Soul Uprising

Wasn't going to allow the arrival of Lamont Dozier in the region and the country to go un-marked. One of the most important people in the history of Soul Music and one of the greatest surviving Soul Artists.

There'll be stuff he wrote with the Holland Brothers at Motown, Hot Wax and Invictus; some Margie Joseph, some ZZ Hill and (hopefully) seven magnificent masterpieces from his extraordinary solo output. 

Along the way there'll be my usual mix of the very best in Modern Soul and quality Northern Soul - (I know everybody says that but in this case it's true; check out the playlist from my last night at the Empty Shop in November); maybe a little Jazz-Funk and New York Disco.

Also I try to play as much as I can get away with of Soul Music that doesn't comfortably fit in with any of those categories, from Detroit, Chicago, Philly, Memphis, Muscle Shoals, New York, New Orleans, LA, the UK and all points in-between, from the sixties to the present day, but focussing on that golden period in the sixties and seventies.

What a fantastic coup, will be great to meet Lamont Dozier. Will he be doing a live set?

Er, Think it’s a dedication evening, or for £3 with a live set from Lamont, would be the bargain of the last millennium 😄

I told my wife you'd all know who Lamont Dozier is. All those Supremes records on original Motown vinyls. 

Sounds like a great evening ahead , pity  got something going on that weekend hope it goes well.

Much obliged, have a great weekend. Maybe next time.

Just in case anybody has had flyers destroyed or removed, any flyers for your event will be welcome here, in the best tradition of Soul Nights. 

For anybody who may be booking taxis or travelling, and I know I'm getting some from Birmingham, I've just been informed the club has been unable to secure the twelve oclock music licence so the music will finish at 11.30, though the bar will stay open til twelve. I'm working on just losing the dancing at 11.30, which will give me the chance to play some real slow burnin Soul.

It's a great little venue so if we show them what we can do, they should get their finger out for next time,

Hope to see you there.

We're really going to make an effort to try and get to this event. Checked out the playlist and thought it was a superb blend of quality soul music from all genres. It's good to see someone trying to break down the barriers and push the boundaries of what's played at soul music events. Hope it leaves everyone wanting more!

Triffic.

The more true Soulies, the better the music, the better the night.

Hope you can make it.

Hi Steve , having just read your review and playlist - is the media you use cd, laptop , vinyl , ovo ? 

CDs exclusively. I doubt I'll ever figure out computers, though I can manage to youtube all the playlists that pop up. Apart from Flowers and Gloria Scott, I had just about everything else on vinyls, but I never DJd back in the day cos I'm the real thing; a genuine, sensitive, mild-mannered Soul Man, and I even fwck up pressing buttons. I say never, on occasions Alex and others persuaded me to do bits but I was never/ am not a happy DJ.

I do it cos everybody else limits themselves to what vinyls they've got. Soul is going through its punk-rock period; it's generally thought that the four people on the stage were the least talented in the building, and now the worst record collections in the building are those of the Djs who limit themselves to their trophies, while everybody else has a bunch of CDs and a computer (so everything). I recall travelling around the country to hear people play Flowers, Cory Blake and Stan Ivory, but it's no longer necessary - that's a good thing, not a bad thing.  

I've been involved in the local jazz scene for a few years but came back to a couple of local nights and it's even worse than I predicted. When people ask me, I always tell them that after mine, Hoochie is probably the best, for Terry Jones (though, unlike some of my mates, I was never a particular admirer (though I was involved in putting him on at Southport, including allocating his spots)) or SOSA, though it reminds me of Berwick; still embryonic but with a few biggies that would emerge in the next few years. Others tell me it's just another northern do. In fairness, some of the northern nights are like the Twisted Wheel. but City Centre Night Clubs have never been my thing; maybe Walkers , but as someone once said, by the time we got to Walkers, we were the 'beautiful people'.

Many people who missed early seventies northern, mid-seventies NYD, late seventies jazz-funk and late eighties/ early nineties modern have imposed some re-write of history that they were all about (O)VO. They weren't, they were all about music. If you want to see vinyls, you're better off going to one of the northern nights.

11 minutes ago, stevesilktulip said:

CDs exclusively. I doubt I'll ever figure out computers, though I can manage to youtube all the playlists that pop up. Apart from Flowers and Gloria Scott, I had just about everything else on vinyls, but I never DJd back in the day cos I'm the real thing; a genuine, sensitive, mild-mannered Soul Man, and I even fwck up pressing buttons. I say never, on occasions Alex and others persuaded me to do bits but I was never/ am not a happy DJ.

I do it cos everybody else limits themselves to what vinyls they've got. Soul is going through its punk-rock period; it's generally thought that the four people on the stage were the least talented in the building, and now the worst record collections in the building are those of the Djs who limit themselves to their trophies, while everybody else has a bunch of CDs and a computer (so everything). I recall travelling around the country to hear people play Flowers, Cory Blake and Stan Ivory, but it's no longer necessary - that's a good thing, not a bad thing.  

I've been involved in the local jazz scene for a few years but came back to a couple of local nights and it's even worse than I predicted. When people ask me, I always tell them that after mine, Hoochie is probably the best, for Terry Jones (though, unlike some of my mates, I was never a particular admirer (though I was involved in putting him on at Southport, including allocating his spots)) or SOSA, though it reminds me of Berwick; still embryonic but with a few biggies that would emerge in the next few years. Others tell me it's just another northern do. In fairness, some of the northern nights are like the Twisted Wheel. but City Centre Night Clubs have never been my thing; maybe Walkers , but as someone once said, by the time we got to Walkers, we were the 'beautiful people'.

Many people who missed early seventies northern, mid-seventies NYD, late seventies jazz-funk and late eighties/ early nineties modern have imposed some re-write of history that they were all about (O)VO. They weren't, they were all about music. If you want to see vinyls, you're better off going to one of the northern nights.

Thanks for your expansive reply Steve . 

I’d like to think I’ve got ‘open ears’ and not a Northern traditionist - hence the wide ranging dj sets across the soul genres and what I feature on my weekly Monday Hospedia radio shows - some of which end up on a monthly Mixcloud . 

Yea, I've checked you out on Mixcloud during quiet periods at work.