included:
1st set
Accents - who you gonna love - One-derful
Shirley Wahls - Because I love you - French Vogue
Soul Twins - Shes the one - Backbeat
Gene Toones - So glad trouble dont last - Simco
Toni & Showmen - Try my love - Tenstar
Tommy Payton - Mountain of soul - Staff
Billy Butler - Sweet darling - Brunswick
Ernie Washington - How about you - Chattahoochee
2nd set double-decking with Greg
Chuck Jackson - Well find a way - Motown LP
Eddie & Ernie - I cant do it - Eastern
Marion James - That's my man - Excello
Sinner Strong - Dont knock it - Serock
Mousie&Traps - How about you - Toddlin Town
Ronnie Forte - Nervous breakdown - Tarx
Frank Foster - Harlem rumble -Triode
Donna King - Take me home - Hot Line
Joanie Sommers - Dont pity me - Warner Bros.
27 Dec - Monkeys Xmas Box - 2 rooms 11 Djs - Rare Soul Feast
Yes its all jacked up for the 27 Dec and were going for a Monkey xmas feast !
Regular djs Andy Rix (returning to do the monkey after escaping from the last two) and of course Rob Thomas
Special guests for this rave up being Dave Rimmer and Brian Ellis, we reckon its going to be a non-stop rare soul xmas party in the main room, but seeing its xmas have also grabbed Colin and John from the renowned club Halifax Yorkshire Riders to get things kicking from the word go!
Also if thats not enough for you. also sees the return of the Chameleon Room, as its name, its always changing, this time going for a bit of a different format than last two
its time for All-era format,
dishing out all the best soul licks all the way up to the year 2002
Guest DJ being Paul Baldwin whos been doing big things with the upstairs room at Tonys and also featuring some of North Wales finest all-era spinners Mark, Phil, and Chico .
So thats what you got on offer for the Xmas Box - 11 djs, 2 rooms, and the finest quality fresh exciting rare soul you can handle.
Along with a free monkey cd for the first 50 in and other xmas going ons, just say you better go easy on that turkey!
The Drunken Monkey Soul Club - get that monkey stuffed
Full details, info on venue etc all here on site
Valatone on Saturday
REPORTS OF RARE SOUL MAYHEM REPORTED ALL OVER UK AND BEYOND!!
Heard 100 club was a great niter, (was the farewell to Shifty one) Tonys and Closterworth Fox on the ball as well (see earlier news), good reports of a new first nite of event at Chester.Nottinghams Union Club is yet another quality event that is kicking up a storm and very good reports on this Fridays one
(Know the man behind it Mick H blew us away at the last DMSC with a last minute arranged spot). Over in Sweden it seems that Andy Dyson was causing more rare soul damage at the Real Side soul club.
Next weekend its back on the rare soul trail with events like Albrighton, CSC Dome xmas bash, Broughton, Lowton, Llandudno niter and more all keeping things going.
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New Manifesto out - as always a good interesting read and surely now the top "glossy" fanzine,
Good articles,good reading and great balanced view.(myself would say the only "glossy" fanzine as some of the Togetherness mag northern content slips even further into the world of pure fantasy and to me is just a glossy sales leaflet for KRL ltd northern wise)
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New articles, dmsc news and media coming up later/tomorrow.
FAQ - just up as qs come up will add, currently just one about event submission
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Heard of a few disapointed soul fans as they realised the flyers with heading of
Russ Winstanely V Ian Levine
were for an actual music event not for a bit of an encounter in the pub carpark
Only come to light after Russ Winstanely got many phonecalls from disgruntled soul fans complaining "Oi Russ! theres a bloody queue, get to the back of it""
as always enjoy your soul
mike:)
Colsterwood Fox - Rare Soul Nite/ Tonys Niter Blackburn - lookback
Instead of us hiring a car Steve t had jacked up a pre booked cheap 7 seater discovery thing so we can meander thru the midlands of england to get to
a night of RARE SOUL at the FOX - COLSTERWORTH - DJ,s THE DOWLING DUO, CARL LLOYD, ANT PRICE
Guest DJs STEVE THOMAS,CIRO,JOHN WALMSLEY
cutting it short, got there 150 miles 2 and half hours ish later, no probs, its south of cworth if going, as we tried the north bit first as garage semed to think were 2.
Nice venue, hotel/pub style venue on A1. Nice layout inside, and smart floor, record seller area and minor stuff like the bar all ok
Crowd wise, place wasnt packed and was told it was a bit quieter than usual, due to the number of events on elsewhere? Was just a few familar faces including dmsc 100% regulars Stuart and Wendy I, from St Ives, Oogie from soul talk come over and said hello along and passed on his quote "often say if we was only allowed to attend ONE Soul night a year....COLSTERWORTH would be the one!!!!!"
A lot of almost familar or not regonised faces, as was the first time in this part of the world on soul side, made a nice change meeting people who come from such exotic places as Grismby and beyond, all a bit cosmopoltian compared to Bolton etc
Sales box up and out and did the "buy my unwanted records as xmas is coming". Nite before did well, not so much this nite, but a few deposits and phone numbers gave hope of buying little Timmie Hughes that new crutch.
Some interesting stuff on sale, two copies of one of our lot much searched for and much desired on other side of country want were found.
Seemed a lot of interest in early soul stuff here by buyers with ought that looks just a bit old being given a listen to.
Talked to a few including the group who run night, as told was started in a very familar and often repeating fashion nowadays. Not their actual words but "its the same old story"
Sick of hearing the same boring safe stuff that gets pushed out at some venues
Decided to get together and start up their own rare soul nites, playing the music what they want to hear
Crowd seems to agree! Many knowledgable and respected people here, and the whole feel of nite was people coming to enjoy the music events like this seem to thrive on.
Sounds
Great stuff, a much needed refresh of my soul senses , quality sounds from quality djs, no policy, no dance floor pressure, leaving the djs to deliver what they wanted, all gave out quality worthwhile sets, which reflected their own tastes and style.
Djs list THE DOWLING DUO, CARL LLOYD, ANT PRICE Guest DJs STEVE THOMAS, CIRO, JOHN WALMSLEY
As may have noticed given up notes, memory tricks, or even efforts of trying to remember loads of what was played as not really time or the mental thought process at moment
Basic feel of whole nite was a bit of a early edge, some more than others, r&b tracks out and about, along with mix of all styles of 60s rare quality soul
Seemed the djs enjoyed doing it, know steve t says he did.
Tonys: Blackburn
Come around 1 am it was time to move on, with choice of down the a1 to 100 club niter or up to Tonys Blackburn niter, the small fact car had to be back by 9am made the choice bit easier, off up a1 and thru to the drive round blackburn 11 times part of the nite.
Got to say numbers were a bit down, however was a great feel and friendly buzz to the place, as always much catch up and sorting out of things were done. Think one of appeals to me of Tonys to me is the local pub feel of cafe bit, go in and straight away feel on familar ground, familar faces, familar greets and so on. While at times dont always enjoy some of the sounds some of the djs push out , though suppose someone somewhere must, usually they are balanced out by a quality set by other dj.
The disapperance of the whole worlds stock of latest dmsc flyers caused a laugh or two, though a bit of bin-diving retrieved them.Caught up with Paul B whos well up for his guest bit in the revamped second room at next dmsc, informed him no longer billed as Paul "Banging " Baldwin as could be mis-interpeted!
Well nite was coming to end for us and just caught the annoucement of "thanks for the support" message over the mic which went down well, and it was get back to where we come from.
Bit of a long one,gotta say recommend the Rare Soul nite at the Fox in Closterworth, a night of quality stuff, great crowd, great feel and thanks to all concerned for a great enjoyable nite. Another event that belongs on that ever growing list of Quality Rare Soul Events in uk where quality soul and punter friendly feel are the main driving force! You know it makes sense
As always Tonys was Tonys and though we only had a few hours as always most enjoyable, some quality sounds and a good old laugh!
Well after the last two weekends travel marathons, I looked at the next weeks events and was well relieved
Next weekend sees a niter at ....Llandudno and its a 5 min walk from my front door, no hire cars , people movers, hours of taking piss out of each other or inanae vinyl questions, no petrol cash, just pick up me fags and outta door.
Mmmm just saw details of a weekender in germany , dont even think about it!!
cheers
mike
Anyway as always just my own view on going ons and as always it would be well appreciated if any attending any events of nite would like to post up views.
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VALATONE WAS CANCELLED/100 Club and blitz reports
CSC Xmas Event Change
BADDA BING! GOODFELLAS NIGHT run by a good friend of ours
Randy C. is joined by Ady Croasdale, Tony Smith and that broad from up town, Karen Bedford for a night of Motown starters then NEW YORK tunes all the way with 50s&60s SOUL, DOO WOP & MOB favourites. Nice dancefloor&bar and no doubt a bit of Dino thrown in for good measure. Make sure you mention Randys name on the door otherwise you anit getting in!!!!! This looks set to be a blinding night so get yourselves down early and welcome in 2003 with the scenes largest family.
An offer you cant refuse - fuggedaboutit!!!
TheBigO
THIS SAT 7TH DEC AT THE 100 CLUB
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A Xmas Carol Review - Winston
A Xmas Carol Review - Winston
Well what a weekend, it started just how I wanted, it to with Janine picking up myself and Steve Heinsen from Bedford. Made really good time getting to Willington near Derby, (a mini-nighter, 9 til 4 a.m.) with Janine expertly and safely driving her way through the snow and other associated bad conditions. We arrived around a quarter to ten, and were pleasantly surprised just how many people were there, given the conditions, and the fact that there were at least 3 more soul nights on within a 40/50 mile location. Some early dancers were going through their paces, so all in all the promise of a good night was in store. As the night progressed the crowd built up to probably between 250 to 300 and included fellow KTF members, Andy Humberston and Dale Rose (Dancer) and Mandy P.
The atmosphere on the night was excellent, and everyone seemed to be in particularly good humour, even Dale when he was hit in the head by a snowball aimed with great precision, by the modess Janine 🙂 The lovely Sandy didnt bring any food with her, so I did get a little peckish later on in the night, but I was determined not to let my hunger pangs get the better of me and battled on against the starvation as most guys would do.:-) The dance-floor after 11 was mostly packed right through til about 3 and then people started to disappear, the usual selection of sounds were on offer, with Kenny Burrell supplying the rarer stuff. Whatever was played on the night was right to be honest, it was a party atmosphere and thoroughly enjoyable for everyone.
Onto Saturday night: I decided to try Mansfield as a warm up before Trentham, difficult to describe really, as again a party atmosphere prevailed, there was even a fancy dress competition. But for me it never quite got off the ground, the dance-floor was atrocious, Ive never seen wood that had been furrowed before, .....well until tonight. 🙂 It really was almost impossible to dance on, everybody was making the effort, but thats exactly what it was an effort. I did see Carl from Nottingham do an incredible sequence of drops during Edwin Starrs - "Time" but to anybody who has witnessed Carl dancing in the past, this will come as no surprise. Kenny Burrell was again guesting and as ever enjoying himself behind the decks. We left at just before midnight to make our way to Trentham, again the weather was very bad, but after about an hour or so, we arrived at our destination.
Great sets from the "Rimmerman" and "Butch" and also Guy Hennigan. Although the numbers did not match Willington the night before, there was still a fair few there, and the dance-floor was normally full. The floor was a little fast for most, but you cant have everything. 7 a.m. quickly arrived, and bought to an end, what in my opinion was a marvellous all-nighter and one which I look forward to going to again in the near future. As ever, these days there were some other KTFrs there, Michelle and Caz if Im going to name-drop.:-) New years eve, arrived and I hadnt really made a decision where to go, the soul nights on offer, although tempting, involved a lot of travelling and all had early finishes. Through Janines contacts on the mod scene, it turned out that there was a mod all-nighter on in Clacton so the die was cast, and off I went with Janine. Ive got to say from the off, Im well impressed with the time and effort taken by the "Mods" to ready themselves. A great deal of attention to detail is obviously paid, from the Steve Marriot hair cuts, to the smart suits and dresses. It is very much an image thing, and the dedication to it can only be admired, almost a religious fixation with everything 6Ts. I was introduced to no end of "Mods" young and old, male and female and I thought one of the guys Caspar I think his name was, really looked cool. There is a lot of young blood on this scene, eighteen year olds etc, and if as I suspect some drift to the northern scene, it bodes well for the future. Musically I would say that half the music played tonight had northern roots, with particular emphasis on R&B. A lot of R&B sounds currently on offer on the traditional northern scene, were played here tonight, and all graciously accepted and danced to. I would have liked to have heard more Motown or Atlantic stuff, as Im sure these would have been played in yesteryear, but at the end of the day, it was new years eve.:-) Although I stood out like a sore thumb, my tie lasted from the car until I got in the venue 🙂 a lot of the "Mods" took the time to talk to me, (hello to Helen and Paul) and it was interesting discussing the 6Ts with lads of no more than 21. I must say as well they were pretty knowledgeable, and had researched the subject quite thoroughly. The style of dancing is definitely different in the main, but northern steps are creeping in, wont be long before theyre in spencers and vests.:-) I must confess that as 6 a.m. came and went I fell asleep, the night was supposed to finish at 5 a.m. but carried on until about half past seven, at which time Janine woke me up and told me it was time to go. I didnt fall asleep through boredom, I must emphasise, but through being dog tired, the weekend had finally caught up with me.:-) An excellent end to the year if somewhat different, and I look forward to seeing some of the younger "Mods" at various northern events throughout the year. Finally a happy new year to all the people I have met on and off KTF throughout the year, and I look forward to meeting all of you again, and some new faces, over the coming year.
Soulfully Yours. Winston 🙂 KTF.
Dome CSC 3rd Annivesary - And So it Continues Review
Written for off-list thing with soul talk bit added on for list, so apoligies if context not quite right
Well after a fair sized gap since making the trip down south, felt the third anniversary was a good time to get down to what have always considered one of the most enjoyable soul nites that have been to.
Plan was to get a full coach load of the worse dmsc reprobates around, who are currently not in jail or exile in spain and burn a path of crazy rare soul mayhem right across the face on England.
Well that was the plan ! Just say am handing in me travel agent badge right now,
After 30 + expressing a def interest plans were firm, but after a week of a lot of drop-outs, on Monday the monkey bus turned into first a minibus, then on wed a 7 seater and then finally due to high cost a five seater jap estate from bangersr us a couple of hours before the setoff ( Anyone planning similar watch out for the mileage extra costs ). A lot of factors, work, xmas, cash, came into play. and the day of travel saw frantic last min changes as trying to get the lowest cost. Have to apologise to the 3 who couldnt be fitted in, but if had got bigger vehicle cost almost doubled and would have made the trip a non-starter
Still managed to assemble a fairly desperate bunch of dmsc members with the likes of kit the jock, dick john, bob shaffer, paul o and meself all geared up for a trip down south.
Trip down was a record! After the usual north wales pick up confusion, have done this 101+ times and still goes wrong, wrong turnings, delays and so on.
Once all picked up and I had been substituted as driver we set off. We managed to get from Springfield Hotel (dmsc home base) area to Tufnall Park in 3 and a half hours....on a Friday nite? and with a stop ? Yep, as slept most of way have no idea how or even if it was legal, but just say was most welcome.Gotta say thanks to the CSC promoters/door staff as they were expecting us, and got a good welcome, "that monkey lot is here" along with the latest status symbol for the discerning soul types the anniversary keyring.(Top quality and already replaced me merc thing)
Thru doors and first noticed that a few changes, the cloakroom has gone, which was a bit discerning, as better half Sue had spent two years doing the coats in there and a few funny stories could be told. But then things were back to normal with familiar sight of Nick B dishing out flyers for next big event in London (next friday is Scenesvilles Christmas party at the Glasshouse club in Blackfriars).Fairly packed already with a good feel, time to hit bar.Many faces hadnt seen for a while so was a nite of catch up and all that.
Crowd wise, official figure was 400+ and as said had a good feel, as always whole range of age groups which is always refreshing, on travels round met people knew from all over Cambridge, midlands, north west, scotland, holyhead, finland, yorkshire - all of them,north east, south west, south east etc etc - be easier to have put all over uk and beyond.
Record room was busy with many familiar faces, Andy Dyson said he was fairly busy, an american seller seemed to being doing well, as always me own vinyl account was in red so avoided temptation of browsing. A request from Claire - Needs help finding 45 of "satan wont you let me" - Brenda Starr - Atco anyone help? get in touch if you can please.Jo Wallace was doing the cloakroom thing in corner, a quick bit of chat bout chatham soul in early 80s.
Sounds wise - not sure how much or if format has changed a bit since last time, and as an anniversary nite always going to be a bit different, heard many familiar CSC sounds, a fair few new unfamilars, a lot more 70s+ along with a fair few revivals, thought heard an an andy rix instru (the ive got something one)? though as out for an enjoyable nite wasnt that sure. Mick Smith was main guest and Pete Hulatt Will add playlists when out so can get full view rather than my snapshot recollections.
Nite seemed to finish too early, the lights went on for final finish and then spotted more who had to either catch up or sort something out . Greg finished nite with the "thats it no more, sorry no more, no thats it. " ...."oh ok then" and then after a pause let loose the Kindly Shepards which worked really well and a great way to underline the nite.
Got out off there, then a short nip up the motorways of england back to the homeland, arriving at 7 am time taken up with vinyl trivia, stories, solving all the world problems and all that. An impromptu after event session as had to wait till hand in hire car.
My view on nite was well enjoyable, it had been too long since last down there and had a great old time, the rest of the dmsc outing all thought nite was well enjoyable and impressed with sounds, feel of place and enthusaism of everyone and glad they risked the perils of putting their lives in hands of dmsc travel division
After 3 years on from that memorable first nite, glad to report that CSC lot still going strong, and after all the events of last year am well pleased to say that.
And sure that come next year be saying just the same again .
As a footnote, on events of last 12 months could say a lot as have strong feelings on some of the occurrences that went on by so called "figures" of this scene.
But for now all I will say is big thanks for the last 3 years to all CSC, the current crew plus all those who have been involved in the last 3 years especially including the original promoter Matt J.
Often read people saying how this scene is crying out for new blood, freshness and all that.
Well CSC have been doing that for 3 + years now, continually attracting fresh young soul fans, a young (compared to other events -evil grin- ) dj and promotion set up, fresh ideas, and best of all doing things the right way but as proved last nite the CSC is still strong and doing what it is good at.
Offering a quality rare soul punter friendly event
Hats well off to them, in fact throw the things up in air!!!!!!!!
mike h
Nods to all met and are readin this both, too many too list. Soul talk types, online, non-online, dmsc regulars and even the odd dmsc reg dj
Shrine: The rarest soul label Vol 2 cdkend 190
SHRINE: THE RAREST SOUL LABEL VOL 2 • CDKEND 190
by Ady Croasdell
The catalogue number gives it all away.
This is KENT 190 and were already up to CDKEND 214 with the Eddie & Ernie release. It was only one small problem, but that was enough to delay us by two years; the tapes for three of the tracks werent good enough and it took us that long to sort it out. Unfortunately thats not so unusual for Ace, who try to ensure the finest sound quality for all our releases.
Of course it was worth the wait and we can now conclude Kents venture to bring you the world of Shrine Records; the most revered and talked about rare soul label ever. Volume 2 of the story wraps up all the outstanding releases and unissued tapes that appeared on the Horaces LPs a dozen years ago, but also has some outstanding exclusives of its own. The most notable of these are the two Bobby Reed tracks that I discovered in a tape vault about five years ago and which happened to be outstanding 1966 dancers. Baby Dont Leave Me is typically Shrine with a pounding fast beat, strings and heavenly backing singers, while Caldonia Brown is more Jackie Wilsons mid-60s Brunswick style.
Label owner Eddie Singleton was of course working at Brunswick as well at the time and had previously produced Jackies SOUL GALORE LP. While Bobby Reed had also had a Brunswick release of his Clay Town You Are single, so the connection is not surprising. From the same period came the exquisite Wisemens ballad I Wouldnt Mind Crying, written by Eddie and one of his favourite pieces of work. Whilst also in the slow and moody vein, is a lovely DC Blossoms track This Is Your Last Chance, that was found tucked away on the original Shrine 1/2" master tapes and had been missed when I originally went through them with Eddie.
There's also the rousing Take A Look At Your Baby by the Cautions; that originally came from the Scepter studios where the master tapes were left when Eddie hurriedly left New York. It is from the same session that produced Fall Guy and the late 1966 influence of a very slightly off-beat rhythm can be felt on both songs. So thats five new Shrine recordings exclusive to this CD, and the final track Peaches Baby is virtually in this category. This is the rarest of the rare; the last release to be confirmed when Shrine super-sleuth Andy Rix found one of the group (who we only knew about from what we then considered to be an unissued master tape of My Only Love), who confirmed that the single had come out and that indeed he had a copy.
As the A-side Peaches Baby had never been heard apart from as the instrumental backing track, its arrival was eagerly anticipated. But tragedy struck when it was posted across the Atlantic Ocean with virtually no protection, on this the most brittle of all labels, and arrived in pieces. Some time later US collector and dealer Lew Stanley picked up a copy and kindly allowed us to dub the precious 45, so we can at last include it and complete the story.
The sound quality is admittedly poor and may have been the reason for the scarcity of the disc if, as has been speculated, it was withdrawn from sale for this reason. But the effort, tears and wranglings that have gone into finding the thing meant it was inevitable it would make it on to this CD if only for curiosity's sake alone. One or two of the other tracks are aurally below Kents usual standard, but that was a problem that no doubt contributed to the complex reasons for Shrines rarity and collectability.
The Cairos Don't Fight It is the other most notable example with no master tape and this dub actually taken from a super-rare mint copy of the record but still sounds audibly confused. Its musical merits are high and again its a must have on the CD.
When master tapes were available the quality of Shrines work is fully revealed and tracks like the Prophets If I Had (One Gold Piece), the Enjoyables Shame and Sidney Halls Im A Lover shine out as great examples of mid 60s soul music at its most sophisticated and creative.
Eddie Dayes ballad, What Am I Gonna Do is a slow soul masterpiece and Ray Pollards This Time and The Cautions No Other Way are Northern Soul classics whose mid 80s spins created enough enthusiasm to get the scene through its darkest days. Northern Soul and 60s soul in general owes a huge debt to Eddie Singleton, Raynoma "Miss Ray" Gordy, Stanley Ossman, Carl Kidd, Kenny Lewis and Harry Bass, along with all the artists, for pursuing a dream that wasnt realised but left us a wonderful legacy of music to savour and enjoy for ever.
Frobisher Wakefield sat nite
Up The Monkey! Nov 2002 review
Regrettably, despite having read a lot about them, we havent been able to attend the previous DMSC nights so, when the five of us arrived at 8.45pm we were all officially monkey virgins!!
Having paid our soul tax, we walked into the main room and immediately you could tell the room had atmosphere - WHY HAVENT WE GOT VENUES LIKE THIS IN SHROPSHIRE!! we all cried. What a great place!!
Having grabbed some seats we headed for the bar and that was the second pleasant suprise of the night. £6.40 for five drinks!!!
I thought (perhaps in some bizarre tribute to Stafford top-of-the-world) that the beers were being charged at 1980s prices!!
Whilst at the bar, the tunes started to hit me. Hang on, I thought. Were still in the first hour of this night and already the big tunes are playing. If the tunes are this good early on, things could only get better
- And I wasnt disappointed!! It was like being new to the scene again.
LOADS of records Ive NEVER heard before - Superb. A track by Prince Paul was played twice and this was the highlight of the night for me. WHAT AN AWESOME RECORD and Ive never heard it before.
Taking my seat again, my aged fellow soulie Chic said what we were all thinking, this is like an allnighter atmosphere, he said. Its like the
tunes that used to get played at Droylesden and Hyde Town Hall. This truly was praise indeed as these two venues rank highly in my list of all
time favourite venues.
Suddenly on comes Teardrops by Soul Bros. Inc. and were up and dancing
This was to be the third suprise of the night!!
I have, for over 10 years assumed the slippyist dancefloor in the world was at a soul nite we used to go to at a working mens club in Leigh. THE
SPRINFIELD HAS PROVEN ME WRONG!! What have you done to the thing!!?? It was like ice!! I went up to ask the DJ for a record at one point and nearly paid the ultimate price. Surely no-one in the history of Rare Soul has ever fallen on their @rse on a dancefloor whilst simply walking across it
(unless very drunk!!).
Anyway, I soon learned that by dancing on the edge of the carpet I could survive and I will make sure that next time I wear trainers!! Ill have to do something because when youre hearing tunes like Troy Dodds, Arthur Willis and Buddy Smith not dancing is not an option!!
As you can tell, we are now all firmly Monkey converts and we will be regulars at future nights. My only regret is that the Christmas one clashes with the do we run at the White House in Cannock. Anyway, I hope that goes well and we will all be back with you at the Springfield for more quality soul in 2003.
Keep up the (very) good work.
Neil, Chimene, Kiddo, Wendy and Chic
Shrewsbury
As said many thanks for that, believe it or not the dancefloor was quite "sticky" compared to the infamous July nite, otherwise known as the nite of the falling soulies. Great to hear that enjoyed it and know that Steve T was chuffed to catch up with you
Monkey Report 16 Nov 02
A Tale of Monkeyness
Well another monkey and another cracking nite
If cant be doing with my usual words to cut it short
Top Sounds, Top feel, Top people, top nite
A Most enjoyable nite!!
For the the extended version read on…….
Of course am involved in running of this event along with Steve Holyhead Thomas and cynics could say a totally biased view, and tell the truth they are more than likely right, but that’s that. As always a disturbing lack of vinyl info.
After 6 months of Monkey, one of things learnt to expect on the nites is the unexpected and this time was no different. First signs of this were when we pulled up into car park we spotted Elvis, Dorothy (from Wizard of Oz) and Fred Flintstone walking into the hotel. Straight up. Thought here we bloody go…. just what I need. Turned out what I thought was a wedding in other room was actually a fancy dress do, so bit of a relief and fears eased, lucky enough that as the bouncers were on the ball that’s all saw of them all nite.
Back to reality as event got going, Lawrence and then meself took care of warm up numbers seemed a bit slack compared to previous at first, not that much fighting for the half price drinks, but picked up later on. Sue and Julie looked after the door thing, was going to say monkey ******** but took note of your concerns. And the Blue Peter style Monkey Newsletter was out with details of next event, coach trip and playlists.
Mark Speakman was first up and gave nite a great start with some classy selections doing the local start up thing. The Imperial Cs - Somebody tell her (Phil A Soul) Virgina Blakely - Dont let nobody love you (Mojo) Bernie Williams - Baby Baby (Deesu) were just some of the sounds he gave out thru nite.. Mick H (notts) was a late addition to the rota, travelled up with Andy D and Chalky and though many were still arriving and dance floor wasn’t being hammered yet dished out a great set with some well “ouch” sounds. Which quite simply just enhanced the rep the monkey has for quality.
Caught up with a few well-travelled not seen for a while faces, Nick G (member# 001) and mate Mick travelled up from Peterborough, (famous now as the person who asked if Colwyn Bay be a good place for a pre-event chill). Crowd wise, as always this monkey nite was different than the others, fair old gang of hardcore regulars in now all living the life, regulars from close and afar, regards to the regular St Ives lot, a few refugees just back from the latest Soul In The Sun, all the North Wales and North West quality fiends and all the travellers who showed up. Including sizeable mobs from Telford and Shrewsbury areas.
Got to say crowd wise this was the best one yet for me, not numbers thru door wise but in feel and atmosphere, all were just there for a quality nite of rare soul, which made our diplomatic –“this is not a oldies nite” notice just a bit surplus.
Carl Willingham, (standing in for Andy Rix – awol in Cyprus) took over the first Monkey regular spot and gave out a great well balanced set, likes of Isonics – Sugar, Faye Simmons - Please Tell Me Im Yours, and gave me a well nice surprise when he dished out the great “Love stormy weather”, as was hoping that Andy D would give it a blast later so got me pudding early, After Mick H, Carl just picked up that torch of quality rare soul and ran with it. Great stuff and had great feedback. Andy Dyson out of the traps next, what can I say, last time heard Andy was at Llandudno connoisseurs weekend, and he blew away then, this time should have had ambulances on stand by, such was the amount of rare soul damage given out with likes of “Demanding man” – Sensations, and Locations causing major casualties. Someone said recently he’s one of the top 3 UK current djs and after tonight gotta say to me that tag is well deserved. Rob Thomas jumped up next and pulled out some right corkers including the one off unofficial monkey anthem instru of Crying Time by the “lets have a go without her band” and likes of “oh isnt she a pretty girl” and much more. A great set by Rob led us to the “monkey till you drop” final half hour. Where anything goes, numbers at this time were thinning out a bit but Mark S took no notice and sealed the nite with an end of nite mix.
Sound of the Nite - Nu-Rons grabbed a fair few votes
Monkey over, a chill out beer and chat in bar and then the lets get out of here
Final View – Sounds and make up of crowd wise, up there with the best of them, both cracking.
After 6 months monkying think can safely say we have achieved what we set out, a regular event featuring a brand of quality rare soul sounds and quality DJs. We set out to offer something different than what other events offer in this part of the world , (no disrepect to any other venues, many quality ones around here, and have had many enjoyable times at them.). But we felt would give what we consider a good nite out after all if we offered similar or the same as others what would be the point! As always said its never been about the money, anyone witness our attempts to balance the books can verify that.
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In past don’t say much apart from “Its just a soul nite” even though have had some quotes such as “Best soul nite ever been to” “This is what its all about” etc etc Modesty made us keep such remarks to ourselves in past, but as this is a biased view might as well let loose with some of comments on the nite and after
“Crack was brill sounds were brill.”
“Just a couple of lines to thank everybody at last nights Drunken Monkey who
made us feel so welcome, what a brilliant night, well worth the 400 mile
round trip”
“All I can say is top night and top crowd. Musically great with the emphasis
on quality, none of the usual overplayed hammered to death soul you get at
some other venues. We all had a great night and cant recommend this place
enough, you really ought to try and get along.”
Numbers a bit down on last but had no effect on atmosphere, or feel a good quote from Cambridge way was along lines of was “here for the soul and people, if was just after a crowd would have gone to……”
There you go, blatant in your face promotion or just a few quotes from soul fans , you decide
Misc stuff:
Viv Coulson passed on info on girls on the decks nite coming up at Bury town hall, which have totally forgotten dates, please someone send in details.
Saw new copy of Soul Resonance out – always a hefty read; book that bathroom for a few hours.
Lot of people comment about online stuff, don’t forget website has DMSC Forum section can post ought on it. And also other sections for event news, sales, and more.
Cracking line up for the return of the Allbrighton event next month Butch Dave Thorley and more
Thanks On behalf of Steve and meself: Go out to
All the monkey crew, door staff, Springfield Hotel staff
Many thanks to Anne and Trevor for yet again doing the photo thing.
All the DJs – Top Thanks to all, the quality and enjoyable soul that was delivered on the nite was just first class. Up and beyond what we booked you for.
Joe Dunlop for being Joe Dunlop
And last but most of all, big thanks to all the members who made the nite what it was, you are the Monkey!
Xmas Friday 27 Dec
Friday 27 Dec sees the Xmas thing with the “Monkeys Xmas Box”
Return of Regular Andy Rix, DMSC regular Rob Thomas
Special Guests:
Dave “I’m not gonna wear no Father Christmas suit” Rimmer
Brian Ellis
Close to the chest details of rest of festive going ons out soon.
This will be a right old rip-up!
Thanks for getting this far, as always feedback, views, thoughts etc most welcome
Written by Mike h on behalf of
DMSC team – release that monkey within
Mike Hughes, Steve Thomas,(co-promoters) Andy Rix, Rob Thomas (regular djs) and all rest of crew
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This Thing Of Ours Weekender is almost here!
Entry is FREE and there are a whole host of groovy DJs giving their service free in aid of Randy Cozens birthday, inc Ady C, Mike Ritson, the Letchworth boys (Mick Smith, Taffy and TheBigO) and a whole load more.
SOUL SOUL and more SOUL is the order of the weekend and they are always a riot (and we mean exactly that!!) So give Londons best kept secret a try and come and experience Soulgate for yourself and find out why regulars have been flocking back year after year to hear anthems like Teddy Pendergrass I just called to say; Millie Jackson Dont send nobody else, Bobby Kline Say something nice to me...the list goes on and on and all played at Southgate first before being picked up on the nighter scene.
See ya there - TheBigO
Northern Tv Programe
Kempston Rovers Rare Soul Night
Capitol Soul Club - Dome 3rd Anniversary Feature
As 3rd anniversary coming up, thought throw up this special feature to mark the occasion. (A revised version of this featured in recent "Shades Of Soul"). Gotta say have had some of the most enjoyable nites ever at the CSC events, and seeing it reach the third year point as strong and healthy as it is now a most welcome sight. Hats off to all concerned and involved from the early days to now from myself and Sue (asked to pass on congrats and regards to all) And see you at the function
One of the most talked about set-ups on the Rare Soul scene over the last couple of years without a doubt has been The Capitol Soul Club based at The Dome Club in North London. November 29th 2002 will see it celebrate it’s 3nd Anniversary at said venue, so what makes their events special enough for folk to travel to from all over the World, let alone the UK.and it’s not even an all-nighter!? First, a brief history of the club - The CSC was actually formed over 4 years ago by Irish Greg and Alan Handscombe, quickly joined by fellow resident DJ Carl Fortnum. Their events were initially based at “The Bar” in Shoreditch, where it ran for ten months before the venue’s enforced closure. There was already a buzz about the nights within the London scene and the guys were determined not to let it die at that point, so it quickly relocated to the infamous North London Pub-rock venue, The Dome, in Tufnell Park North London, with it’s larger capacity and superior amenities. At this point Matt Jahans joined the Team to look after the promotional duties including one of the first web-sites devoted to a Northern Soul club. Matt decided to call it a day this year so all the gang now share the promotional duties.
The resident DJ crew expanded early in 2000 with the addition of long time collector/music industry bloke, David Flynn. Every soul-session features a special guest DJ, and the role call includes heroes like Kenny Burrell, Andy Dyson,Adey Croasdell, Mick Smith, Gary Spencer, Andy Rix, Shifty,Tony Smith, Dave Rimmer,Dave Holt,Stuart Tyler, Roger Banks,Russ Vickers, Robo, Paul Baldwin, Ian Cunliffe, and even Keb Darge in the early days! Along with the main “star-turn” and the residents, there’s also an “early-doors-warm-up-and-coming guest”, usually one of the regular punters who has aspirations of getting behind the hallowed Dome decks.stars of tomorrow hopefully!
So,why is it that folk are talking about it all time and how has it become so successful so quickly? Firstly, the old word-of-mouth Northern Soul grapevine (including the internet chat groups KTF and Soul-talk), has lead to people giving it a try, and most then become regulars too! There is no better promotion than a personal recommendation, As already mentioned, yes we have a club web-site for reviews, photos, dates etc and yes we still flyer clubs but the positive word of mouth system is the real winner. Secondly, the main London clubs all co-operate with each other, compliment each others play lists and never clash on purpose. Thirdly, the CSC operates every other month, which means if you miss one you ‘ve got a long wait to the next one! The “Scenesville” club (recently celebrated it’s 2nd anniversary), alternates with the Dome, so there’s always a top Friday night doo to go to in London once a month. Add to these the long running once a month bash at “These Old Shoes” plus many other clubs like Soul in the City etc and the legendary all-nighters at the 100 Club, and one’s diary is now full of quality sessions to attend within the M25!
Between them they cover all aspects of 60’s soul and cater for everyone. Breaking the CSC down further - The Dome music policy The music is the absolute #1 top priority! The venue advertises, and the DJs stick to the club’s full-on 60’s music policy (OK, there’s also a small amount of 70’s/cross-over, but only a few mind!) There’s a very strong love of 60’s music within London, encompassing every genre within that time scale, and indeed it is from the more Mod/beat style clubs that fresh blood has been recruited, giving us a Rare Soul scene for the twenty-first century. The CSC will play fast and mid-tempo tunes, just as long as they are danceable and soulful as that is what the club set out to do.to play and dance to these kinda sounds.and yes all the CSC deejays are on the floor dancing as much as anyone!
The split when you come down to it is roughly 20% classic 70’s oldies, 20% 80’s oldies, 50% under played semi-knowns and 10% Dome exclusives. We’ve also given away over 500 copies of free tapes to punters since the beginning in order to spread the sounds - a practice we will continue with! The Dome venue It boasts an enormous wooden dance-floor, a faultless sound system with sound engineer present throughout the night (don’t forget it’s a major pub-rock venue so the acoustics are fantastic!), a large bar and a separate record dealers room (free tables dealers please note), all for a mere £7 entrance fee. It’s also easy to find, easy to park right next to, and has a pub underneath it to meet up at prior to the 9.30pm kick off, not to mention the abundance of kebab, fried-chicken, fish’n’chip shops and a cab office, all still open after the doo! The Dome crowd For some of the crowd, dancing is the priority, for others it’s the tunes (and naturally for a few it’s the large bar!), but for whatever reason, the membership is now well into four figures, so be early every time as it’s always a lock out by midnight! The crowd then generate one of the best positive-up-for-it atmospheres at any Rare Soul club, ever, and that’s key point number two! The floor always fills quickly (already talc’ed before folk arrive!), they dance with a passion, applaud tracks readily, and the overall buzz is so infectious you can’t help but get swept along with it, every time! The average age is early 30’s (plenty of 20 and 40 somethings, mind!) and most folk are there to dance and enjoy the music right to the very end at 3am. They receive every track as an equal and have no hang ups about dancing to a brand new track.
Everyone is there to enjoy themselves with like-minded people and the best music in the World, whether they’ve driven down from the Midlands and the North, across from Wales and the West Country, flown in from Ireland, France, Sweden, Spain, Italy or Germany, or simply hoped on the tube or bus! Most memorable Dome night Easy. we were privileged enough to have Sidney Barnes sing live on stage in June ‘01 - his first time in the UK ever, and the soulies there that night raised the roof. and almost drunk the bar dry! So, at the end of the day, it seems that the combination of a clear musical policy, the right mixture of classic, forgotten and exclusive tunes, added to a crowd with a positive approach to the scene, all mixed together at a pukka venue charging a reasonable entrance fee is a winning combination!?!
Long may it be as simple as that, as enjoyable as that as politics free as that and that the club goes from strength to strength, there truly is no place like Dome!
DOME SPINS
DreamTeam - I'm Not Satisfied - Gregory.
Fred & The Turbines - Bernadine - Cenco.
Frank Foster - Movin’ back from Detroit - c/up.
Judy Freeman - Hold on - RCA unissued LP version.
Soul Inc. - My proposal - Coconut Groove .
Sept. Jones - Give me all of your love - Pied Piper unissued.
Esther Grant - Lets make the most out of love - Wilstone.
Jeoy Delarenzo - Wake up to the sunshine girl - Mival.
Kindly Sheppards - Lend me your hand - Checker.
Mayfield singers -Dont stop none - Unissued vocal.
Jokers - Soul sound - Sko-Field.
Eddie Campbell - Contagious love - Artco.
Ty Karim - You just dont know - Romark.
Sidney Barnes - Safety Zone -Jobette (Unissued)
Allen Sisters -Im in with the downtown crowd - Test pressing.
Isonics - Sugar - Kammy.
Jennifer wells -Dining out in Chinatown - Genuine.
Districts - One Lover just wont do - Nile.T
emptones - Baby yes i do - Unissued Virtue.
BJ Thomas - Keep it up - Joed.
Helen troy C/up - Fran Oliver C/up-
Little Richie C/up etc etc etc.
Classic floor fillers over the last 3 years
Bobby adams & Betty Lou - Dr Truelove -Tarx Utopias - Girls are against me - La salle Sonnatas - Going on down the road - Hot Line Eddie Parker - I’m gone - Awake Don gardner - Cheating Kind - Segdrick Blue jays - Point of view - jay Nomads - Somethin’s bad - Mo-Groov Appointments - I saw you there - Delite Senations - Demanding man - Way out Pat lewis - No one to love - Solid Hit Grovettes - Think it over baby - Reness Inmates - This is the day - Kopit Four hearts - Who do you think you are - Shee Antellects - Love slave - Flodavieur Jimmie & The Entertainers - New girl - Toddlin’ Town Rodd Keith & The Raindrops - The Lord said - Preview Lonnie Russ - Say girl - Kerwood Gene Toones - What more do you want - Simco Monique - If you love me - Maurci Jimmy Ricks - Oh what a feeling - Festival Mousie & The Traps - How about you - Toddlin’ Town New Wanderers - Ain’t gonna do you no harm - Ready Magnetics - Heart your made of stone - Bonnie Classics - So glad that i found you - Yang-G Magnetics - I have a girl - Rasel Curly Moore - You Dont mean - Sansu Johnny Mae Matthews - Dont talk about my man - Big D Mello Soul - We can make it - Mello Frank Wilson - Do i love you - Soul (Alright Kenny pal!) Al williams - I am Nothing - La beat Springers - Nothings to good for my baby - Wale Timmie Williams - Competition - Mala
Remember The Club is Membership only!!!
3rd Anniversary 29th.Nov.2002 with Guests Mick Smith (100Club/Keele) & Pete Hulatt (Bedford) plus residents-
Check out CSC web site for Top 20ts/Photos of Mick Smith with Curtis Mayfield plus Pete Hulatt.
BE EARLY!!!!!
9.30 Kick Off. Xmas Party will take place on Dec.13th with another massive line up with Ginger Taylor & Robbo plus Residents.
Thanks to CSC Members/DJs/WebSites/Soultalk/KTF etc for all your support over the last 3/4 years.
Long may in Continue....
Plus a massive shout going out to Matt jahans. Greg,Alan,David & Carl. Capitol Soul
Soul Talk - Onwards and Upwards for the Top rare soul discussion list
Odds and Sods
One of UKs top radio independent soul radio shows Wire FMs Saturday The Soul Connection hosted by Steve F and mucker will feature Andy Rix and Rob Thomas in a special Xmas radio show around 27 Dec
Soul Source - The Next Step - details soonest, big thing or 5 minute toy ?
Some soft lads about, when will all people realise that everything you do on a website is logged, with time and isp and if need be can be traced. Weblinks have a rating system which is supposed to be light hearted and a guide for users.
Yet again seems one person had a need to come here, post very low scores on more than 10 sites which have high ratings and then pick 4 sites to give top scores all in a very short time Not hard to suss out who it was. Votes deleted. Do it again and will post full details of your site up here
Lowton - Fri 08 Nov - Mini-niter look back
Looking forward to this one as had a smart line up, late finish and Lowton with its many rooms, places to chill and catch up is always a bit of a laugh Few words , some re-cycled quips and a disturbing lack of vinyl info follows. Lowton - things as always the same, Car park was full and as always no matter what that guy tells me when driving can never find how to get that bit around the back. In and at em. Somewhere along the line, have picked up part time job, ended up with 3 sets of flyers to dish out, ususal attempts to try and clear DMSC bulk lot, also CSC and Yorkshire Riders to give out, as distribution follows my travels (bar and record bit) can expect a audience of alcoholic vinyl deviants at your events. (a often used and repeated quip)
Rooms: Main hall was busy most of nite, thinned out from about 1am, but what saw all went down well and floor was busy Last weeks word of dj order was out of window as two of the guests Rob T and Andy R had a long drive back ahead so timings were changed, 3 rooms meant sounds wise recollection worse than normal!!Due to current mood had stuff like Jamica Underground rattling round head rather than 6ts covers titles. Andy Rix and Rob Thomas can be classed almost local jocks now as residents just down the road at the monkey, missed most of Rob Ts but heard went well, caught most of Andy Rixs and highlight being at long last hearing instrumental. Crying Time out and about, myself and others always class it as a DMSC sound, but strangely enough has never been played there, email for why if the mystery causes sleepless nites.
Dished out many of his big ones, fast approaching if not already classic status, Is Switch Around up there as a all-time classics yet or what???All floor filled, going down down well with the crowd. Missed a fair bit of Terry Ds due to other room wanderings, anyone fill in his latest plays?? Caught half of Gingers, for David Flynn made determined effort to id that "catchy" track (just to say to him you know that catcgy track youre on about that catchy track....errr its gone) but nought fitted the way he described it , though he pulled out some blinders, all details were inserted into brain, but wiped out by later modern influx, Ian Cunliffe pulled out a good quality one set, Mean Miss-treater, No Good guy, Lazy , being a couple of highlights, Carl Willingham finished nite off , with great mix of his top stuff, a couple of first hears to me and the odd revival or two.
Place was packed, as said thinned out later on ish, but main floor seemed stay busy and caught lot of all style top quality stuff Modern room - spent a fair bit of time in there, what is going on with this modern soul thing, one minute bit fed up of mid -tempo sound a like stuff, or some of that MTV flavoured mush.Then all of a sudden have a month or two of getting assaulted nah slaughtered by some of best stuff heard for a long long while, not sure if a case of just catching the right djsbut tonite ...wow! most impressive spots caught were by Pete Haigh and Mark Grice (mixing skills-ouch! flawless)- partial memories of tracks were by Jamacia Underground Blaze remix - just realised got this here at home via davey dixon - love existing being title great stuff Secret Sounds - Baby Come Home? a three initialed thing (yeah hopeless mike, I know) and a fair lot quality sounds that scream out the need to be id'd
R&B Room
As said last time place seems to be on a roll, and this time was definitely rolling. Djs caught featured likes of Roger Banks, Robbo, Mark Morgan, Mark Stewart, plus should imagine a lot more. With a well wide range of styles and sounds. Note to Lowton DJ debut of one of the regular yorkshire crowd Mark Stewart who have made this their homes, heard went down sizzingly i think was word. Also word of even some ska getting a airing as Barry Norman would say "and why not" Seems Pete Coulson has this room well sorted and place was kicking all the nite Carry on and this broom cupboard will need a extension
Overall - enjoyable nite, some top sounds , lot of laughs ,hours of fun!
Dmsc 16 Nov **** The Cheese Pass That Banana
Soulheads!
Drunken Monkey Soul Club
16 Nov sees the next monkey - ONE ROOM RARE SOUL MAYHEM
Top range of guests, top sounds, top venue all add up to a top quality nite
Guest Andy Dyson, Rob Thomas, Carl Willingham, Mick H (Notts), Mark Speakman, Steve Thomas
8 till 0130- £4 in
RARE SOUL TILL YOU DROP
exciting revitalising quality rare soul in a atmospheric way,
Springfield hotel A55-N-Wales-50 miles from Manchester
Drunken Monkey Soul Club - **** the cheese pass that banana
Coach trip - DMSC doing our bit for road rage are going down south on 29 Nov to visit the CSC Dome 3rd Annivesary
Should all be a bit of a laugh, looking at it kicking off as soon as you climb those coach steps.
Capitol Soul 3rd annivesary - DMSC Coach Trip 29 Nov
Cost Details finally finalished
Rough details below, full and final details be given out to members
£15 coach price
Pick up points and timings avail on enquiry
roughly start off north wales coast , chester/runcorn/widnes area,
m6/manchester airport junction area
chance of more depending where/demand just shout and will try and fit in if
poss
Any online DMSC members wanna partake be quick as lot of interest in real
world
booking
£5 deposit required,
do it via phone, email, face, at next Monkey, queue at asda etc
odds:
*as 50 seat coach, note price is based on a certain minium amount if more
possibilty refund