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Ashton Ukrainian Club - Ashton-under-lyne


Sat 19 Feb 2022

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Event Information

  • Date

    Sat 19 Feb 2022
  • Type:

    Soul Nights
  • Start Time

    19:30
  • Venue Name

    Ashton Ukrainian Club
  • Town / City

    Ashton-under-Lyne   Postcode: OL7 0NP

About The Event

The return of the Ashton Ukrainian continues into 2022 and we're hoping for another great installment.

If you haven't been before here's a potted history from our very own Chris Churm:

The club was originally based at the  Dukinfield Masonic hall, starting well in January 2017  attended by around 100 guests. Resident DJs were Brian Lester, Chris Churm and Chris Penn.

The venue was great with a large dance floor  and ran until May 2017 when it moved to the Ukrainian Club, a slightly smaller venue (capacity 130) perfect the type of night we were trying to run delivering a mix of lesser known, rare and under played soul; a bit of everything.

The  first date  was June 2017 and was a  great night musically. January 2020 was the 3rd anniversary with guests Phil wainwright and Alex Jones,  respected collector/ DJs to entertain us with their fantastic collections and they were superb, and it was one of our best nights.

Following that in Feb 2020  Les Harrison (one of our regular DJs) and Geoff Stubbs of Stockport were our guests and were excellent as usual .

I must  thank Les Harrison and sue  who were at our first night in 2017 and have only missed the odd one when he has been booked to DJ at Culcheth and our dates unfortunately clashed . He has also helped us to sort the gremlins in the sound system on a few occasions.

Sadly  Brian Lester  who used to play some great tracks decided to bow out from the scene  and our other original DJ maestro Chris Penn moved to the  north east, he  will be missed ,but he has assured us he will be back to annoy us from time to time to DJ for us. .

Here is a list of some of the guys and girls that have played for us and have all taken part in the spirit of our humble Ukrainian club soul evening.

Carl and Maria Willingham, John Hillel, Dave Hall, Chris Penn, Brian Lester, Les Harrison, Derek Watmough, Ian Cunliffe,  Dave Beech, Carol Burgess, Simon Ingham, Mick Howard, Carol-Ann McCarthy, Geoff Stubbs, Geoff Buckley, Tom Dacey, John Baggaley, Dave Flynn, Les Hare, Mark Tobin, Ged Gibbons and Phil Etchells  (sorry if I missed anyone).

As we all know  in March  2020 (just as our guests  Simon Ingham and Mick Howard  were ready to  DJ for us) the pandemic struck and everything stopped but the restart will pick up where we left off and  Simon alongside Mick will be our first guests, hopefully we can bounce back .

Post pandemic the club have informed us that for the night to continue it will have to be a Saturday night event, ironically that is what we first wanted and we think could be better for everyone so keep an eye on the soul source calendar for future instalments.

We hope everyone is well and can’t wait to see you all again.


Ashton Ukrainian Club Ashton-under-Lyne Event Map

Venue Address:

215 Stockport Rd, Ashton-under-Lyne , Greater Manchester, Postcode: OL7 0NP, UNITED KINGDOM

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   2 of 2 members say helpful 2 / 2 members

Well yet another great night at the Ukrainian Club, some more new faces which is great to see. The real plus is the varied play list by all the DJs all bringing something different to the dancefloor. Back behind the decks and not before time, one of the original DJs Brian Lester, he looked to be having a ball!

Following on our main man Chris Churm played the usual high quality mix of styles and tempos The Philharmonics as a finishing record was a real nice touch!! My good friend Dave Lowe was making his debut and WOW!! What a set a real across the board selection a few R+B moovers and the dancefloor loved it and how good did Raphael Saddique "love that girl" sound!! Dave will be definitely back in the not too distant future I'm sure

Simon Ingham followed, what can I say mouth watering selections Hayes Cotton "black wings" Versatones "rolling rolling" and one of my all time favourites still sounding the business Earnestine Eady "let's talk it over" and current motown dance floor fave "Soul Master" Edwin Starr "I just wanted to cry" Rounding the night off in fine style John (slipmat) Hillel "Mixed feelings "sha la la" lit up the dancefloor Grey Imprint "do you get the message" and many more!!

Great to see the Lancaster/Morecambe crew in full effect and nice speaking Sean!!

Stop Press : Rumour has it John Hillel is still behind the decks as I type repeatedly uttering "Just one more record" Yes nothing gets past S+M promotions

The next date March 19th is looking like a real special event Ted Massey will be our guest DJ

Nigel Rothwell,left this review on facebook,thanks Nigel

What a great night, after taking a wrong turning off the motorway and ending up in the middle of Manchester in a traffic jam and 45 mins late finally arrived. Things could only get better. Said hello to some familiar faces that I hadn't seen since before lockdown then into main room, packed but found somewhere to park my drink & coat. Managed to get the last 15mins of Chris Churms set. Stand out tune for me and one of my favourites to get the night started for what was to be a great night was Bonnie Blanchard & Andy Aaron And The Mean Machine. Next to hit the decks was 1st guest Dave Lowe and didn't disappoint playing another great set of rare soul, modern and some floor fillers. Next to hit the decks was 2nd guest Simon Ingham playing another great set that again didn't disappoint. Floor was busy allnight. John Hillel finished off proceedings another great set playing oldies & modern. Some big ticket tunes and some obscure tunes played by all DJ's Something for everybody.

 

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