Ady Croasdell

His uptempo version of Love Attack as featured on Goldwax Northern was a Goldwax recorded, Fame purchased master too, as was the unreleased Water- not the Geno song. There are one or two more that one of us will come up with soon. You're right Dante one of the reasons to keep the club going is to be able to play tracks like this. Ady

Thanks hugely to everyone who has posted and the PMs and Emails I have had, it's great that people are so concerned. There are a lot of very good suggestions already and I'm gonna give it a few more days as there are sure to be people who haven't had a chance to put their two pennuth in yet. Also I'm still looking after Sonny so won't be able to fully analyse all this for a day or two. Keep 'em coming please, the more views, the better picture I'll get. It's really appreciated. Cheers Ady

As the Cats was such a good and influential club, can anyone explain why the Saints & Sinners club at the back of an all night pro's cafe in Brum city centre was frequented by overwhelmingly Northants/Harboro kids? Apart from Slip from Brum I can't remember any other West Mids accents!

Kent/Ace have five of these tracks out on Various Artist CDs but I don't think we found out much about her so anyone with info please let us have it. They're all great girly soul sides.

Tony who was one of the two people who actually dug the tape out sent a copy to Steve for promotion and thanks for recent support. It's not specifically my shout for that reason though we do discuss the best ways of promotion. I'm sure we will do the best we can to popularise the great tune. Incidentally due to circumstances at the 100 Club I actually spun it three times in a night, at 11pm 2.30 am and 5.45 am, which I'm pretty sure is the first time I've ever done that. It's a sign of the times that it went down slightly better than the awesome Billy & Clyde stomper though that's gonna be a grower.

Well although I enjoyed last night, the numbers were low for the fourth consecutive all nighter. It started in January when we ran it during the freeze when everyone else had cancelled, so that wasn't surprising, even though Mick Smith managed to get there from Wolverhampton record fair while others reckoned they couldn't get across town. Then we clashed with Rugby anniversary and a lot of the regulars were DJing there so naturally their carloads went there. But march and April really didn't clash with anything major so last night in particular I was down about it (although I had recently been encouraged by Crossfire). REASONS 1) I don't have time to promote as well as I used to and with a hectic Cleethorpes schedule I won't really be able to do this until after then. 2) A lot of soulies don't like the fact that the general public can get into the dances now. I understand that but really don't feel that if we returned to members only we'd get enough people in to pay the bills, which since we've had to move to 10pm-6am have been high. 3) Are most nighter venues having the same problem? Is it a general demise of the nighter scene brought on by over familiarity and ageing? 4) Music policy. I've alwys tried to keep it a reasonable mix of old, rare, new, 60s, 70s, R&B and god knows what but are people getting more picky and less understanding of other people's preferences? Can't fans of one genre of music abide to hear even a few of those of another. 5) DJ line up. I'm happy with all of my regulars, i don't think there's a week link there, though Joel's arrival has coincided with the bad run, I'm positive this is a coincidence and i personally have been happy with every spot he's done and there are a lot of tunes I wasn't overly familiar with there. I do find it hard to get guests who draw any extra customers and I'm not sure there are many in the country who would personally up the attendance, but I'd love to know of some. There are probably a lot more reasons that I've not worked out yet, but please if you care about the club at all let me have your opinions. Some will be the opposite of someone else's and sort of cancel each other out, but that's fine it will give me a better picture even though I know Soul Source isn't 100 % representative of the 100 Club crowd. If the only comment is something like "I don't like London" that's probably not gonna be too helpful! Funnily enough at the start of the night Butch and I were chatting about the Stafford reunion and saying that if the 100 Club closed now it would immediately gain mythical status and I could run reunions and sell T shirts and make more money running it as a historical venue than a current one. Of course the final conclusion might be that it's run its course after 31 years. Randy and I only started it for somewhere to hear the music we loved and a year was good going, three decades is quite unbelievable really. I still enjoy the nights very much but don't want to see it die on its arse. Going bi- monthly is an obvious option but it would make the breaking of good new records even harder and that's one of the best aspects of the club in my opinion. So let me have it, even though it might be hard to swallow. I've got a pretty thick skin, know I and the club are far from perfect and don't hold grudges (too long). If you'd rather it was off the record just send a PM, I'll read them all and hopefully reply to them all though it might take a while with work and family duties being very busy at the moment. Ady

So you'll never visit the 100 Club again 'cause the management won't allow talc! Very sad (in the traditional sense) Simon.

And if you want the 100% adrenalin 60s stomper style, the Billy and Clyde 'World Of My Own' that the chaps picked up will also be revealed at t'Undred Club tonight!

I beg to differ ma'am, 100 Club Xmas party and the Crossfire dos, though Wiggy probably didn't enjoy the recent one which was London Oldies. It depends when you grew up and got into it, my first nights included records like Tony Clarke The Entertainer, The Platters Washed Ashore and an obscure Jimmy Radcliffe release called Long After Tonight Is All Over; so no one's gonna tell me that a sublime mid tempo Detroit track like Tobi Lark's Lots Of Heart that I'll play on Saturday at the 100 Club ain't Northern.

Rick/Richard comes to Cleethorpes most years, he's got a gang of hard core pie eaters for this years festivities. we used to shift some black puddings and pickles at the Wilton back in the day.

That's great Martin, that'll do me nicely. Cheers ady

/index.php?/calendar/2/event-15096 Brilliant feature Mike you can see two pick pockets and a gypsy selling heather.

Nobody got the other RCA then? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease! Ady

I'm good for the flip of It Didn't Take Much now too, thanks to Mr McKay. Ady

And a little 60s belter it is too Paul, thanks very much. Ady

If any of the cleverer ones among you can post up in Refosoul, I'd love to hear The flip of It Didn't Take Much Both sides of t'other RCA single Flip of Book Of Memories Flip Of They Don't Know Thanks in advance Ady

Sorry kids, defo not Chuck (which is a great shame) and it does sound like it's been doctored the vocal sounds slowed down or at least transposed.

It begs the question where did you get it from Ian? As you were Neil's partner in the 70s (allegedly:lol:) I'd have thought you might have known if Neil did a session with Chuck.

And all thanks to Soul Source, Dave Abbott's thread, Dave Fleming and Marc Forrest's input and those incredibly nice and groovy guys Tony & Steve.

I've got a weird 45 of Dee Dee Sharp doing this

1000 apologies a) For resurrecting this thread b) for claiming Matt drove his buses in Bradford. Ezzie you're right, none other than South London mine of information has just confirmed over sausage and chips that you were on the ball about being on the buses!

Dave Rimmer at Cleethorpes singing I Have No Voice on the Sunday night.

Has Rimmer gone Hasidic or is that a bearded artichoke?

Ignore it; drunken silliness. Sorry.

Don't post when you're still pissed kids; it's not big and it's not clever.