https://sabotagetimes.com/music/dont-let-northern-soul-be-ruined-by-the-elitist-clique-who-follow-it/

This made interesting reading, some have seen it on facebook

Cheers John

They're all from Hartlepool

Quick hide your Monkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Brilliant! Where do you get plums that big?

Call me elitist but if I couldn't spell 'too' I'd sit really f*cking still when there were pens about.

 

 

  :lol:  

 

One of the best one liners for ages Phil.

 

I'll be using that one in the office. Brilliant.

 

Peter

 

 

Had me in tears.

 

Can't read the link the firewall at work claims this article is "suspicious". Probably more accurate than it knows.

Edited August 22, 201410 yr by in town Mikey

Hope no one sneers at my cheap as chips polo shirt I will be wearing on Saturday night

Posted a comment on there.

 

I notice he says he 'hates disco' in his profile - perhaps someone should point out that huge swathes of Northern is technically disco.

 

Dx

Edited August 22, 201410 yr by DaveNPete

Yep that's exactly how it came across to me as well. The mischievous Craig character trying to prove there's a greater divide than their actually is. Anybody know anything about his pedigree? I really can't be asked to google him, although I'm sure he has a very interesting northern soul history, that most will marvel at

 

You have no right to comment Win - You don't collect records!

 

 

 

L  

Edited August 22, 201410 yr by LEN

Mark Bicknell?

Ian D

 

Post now appears to have been deleted?

The part about us all being fashion victims made me giggle. Has he ever been to a nighter. 

The part about us all being fashion victims made me giggle. Has he ever been to a nighter. 

 

I remember Terry,Danny,Big Paul etc walking up to the Kestrel suite,Terry in sheepskin and red jeans,me in a flat cap...i said "Tell me again why young soul kids don't want to be seen with us".

Quick hide your Monkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

 

Ha Ha, may need explainin that to some.... av ya got an hour Pete?

Undoubtedly the piece is badly written, but I am sure that there are individuals who will recognise a degree of truth in the wider criticism being made. The fact is that it is still too early for a meaningful (and definitive) examination of the soul scene as it developed (and some might argue ossified) in 'the North', there are still too many individuals with particular interests to defend about for it to be otherwise.

 

Rob Alias 

 

You need to change your medication mate.

 

Best Russ

I remember Terry,Danny,Big Paul etc walking up to the Kestrel suite,Terry in sheepskin and red jeans,me in a flat cap...i said "Tell me again why young soul kids don't want to be seen with us".

 

I was looking very sharp when I walked in the other week.

 

Looked like a drowned rat when I walked out though. 

I remember Terry,Danny,Big Paul etc walking up to the Kestrel suite,Terry in sheepskin and red jeans,me in a flat cap...i said "Tell me again why young soul kids don't want to be seen with us".

My sheepskin is in for refurbishment....and shall make an entrance this very winter  as for the red troosers  they were burgundy lol........mind you big pauls  ensemble last time was err......very L.A :lol:

I remember Terry,Danny,Big Paul etc walking up to the Kestrel suite,Terry in sheepskin and red jeans,me in a flat cap...i said "Tell me again why young soul kids don't want to be seen with us".

 

I'm glad you didn't mention my name as, obviously, I was looking as cool as…...

Its not the clothes that make it cool, its the demeanor & the attitude....

 

Russ

It's a strange article, sounds like the interviewer is trying to goad Kev into saying something disparaging, but to his credit Kev doesn't. This person, Craig Campbell has an agenda but Kev doesn't fall for it.

Not sure about the following bit though..."DJ’s who can’t get major gigs and a drug fuelled elite who want it that way"

 

Can someone introduce me to the drug fuelled elite please 

Sanatogen !

Russ

 

Not sure about the following bit though..."DJ’s who can’t get major gigs and a drug fuelled elite who want it that way"

 

Can someone introduce me to the drug fuelled elite please 

 

It's probably Ibuprofen for the knees nowadays.

Not sure about the following bit though..."DJ’s who can’t get major gigs and a drug fuelled elite who want it that way"

 

Can someone introduce me to the drug fuelled elite please 

No. If you don't know who they are your not worthy.

Sorry no smiley things.

On a serious note. IMHO There's nothing wrong with the records mentioned in the article infact I like them but the thing is at a nighter the unwritten law is original vinyl only.END OF.

That's how I was brought up on this scene and I'm sure over 90% of people would have been to.

Steve

Stevie, on 22 Aug 2014 - 1:29 PM, said:

Post now appears to have been deleted?

It's still there.

 

Peter

It's still there.

 

Peter

 

I'm assuming you're referring to the thread.

 

The reply that Mark Bicknell posted yesterday has since been deleted. 

Stevie, on 22 Aug 2014 - 9:02 PM, said:

I'm assuming you're referring to the thread.

 

The reply that Mark Bicknell posted yesterday has since been deleted. 

Sorry. I thought you meant Ian D's post.

On a serious note. IMHO There's nothing wrong with the records mentioned in the article infact I like them but the thing is at a nighter the unwritten law is original vinyl only.END OF.

That's how I was brought up on this scene and I'm sure over 90% of people would have been to.

Steve

 

Yes, but not 90% of todays 'Scene' I'm afraid - Northern Soul has now replaced Pub Culture. Thankfully, there are still pockets of it out there to enjoy.

 

All the best,

 

Len  

Edited August 23, 201410 yr by LEN