Got this off the, net very atmosphoric, makes the hairs on the back off your neck stand up. Dont know if its the last or the last last hopreyou enjoy it.

Isn't this one of Sean Chapman's Ex's??????

Good explanation young Mikey.... ever thought about becoming a clap teacher

Now that we have the book 'Who The Hell Is Frank Wilson'

all that remains is to publish 'How To Clap On The Off Beat'

Surely its just a matter of time.

Now that we have the book 'Who The Hell Is Frank Wilson'

all that remains is to publish 'How To Clap On The Off Beat'

Surely its just a matter of time.

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Colin (It is colin isnt it?)

My publisher wont give me the £1 million advance now.

he recons you have applied for the copywright

Ben Zine - Village Of Tears.

AND Bernie Williams. That was the first track I thought of. At Yate not only did you get the three claps at the appropriate spot in the record, you would then imediately get an 'echo' three claps, and then everyone would clap once together. When you are 15, at your first allnighter, and watching/listening to all this, its impossible not to be sucked in.  

It is also a much under-rated dance move. As we are all getting less agile   and the backdrops and swallow dives are becomming less and less (ahem) graceful, a good clap is a wonderful thing to do, or watch.

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Spot on Mikey, didn't get down/up to Yate that often so not sure how often this happened but remember one night to Epitome of Sound ( I think)it seemed the "echo" claps just went on & on from different parts of the floor. Brilliant memories, Time machine please

Thanks for backing me up on Tobi Legend Kolla thought it was just me ;-)

Everyone is talking about clapping to the beat or the off beat, but what about clapping to the invisible bits like in The Jewels "We Got Togetherness" or The Outsiders "Lonely Man". That took real skill!

Yeah Paul, ur far too young to be on this site if your mum went to Wigan. Go and do your homework......

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well i never! how rude!

ill have you know my homework is done before tea and ALWAYS in on time!

Hi Mikey

Yeah its me aka 'Col The Soul'

May I say how much I recently enjoyed your amusing diatribes of late......

New Job.

Absolutely f### all to do.

Spend about 6 hours on here every day.

thanks I.T. Mikey. i look forward to seeing soul source members take their hands out of their pockets & revive this tradition

Jack Billy has his own way of expressing himself, he's a carrott cruncher from Norfolk so if you need a translator talk to Binty Crane     

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Thanks alot John, mind you 30 years of allnighters has probaly took its toll! Talking about Binty, I am not in her good books, hope you and Alison are keeping well.

Actually come to think of it it is quiet fun clapping at the wrong place in a song, cause when you clap other people copy, it's even funnier if you clap extremely vigorously to a slow track, or even carry on dancing in between tracks :good:

The Dome at its peak was good for clappers - Sunshine Girl developed a life of its own there.

Also, I have a superb tape (copied from the late Paul Fisher) of a storming Butch set at the 100 Club about 5 years ago - superb hand clapping!! Particularly on his Jerry Williams c/u, Temptones c/u and his ender, Eddy Hughes "Soul Searcher" (then c/u as George Lemons). Not such a dead art in the South.

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I'll agree that the 100 sometimes got a decent clap going, but it was very rare at the dome. Sunshine girl, was an exception, and perhaps the Allen Sisters, but in general it was a very quiet venue. IMO better clapping ooop north, mainly cos the records played were better known.

Winnie :-)

Winston,

Its Mike from the ONS.

Good to see you on here mate.

Been transferred to Newport, so I wont be interrupting your xmas office party this year

Hi Wendy.

There are two types of clapping along. Both require Winston's large arm movements and thunderous bringing together of hands.

Take 'Crying Over you - Duke Browner'. The opening bars are dramatic and there is a pause. This is where dancers clap. (bear with me 'duh duh, duh duh, CLAP')

Or 'Epitome of sound - You dont love me' when there are three rapid beats, dancers clap to each beat.

Sometimes the way is to clap on a beat, on other's its the missed beat. I think thats the one Kolla is refering to in 'Time will pass you by'.

I have probably got that wrong and the old lads like Winston will take me to task.

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Old lads....what a bloody cheek Personally I think the secret with clapping is to mean it, you can get away with anything if you're positive, and not all wishy washy. If Toby Legend hadn't reached such elevated status, the claps would probably have been different, the only reason it's difficult to master is there aren't a 1000 plus people clapping to it in unison anymore

Winnie:-)

Ah think with the clapping thing you've either got it or you haven't. I remember my mate Chris at Stafford clapped so loudly his hands REALLY bled..and he was in time even tho he was always on another planet. Records that springs to mind include Larry Houston.Let's spend some time together or Marva Hicks,Romance Watson any of those Stafford type tunes.. We all liked clappin then... to anything really. I still clap along in my car when I think nobody's looking

Used to get the odd bit of good clapping at TOS albeit by much smaller numbers, what a pity that it'll soon be no more. I can only make the last 1/2 hour of the last one due to DJing at Hidden Secrets mores the pity.

Paul

SITC

no seriously - can someone please explain this hand clap thing. did yous clap to ALL the songs? did yous jump n spin n clap at the same time???

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Yes and with a cig in the mouth it looked very classy...Great to see you Dublin soul girl..All the best...

Spot on Mikey, didn't get down/up to Yate that often so not sure how often this happened but remember one night to Epitome of Sound ( I think)it seemed the "echo" claps just went on & on from different parts of the floor. Brilliant memories, Time machine please

Thanks for backing me up on Tobi Legend Kolla thought it was just me ;-)

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Nobody's mentioned "Do I love You". Even the most inept of clappers get this one right

Winnie:-)

The Dome at its peak was good for clappers - Sunshine Girl developed a life of its own there.

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Oh deary deary me Flynny has such a lot to answer for I'd say you were a letter out though with Clap in association with this particular record

Oh deary deary me Flynny has such a lot to answer for I'd say you were a letter out though with Clap in association with this particular record

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Clop?

having collected 'live' wigan tapes for years ,,got some scorchers over the years from 73 - end of an era with the atmosphere captured

highlighted 'clapping' sessions for me include

afternoon of the rhino from 74

footsee from 75

stemmons express - woman love thief

holly st james - thats not love all from 78

sergio mendes - love music

bari track - 75

peter jarrett / tommy james - run run baby run - 79

cecil washington - i dont like to lose - 1980

currently writing some memoirs on my escapades on my collecting the tapes and trying to find the records from them like searching 10 years for the legends on pumpkin and waiting 8 years to uncover allan rhodes sounds from 78!

ringing up pete smith at 10.30 at night asking whats this instrumental from 75 pete??

great times and some fantastic tunes from the wigan era!!

Clop?

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I think you need to wake up sunshine

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Old lads....what a bloody cheek Personally I think the secret with clapping is to mean it, you can get away with anything if you're positive, and not all wishy washy. If Toby Legend hadn't reached such elevated status, the claps would probably have been different, the only reason it's difficult to master is there aren't a 1000 plus people clapping to it in unison anymore

Winnie:-)

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having collected 'live' wigan tapes for  years ,,got some scorchers over the years from 73 - end of an era with the atmosphere captured

highlighted 'clapping' sessions for me include

afternoon of the rhino from 74

footsee from 75

stemmons express - woman love thief

holly st james - thats not love                all from 78

sergio mendes - love music 

bari track - 75

peter jarrett / tommy james - run run baby run - 79

cecil washington - i dont like to lose - 1980

currently writing some memoirs on my escapades on my collecting the tapes and trying to find the records from them like searching 10 years for the legends on pumpkin and waiting 8 years to uncover allan rhodes sounds from 78!

ringing up pete smith at 10.30 at night asking whats this instrumental from 75 pete??

great times and some fantastic tunes from the wigan era!!

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Good god man you're obsessed Good call on the Cecil Washington though Mark fantastic with 1000+ happy clappers doing their thang

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Old lads....what a bloody cheek Personally I think the secret with clapping is to mean it, you can get away with anything if you're positive, and not all wishy washy. If Toby Legend hadn't reached such elevated status, the claps would probably have been different, the only reason it's difficult to master is there aren't a 1000 plus people clapping to it in unison anymore

Winnie:-)

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I was talking about 1000 plus Winnie ! it always seemed out of time & a rush to get the last clap in ( & no I wasn't chemically enhanced, maybe that was the problem) ;-)

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Was you talking old days, or nowadays? Everybody seemed to know when to clap in yesteryear......not sure if being chemically enhanced would have helped or not

Just thought of another one

Adams Apples.......blinding record to clap to

Winnie:-)

I think you need to wake up sunshine

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Clam?

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Was you talking old days, or nowadays? Everybody seemed to know when to clap in yesteryear......not sure if being chemically enhanced would have helped or not

Just thought of another one

Adams Apples.......blinding record to clap to

Winnie:-)

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Clam?

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F**K off big ears It's CRAP and you know it

Lou Johnson...."Unsatisfied". Thats easy too!

Good god man you're obsessed    Good call on the Cecil Washington though Mark fantastic with 1000+ happy clappers doing their thang   

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youre right i am obsessed!!!!!!!!11

but every tape i get theres at least one or two ive never heard of

recently

cortez greeer - very strong on you

absolutel fantastic atmospheric oldie (IMO)

but ive never heard in 24 years of all niters!!

regards

mark

the casino kid that never was!!

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youre right i am obsessed!!!!!!!!11

but every tape i get theres at least one or two ive never heard of

recently

cortez greeer - very strong on you

absolutel fantastic atmospheric oldie (IMO)

but ive never heard in 24 years of all niters!!

regards

mark

the casino kid that never was!!          1 anniversary at Wigan was tops atmospere was unbilevible after all these years I honestly say [iMO] nothings touched it since it's was nice to be a part of that error still got few more years in me yet

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One that always gets the hands clapping and atmosphere going and strangly it's down tempo but captures a room to work together as one is The Martell's - Where Can My Baby Be - A La Carte, blinding record that has it all.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

I find that it doesn't matter what record I end with, it always get a huge amount of clapping going, and cheering as well, strangely just as I am finishing and walking off the stage?!? Hang on a minute....

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There's great clap a long moments during the instrumental breaks of Jackie Wilson "Because Of You" & carla Thomas "I'll Never Stop Loving You". When I first got into the music, I used clap to "Sliced tomatoes", "Fortune Teller", "Ghost In My House" & "The Right Track" ....would probably seem a bit naff now.

There's great clap a long moments during the instrumental breaks of Jackie Wilson "Because Of You" & carla Thomas "I'll Never Stop Loving You". When I first got into the music, I used clap to "Sliced tomatoes", "Fortune Teller", "Ghost In My House" & "The Right Track" ....would probably seem a bit naff now.

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OOOOh I'll never stop loving you, one of my top ten all timers.....awesome

Winnie:-)

I knew I would track this thread down.

Speaking to a guy from Torquay over the Xmas period who used to go to Yate. He reckons he can remember me saying I didnt like Stafford as much as Yate one night, because people hardly ever clapped, (I assume it was because most of the records were unknown) and therefore the atmosphere was crap.

My opinions obviously changed over time, as its still my fave allnighter, and I only missed about 3, so I couldnt have been put off that much.

Happy new year everyone. I'm back at work, so will probably be boring people to death daily again

Going back to the first post of this thread - that is definitely from the last night at Wigan. The whole tape is as mad as that. Bought a tear to my eye listening to that again

No one said 'Interplay' yet? Amazing.

Big clappy sounds back in the day I remember 73-74

LOUISE LEWIS - WEE OO I'LL LET IT BE YOU BABE

COMMODORES - THE ZOO

MIKE POST - RHINO

GLORIA JONES - TAINTED LOVE

Big clappy sounds back in the day I remember 73-74

LOUISE LEWIS - WEE OO I'LL LET IT BE YOU BABE

COMMODORES - THE ZOO

MIKE POST - RHINO

GLORIA JONES - TAINTED LOVE

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Intro to 'Really Hurts Me Girl'