I was always a really crap dancer and to scared to get up and do my stuff, not that it was stuff anyone would watch or enjoy. I was always jealous of my mates from Rhyl who could dance and do drops and spins. i musta sprained my wrist more times than soft mick.

Even now I have a mate howard who is my age (40 +) who can still move and glide like a majestic god( the ....***).

When I am a bit drunk I think I'm great but cringe the next day.

So who's gonna give me lessons ??????????

I was always a really crap dancer and to scared to get up and do my stuff, not that it was stuff anyone would watch or enjoy. I was always jealous of my mates from Rhyl who could dance and do drops and spins. i musta sprained my wrist more times than soft mick.

Even now I have a mate howard who is my age (40 +) who can still move and glide like a majestic god( the ....***).

When I am a bit drunk I think I'm great but cringe the next day.

So who's gonna give me lessons ??????????

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you dont need lessons, just go along to a soul do, watch others and go with the flow!

Try Trickster

you dont need lessons, just go along to a soul do, watch others and go with the flow!

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I do that Janine but I still feel awkward, I always have when I dance. I think being tall and gangly dont help lol. like your gallery by the way.

I was always a really crap dancer and to scared to get up and do my stuff, not that it was stuff anyone would watch or enjoy. I was always jealous of my mates from Rhyl who could dance and do drops and spins. i musta sprained my wrist more times than soft mick.

Even now I have a mate howard who is my age (40 +) who can still move and glide like a majestic god( the ....***).

When I am a bit drunk I think I'm great but cringe the next day.

So who's gonna give me lessons ??????????

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So you were the one in the palace who made me look like a good dancer, - Made a fool of myself in the Palace many times dave, and in the Dixie and probably up and down the North Wales coast and still looking like and idiot but down south now anywhere they let me in at 40+++++++ but at least you only did it drunk I do it sober as well!!!

LOL

QOFXXX

So you were the one in the palace who made me look like a good dancer, - Made a fool of myself in the Palace many times dave, and in the Dixie and probably up and down the North Wales coast and still looking like and idiot but down south now anywhere they let me in at 40+++++++ but at least you only did it drunk I do it sober as well!!!

LOL

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chrissio where r u from then?

god remember patti swallow in the palace???? she was ace! and the Dixie was my second home.

Do you remember any names from then? e mail me on djh_14@hotmail.com

I do that Janine but I still feel awkward, I always have when I dance. I think being tall and gangly dont help lol. like your gallery by the way.

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Always nice to see new punters...Nice one Dave and we can meet up for a pint some time...Don't worry about the dance thing mate,it don't matter...Just do you're thang...

You will meet some really nice people on here

Always nice to see new punters...Nice one Dave and we can meet up for a pint some time...Don't worry about the dance thing mate,it don't matter...Just do you're thang...

You will meet some really nice people on here

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i went to the cooloff web site and watched the movies. is that you dancin steve??

feckin awesome m8.

Always nice to see new punters...Nice one Dave and we can meet up for a pint some time...Don't worry about the dance thing mate,it don't matter...Just do you're thang...

You will meet some really nice people on here

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Steve'sright - good bunch - and they don't fall out with you when you have a dig at them do you steve

I can feel another Palace reunion coming on - wheres netspeaky when ya need him.

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Steve'sright - good bunch - and they don't fall out with you when you have a dig at them do you steve    

I can feel another Palace reunion coming on - wheres netspeaky when ya need him.

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Chrissieo will show you the handbag dance Only joking.Don't think she's got one in you're colour

Soul source is really good for meeting new folk and long may it continue...

Chrissieo will show you the handbag dance   Only joking.Don't think she's got one in you're colour

Soul source is really good for meeting new folk and long may it continue...

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Ahh steve been doin that for 33 years the one I am trying to master is backdrop without spilling my beer.

Ask Brett about that one..He is the master

I was always a really crap dancer and to scared to get up and do my stuff, not that it was stuff anyone would watch or enjoy. I was always jealous of my mates from Rhyl who could dance and do drops and spins. i musta sprained my wrist more times than soft mick.

Even now I have a mate howard who is my age (40 +) who can still move and glide like a majestic god( the ....***).

When I am a bit drunk I think I'm great but cringe the next day.

So who's gonna give me lessons ??????????

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Lesson No1 : You put your left leg in / your left leg out

Ahh steve been doin that for 33 years   the one I am trying to master is backdrop without spilling my beer.

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lol i think i may have seen her handbag dance and she dont spill her beer

lol i think i may have seen her handbag dance and she dont spill her beer     

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to quote james brown

i got ants in my pants and i need to dance

lol i think i may have seen her handbag dance and she dont spill her beer     

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Being totally stupid (no more than usual I hear you all say) but just mailed you to ask where you livin now didn't think to look at your settings.

I am going to Manchester next thursday (14th) night to beat steve up at the mint lounge if you want to come and meet us

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Being totally stupid (no more than usual I hear you all say) but just mailed you to ask where you livin now didn't think to look at your settings.

I am going to Manchester next thursday (14th) night to beat steve up at the mint lounge if you want to come and meet us 

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would love to i may go along tomorrow too i been enjoying myself here a lot

i better get summat done here or i'll be on line all day long lol

i better get summat done here or i'll be on line all day long lol

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me to or be collecting p45 will pm you nearer the time and will sort sumffin out

i better get summat done here or i'll be on line all day long lol

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It's just us women who can multitask then with work and chatting

It's just us women who can multitask then with work and chatting   

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Work? Janine Snow at work?

Work?  Janine Snow at work?     

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Don't laugh Stuart, she's 'working' for Dave!

Paul

who gives a f**k what you look like dancing. the best dancers are the ones with a smile on there face i sometimes dance with my eyes closed

who gives a f**k what you look like dancing. the best dancers are the ones with a smile on there face i sometimes dance with my eyes closed

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Is that so you can't see how bad you are

I am from the karaoke school of dancing.

It seems so much better when you sing along when dancing.

Obviously knowing at least some of the words help but you can usually get away wiith a mumble through the parts you don`t know

At any venue you will see so many different styles of dancing that no one pays any attention. ( God I hope so )

Strange thing this "Soul Dancing". I remember being glued to the edge of the dance floor at Rotherhams Clifton Hall about 1982 ?, watching all these people just swaying and grooving to this most incredible music, wanting desperately to join the party, but the nerves inside kept me, for what seems like an age, from taking part.......then over the speakers in almost slow time (like a Peckinpah movie) came the "Q" and "That's The Way", the only analogy I can give is when a ball of magnesium is tossed into a steel bucket filled with water....BANG.....

I shot forth onto the floor and never looked back. All my fears were allayed, and I just kept on moving, I'll never be the best dancer, but I know between me and my own personal god that this is my time and I'll continue to enjoy it, till that fellow calls time.

Brett Franklin.............

who gives a f**k what you look like dancing. the best dancers are the ones with a smile on there face i sometimes dance with my eyes closed

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the best way to dance is with your eyes closed... or in my case just take the specs off... one minute your one side of the floor ... then you open your eyes and "f**K" your on another planet...aint no better feeling then wow how did I get here..

Strange thing this "Soul Dancing". I remember being glued to the edge of the dance floor at Rotherhams Clifton Hall about 1982 ?, watching all these people just swaying and grooving to this most incredible music, wanting desperately to join the party, but the nerves inside kept me, for what seems like an age, from taking part.......then over the speakers in almost slow time (like a Peckinpah movie) came the "Q" and "That's The Way", the only analogy I can give is when a ball of magnesium is tossed into a steel bucket filled with water....BANG.....

I shot forth onto the floor and never looked back. All my fears were allayed, and I just kept on moving, I'll never be the best dancer, but I know between me and my own personal god that this is my time and I'll continue to enjoy it, till that fellow calls time.

Brett Franklin.............

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Hi Honey thought he had called time on you .. missed those backdrop no beer spills of yours...

Hi Honey thought he had called time on you .. missed those backdrop no beer spills of yours... 

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Hi Marcelle, last time i did a back drop with beer i was off work for a month

Hope your well lady.

Brett

Hi Dave, life's too short to worry about what you look like on the dancefloor. just get out there & have fun . in another 20 years time your legs mightnt be as good as they are now so dont hold back. i usually fall over when I try spins but I dont care how daft I look anymore. isnt that one of the advantages of getting older?

Try Trickster

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He said he wants to dance,come on janine get it together Girl. Ken

lol i think i may have seen her handbag dance and she dont spill her beer     

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Thinking back Dave, who would notice in the Palace (The Orbit) if you did drop your beer. I was always more worried about the flying chairs aimed by the deeside lot on a bank holiday weekend.

Patti Was a great DJ and probably one of the first serious female (???) DJ's on the scene in the UK, but the dance floor was sh*te more like the paddling pool on Rhyl prom some nights. The dance floor at the dixie was far better but not quite the same atmosphere, James Aspinall was a good DJ but he could never match Patti for style. Even when we flirted with punk for a couple of years, and the Alarm (then known as the toilets) played there quite often she would always throw in the N Soul at the end of the night - How did she do it - Top DJ!!

QOF

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Hi Dave, life's too short to worry about what you look like on the dancefloor. just get out there & have fun . in another 20 years time your legs mightnt be as good as they are now so dont hold back. i usually fall over when I try spins but I dont care how daft I look anymore. isnt that one of the advantages of getting older?

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Its not allways age that gets ya,sometime it accidents like when going to 100club,and fell of a wall,now i have pins & plates around my ankle and still causes discomfort,before then i could take on all,now broberly not all that,but who fucking cares anyway,lifes too short well thats what they say not got too the end of mine yet,got pretty close a few times though.Ken

Its not allways age that gets ya,sometime it accidents like when going to 100club,and fell of a wall,now i have pins & plates around my ankle and still causes discomfort,before then i could take on all,now broberly not all that,but who fucking cares anyway,lifes too short well thats what they say not got too the end of mine yet,got pretty close a few times though.Ken

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Excuses Ken Excuses!!

Ken - What do you think of the new Avatar- Cool Heh

Its not allways age that gets ya,sometime it accidents like when going to 100club,and fell of a wall,now i have pins & plates around my ankle and still causes discomfort,before then i could take on all,now broberly not all that,but who fucking cares anyway,lifes too short well thats what they say not got too the end of mine yet,got pretty close a few times though.Ken

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you always make me laugh ken!

Shane

Excuses Ken Excuses!!

Ken - What do you think of the new Avatar-  Cool Heh       

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Ken

you always make me laugh ken! 

Shane

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I try me best for you shane ,Ken

i only asked if i was a shite dancer lolol

come on blackwhite,never seen you dancing what you gotta say?

i only asked if i was a shite dancer lolol

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There is no thing as a sh*te dancer dave as long as you feel good

"Be Young (ok in our case slightly older) be foolish but be happy"

Any way I'll be the judge when you "throw some shapes next thursday"

Thanks for your post today it has been good fun and given us an excuse to laugh at ourselves (oh and ken), thats what its all about

Oh dear I feel some sh*t lirycs coming on again - you know those ones you can't get out of your head - as Joe said earlier

All together now

Put your left leg in

Your left leg out

In Out In Out

F**K off you all know the rest

"And it's good night from me and it's good night from him" (maybe). Who's the him help "Theres a (bloody) ghost in my house" again - and before you all start taking the mick yes I have had a couple of beers this eve!!!

QOF

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come on blackwhite,never seen you dancing what you gotta say?

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I'm sure you've seen me dancing Kenny not well but dancing nonetheless.

Derek

the best way to dance is with your eyes closed... or in my case just take the specs off...      one minute your one side of the floor ... then you open your eyes and "f**K" your on another planet...aint no better feeling then wow how did I get here..

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i try and stay still while doing this so not to bump into people but it does take you to another world

P.S nice to meet you at the warm up do for the rocket lisa pete and i had a wicked night :ok:

Back around 78 while I was in the Navy, I did both cartilages in my knees doing a backdrop(I think to "There Was A Time") The Navy doctor prodded around and asked "how did you do this, football?". I replied "No, Dancing". He didn't ask any more questions, but there was a strange look on his face.

Paul

Back around 78 while I was in the Navy, I did both cartilages in my knees doing a backdrop(I think to "There Was A Time")  The Navy doctor prodded around and asked "how did you do this, football?".  I replied "No, Dancing".  He didn't ask any more questions, but there was a strange look on his face. 

Paul

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Was it that little black mini skirt you were wearing that casued the strange look

Was it that little black mini skirt you were wearing that casued the strange look    

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No, I wasn't in uniform at the time

I used to be the fastest shuffler in the west in the 70s then I realised my peg leg was worn out and I was as much use as a one legged man in an arse kicking competition!

I was always a really crap dancer and to scared to get up and do my stuff, not that it was stuff anyone would watch or enjoy. I was always jealous of my mates from Rhyl who could dance and do drops and spins. i musta sprained my wrist more times than soft mick.

Even now I have a mate howard who is my age (40 +) who can still move and glide like a majestic god( the ....***).

When I am a bit drunk I think I'm great but cringe the next day.

So who's gonna give me lessons ??????????

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MAGIC to see somebody talking about Dancing on this Web Site. Makes a change from all the politics, money in the pocket, and self promoting posts going on.

Dancers started this movement, by bringing the first underground soul dance music into the country, and dancing to it.

No special technique required to take part in those days and non required now. IF YOU ENJOY GET OUT ON THE FLOOR.

Top man for bringing DANCING BACK INTO FOCUS.

Denis.

PS.

Wonder if there are any dancers looking at your post who learned how to move around a dance floor to underground soul dance music in the mid 60s in the Cannal-Whitworth Street area of Manchester. If there are Denis would like to make contact with you again.

email djsoulspin1@hotmail.com

or you could just play dodge the high kicks and limbs flying about the dance floor

its what i call the dodge soul dance

or you could just play dodge the high kicks and limbs flying about the dance floor

its what i call the dodge soul dance   

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Nah the "Handbag" dance is much better or the "back drop and don't spill your beer" dance - still learning that one!

Nah the "Handbag" dance is much better or the "back drop and don't spill your beer" dance - still learning that one!

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im a master at not spilling beer would never cach me doing a 'back drop'

im a master at not spilling beer would never cach me doing a 'back drop' 

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Now im no John Travolta, but i've never been scared to dance. But when i think back to my first few all niters it makes me cringe. I thought i was the dogs b******s on the dance floor. Arms were going everywhere and didn't have a clue what to do with my feet but i thought i would easily pass as a northern dancer.

Reg will prob back me up on this one! I was terrible!

But nobody ever mentioned it, or laughed or gave me a "who's that bloody nutter" look. And thats the good thing about the soul scene. Everyone dances their own way and as long as you're having fun, who cares!