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Just a quick highlight of these two events, mainly as James T due to some real world melt down is fairly busy at the moment and asked me to pass on that everything is 100% and all squared away for this Fridays Soul revolution Allnighter . Details below see thread for latest last minute score Room 1, Northern Soul Dance Hall:The Soul Revolution Residents Mick H, James Trouble and Butch is back with a special 3 hour set! YES, THAT'S THREE HOURS SOLID OF THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE RARE SOUL DJ FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE. BRACE YOURSELVES FOR IMPACT!!!!! As well the Legendary Keb Darge who will be making a surprise appearance later on... Room 2, The Deepfunk Loft: Featuring Jazzman Gerald (Jazzman Records), Japanese Jimmy Dynamite, Liam Large + Funky Ben Room 3, Soul Or Nothing: Marco Soulbrew (Soul brew Italy), Alan Patterson, Adam Leaver, Mick N Mo, Paul Grant, (Sleepless nights, Dublin) and Steve Cato. Tickets will be available to buy in advance from the website www.soulrevolution.co.uk (update coming tonight) £10 in advance up untill the Friday lunch time (12pm) of September 19th. Can read event thread here, Little Stevie pushed out bedroom timings and more The 100 Club anniversary this Saturday is sold out and again sounds like all systems are go with news that the free 45 is sorted 6ts Anniversary all-nighter 2008 The 6ts 29th Anniversary all-nighter will take place on the 20th September 2008 at the 100 Club (10pm to 6am). Entrance by ticket only, at £18 each. The DJs will be Butch, Mick Smith, Keith Money, Roger Stewart and Ady Croasdell, Sounds like a double allnighter anniversary weekend and a half

Sad News Norman Whitfield RIP Norman Whitfield passed on last Tuesday. Rightly deserving the acclaim of one the most influential writers/producers, he was responsible for producing and writing some of the most renowned songs through out the 60s and 70s. He passed on aged 67 in Los Angles from diabetes complications after surfacing from a coma Yet another soul legend gone An Obituary can be read via the link below from The Independent Website In between working in a service station and hustling pool, Whitfield played percussion on recordings by Popcorn and The Mohawks and began hanging around Motown's premises. In 1961, he scored a local hit with "I've Gotten Over You", and Gordy started to take him more seriously, offering him $15 a week to work for Motown in 1962. Whitfield was nominally in charge of appraising white labels without knowing who the artist was. He was competing with Holl-and/Dozier/Holland and Robinson when trying to place his songs with the label's artists. "There was a certain tenaciousness inside of me, something that would always drive me to make something very special," he said..... .......asked which of his compositions he favoured, Whitfield tended to ignore "Grapevine" and plump for "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby", a 1969 hit for Marvin Gaye, or "Ooh Boy", one of Rose Royce's dozen or so hits in the late 1970s. ... "The people make the songs what they are," he said. "As writers, we only do what we do and then we have to give it to the public. They're the ones who determine if you're a genius or a failure." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/norman-whitfield-songwriter-and-producer-who-added-a-political-edge-to-motown-934145.html Thanks to Hitsville Chalky for keeping us informed during recent weeks