Ian Parker

Darrell Banks open the door to your heart/our love

shocking news, very sad. me him the once, at a sunday afternoon chill out, in Newark, he commended me on my choice of plays. very knowledgeable guy. RIP

sounds like a modern group/band, making a vintage sound recording

Robert Plant loved his 60's soul . i remember a radio interview, when he visited Manchester many years later, he referenced the Twisted wheel , asking where it had gone ? you'll find lots of the 60's 'rockers/beat boys' were soul music fans. good taste 😉

i will follow him, peggy march city lights , jerry naylor tell me what he said , shapiro one more tear, barbara cooper i could go on, all of the above are no better than that shocker posted above. dreadful. time to put the SOUL back , into Northern.....

Clifton hall, trying to find the venue (3 of us in a MK3 Cortina). when suddenly a naked woman ran into the road (true story)... we stopped, she jumped in, no questions. we panicked, the woman started to put her clothes on, when a gang of bikers came out of a house, running towards us. we booted it out of there down the road, she composed herself, clearly shed been attacked, not sure to what extent. finally we asked if she was ok, to which she replied she was. THEN she asked us where we were going, we said Clifton hall, to which her response was, to jump out of the car whilst it was still moving. that spooked us then, still vivid now. another time,. Brit club, waiting for the train to wigan oldies anniversary. i went downstairs to the toilet, when i was approached by some big meat head, determined i was gonna buy some gear off him. i was persistent, but he was getting quite aggressive, when suddenly , the door burst open, knocking him over and the bouncer giving him a good hiding. we got out of there, straight on to the coach.... which incidentally was on a snowy january. we made progress north, to see a sign that said "Wigan 10 miles". the coach driver was worried coz of the snow and decided to pull over at a phone box. a few minutes later, he returned to the coach to tell us that we were turning back. believe you me, we weren't impressed. that was until a big Notts miner type bloke, "insisted" he drive to wigan, or he would be thrown in the luggage compartment and someone else would drive the fu****g thing. needless to say, we got there. anyway, thats my stories of dodgy nights. the 'Blockheads' on Crewe station, is for another day 😉

ive just thought of something , which should NEVER be revived ! i remember this blasting of speakers, on parliament street, nottingham. ouch!

17 years old , quite remarkable

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I had the perfect T shirt for last weekend, in Blackpool. KTF 🙃 (I dI'd wear this very one).

quality🙃

Guy Darrell - I've been hurt. guaranteed, every single year

if any of you guys who were at Adelaide weekenders, 2017 ish, going to blackpool, please come say hello

Pete Taylor used to play it regular, at North Wings . i never did know the validity of it,.

or Julian covay..........

Lainey Hill- time marches on Don't hear much, quality tune.

Melbourne is huge, the weekender will be in a suburb, which is probably big as nottingham. fabulous city

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me too !! Stafford oldies room (downstairs disco) had a fantastic sound system. Grosvenor rooms does too. most are pretty ropey at best. its down to the guy who sets it up, i suppose. Monaco nr wigan, had a woefully inadequate PA, far too small , it absolutely screamed, got so hot, they had individual fans behind each powered speaker. . Winding wheel, chesterfield, had a massive sound system, insanely loud, but clear. I remember Brian Rae's old columns, on stage in Mr M's, in hindsight, really not big enough, but in those days, we didnt care. theres the thing , big , with lots of headroom, is the key. not pushed to limits