Rugby Soul Club

I seem to have written this on a few other threads but as it's been put on one forum, I suppose I should write it again. The Benn hall is a popular venue in Rugby and to get the same dates every year, we have to book up to 7 years in advance... And we still get people offering us money to use the Benn for their wedding etc. I do put up the dates on here and on the web site. And as Chalky says, a lot of us do talk. I can give out my dates to anyone who wants them... But because of this, it does make it hard for us to be flexible for the soul scene. I have even had apologies from other promoters who clashed with us because of not being able to get any other date. It is a free world and no one has the given right to demand that their date is theirs and no one elses but I've got to admit, it does effect numbers and it would be a perfect world if there were no clashes. Another point, I know the all-niter crowd like them to start and finish later but as we started as a soul nite and still get support from a lot of those who don't wish to stay all-nite, we decided to run from 8pm and offer those who came in the first hour, a discount. We have no choice in the finish time as that is as late as the management will allow. I'm not sure that this thread will help in anyway but I suppose it's a good way of putting your own point across...

I have to make excuses not to go coz normal life is soooooooooooooooo boring with out them... I try telling myself a week off will make me feel better......I just sit at home and sulk...

That just shows our different tastes, I would get up and dance to Joey but hate Benny Spellman, too like Fortune Teller...always fast forward that track if it comes on in the car...

I'd never seen that before but loved the Outrigger... I remember the first time I went there and the modette girls were freeking out to shake a tail feather, scared the life out of me... It was a brilliant atmosphere tho...you just had to be careful on the way out as the locals took to beating the crap out of you. The last time we turned up and it had been closed down, apparently the owner had run off with the takings...

I'm dancing at the thought, looking forward to hearing you play... ...a step to far me finx...

You forgot to say, you also go out in a skirt... I'll be popping up to York on Saturday and I've promised to do a CD of sing-a-long stuff after coming home from Madchester last week and desperately wanting to sing at the top of my voice (Dean always tells me to shhh when he's in the car)... (poor Phil)... I had someone request the snake for me at a soul nite thinking I'd be embarassed......Up I got and danced my little socks off and forgot just what a danceable tune it was...only at Nuneaton tho......the last one I found myself dancing to Hey little way out girl...just like going back to my teens... Never be ashamed to have fun, we're a long time dead...

You need to do an option Do you still (have the) clap... The loudest female clapper I know is Julia123...

Well I'm quite looking forward to watching it but only if it comes to the cinema in Rugby, I only travel for the real thing... I also watched Grease and Quadrophenia and enjoyed them the first time but the later times were more fun picking the faults... Do they really line dance and clap with their arms in the air......shouldn't have been too hard to get that bit right. Chalky, now I know you don't like clapping, I will do it all the more...

...Bet I've still got mine somewhere...

Not sure who the DJ was but at one of the all-niters held at The Eclipse, they had forgotten their keys for their playbox... Luckily we knew someone in the rave room from Rugby who knew how to open locks without keys...

No probs, I'll send you a copy if you do me it on cd in return... PM me your address.

I've got a tape done from that all-dayer - DJs on it are Harpo, Jimmy Price and Pep, I think. 1987. There was also a warm up at the Tic-Toc club round the corner. Went to the sports centre one too and altho not many in, it was a lovely big, dark venue...

Read the title of the thread and thought, I didn't know Max was in hospital... To be taken so quickly is such a shock...very sad news. My condolences to Max's family and all his close friends...

Be great if a load of you up there with different flyers could turn up at the next one, obviously before it starts, so you don't have to hear the crap music and no one gets in your way. Be fun to see his reaction at you wanting to flyer at his expense and without being gracious enuf to pay the door tax... Did anyone get the date...

Brilliant post Mark... However much crap we have in our lives, we can leave it all outside and forget it for those few special hours...

...No, I meant The Bar, the venue round the corner that used to do some little soul nites...Think Pete and Jock organised them for a while.

I had plenty of texts from people letting me know they were having fun... does that help Mike...

Well thought out Ady, respect... Would "The Bar" be another possibility for the morning hours?