Yes clapping again. Talking about during the record, not at the end.

At the Fleet in the early 80's clapping was widespread. There were obscure claps, like in 'They'll never know why' that only the cool clappers knew about.

These days clapping is muted, pretty much all over the country. Was this an integral part of 'the feeling' that made the record/atmos/night that extra bit special? Or are they like beer towels now? Oh the shame ...

Chalky, now I know you don't like clapping, I will do it all the more...

Thanks for the inspiration, round of applause infact..

I always clap during the tune. Always have and always will. It's an integral part of my dancing & I have many friends on the scene who are the same.

Yes clapping again. Talking about during the record, not at the end.

At the Fleet in the early 80's clapping was widespread. There were obscure claps, like in 'They'll never know why' that only the cool clappers knew about.

These days clapping is muted, pretty much all over the country. Was this an integral part of 'the feeling' that made the record/atmos/night that extra bit special? Or are they like beer towels now? Oh the shame ...

Kids of today, they just don't know how to do it - or even care about it. When you got 500 people clapping on the offbeat, it was incredible. I used to love clapping, doing it and listening to it, even now when I hear those old Wigan tapes, the clapping makes the hair stand up.

yep have to agree with Pete, an integral part of the scene in the day, i still do it now and try and get others going.

Reminds of once when i was a passenger in a car driving to Chamonix to go snowboarding and it was about 3am and we were listening to an old NS tape/CD (can't remember which !) and as the track playing hit a break i slammed my hands together outstretched and started to clap, well my mate driving shit himself and swerved all over the fooking road at 95mph and nearly lost it bigtime and went mad at me for almost giving him a heart attack

Ian.

We don't get 500 people clapping in unison these days though, not even at Stoke.

Also recent and semi recent discoveries don't seem to have claps attached to them?

Kids of today, they just don't know how to do it - or even care about it. When you got 500 people clapping on the offbeat, it was incredible. I used to love clapping, doing it and listening to it, even now when I hear those old Wigan tapes, the clapping makes the hair stand up.

I think if the truth be known most of the Northernsoul scene is now made up of born again fibbers who wouldn't know where to clap if their lives depended on it!

Can any one remember the chap at Bradford who used to clap louder than humanly possible, I think it was like his super power or some thing? We used to call him "The phantom clapper", he would clap behind you making you quite startle as it sounded like a bleedin gun bien fired!

Seem to remember a thread about this a couple of years back,quite a lenghty and interesting thread.

Seem to remember a thread about this a couple of years back,quite a lenghty and interesting thread.

I remember it, may have started it, but you can't whack a good poll for what folk really think.

I remember it, may have started it, but you can't whack a good poll for what folk really think.

:thumbsup:I'm a clapper btw.

Hard to imagine I Walked Away or Don't Depend on Me without a clap or even a muted clap in a room not that they would get played much but you know what I mean.

Like Pete says it makes yer hair stand up.

I'm a clapper.

I think it may be fair to say that whilst some 'clapper' records may be out of vogue, some others are not; I'm thinking Checkerboard Squares v Patrinell Staten?

Nowt wrong with a good solid Crrrrrack in the right place.

Done correctly it adds a little something doncherthink??

Tony

I love to clap

Usually when i feel like it and not just cause theres a gap that a clap might fill....

HAVE ALWAYS CLAPPED AND ALWAYS WILL, NOT QUITE CLAPPED OUT .......YET, BUT THE MISSUS WOULD PROBABLY SAY OTHERWISE

BRI PINCH (GOOD LOOKING ONE)

Hi my name is steve and I'm a clapper

There i've said it:ph34r:

So based on results so far we still love the clap! So why are we so timid about it these days? We're proud clappers to a man/woman, sure. Majority of us will remember the 100+ unison crack at a certain point 20 something years ago and there just isn't the ferocity these days is there?

I've never heard clapping at Lifeline for example, which is no slight on that event, it's a top event. But it highlights my point on how perhaps this element has drifted?

HAVE ALWAYS CLAPPED AND ALWAYS WILL, NOT QUITE CLAPPED OUT .......YET, BUT THE MISSUS WOULD PROBABLY SAY OTHERWISE

BRI PINCH (GOOD LOOKING ONE)

:thumbup:

I'M OFFICIALLY CLAPPED OUT THIS THURS BRI.

So based on results so far we still love the clap! So why are we so timid about it these days? We're proud clappers to a man/woman, sure. Majority of us will remember the 100+ unison crack at a certain point 20 something years ago and there just isn't the ferocity these days is there?

I've never heard clapping at Lifeline for example, which is no slight on that event, it's a top event. But it highlights my point on how perhaps this element has drifted?

Interesting - and possibly the only place where this topic could be discussed ha. Well I for one am a clapper, and I reckon that goes for the rest of Australia - just carried on where we left off probably and haven't had the chance to be influenced. Is it like sewing patches on yer vest these days or summat?

Clappers rennaissance society anyone?

Cheers

Pete www.perthsoul.com

Is it like sewing patches on yer vest these days or summat?

Not quite, but I fear it's heading that way...

Clappers rennaissance society anyone?

There's a facebook group right there Pete!

Remember getting home from the Casino, banged on my Gloria Jones "Tainted Love" which I just bought and thought I'd been done with another version then realised it was missing the thunderous clapping of the Casino hoards.

Yep - Clapper.

Regards,

Dave

Im not a clapper ................because my hands are too busy doing other things when dancing

Debbie x

Im not a clapper ................because my hands are too busy doing other things when dancing

Debbie x

A wank with your partner when dancing to the JADES - I'M WHERE ITS AT...awesome, truly awesome.

Should have been in the new film

Remember getting home from the Casino, banged on my Gloria Jones "Tainted Love" which I just bought and thought I'd been done with another version then realised it was missing the thunderous clapping of the Casino hoards.

You can say that again, this recording just has me in bits when I hear it - click this, you'll never regret it

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/more/soul-library/52525-gloria-jones-tainted-love-wigan-casino-74-live-tape/

You can say that again, this recording just has me in bits when I hear it - click this, you'll never regret it

https://www.soul-sour...o-74-live-tape/

Has that tape got Toni Basil on it? That sounded awsome with the claps at Wigan - Sir Richard Searling spin.

"Who gives a clap??"

Each to their own I would still clap if and when appropriate (Just wouldn't do it like on the soulboy trailer)

"Who gives a clap??"

Me.

Each to their own I would still clap if and when appropriate (Just wouldn't do it like on the soulboy trailer)

Were you one of the 'not fussed either way' Sand?

Kids of today, they just don't know how to do it - or even care about it. When you got 500 people clapping on the offbeat, it was incredible. I used to love clapping, doing it and listening to it, even now when I hear those old Wigan tapes, the clapping makes the hair stand up.

SPOT ON PETE, NEVER TO OLD FOR THE OLD CLAP [ pardon the punn ] THE TAPE OF THE LAST NIGHT AT WIGAN [ end of a era all-nighter ] WHEN DEAN PARRISH IS PLAYED THE CLAPPING AT THE END NOT ONLY MAKES ME HAIR STAND ON END IT ALSO BRINGS TEARS TO ME EYES. YOU KNEW OF THOSE WHO WHERE INTO THE MUSIC, AS THEY KNEW WHERE TO CLAP IN THE SOUNDSTHAT WAS BEING SPUN. JUST ONE FOR A STARTER - THE JADES - I'M WHERE IT'S AT.

Edited June 29, 201014 yr by POTTERIESPECK

Me.

Were you one of the 'not fussed either way' Sand?

Oops forgot to vote Yes voted not fussed either way Xx

Any whistlers about though. -- THE FUNKY SISTERS - DO IT TO.]

Yes clapping again. Talking about during the record, not at the end.

At the Fleet in the early 80's clapping was widespread. There were obscure claps, like in 'They'll never know why' that only the cool clappers knew about.

These days clapping is muted, pretty much all over the country. Was this an integral part of 'the feeling' that made the record/atmos/night that extra bit special? Or are they like beer towels now? Oh the shame ...

Yep, still got some tapes from the Fleet and the clapping was fantastic! Guess it's more appropriate at Oldies nights

Mark C

i used to have the habit of snapping my fingers while dancing..after an evening dancing (and snapping) for 4 hours i couldnt snap anymore

as i had blisters on both thumbs and middle fingers...ow

We get a few clappers me included at Rugby in the last hour,Simsy wouldnt know though

It's a bonding thing.

You've never truly bonded if you don't have the clap.

It's the dancehall equivalent of a chant from the football terrace. Chinstroking in the dug-out, or at one with the crowd and the play? I know where I'd rather be.

I have missed it clapping also to think of it you dont here it much of it at all nowadays which is a real shame just got back from Brid and didint here much clapping there which is a real shame:(

I still clap. Never been ashamed or afraid to clap.

Needs to be another poll option:

I don't think clapping has gone away.

Edited June 29, 201014 yr by Matt Male

I still clap. Never been ashamed or afraid to clap.

Needs to be another poll option:

I don't think clapping has gone away.

'Muted' was the term used.

Yeah there is still clapping, here and there in a halfhearted half arsed sort of way. Nothing like it used to be though.

Has that tape got Toni Basil on it? That sounded awsome with the claps at Wigan - Sir Richard Searling spin.

No, it would be almost 3 years before Tony Basil first got played, it broke on the East Coast before it got to Wigan late 77

Thanks for the inspiration, round of applause infact..

just to put the record straight I've never said I don't like clapping, I made a reference to the fact when someone said the clapping was shite in the new film I said that they can't clap these days.

Like Pete says, 500 dancers clapping inn unison makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up. Trouble is nowadays especially to newer stuff they don't know where to clap...or like Pete says how. Hardly hear any clapping anywhere nowadays although I was clapping behind the decks Saturday

No, it would be almost 3 years before Tony Basil first got played, it broke on the East Coast before it got to Wigan late 77

Whilst doing various things on t'computer ( I do stuff besides SS believe it or not ) , and have had a CD of various old tunes playing whilst I tickled the keyboard .

One of the tunes was Bernie Williams' " Ever Again " , to which I automatically clapped in the appropriate places ..... albeit one handed on my thigh .

Old habits do die hard

Malc

'Muted' was the term used.

Yeah there is still clapping, here and there in a halfhearted half arsed sort of way. Nothing like it used to be though.

Yes i'd agree, not like it was at Wigan and in the past, but then everyone just clapped through every bloody record.

I prefer the more select clapping that goes on thesedays. The sniper's approach to clapping instead of a shotgun.

Thanks for the inspiration, round of applause infact..

You need to do an option

Do you still (have the) clap...

Can any one remember the chap at Bradford who used to clap louder than humanly possible, I think it was like his super power or some thing? We used to call him "The phantom clapper", he would clap behind you making you quite startle as it sounded like a bleedin gun bien fired!

The loudest female clapper I know is Julia123...

Edited June 29, 201014 yr by Rugby Soul Club

I prefer the more select clapping that goes on thesedays. The sniper's approach to clapping instead of a shotgun.

I'd call it more scattergun these days Matt

The loudest female I know clapper is Julia123...

Steve Csordas is fookin deafening, but ace

Us girls in the SSLAAS have been actively championing a clapping revival since one of our number was asked to STOP CLAPPING while dancing by a very rude woman at a soul event. Seems there's even a bloody clapping police these days I'm gonna repossess the key to my clappiness...

I'd call it more scattergun these days Matt

Steve Csordas is fookin deafening, but ace

Us girls in the SSLAAS have been actively championing a clapping revival since one of our number was asked to STOP CLAPPING while dancing by a very rude woman at a soul event. Seems there's even a bloody clapping police these days I'm gonna repossess the key to my clappiness...

:thumbsup:how will you go on dancing to shirley ellis?

Kids of today, they just don't know how to do it - or even care about it. When you got 500 people clapping on the offbeat, it was incredible. I used to love clapping, doing it and listening to it, even now when I hear those old Wigan tapes, the clapping makes the hair stand up.

Got to agree pete

Hard to imagine I Walked Away or Don't Depend on Me without a clap or even a muted clap in a room not that they would get played much but you know what I mean.

Like Pete says it makes yer hair stand up.

I'm a clapper.

I'd call it more scattergun these days Matt

Steve Csordas is fookin deafening, but ace

Us girls in the SSLAAS have been actively championing a clapping revival since one of our number was asked to STOP CLAPPING while dancing by a very rude woman at a soul event. Seems there's even a bloody clapping police these days I'm gonna repossess the key to my clappiness...

Like it, indeed I do

we always have clapped .. and always will ......why should it ever change ? ....it's how it was, it's how it is KTF

pete n' susan

Holly St James and Stemmons Express at Wigan immediately spring to mind.

it's how it was

It's not though pete n susan, that's the thing...

Im definatley a clapper And I`d like to see anyone try to mute me