Steve L

Well said that man

Never mind lads you'll be able to cheer yourselves up and take your minds off all this politics shit by watching Scotand play Italy tonight and get another 3 points on the way to qualifying for the world cup

Following on from above: The whole weekend was fantastic. How can you say give us something new from the artists??? For f*cks sake, these people are in their 60s & 70s! They gave me everything I wanted. I spent about 45 mins talking to Troy Keyes & Ritchie Pitt on sat night after the performance - all they kept saying to me was thank you so much, I said no I want to thank you (and countless other arists) for giving me so much pleasure over thelast 30 years. They were absolutely gobsmacked by it all! Many a time I have listened to a record and thought the poor sod who made this has no idea how much it's loved by all of us, so it was nice to be able to convey these sentiments to the peole who matter. Roll on next year !!!!!

What planet are you from? You need to get life youth!

Its nothing to do with what time you like to be in bed, a handbagger is someone who gets excited and dances to stuff like Third finger left hand & Band of gold

Funny that, I had a mate who liked motown about that time cos his older brother was into it! The rest of us used to take the piss, we thought he was a twat cos we were all into Slade, The Sweet & T.Rex - Motown? whats that all about? A couple of years later ( summer holidays '74 ) we started going to the local youth club where they were playing this "shit" motown & soul. The 1st thing that struck me was that the lads were all dancing! What the f***? Dancing's what girls do. I cant remember how long it was before i started thinking " this isnt bad, this soul stuff" but within a few weeks I was hooked, dancing - the lot! The rest as they say is history- Notts Palais, Coalville, Peterborough, Wigan, Ritz, Leeds Central etc etc 31 years later me, my mate & his older brother are still at it ( arent we youth? )

Heres a few to send me off with: Sam Bowie - Think of the times we had together Ronnie Savoy - Loving you Robert tanner - Sweet memories Whispers - Remember me Johnny Gilliam - Room full of tears Charles Mann - Its all over over The first three would be for the people I love, the rest for everyone else. Then I'd want everyone to have the best soul do ever starting off with Fabulous Downbeats - Life goes on!!!

Had some great nights at Trotters Chalky, it ran for about 8yrs through the 80s I didnt miss too many. Also Rob & Chris Marriot ran a midweek night At The 8 Bells in Mansfield around 78-79, had a couple of top nights there when Searling came down and spun his top tunes of the time ( Cecil Washington, Vickie Baines etc ) Incidentally I dont know if you went to Trotters right at the beginning but it started life as Stewarts ( Banqueting Suite if I remember rightly ) before changing names.