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I've got a CD of Butch at the 100 Club a few years back. He finishes the set with Eddy Hughes "Soul Searcher", though covered up at the time as George Lemons. I'm convinced he's speeded it up slightly to give it a little more oomph.

Nice one Ken! Used to pick up loads of UK bits in there, Motown red & whites/green & whites, Sue, US stuff too sometimes, piccy sleeves, EPs......all sorts. Camden Market was good then as well.

Didn't get thrown out as such but..............Anyone remember Rock On in Camden Town behind the tube station? Early 80s. It was run by some Irish guy with a beard and glasses. They had boxes anally sub-divided into things like "Deep Soul", "MOtown", "Stax/Atlantic"......get the picture? Well, this guy could either be nice and helpful or be a complete ball-breaker. Anyhows, went in there one day, asked to look at all the soul boxes, got interrogated as to exactly what it was I wanted, told him I'd know it when I saw it, to which he replied......."you better not be looking for all that Northern dance shit"!! How's that for customer service?

Quadrophenia a pastiche?!!! Great movie, great story, great acting, well observed (except for the hairy scooterist extras in the Brighton scenes!), brilliantly directed and produced, fantastic music, crafted by Pete Townsend over many years, captured 2 generations..............I could go on. Pastiche?? You don't know what you're on about.

Another Day and others on Mir-A-Don............nice!

Pretty much any of that early r&b dreck...............was doing the Vic Reeves stuff years ago.

When I used to do the Chesham Elgiva Hall nights, a girlie kept asking for 60s pop tunes. She came and asked for the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, "Fire". So the I introduced the next record " I am the god of hellfire and I bring you Fireman, Vala Regan"..........................I'll get me coat

Gloria was on TV news a year or 2 ago with her and Marc Bolan's son, Rolan. Apparently, Marc's affairs were not in order when he was killed in the accident and neither Gloria nor Rolan have had a penny from his estate. She's been pursuing legal avenues so that her son at least can get some of Marc's royalties.

Alan, I guess you'd know people from down here like Pete Wilson, Rob Anthony, Wazzy, Mike Wilks?

It was on Whistle Test c1986. The guy looked like a berk, sounded like a berk and contributed jackshit to the debate.

That was Blue Rondo. Both Mark Riley and Tony Gordon were in them. Just Googled the band and they came up on some mp3 download site (none of their tracks available though). I'd forgotten that Tony Gordon performed under the stage name Moses Mount Bassie! Also forgot they did a cover of I Spy For The FBI which I'm sure I saw them do on telly, the Tube I think. Anyroad, you can find Tony Gordon's comments about the Northern scene in the back of Russ Winstanley and Dave Nowell's Soul Survivors book about the Casino.

Nice one Mike! Was that Mark or Tony you met there?

Oh yeah! Forgot to mention, Mark Riley, alias Matt Bianco. He was more into your jazz funk than Northern. Hitched back from Yate to High Wycombe one Sunday morning with him. Prior to Matt Bianco, he was in Blue Rondo A La Turk with Tony Gordon - well known character on the scene and superb dancer (is he still around?).

Obviously the Modfather, Viscount Woking needs a mention. Believed to have been seen at the 100 Club in the early 80s (post-Jam). I certainly saw his Style Council sidekick and still a collaborator with the Weller collective, Mick Talbot - the original Merton Parka. Also used to see the chap from Jo Boxers stomping the floor down there at that time too. What about Dexy's frontman, Kevin Rowlands. West Midlander, said to have gone to Wigan. "Back in 68 in a sweaty club......O Geno!" Number of them here in sunny South Wales remember Steve Harrington, alias Steve Strange of Visage fame.

Don't think you could categorise that fantastic man as a soulie, a rockie, a punkie or indeed anything! He loved it all. I do believe he did a radio show in the 70s from Wigan. Who can confirm? Any details on the show - format, tunes, stuff like that?

Shouldn't you be on a building site somewhere?

Uuuhh...people that like Led Zep and Bon Jovi maybe?

I always loved Willie Kendrick's version of "My Ol' Man's A Dustman" meself...........one of Adey's Pied Piper discoveries

Tony Middleton - To The Ends Of The Earth. An old ballad. I heard Nat King Cole's version once in Marks & Spencers in Cardiff. Nice.

This song is an old standard. Nat King Cole did a version. It's normally sung as a ballad.

Backing track to Chiffons "Sweet Talking Guy" isn't it?

I've never read such a load of bollocks in all my life.

Thanks for the reply mate. I agree, fantastic, proper dancer - pounding beat, blaring horns, soaring vocals. Still covered up then?