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Rio Reunion - Back Together Again Posted by Shaun Gallagher, 20 October 2009 · Rio, Rio Reunion, Soul, Funk Start Time: Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 5:00pm End Time: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 2:00am Location: Marlborough Club Street: The Broadway Town: Didcot, United Kingdom Phone: 07778 217 406 Email:gallagher.j6@sky.com 9 hours of non stop Jazz funk & Soul music with DJs Chris Bangs, Chris D Smith, Shaun Gallagher, Ji
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DMSC - 23RD August 03 Final Bank Holiday weekend of a hot, hot Summer. Col & I had decided to go to The Drunken Monkey Soul Club extravaganza. So we reserved a room at the Springfield Hotel in Wales and booked our train tickets to Wales in good time to take advantage of the cheaper fares. Of course the weekend of the Monkey was also the last Bank Holiday weekend of the summer so it goes without saying that our soulful soiree
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PAVILION, HUDDERSFIELD, SATURDAY JANUARY 12 2002 By Shirley Stewart This is a slightly biased review as this venue is run by my better half, Colin Wood, with the help of the other resident DJs, John Purvis and Eddie Engel. The venue has been running since last May every second Friday of every second month. Previous attendance’s had been disappointing so after the October date we decided to change the soul nite to a Saturday for 2002. Whether a Friday night had been the reason for
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The upcoming release of the Shrine Vinyl Lp from Kent Records stirred Andy Rix aka @Andy Rix to pass on his second set of his Shrine related sleeve notes, the ones written for the 'Shrine - the Rarest Soul Label Vol.2' 2000 Cd release, which dovetails nicely with the set of original uncut sleeve notes from the Shrine Volume One Cd already posted in our Article section (link at bottom) Shrine - the Rarest Soul Label Vol.2 Sleeve Notes by Andy Rix 2000 The story of Shrine Records, from i -
Shrine - info by ANDY RIX First Published on Soul Source Heres a rare one for you, still talking bout original versions here, but this time not about vinyl, but the published word, the original draft full length sleeve notes for kents shrines cd, mmmmmm ... you might be mmmming, so whats so special about that, well hang on, the final published sleeve notes were derived from this original draft , but approx 1300 words were edited out of this "first" cut, and thus some of the info, plu -
Shrine - a view from the other side After posting Andy Rix's original version sleeve notes from the kent cd, andrew hamilton got in touch, and gave this other view on one of the legendary northern labels, andrew h hailing from cleveland USA is a regular contributor to mags such as skm, a reviewer of soul cds for many outlets, has been involved on the soul recording side his name appears on many soul sides as writing credits, and is a main fighter in raising american awareness on soul singe
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Some Djs Are Full Of It ! Posted by shute, 16 December 2007 · Well just got back from Keele niter, not as buzy as last time I went, but hey ! its that time of the year... Been getting a few numbers etc for djs to do spots at soul night.... one dj, who shall not be named and known for along time doesnt do soul nights as they are crap and said where do you go ! even though we travel in different circles different venues and rarely at the same venue (niter wise) ... so was the reply
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Sidney Barnes + Hoagy Lands live at the 100 07 Jun 01 As Thursday saw weekender live guest act stars Sidney Barnes and Hoagy Lands make a pre-weekender appearance at the 100 club. read more for brief details......and then write down somewhere "order next years tickets asp" Yeah well last Thursday everyone's mind may have been focused on the big vote....which going by figures seems was the choice between the teacher or the hairdresser and not the other two. But come Thursday night -
Soul For Heroes A Soul Sisters Thank You Posted by sister dawn, 09 May 2009 · Well seeing as it's nearly a week ago now since that the inaugural event happened its time to hit the keyboard and offer my personal take on the events leading up to, during and after the first dayer. Soul for Heroes was the brainchild of ex forces personnel Pete Watkins who in December last year decided to help those in the forces whom many felt had been let down by the government, highlighted and repor
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Forgive typos please, using my phone rather than a computer tongue emoticon Skegness weekender and where to start? I could begin with a gushing wordy review of the music, venue, promoters, value for money, DJS, committed PROPER soul fans.... but I've done that many times in the past, and somethings are a given, and ever consistent. This is Skeg, the dancers dance, that's what they've come here for, novel idea that hopefully will catch on at nighters across the country. Wierdly, they smile and -
Artist of the Week - Smokey Robinson along with The Miracles who were there at the beginning of Motown The work of Smokey Robinson as singer, songwriter & record producer. Smokey Robinson Biography (Wikipedia) William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson was the founder and frontman of the Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he was also chief songwriter and producer. Robinso -
Smokey Robinson Live at the Birmingham Symphony Hall by Brian Ellis I must admit to deliberately not going to see many live soul acts as I'm often disappointed as more often than not the artists are never really able to match (or better) their original recording. However since there was the chance (maybe last chance) of seeing a live performance in the UK by a giant and absolute icon of soul music, my wife and I attended the Birmingham Symphony Hall to see Smokey Robinson on Friday night (2
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Recently received a great cd from connoiseur collection titled, vsop cd 312 - various artists -smooth soul-the uk collection which to my ears was quite a treat, as 90/00s sounds dont feature that much on my hi-fi at home was surprised by just how good some of these tracks are, and the fact that a lot are uk produced makes me feel a bit guilty of not being aware of them before now!! anyway as said a great cd, and the press release has it right when it says " a powerful o
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Thanks go to to Dave Box for writing and passing on this review of a recent nite Snake Davis & The Suspicions, Live at The Frobisher, Wakefield, 22nd February 2003. By opening time at 8pm there were already in excess of 70 people, and the atmosphere was starting to tingle. By 9pm the room was full to bursting and the atmosphere was electric with the crowd full of anticipation. Dave started the night off on a high, with the dance floor full immediately, and t
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To the connoisseur, Northern Soul has been around since the late sixties, but to the majority of civilians it was one of the things that happened in pop music between the Beatles and punk rock. For either position to deny the other is somewhat disingenuous; certainly there was more to it than mere chart music, not least because it led to bigger and better things for many who stuck around, but it is difficult to deny that something extraordinary happened in its Golden Age. It is easy now to lau -
Site note welcome to the first of a new feature. A lets have a look at members clubs... SOLID HIT SOUL — A LITTLE CLUB WITH A BIG PASSION FOR 60’s NORTHERN IN THE HEART OF LONDON The development of Solid Hit Soul has taken place over quite a few years to where we are now. The “music policy” for want of a better word is quite simple “60’s Northern”. Now that’s not to say that the odd “Crossover”, “70’s” or “R & B” doesn’t occasionally slip through the net, but overall that’s the mai -
What’s Going On? - Soul at the Crossroads Prologue — hey wha’s happenin? Originally titled Soul Wars — a New Hope, but I try not to be too provocative. OK, so I don’t try that hard, but it’s what elevates Art above politics. Has anybody, DJ or otherwise, recently thought twice before playing a record, whether it’s actually any good. Whether they recognise a record because they like it, or like it because they recognise it, and recognise it because they’ve heard it thousands of tim
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Well this was a good local soul nite, extremely good I would say. Great sounds ranging from some well top rarities to classy well thought revivals, a 100+ crowd, many visitors, all seemed out to enjoy themselves, giving the place later on a great buzz, as always friendly sociable feel, were a fair few record boxes as well, and all to me made it one of the best nites have had there With Kev Murphy and Steve Thomas pulling out the stops.... Hit read more to read rest Dj wise - will -
What a night! Thunderstorms and rain all day and right through this nine hour long knees up under the stars, in a rickety old dance lounge overlooking the sea on Bournemouth Beach! There was supposed to be a balcony buffet frrom 8-midnight but it was blasting down and the spray from the waves was breaking over the building at times! As the roof of the 1937 built Rowing Club leaked generously onto dancers, there was an electric atmosphere and the DJ'S played to a busy floor for most of the night.
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This Soul Map of Scotland is a tribute to Shotts Northern Soul All-niters held at Allanton Miners Welfare Hall Lanarkshire from 1987-1991. Founded by Jim O’Hara, Brian Welsh (RIP) and John Nielson. The Road/Journey is integral to Northern Soul. I thought a map could convey that pilgrimage. We used to join the Aberdeen crew when their bus came down from up North on route to Shotts, the bus was packed and smoky with Northern blaring through coach speaker’s with the -
SOUL DEEP - A critique by Rob Moss. When the news that the BBC were to commission a series on the history and development of Soul music was announced, the sense of anticipation and excitement amongst devotees was palpable. After virtually ignoring this music, as an art form, for over 40 years, the Corporation was finally going to apply their considerable resources, influence and money to the type of 'in depth' scrutiny and investigation usually only reserved for so called 'mainstream
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Soul Galore - Dave McCadden - Review with clips, please note this was posted in1999 Soul Galore If vinyl is your thing this is a mag for you, all it contains is vinyl reviews vinyl reviews and vinyl reviews. But heres the sting it is well entertaining and a good reference. Reviews range from a sharp few liners to a full page. A good reference guide and interesting read. Edited by Dave McCadden highly recommended. Find out yourself, here's some clips of reviews taken from a back is -
Philadelphian Legend En Route to Manchester Allnighter 30th Nov 2013 In a few weeks, on the 30th November to be precise, New Century Soul will celebrate its 10th Anniversary Allnighter at Radcliffe Civic Suite in Manchester, UK. As part of the celebration, soulfans Chris, Marcelle, the founders of the New Century Soul events alongside fellow promoter, respected DJ Andy Dyson, decided that the occasion required marking in a fitting manner and, as I’m sure you’ll agree, the result of t -
What a great time we had. Johnny Weston and I left Birmingham airport at midday on the Saturday with brifght sunshine and 26 degrees. We arrived in Edinburgh to dull overcast skies and by 5pm rain ! It didn't dampen our spirits though, Derek collected us from the airport and we went on a magical mystery tour to collect some speakers and cables. After a fish supper and a couple of beers John and I left Derek to finish setting up, and we jumped a lift to the Spiders Web where John was doing a -
Soul Odyssey 1968 - Jonas Bernholm - York University Jonas Bernholm has been in touch and shared details of a book of his which is available to read freely online in full under Creative Comments License via York University 'It's a diary from my Soul Trip in USA in 1968. and meetings with numerous artists and persons in the soul music business' A few clips and details follow along with the link below, be aware you may need to get a brew on before reading as it is an extensive re -
Soul on Screen : An appreciation of Soul music's portrayal by Hollywood and some future options? In anticipation of the cinema release of “Respect” I thought I'd prompt discussion on previous biographical films, and raise a few suggestions for some future ones. I have focussed on drama-based productions as opposed to the many excellent range of documentaries available which warrant a separate focus. I have also restricted it to Black music which has delivered its fair share of Hollywo -
You may have read a recent news article on here about the availability of "Soul Or Nothing" a eBook by Kimasi L. Browne via Amazon Thanks to Stevie Cato, Kimasi (read post here) kindly gave permission for Soul Source to publish the paper he gave recently at Manchester Metro Universty which was based on the "Soul Or Nothing" eBook (531 pages) available via Amazon Please include the following disclaimer with the paper.: This paper is still a work-in-progress and will most likely be -
Soul Satisfaction 02 - The Motown Connection Cd Review At first glance the design and presentation of the CD earns full marks with a breezy design and the front cover also doubles up as a 8 sided informative pullout. Each track being allocated, first a brief description by Jo Wallace, using her own unique style of description, which anyone -
.Stumbled on some old pages from the early days, posted as may be of interest to some long time members and also just in case lose them again... The Record Corner Page from the first year of Soul Source (opened in Aug 1997) Originally published in Sep/Oct 1997 THE RECORD CORNER 1997 This is the place for all things to do with Vinyl and CDs, news reviews etc Looking to end up with a large database of "Northern soul on CD" i.e. details of all tracks on all compilations, wi
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Long time Soul Source members may remember how about 20 years or so ago we used to have a 6 Pac audio feature here on Soul Source, Basically as part of our audio output we used to offer audio rare soul 6 Pacs, which were a session made up of usually 6 tracks off one members current plays, which were mixed into one session, and posted up on site with a bit of info and such added as well. The onsite 6 Pacs went quite well for a few years but as with all things their use faded away as oth -
Soul Source Guestbook 2001 Some old entires from a old Soul Source guestbook from 2001 25.12.2001 00:42 Welcome to soul source guestbook . Alongi Salvatore Hi everybody, In the first time i would like to wish a Merry Christmas & Happy new Years 2002 and healthiness . I would like to thanks also for your participation on my list in the past. And i hope have again your trust in the future, thanks again. Keep the faith Toto PS YOU CAN VISIT MY WEB SITE TH
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The inaugural inductees for the Soul Source Northern Soul Hall Of Fame have been selected and a list of successful inductees is below. We would like to thank everyone who took part by nominating their selections, which produced a fantastic ‘who’s who’ of Northern Soul for the Board to work through. As you can see by the list, although it’s a subjective project, I don’t think many would argue with their inclusion. Over the next couple of weeks we will be preparing individual pages in order t -
Note listings, details, cover ups may be a bit off as most are from 1998-2001 Soul Source Old Sessions Just dug up some of the session listings that have been up here over the years. Still have them stashed away somewhere, so if have a need to re-hear any of them again ....all you have to do is List of them all follows, will try and keep the listings tidy but as from a wide era, it may get messy! (note - orignals had photos etc, so may be dead links and so on)
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Soul Survivor - Sir Lattimore Brown Back From The Dead! If anyone is entitled to a pain in the heart it is Sir Lattimore. Born to beginnings we cannot comprehend in 1931 and growing up with practically nothing. But from these humble beginnings he was introduced to music, the music of the cotton fields and gospel from the church. Whilst serving in the Army in Korea, Lattimore was listening to acts such as King Cole Trio and Big Joe Turner and listening to these acts taught him a unique -
Northern Soul DJ 'Farmer' Carl Dene will be back behind the decks rejoining the wave of enthusiasm for sounds which first hit the North and Midlands in the 1960s. He will be guest DJ at the booming Newhampton Soul Club (a sampler of what has been offer at the club can be found here at the Newhampton Arts Centre, Dunkley Street, Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton, on Friday May 11, 2012. Carl (aka Carl Woodroffe - here being interviewed in 1999 by Bill Brewster - http://www.djhistory.com/interviews/ -
Soul Up North is Edited by Howard Earnshaw with help from Saus and Little John. Comes out every quarter and is packed with all sorts of articles. Latest issue contains Vinyl reviews, label listings, artist info, venue guide and planner, quizzes, mod article, reviews of loads of venues, articles etc etc. Soul Up North - Issue 21 Review and clips An indepth look at Soul Up North from a couple of years ago compete with clips and info
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SOUL UP NORTH OCT 2006 REVIEW As usual the 'fans fanzine' is packed with record reviews, interviews, events stuff, CD release's and a whole host of every thing else to do with soul. The October 2006 issue features as usual on the opening pages 'Good Tunes Great Grooves' from Dave Halsall with the likes of The Gems on Riverside, Carol Jones on Mutt which is one I've picked up myself recently, The Four Tees on Vee-Jay amongst others as always alittle background on each disc and values. Y -
For those avid collectors of rare soul vinyl, the mail order list of SoulBowl (proprietor, John Anderson) should have a special place in their heart, because for the last 50 years it has been at the forefront of vinyl digging for those rare soul imports that we hold so deep in our hearts. Soul Bowl is to present a connoisseurs room at this forthcoming Prestatyn weekender and has lined up some of it's previous primary customers, including Colin Curtis, Richard Searling, Soul Sam etc. to play -
Inside ...........Soulful Kinda Music Edited by DJ Dave Rimmer Published Date: 2000/8/28 As soon as you see this one you know its gotta be good - presentation is 100%, colour cover, good layout etc. Inside...? .........well lots of stuff, Issue 36 had articles by Dave Godin, Dave Halsall and others features on O' Jays, Hesitations, Bill Spoon, good CD reviews, venue reports, playlists. Lots of vinyl reviews with scans and the
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SOULGATE N14 — THE GATHERING! Hard to believe that it’s 1 year since we were all gathered together to say our last goodbyes to our dear friend, Randy Cozens, but here we were, once again gathering to celebrate the life, music and ideals of ‘a good friend of ours’. ‘Ye Olde Rising Sun’ was once again the venue that would play host, as it has done almost exclusively for the past 18+ years, to the alldayer that is simpley known as SOULGATE and by 12pm on Saturday afternoon the decks and s
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SOULGATE N14 OH HAPPY DAY! - THE REVIEW Jane and I arrived at the ‘Rising Sun’ for 11.30am to be greeted by the collective mugging of the rest of Letchworth’s 6T’s Mafia, bedecked in the memorial T-shirts, and more than a little banter of a very dubious nature! 12pm and the doors opened and Trickster and his new lovely wife, Etsu graced the decks for the first set, spinning some stomping Northern monsters from across the eras. The standard had been set with a cracking start. Many of us
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------------------------- SoulShakers Bamberg 10 -------------------------- As always there is a little trepidation in the weeks leading up to this event in our house. Will anyone turn up? Will the guest DJ's fit in ?, Will the weather be nice ? Have either of us any good records to play? Well Malayka left to go there on the Sunday to get everything ready and regularly rang to tell me this and that was fine. I stayed until Thursday to do my radio show and take Soul Sam with me. The radio sho -
South Texas Rhythm ‘n’ Soul Review 2 is Kent’s second dip into Huey P Meaux’s rich RnB back catalogue. Much has been written about Meaux’s insalubrious business activities and his abhorrent personal life, so I’ve tried to look past the man and focus solely on the music. Meaux had no colour boundaries and was equally comfortable recording; black, white or hispanic artists in search of a hit and this current offering as with its predecessor reflects this. This CD also contains a broad spectrum -
SOUTHERN SOUL MOVEMENT - COSHAM – PORTSMOUTH FRIDAY 23/01/04 We were travelling a little further a field for tonight’s soulful treat. So a day off work to enable an early start seemed the best course of action for Col & myself, although Eddie (who was doing all the driving!!!!!!) worked ‘til lunchtime and we later learnt that Steve C, our host, had actually started work at 4.00am that morning to ensure an early finish!!!!! Still at least Col & I had managed a lie
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This was originally wrote for the Togetherness Mag a few years ago -1999, after criticism of the mag by myself as it did not feature any events "south of brum" I was invited to do something about it. The below was the first one, think were another 3 before a move back up north, meant no more. ( Which was a good thing as .... edited as out of date... Excuse the few odd glitches in article, combination of word, frontpage and life Southern State of Soul - Togetherness Mag 1999 By M
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BOOK REVIEW SPINNING AROUND – A History of the Soul LP Vol.1 by John Lias If any soul fans have coffee tables, then this is the definitive book to place atop that table. Not only does it look very impressive with it's bold black hardback cover and red graphics with white text, but it will impress any visitors that pick it up. What it does is what it says on the cover; this encyclopedia of soul knowledge runs to over 400 pages and lists just about every detail a fan would wish to -
Seems a fair bit since read a review from Winston , but as just passed on his look back to last nites St Ives reunion, looks like back in action. Published Date: 2004/10/22 3:10:00 St Ives 16th October When H.G. Wells penned "The Time Machine", one assumes, he envisaged mad scientists working frantically to create a mechanism capable of traversing the very portals of time. A lot of work, and in reality on something that could never exist! Or could it? If he'd have looked clos
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A post that Derek p has kindly ok-ed to use here on soul source circa 99 Stafford - here's my two pee's worth. There's much talk about the 70s and 90s on here but little chat about the decade in between when I suspect many KTFers for a wide variety of reasons put the soul scene on hold. As a 20 year old I first started allnighters in 1977 attending anywhere from 15-30 all nighters per year. By 1984 after a 7 year apprenticeship, I was heavily (and I mean deep) into vinyl. Stafford -
"Standing in the Shadows of Motown" is one of those documentaries that make you appreciate someone you may never even knew existed. In this case, it's The Funk Brothers, the 14 studio and concert musicians responsible for the "Motown sound" that distinguished that genre of music from all others in the 1960s. THE MUSIC -
A list of releases of a soulful nature on the good old 60s $tateside label. As you can see one hell of a lot of gems where released in UK on here from early motown, classic oldies, exclusive rarities and loads more. Supplied by Pete Smith Stateside uk listing STATESIDE 102 B CHUCKJACKSON Any day now/The prophet STATESIDE 112 A ISLEY BROTHERS Twist and shout/Spanish twist STATESIDE 1 19 A SHIRELLES Welcome home baby/Here comes the bride STATESI
