Forget about the top Djs,forget about x1000 pound record boxes what i've been hearing about the last few months i am fed up about people moaning about venues not playing the right stuff,What is the right stuff anyway?To me mid tempo and up tempos and a few floaters makes a good night in my opinion i do get in heated arguements with some soulies you can't keep everyone happy their answer is i don't go again and thats where low crowds at venues starting to appear i think if a dj plays to an empty floor and makes no atempt to resolve it and you should be showing them the door in my opinion if its soulful i dance to it im just pasting the vibes on promoted should stated on the flyers whats been played i was at an allnighter lastnight and they all had it to a tee back up boxes and they were playing to the crowd the worst thing is to see an empty floor at 4:00 in the morning.

Cheers Billy

Ps.i hope to get one reply from this if anyone has got any thing on there mind just say it.

You like your midtempos because you do.. others like their uptempos because they do.

More importantly.. where has the raresoulforum gone?

I'm really surprised how many threads has been on this posting I would like to make it clear I got no problem's with DJ's venus and promoters, to me the scene is at it's very best and when people say the scene is going backwards it's only because they don't get out so much just listening to other people they've got to be there to touch it. I'm just passing on the vibes which I hear from other soulies and I do agree if a DJ should make the effot to get the floor going and as rare soul goes I luv every venue I go to and yes I do have a collection of Kathy Kirby undiscovered melodies billy

Well being young. I enjoy nighters i go to but the question for me is if i DJ or whoever it would be nice to see it Northern soul all night and let the DJ decide what he will pick from his box and play.

Your gonna get moaners but so what we can't please all people. To me i would enjoy at times i go to a Northern soul night and here say This Old Heart of Mine by Isley Brothers but then loads are gonna say but that's too popular and i can hear that on my local radio so don't want it on here.

The worst feeling ever is if you ever start DJing for the first time at Northern soul nights which i have wondered about doing asking my friends who already do it about a spot before them.

It's if i did it and i am playing so much music like say Jay Traynor - Up and Over, Gloria Jones - Come Go WIth me or Junior Walker - Roadrunner as examples and everyone moans or don't like the fact a new DJ has started. I would try and please people but you can't please them all

I understand mate. Its tricky coming onto a scene where people are sick of hearing certain outplayed songs, but to me and you they are new sounds.

It must piss you off when you travel week in week out and hear the same 10 - 15 songs every week, but for me no song is outplayed so its a win win situation.

I bet I've heard M.Little - Love find a way more times than I've heard Judy Street - What at any nighter.

I suppose its the advantage of being a young soulie amoungst all you old moaning foagies

yeah hear same sounds but i am not bothed. It's always nice some new stuff will get played i don't know. Best thing is if i started DJing i see how people take to me and hopefully my choices would get a good review.

I understand mate. Its tricky coming onto a scene where people are sick of hearing certain outplayed songs, but to me and you they are new sounds.

It must piss you off when you travel week in week out and hear the same 10 - 15 songs every week, but for me no song is outplayed so its a win win situation.

I bet I've heard M.Little - Love find a way more times than I've heard Judy Street - What at any nighter.

I suppose its the advantage of being a young soulie amoungst all you old moaning foagies

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That's an interesting point to me. For most people they would be very difficult records to compare (from a supposed quality viewpoint) but to you they stand together. We keep hearing we need to attract a younger element, if yours were a typical view of what they'd want/accept, then it should be listened to. We can't expect younger people to come on this scene without listening and respecting what they've got to say

Winnie:-)

We keep hearing we need to attract a younger element, if yours were a typical view of what they'd want/accept, then it should be listened to. We can't expect younger people to come on this scene without listening and respecting what they've got to say

Winnie:-)

I've had newbies come up to me at local dos & ask for the same sorta records & i think personally they've got a point, it's easy to forget how great records like 'What' are when you've heard them so many times.

It's classic NS & should be played more often especially instead of modern house music etc. masquerading as NS.

Simon

I bet I've heard M.Little - Love find a way more times than I've heard Judy Street - What at any nighter.

Your not alone Paul, can't remember hearing Judy Street at a nighter well not for years and years and I am an old foggie

Infact pretty fed up with M.Little

Your not alone Paul, can't remember hearing Judy Street at a nighter well not for years and years and I am an old foggie

Infact pretty fed up with M.Little

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I can just imagine the looks on some peoples faces if 'What' was played. Probably no complaints from the "Dancers" though

Well you can request it surely the DJ's will play it