I think the general feeling is from most soulies, they don't really mind the Northern tracks that have been played on the KFC ads and well, perhaps that is fair enough.

I must confess to (perhaps) over reacting just a tad when they first came out, tracking down the ad agency etc. They wouldn't give me a name, so I wrote to the marketing director and basically asked the question why was it necessary for them to play rare soul music, what's wrong with mainstream stuff, citizens love a bit of Freda Payne, or Aretha etc. Perhaps I was being naive and it would have cost them fortunes to play the mainstream stuff, but it got me thinking, someone there knows all this and that prompted me to include a particularly venomous line about "shame on you, shame on you". "How could you sell our wonderful music down the river for some fried chicken". I never got a reply, but I did hear later that a quite namey scene dj was behind it, so I asked him outright and he denied it.

As stated some may say I need to chill, but I just knew these mofo's would come back from Ibiza with their rising inflections saying "yeah I know all about that fried chicken music you listen to". Sure enough I was dj'ing at a do in the Harpenden Rugby Club a while back, playing mostly Northern, when this bird came up to me and said "I really like those fried chicken songs you played".

AAAAAAAAAAAgggggggggghhhhhhhh, I haven't spent the last twenty plus years, thousands of pounds, thousands of man hours giving this music, this scene my all to have some whip dick have any kind of insight into what wer'e about.

Now tell me, if that's a fact am I over reacting?

I met a girl in KFC once. She was well up for it!

I was onto the tender thighs, then the juicy breasts and then I put my greasy bone in her bucket. 

Shane

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I feel sick now which reminds me, the last time I ate KFC I was ill for 2 days with food poisoning

I feel sick now which reminds me, the last  time I ate KFC I was ill for 2 days with food poisoning

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you got off lightly then!?

I wouldnt eat anything from there. I stopped eating meat about 5 years ago because of factory farming and KFC are the worst culprits for this.

Its a shame they are using rare soul to sell such filth. I would have preferred it was used to sell something like Radox.

Shane

As for Bobby Garett (Mirwood), I'd be less confident. Off the top of my head I cant remember the other tracks used.

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I think Ace/Kent own the rights to Mirwood now. Maybe Ady C. can tell you how Bobby Barrett did from the ads.

Ouch! 

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You're twisting my melon matt, what I said was"I came in through the mod back door " thus embarked upon the scene, dig? you perv!

I quite like the ads, they are generally upbeat.

Just caught a bit of the new ad for some Sony Ericsson mobile

Didn't really hear it properly but it sounded like an instr re-work of Mel Torme

Anyone care to shed a bit of light on it.

I quite like the ads, they are generally upbeat.

Just caught a bit of the new ad for some Sony Ericsson mobile

Didn't really hear it properly but it sounded like an instr re-work of Mel Torme

Anyone care to shed a bit of light on it.

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Not seen that one yet. Upbeat eh..? Yeah I guess that's true. Getting back to the KFC ads, (groan) I remember the finishg strap line 'Got Chicken Got Soul' ... got chicken got soul...? When you've been on the floor for ages and the mood's just right and you've had your fare tipple of your favourites and you dance to records that you've never heard before, but they seem familiar in a magical way. That's the kind of thing that makes me think of soul. Not selected pieces of shaped chicken, formed and coated in a crispy batter!

Yes, of course you are correct.

I guess I don't really take it all in!

KFC and Soul music. What a load of arse.

Have we all seen the new one?

Where he's asking / singing if he can have a munch on her fillet

And she replies; Noooooo - All sung in OTT soul style vocals - FUNNY!

Have we all seen the new one?

Where he's asking / singing if he can have a munch on her fillet 

And she replies; Noooooo - All sung in OTT soul style vocals - FUNNY! 

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yeah I've seen it.....it is rather jolly isn't it

hate the food .. love the ads.

to be fair .... this mass infiltration thing was never going to happen. its too difficult to get into. in some cases - out of town and unappealing venues ...... paper flyers ...... dj's mumbling all over records ........ etc itwould all be too much for many i reckon.

hate the food .. love the ads.

to be fair .... this mass infiltration thing was never going to happen. its too difficult to get into. in some cases - out of town and unappealing venues ...... paper flyers ...... dj's mumbling all over records ........ etc itwould all be too much for many i reckon.

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What do you suggest printing flyers on - seeing as paper is obviously not good enough? I'm intrigued....

Maybe we should go back to wax tablets !

Hammy

card ...................... full colour.

my point is not that paper is not good enough (as for those clubs that use paper it is i'm sure good enough) but that for the great unwashed that some people seemed to have been concerned about, the "outsiders" that were going to ruin the scene, I think they wouldn't have been very "attractive" to ...... and along with the other aspects I mentioned would contribute to my view that the influx was never going to happen.

I think when people are so wrapped up in a scene they lose sight of how obscure it is to the majority.

Even if they got past the flyers they'd still have to contend with the "mumbling DJ's" ........ and the no drinks on the dancefloor policy ....... that's if they wanted to go into the scout hut/community centre/social club in the first place to hear all these KFC classics.

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"Even if they got past the flyers they'd still have to contend with the "mumbling DJ's" ........and the no drinks on the dancefloor policy.......that's if they wanted to go into the scout hut/community centre/social club in the first place to hear all these KFC classics."

You'd better BELIEVE I'd rather be at a community hall somewhere deep in the remote northwest UK, with people playing the best in rare sounds, even with a few KFC spins thrown in.

The image is last and the music comes first. If I'm faced with a choice when I first set foot on UK soil, I'll gladly pass on a mod passion play do in London in favor of a major trek up to a place like Dundee to hear a guy like Keith Money play to a small crowd in a community center. To me that's quality.

I think there are others that back me up on this, too.

But that's just me. I guess it's just a matter of taste and what's more important to the person.

KTF

Jas

. Firstly it has been maybe 2 years since they began the campaign and it has made no difference to our scene whatsoever. Has anyone genuinely met someone at a soul event who has decided to check out a rare soul event since seeing the ads?

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I was in the canteen at work when the KFC Bobby Garrett track came on. A girl said to me "Oh I like this music" "Yeah me too" said I, a couple of Cds followed and now her, her husband and 2 friends attend 2 soul nights per month and cant get enough if it! She was only moaning to me yesterday that I had`nt told her about Prestatyn and now it has sold out!

Chris