When your last 3 holidays have taken you to

Prestatyn, Cleethorpes and Blackpool.

Or you thought 'Top Gear' was going to be a show about allnighters.

Any others?

When you know too many small dodgy area's of GB and wonder what they are like in the afternoon.

When you know estimated thumbing times between cities.

When you realise that you are very good at spotting accents.

When you can tell the difference between a tenner and a twenty in pitch darkness with gloves on.

When every time a cat food commercial comes on, you rattle on to anyone who'll listen about Rubin.

When you have an unhealthy knowledge of Service Station names.

When you hear a single clap, you instantly react.

When you work out the danceability of every floor surface that isn't carpet.

When you are reading this thread in the daytime

When you are reading this thread in the daytime

When you are at work and you see some spilt sugar on the floor and immediately think it must be talc - that happened last week!!

Ste.

Edited March 16, 200718 yr by Ste Brazil

When your last 3 holidays have taken you to

Prestatyn, Cleethorpes and Blackpool.

Or you thought 'Top Gear' was going to be a show about allnighters.

Any others?

Yep ,when your going to "Soul in the sun" to have break from all this soul stuff.....Like me

Bazza

When you are at work and you see some split sugar on the floor and immediately think it must be talc - that happened last week!!

Ste.

'Tate & Lyle Soul' just don't have the same ring to it does it ?

When your kids tell you of that chart track you've never heard of .. "But it's number one dad"!

Edited March 6, 200718 yr by Simsy

When you look at your watch, it says 6am, and you think "Time to get up" instead of "great - two hours of stomping left!" :angry:

You've been into Northern Soul too long when....

you get a text from a mate who calls you r-soul and not arsehole

You have been into Northern Soul too long when a you only sleep 3 days a week

Edited March 6, 200718 yr by little-stevie

You have been into Northern Soul too long when you are amazed that anyone could possibly find a bunch of middle aged men dancing alone, with no women, strange.

You have been into Northern Soul too long when a you only sleep 3 days a week

What, you manage to somehow get three days sleep a week?!

You have been into Northern too long when you run downstairs like a kid at Christmas every Sat morning hoping your new record has arrived, and when it has you start DJ ing at 7.30am....or is that just me?!

Ste.

...when you think that guy looking at you in the pub in a funny way is either admiring your style of dancing/your clothes/where he saw you last/the way you know every word to every record he doesn't know......., but he is really looking to cause you GBH!

Has this actually happened to anyone?

...when you think that guy looking at you in the pub in a funny way is either admiring your style of dancing/your clothes/where he saw you last/the way you know every word to every record he doesn't know......., but he is really looking to cause you GBH!

Has this actually happened to anyone?

....Oh yes..

When you look at someones hollow cheeks and wonder if he does nighters

When you're driving to Scotland and you get a thrill of nostalgia when you see a motorway sign with 'Wigan' on it...

Oh and the Sandbach motorway services... (everyone used to meet up there)

When your mate gets double strength Duramine on prescription and they are to help loose weight!

When your mate gets double strength Duramine on prescription and they are to help loose weight!

too long when ,you know those slimming aids instead of picking you up, would probably put you in a pine box

Bazza

When you see your best mate sporting a brand new Stone Island jacket, you ask "Is it original?". and he replies "No, its a bootleg"...

Happened last week...

You are so right!

...when you think that guy looking at you in the pub in a funny way is either admiring your style of dancing/your clothes/where he saw you last/the way you know every word to every record he doesn't know......., but he is really looking to cause you GBH!

Has this actually happened to anyone?

Yep.

I the pub on the corner of Station road in Stafford. (The Vine?) I had my bag with a few badges on it. A guy was looking closely at them so I struck up a conversation. He was an Everton Hoolligan, and decided having badges on a bag was like wearing a scarf at the football, and threatened to fill me in. Luckily an awful lot of the nighter crowd were in there and he and his mates thought better of it.

You've been into.....too long

When you are stood in the supermarket queue and Band of Gold or Nowhere To Run comes on the tape and you have to shout out 'oh yes, what a record!'

(happened on 2 separate occasions in Iceland, John Frost Square, Newport)

OR you cant hear certain words without singing a song to your self. ie (not that I hear it that often) I cant hear Dynamite, without immediately thinking, - and nitroglycerine, are like a firecracker compared to you.

Edited March 6, 200718 yr by in town Mikey

When you see your best mate sporting a brand new Stone Island jacket, you ask "Is it original?". and he replies "No, its a bootleg"...

Happened last week...

Spudding priceless!

You've been into.....too long

When you are stood in the supermarket queue and Band of Gold or Nowhere To Run comes on the tape and you have to shout out 'oh yes, what a record!'

(happened on 2 separate occasions in Iceland, John Frost Square, Newport)

Yep.

I the pub on the corner of Station road in Stafford. (The Vine?) I had my bag with a few badges on it. A guy was looking closely at them so I struck up a conversation. He was an Everton Hoolligan, and decided having badges on a bag was like wearing a scarf at the football, and threatened to fill me in. Luckily an awful lot of the nighter crowd were in there and he and his mates thought better of it.

You've been into.....too long

When you are stood in the supermarket queue and Band of Gold or Nowhere To Run comes on the tape and you have to shout out 'oh yes, what a record!'

(happened on 2 separate occasions in Iceland, John Frost Square, Newport)

OR you cant hear certain words without singing a song to your self. ie (not that I hear it that often) I cant hear Dynamite, without immediately thinking, - and nitroglycerine, are like a firecracker compared to you.

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When you catch yourself jigging in a clothes shop to some old motown, or waterstones come to think of it. If you're in a shop anywhere and they have wood down, and you wonder what it would be like to spin on

when you can remember having the choice of only 1 or at a push 2 soul events to choose from in a weekend .....

Your kids dont even notice you were missing overnight......

your postman knows your name...and stops to chat about these cd's!!! that he delivers....

and finally...

your non soulie friends wonder why you havent grown out of it yet

cookie

WHEN AFTER 5 WEEKS YOU BECOME A POWER SELLER ON EVIL BAY,

WHEN YOUR LIFELONG MATES TAKE THE PISS AND SAY IS THAT THE LATEST RELEASE FROM BOBBY CARLSBERG?

YOU TELL YOUR FRIENDS YOU ARE DJING AND THEY ASK IF YOU ARE WEARING ROLLER SKATES AND HEADPHONES.

YOU SHOW YOUR GRANDKIDS FOOTAGE OF WIGAN CASINO AND DESCRIBE AT LENGHTS THE CONTOURS OF YOUR7TS LEATHER MAC.

.....When your friends question your sexuality after travelling to London to an all-night club with 3 men you've never met before and 'got to know them' on an internet forum.....

.....When your friends question your sexuality after travelling to London to an all-night club with 3 men you've never met before and 'got to know them' on an internet forum.....

Nobodys questioned my sexuality, but I'm doing exactly that on Saturday

Actually I've met one of them, but the rest could be raving loonies for all I know

When you shop at IKEA.........and you like all the units that look like they would hold your 7",12" & CD collections.......and if it is a sunday ...you DON'T buy a Hotdog at the checkouts

Edited March 6, 200718 yr by Karen and Rob Wigley

.....When your friends question your sexuality after travelling to London to an all-night club with 3 men you've never met before and 'got to know them' on an internet forum.....

Nobodys questioned my sexuality, but I'm doing exactly that on Saturday

Actually I've met one of them, but the rest could be raving loonies for all I know

Was talking about my 'non soul' friends.

It is a bit odd trying to explain it to people. No matter how much you try to justify it......

when you wander into your kids nativity play and ask 'is anyone knocking any gear out?'

when you wander into your kids nativity play and ask 'is anyone knocking any gear out?'

Or ask them where they got their fancy dress from, as you've a nighter to attend later that evening/morning

When your last 3 holidays have taken you to

Prestatyn, Cleethorpes and Blackpool.

Or you thought 'Top Gear' was going to be a show about allnighters.

Any others?

When you have thought about pre ordering you're coffin and having 7" 60s import labels plastered all over it

Now there is a good one what label and track's would you have on you're coffin

Steve J

All of the above....plus:

When you're out and about and start sizing up the place thinking 'this would make a good venue for a night' the cafe at the end of Bournemouth Pier springs to mind....

When you buy shoes and think 'I wonder if they'll be ok for dancing in'...

Great thead....and I know what you mean about Ikea units, Rob Jo

When your last 3 holidays have taken you to

Prestatyn, Cleethorpes and Blackpool.

At least you're keeping your carbon emissions down, Mikey.... Jo

You spent your honeymoon at Cleethorpes Weekender... (me in 2003)

When you shop at IKEA.........and you like all the units that look like they would hold your 7",12" & CD collections.......and if it is a sunday ...you DON'T buy a Hotdog at the checkouts

Yeah, can relate to the 'i've got no appetite' bit...!

Every time you go into a book shop you just make for the music section in the hope there's some soul book to thumb through while the other half is looking through the classics-classics being Thackeray,Kingsley,Shaw NOT Archie Bell & the Drells

When entering a 'Help The Aged' shop you still spend fifteen minutes thumbing through 100's of Dooleys and Racey 7"s in the vain hope of dropping on the stuff you used to in the 80's.

At least you're keeping your carbon emissions down, Mikey.... Jo

Amen to that Jo.

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When your mate gets the hump because you've just greeted his new 21 year old girlfriend with a big smacker on the cheek.

When your 17 year old neice refers to your style of dancing as "that weird clappy happy stuff Auntie does"

OR: When your car "glove" compartment is stuffed with nothing but N.S C.d's (not a glove in sight not to mention any other type of music)

OR: When you go out to an average disco/party other event & have forgotten how to dance any other way than the way you do to N.S!!

When entering a 'Help The Aged' shop you still spend fifteen minutes thumbing through 100's of Dooleys and Racey 7"s in the vain hope of dropping on the stuff you used to in the 80's.

almost barry, but when you've really been into it too long, you have to walk up to the counter with a load of old tina easton/david essex/showaddy waddy and say:

i used to have this one on a green tamla demo.

have you got this one on british?

will you take a fiver on this one?

my mate's got this one.

i used to have this one but i sold it to my mate and now he's sold it.

this one is shite.

did guy used to play this one covered up as captain scatlet and the mysterons?

and

haven't seen one of these since rob smith's dayer in 1978, the one where the DS busted [insert name] for selling green meanies.

then you say, 'can you save them for me, i'll be back in a minute?', walk out and never come back.

almost barry, but when you've really been into it too long, you have to walk up to the counter with a load of old tina easton/david essex/showaddy waddy and say:

i used to have this one on a green tamla demo.

have you got this one on british?

will you take a fiver on this one?

my mate's got this one.

i used to have this one but i sold it to my mate and now he's sold it.

this one is shite.

did guy used to play this one covered up as captain scatlet and the mysterons?

and

haven't seen one of these since rob smith's dayer in 1978, the one where the DS busted [insert name] for selling green meanies.

then you say, 'can you save them for me, i'll be back in a minute?', walk out and never come back.

But I did have it on a green demo and on a british issue and I did sell it to my mate and I have'nt seen one since Rob smith last cleaned his shop.

When you go to the xmas pantomine and all the kids shout ..................................HE'S BEHIND YOU and you are freaked out for the rest of the night

When your last 3 holidays have taken you to

Prestatyn, Cleethorpes and Blackpool.

Or you thought 'Top Gear' was going to be a show about allnighters.

Any others?

My last three holidays took me to Cleethorpes, Nuremberg, and Vicenza. Do they count ?

whats a holiday??? all my money goes on vinyl...theres a garden if i want to sunbathe and homebase do a nice line in bags of sand for the kids .....

cookie

whats a holiday??? all my money goes on vinyl...theres a garden if i want to sunbathe and homebase do a nice line in bags of sand for the kids .....

cookie

When you can recall things exactly what happened 30 + years ago , but cannot remember what you had for lunch today .....

Malc Burton

when you can remember having the choice of only 1 or at a push 2 soul events to choose from in a weekend .....

Your kids dont even notice you were missing overnight......

your postman knows your name...and stops to chat about these cd's!!! that he delivers....

and finally...

your non soulie friends wonder why you havent grown out of it yet

Spot on ..... And you're into it so long,you've now given up explaining what it is when someone asks you....."and what sort of music do you like"?... :angry:

cookie

When you can recall things exactly what happened 30 + years ago , but cannot remember what you had for lunch today .....

Malc Burton

That's me alright...

You get funny looks in shoe shops as you go around feeling the soles

Your kids ask what a sunday dinner looks like

You ask what a Sunday looks like

Karen

When you buy records you've already got....................and not always in error.

When you scour designer luggage for anything that holds 7"x7"

When, as 50 approaches, your new potential life-partner has just made the error of saying "You seem to go to a lot of soul nights - couldn't we..................Dean, Dean, wait a minute!"