Just uploaded this to my youtube channel.Danny Huff and is in there along with some great eighties fashion....not a baggy trouser in sight and no talc.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxn-AQuXTA&feature=youtu.be

Easily the best 1980's footage I've ever seen. Brilliant

Wow! what a wonderful trip down memory lane.

Always good records for sale there!!

Will try and upload part 2 tonight.

Wow! what a wonderful trip down memory!!

Tell me about it...quite a few Soul-Sourcers are there...should they care to reveal themselves

Thankfully I wasn't there that night having already left Gloucester by '87, but so good to see some of the old regular faces...thanks for the upload and looking forward to part II already.

That's a brilliant bit of footage. I love seeing these uploads (Tony's empress ballroom,odd fellows etc).and I am sure I have met the chap being interviewed at about 14min 40sec a few times and he still had the moves. What does surprise me is back then it was still the same argument oldies,nostalgia etc vs newies (as they call them) and that was back in 1987!.

Edited January 14, 201411 yr by mark and donna

When I try and play it I get Blocked in your country? Any other way to watch it?

Gloucester - a city with a fine history of northern soul.

Edited January 14, 201411 yr by Steve G

Gloucester - a city with a fine history of northern soul.

Gloucestershire - a county with a fine history of Northern Soul - and it continues!

What's frightening is that it's almost twenty seven years since that was filmed...don't think I DJ'd at that one, although I did quite a few there, probably off doing a nightclub gig! Dennis Lee, Wilxy with big hair, Sue Reddy, Julie, Rich Gough, even Steve Smith, loads more faces, and what's positive is that a lot of 'em will be at either Soulfusion this Saturday or Gloucester Wotton Hall niter next month!

many a good night had at the bristol hotel, not there that night tho,i spied esher as the dj.

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijqzQ6G9Ns&feature=youtu.be

can someone give me the artist name of the song l.o.v.e at around 8.45minutes please, heard it out a few times but never caught the artist.

can someone give me the artist name of the song l.o.v.e at around 8.45minutes please, heard it out a few times but never caught the artist.

 

Leon Thomas on Flying Dutchman

 

Then one around 19:11 is Pharrell, Ivan Dewsbury's favourite 'soul' record of all time )))))

Edited January 15, 201411 yr by Sutty

thanks for that sutty and yes velvet hammer's happy is getting some mainstream exposure thanks to pharrell (and soulgirl on youtube). this song has been flogged to death on the scooter rally's since I can remember.

Here's part 3.The funny thing is the same oldies are still being played all over the country now!.You would think that all the KTF merchants would be sick of them by now!.

 

Yes, but just look at the good time everyone's having!

Yes, but just look at the good time everyone's having!

Jerry!! Don't start down that old road, please!!   Otherwise the thread will just descend into the usual debate

Edited January 15, 201411 yr by markw

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijqzQ6G9Ns&feature=youtu.be

 

Great to see people actually enjoying themselves unhindered by the rules of the new puritans

Great times remembered fondly of the Bristol Hotel.....I had a lot of hair and a lesser waistline in those days

Leon Thomas on Flying Dutchman

 

 

 

How good did that sound at WC...

When I try and play it I get Blocked in your country? Any other way to watch it?

 

Am blocked too

 

There's a Firefox add-on called "Proxytube" to watch blocked YT videos. Will give it a try tonight.

Am blocked too

 

There's a Firefox add-on called "Proxytube" to watch blocked YT videos. Will give it a try tonight.

Yes, Benji, found it on You Tube last night

 

Unfortunately 1987 was prime changing nappies, working 7 days a week to support family, not going to Northern nights so I missed this and most local nights at that time as I had to be picky about where I went.

Am blocked too

 

Benji keeping it real, Gloucester style 

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijqzQ6G9Ns&feature=youtu.be

small world i had ovo copy of this send out to some one about 6 years ago billy ps put this on dvd

Watched these last night. I see it is billed as the 2nd anniversary. There were of course regular nights there long before 1985. Upstairs more often than not.

My memory is never great but who used to run the nights in the video? I remember Julie on the door, but for the life of me cant remember who ran these nights. Can someone help?

 

I'd be interested to know if the success was largely due to persuading the landlord to let the nights move to the bigger downstairs area. I actually kinda liked the upstairs room, but downstairs seemed to attract a lot more people through the door.

Dennis Lee and Julie ran this one I think, but as you say there had been nights there off and on for years before that Mikey.

Dennis Lee and Julie ran this one I think, but as you say there had been nights there off and on for years before that Mikey.

o yes they did 

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijqzQ6G9Ns&feature=youtu.be

the lad with the blue white vest , that the one , i gave the dvd too

Billy I'm sure you are on the RSG video as well on the Leighton Buzzard thread dancing to modern...   

Billy I'm sure you are on the RSG video as well on the Leighton Buzzard thread dancing to modern...   

well it was the 80s lol  billy

Billy I'm sure you are on the RSG video as well on the Leighton Buzzard thread dancing to modern...   

yet kev 39min 02 very fast lol billy

Er ... those of us in the video that have not been banned from Soul Fusion will be there ... ;-)

very interesting.. ...got a few friends  on the footage  but for me  its an insight into the local soul scene in gloucester that i completly missed out on for 25 years.. not really sure why know as i always loved the music while never going anywhere......the bristol had some big soul acts on in the 60s and i went to a few soul nights there in the early  70s. ez

Yes it was a great night, have a copy of this video that we watched just before Xmas. I seemed to spend the whole night with a walk on part as seemed to spend more time walking past in the background then on the dance floor. Great to see so many of the local characters, alongside those from afar.

 

Have attached a copy of some of the original flyers.

 

Mark (Gloucester)

Edited January 18, 201411 yr by littlestanley

Just uploaded this to my youtube channel.Danny Huff and is in there along with some great eighties fashion....not a baggy trouser in sight and no talc.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxn-AQuXTA&feature=youtu.be

 I remember Andrea from around 7:40 - lovely girl