Going Out Just Can Be Arsed With It Anymore To Many Do's On

[Mike]

off topic posts removed

 

ask both to sack it or take it to pms

thanks - no reply needed

[Chalky]

Some spot on posts on this thread. And to Steve L I would say this. Butch is the best there is, and I used to follow him all over the country, but even he hasn't got any new quality 60's. When you hear him play every other weekend, it's the same stuff. Even his fantastic one off acetates can start to loose their shine.

I can also appreciate that a great many people go out for different reasons than I did, but as I don't drink, and have never been involved with drugs, the music was my reason d'être. If you use the scene as a social life, then that's great. I was always looking for the scene that was eloquently described in Phil T's earlier post. Unfortunately I missed the Stafford era.

Anyway, great thread. Good to know I'm not the only grumpy old man out there.

 

Butch featuring some great stuff in his sets of late.  What new stuff there is mind (and there is some), there isn't the audience, only infrequently, and the retro bunch have no patience whatsoever so there is no chance of breaking the record unless half a dozen or so Dj's get a record.  Some records take 5, 10 or even 15 years to break out big, Johnny Praye and Tommy and the Derby's to such examples.

 

The "newies" do not stand a chance on today's backward thinking retro scene.  

 

Until the retro scene fizzles away when all those who returned in the 90's etc are too old then the scene doesn't stand a chance, youngsters do not want to be associated with people older than their grandparents in some cases.

[Chalky]

The coolness has well and truly gone now. And that plays a big part in attracting and then keeping a younger crowd.

 

 

Someone complained on the Hull Soul Night lookback that they wanted Judy Street and Dobie Gray type records as they filled the floor and I said in reply what a sad sorry excuse for a once cool scene the northern soul scene has become.  

[Guest]

The internet has to take some of the blame!

  Before the internet if you wanted to hear new sounds and find out about Northern Soul, you had to go to allnighters and listen to the records getting played, talk to people.

Now you can do all this online without going out of your house!!!

Edited September 23, 2013 by Guest