This was the first Northern Soul event I had attended for over 30 years, you know the story, get a job, get a girl/married/family etc!! But saw this advertised and as I turned 50 this year my wife (who's never been into soul but liked a few of my records!) said she would come with me. It was brilliant, even my wife loved it! In fact we had such a great time we have booked for Blackpool in November!!

Only thing was I missed hearing some classic oldies from my time at Wigan circa 1978/79, things like Sheila Anthony - Living in Love, Raining Teardrops by The Demures and How Can I Ever Find a Way by Carol & Jenni and I'm sure a few more! Are some of these tracks now not heard or even classed as crap? I hope not!!

the three you mentioned still get played altho i ve never been a fan of the sheila anthony......the third track is carol and gerri in case you made a typo.. great flip to this one also

the three you mentioned still get played altho i ve never been a fan of the sheila anthony......the third track is carol and gerri in case you made a typo.. great flip to this one also

spot on dave, c & g got to be one of the best double headers ever! and i dont posess one however, i was thinking about spinning the demures at stoke or the tower,..then it gets mentioned here! if youre in early doors ( friday at the tower ) andy, come and have a word.

Hopefully will be in early as we've taken a days holiday to get over to Blackpool early! So will try and get over to say hello. I don't have a copy of Carol and Gerri so was working by memory which is not as good as it was!!!

This was the first Northern Soul event I had attended for over 30 years, you know the story, get a job, get a girl/married/family etc!! But saw this advertised and as I turned 50 this year my wife (who's never been into soul but liked a few of my records!) said she would come with me. It was brilliant, even my wife loved it! In fact we had such a great time we have booked for Blackpool in November!!

Only thing was I missed hearing some classic oldies from my time at Wigan circa 1978/79, things like Sheila Anthony - Living in Love, Raining Teardrops by The Demures and How Can I Ever Find a Way by Carol & Jenni and I'm sure a few more! Are some of these tracks now not heard or even classed as crap? I hope not!!

Andy you've got a lot of catching up to do! You're right though, 78/79 was my time as well and generally speaking a lot of records played then don't get an airing nowadays. The reasons for this are complicated, just do a search for "overplayed oldies" and you will find loads of threads that debate this very subject on here. So much so that I'm off before I get strung up for starting it off again (contentious subject)

Happy catching up

Will do Steve and Cheers!