If you're out and about doing your xmas shopping and fancy listening to some soul music then try Zara clothes shop, was in there recently and could'nt believe my ears, playing Angie Stone and other nice tunes which I can't recall the names of.....................just did'nt want to leave the shop the music kept me in there

If you're out and about doing your xmas shopping and fancy listening to some soul music then try Zara clothes shop, was in there recently and could'nt believe my ears, playing Angie Stone and other nice tunes which I can't recall the names of.....................just did'nt want to leave the shop the music kept me in there

My Secret would be out if anyone caught me buying my clothes in Zaras

Steve

If you're out and about doing your xmas shopping and fancy listening to some soul music then try Zara clothes shop, was in there recently and could'nt believe my ears, playing Angie Stone and other nice tunes which I can't recall the names of.....................just did'nt want to leave the shop the music kept me in there

Well that makes a nice change from what's just around the corner from virtually every shop you'll go into -

Slade 'Merry Christmas Everybody'

Wizzard 'I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday' and

Jona Lewie 'Stop the Cavalry'

'kinell - aaaaaaargh

Well that makes a nice change from what's just around the corner from virtually every shop you'll go into -

Slade 'Merry Christmas Everybody'

Wizzard 'I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday' and

Jona Lewie 'Stop the Cavalry'

'kinell - aaaaaaargh

Brian, how did you know the artists and titles ? that could have been a Xmas quiz, I bet most people on here would only have got Slade and Wizard.

Steve

Brian, how did you know the artists and titles ? that could have been a Xmas quiz, I bet most people on here would only have got Slade and Wizard.

Steve

Steve

It's from doing too much Christmas shopping over the years mate!

Brian

My Secret would be out if anyone caught me buying my clothes in Zaras

Steve

Admittedly the clothes are'nt great, but the music makes for a pleasant stroll around the clothes racks

I went in the KFC in Wolverhampton on monday and they were playing a mix tape which had The Cavaliers "Hold to my baby" and The Victors "Hurt" on it!

I was having dinner with a friend in a branch of Old Orleans in Ipswich some time ago. In between the piped background music I heard "I Don't Need No Doctor" by Ray Charles!

Last Friday, Morrisons in Darlington, Eddie Spencer "If this is love".

I went in the KFC in Wolverhampton on monday and they were playing a mix tape which had The Cavaliers "Hold to my baby" and The Victors "Hurt" on it!

Similar thing happened to me in a KFC - can't remember what was being played, but I was the only one singing along

Regularly hear Roy Ayres-Evertbody Loves The Sunshine in the Factory Shop.

SAME HERE KFC SAT.ON WAY TO EDINBURGH FAE ABERDEEN.STOPD AT THE F*%&@R LICKING STATION.THEY HAD,CARSTAIRS & DELLS U GOT IT + MAY MORE,ON DE STEREO.GOT 2 SOUL NITES 4 THE PRICE O 1.LAST YEAR WAS BETTER & RARER.PLAYD GWEN OWENS,VELGO

When I was 16 I worked in a shop chain called Just Pants Plus... I always sneaked the only tape I owned at that stage into the deck Danced round the shop like a loon and got the sack LOL

When I was 16 I worked in a shop chain called Just Pants Plus... I always sneaked the only tape I owned at that stage into the deck Danced round the shop like a loon and got the sack LOL

Crikey - I remember Just Pants in Worcester! used to get me Brutus shirts and trousers in there!

Colin

My good mate Paul O'Brien called me from Barnstaple (North Devon) yesterday to tell me he'd just heard P.P.Arnold "Everything's gonna be alright" in the Orange phone shop!

I was having dinner with a friend in a branch of Old Orleans in Ipswich some time ago. In between the piped background music I heard "I Don't Need No Doctor" by Ray Charles!

Old Orleans plays some surprising stuff!! Apart from Motown standards, I've heard a fair bit of Northern like Rufus Lumley "I'm Standing". Few months back, they even played Mel & Tim "Forever and a Day".....TOP TUNE!!

I went in the KFC in Wolverhampton on monday and they were playing a mix tape which had The Cavaliers "Hold to my baby" and The Victors "Hurt" on it!

Marks & Spencers - Hammersmith - Temps - Girl, why you wanna make me blue..........nearly keeled over into the salami selection there were loads more but that's all I can remember......

Old Orleans plays some surprising stuff!! Apart from Motown standards, I've heard a fair bit of Northern like Rufus Lumley "I'm Standing". Few months back, they even played Mel & Tim "Forever and a Day".....TOP TUNE!!

Yep, Rufus Lumley 'I'm standing' ladies clothes dept, M&S, Moorgate...........

TK Max, York Ann Sexton! Three weeks later, same song, but in Boots! A bit of tape swapping going on

i am sure a lot of the big companies have to buy complilation cd's from specialist companies who get tunes cleared legally. i imagine they pay quite a bit for these too. maybe someone out there knows the score?

shane

Crikey - I remember Just Pants in Worcester! used to get me Brutus shirts and trousers in there!

Colin

Brutus. Equivalant to Matalan these days. Ben Shermans and Sta Pres Colin

The Devonshire Cat pub in Sheffield.

Spent an entire Friday afternoon in there listening to the Northern being played over the system.

Some quite obscure stuff as well - definately not a "Now That's What I Call Northern" CD.

Xmas shopping again today, in BHS heard Trammps - Hold Back The Night had to make a quick exit, the song drives me crazy

On holiday in Newquay, the local woolworths was playing a northern compilation CD......I asked the young girl behind the counter "what's this" (meaning what is the CD)......."northern soul" she answered!!!!!

She used to work in a record shop in Plymouth where the owner was into Northern and he'd played it that much that when she came to Newquay, she found herself picking them out to play......

Heard Kurt Harris and Jesse James (Love is Allright) in Debenhams electical Department whilst perusing Ipods

Regulary hear the odd track in scally clothes shops like Limeys in Notts and Derby

Just walked into Ottakers book shop in Portsmouth an hour ago. Sufferin' City Johnny Copeland was on, so I stayed listening and an old ska track I didn't know came on. I walked up to the coffee bar and sat for a while and they played Hit & Run, California Montage, Landslide, Girl across the Street, With These Hands, interspersed with a couple more reggae/ska tracks and bizzarly Accidents will happen, Elvis Costello. I was going to ask about the music but in the end didn't, so I don't know if one of the staff brought a home compilation in or it was the shops. I could have stayed all afternoon

Paul

dont really know if this qualifies or not..

a mate of mine works for DFS and has an ongoing feud with

the SLY sales manager there......

and regulary has a dig by playing "THE SNAKE" in the showroom...........

dont really know if this qualifies or not..

a mate of mine works for DFS and has an ongoing feud with

the SLY sales manager there......

and regulary has a dig by playing "THE SNAKE" in the showroom...........

hmm. perhaps your friend (is it you??) actually likes The Snake but had to cover his/her tracks with this story?

Quite often here some northern played at matalan(blame the wife) in warrington but knowing a few old soulies from around that way it dosent suprise me.

Im sure ive heard some of the more obscure soul music in most lifts in the country at some time mind you some of it is that bad it only deserves to be played in a lift.

Hmm thats got me thinking is there such a thing as a lift DJ? or a few who deserve to be?

Quite often here some northern played at matalan(blame the wife) in warrington but knowing a few old soulies from around that way it dosent suprise me.

Im sure ive heard some of the more obscure soul music in most lifts in the country at some time mind you some of it is that bad it only deserves to be played in a lift.

Hmm thats got me thinking is there such a thing as a lift DJ? or a few who deserve to be?

Know a few who have been lifted in the past

steve

I've just got in from a few beers and went to KFC opposite Liverpool Street Station for a zinger burger. The piped music played Tony Clarke- Landslide, a version of Solomon Burke's-Cry to me (not the ballady one by Betty forgot her name) & Rose Batiste-Hit & Run. Good to hear stuff like that 'out' even though I'm not a Northern bod. My bubble was burst though when the cab home had I Will Survive playing. Just as well it's only a short journey!!

Hope & Glory in Bluewater often play northern soul tracks, they also do a great range of soul t-shirts with rare records on them, and rather spiffing DJ t-shirts

The fred perry shop in manchester always has loads of northern on. I think that they once had a few dj's on too?

I was in River Island in Chelmsford today and nearly fell over when I heard a Northern Toon coming from the speakers. I saw it as a sign that the jeans were talking to me, 'buy me, buy me' they said.... Then the vocal came in and I realised it was female and wasn't the same record, same backing different vocals, quite nice tho. Don't ask me what it was, an old Shifty spin for sure. Anyway, the jeans stopped talking to me and I walked out. OH the power of music!!

I am going to buy the jeans tomorrow! I think!

Annie