Dave

This is an interesting thread on a subject that needs addressing IMHO, but it's a thread full of red herrings: I've read the above post a couple of times and maybe I've not fully understood it, but I just can't help coming up with a few questions: I've been to some of Mick's nights over the last few years and I've always considered the music policy fairly progressive... what do you mean by "emphasis on oldies? Are you saying that you were "avoiding clashing" with Mick's nights as they were bi-monthly, so you only clashed on alternate months? If you have such a high opinion of the Union and "all 4 of you would definitely be" there if not for your own do, why did you not arrange yours on a different night so that you were able to go? This another red-herring. Just because people like one "sub-genre" of the scene, it doesn't preclude them from enjoying another one, but if two events are on the same night any potential customer for both has to decide on one only. Very true. Well said. That's what I mean about red herrings. Overkill is a major problem in some areas even without clashing and the east midlands and east anglia suffer the worst IMO. My nearest city is Peterborough, where there have been three regular soul clubs for a number of years... 12 or so events per year = most people happy. In the last 12 months three new events have started. One genuinely offers something different and attracts its own clientele, but the other two are just a re-hash of the existing local scene and are diminishing that scene because, although the nights seldom clash, many people do not want to go to a soul night virtually every week in the same town, therefore customers are spread more thinly... it's inevitable. The picture is very similar in Northants. Those are just the places I know... seems it's happening almost everywhere if you take into account the post about Sheffield. (And it's a sad day when the Ponds Forge Lads hang up there boots IMO.. one of the best soul nights of all!)

Hypothetical? Hypocrytical, more like! Stop fannying about! On the thread you started in lookbacks you stated that the promoter of the Dedicated sc, i.e. Dave Reed plays bootlegs. So, can you stand by that statement... or not???!!!

Pete, is there such a word as vomitously, or have you made that up? Perhaps, alongside the thread rating at the top, a VOMIT-OMITER could be introduced for a 1-5 rating?

Steve? Good use of the edit button

1. Not in mine 2. Don't bother giving me advice on how to conbtruct a post. 3. I do know. I meant my name. Again, it was a joke.

1. No, I alluded to how often they go out. 2. It was a joke.. the opposite of serious FFS! 3. Neddy Seagoon's the name.

The clue to where I come from is on the LHS, where it says From: There's a slight difference between "Stoke and most oldies nights", and events featuring cabaret or those where you pay to have a piccy taken with DJ'S who were big in the 70s but have seldom been seen since? PS. Are you the Eccles from The Goon Show?

Bring on Jane MacDonald, I say.

And how many of these nostalgic, baggy-clad revellers are out whooping it up at events every weekend? I reckon a lot of them will be the four-times-a-year-to-relive-my-youth brigade.

Yes, very good.. but do these events or do they not have any significance to today's scene? That was the original point.

Summed up in one sentence.

And Hamilton Movement.

Ruby Andrews, Ace Spectrum, Pat & Blenders, Delegates of Soul, Carla Thomas, Jackie Wilson ("Because.."), Chris Clarke, Billy Butler, Drizabone, Bari Track etc etc etc. All either been overplayed at some stage in the last few years, or just don't like 'em.

.. with a hint of Muriel Day

Whether Levine's album has the right to be called northern soul will be proven if it gets played and accepted at northern events.. pretty doubtful IMHO. Not too sure what the religous stuff has got to do with it, but....

Agree 100% with this! Good point there Joan. There's a good few celebrity DJ's would be buggered without a mic, as the jump from a driving 60s record to mid-tempo 70s would would grate on the ears even more without 30 seconds of gargling on the mic. Plus, what's the point in announcing a record the times when everyone knows what it is??

Now you've hit the nail on the head! It's not the fact that it's 70s.. it's the nature of the music. Too much wishy-washy mid-tempo stuff. Nothing like it for killing the mood at a nighter. I never understand why the oldie style uptempo 70s records are so unfashionanble?

Well done Mike.. panic over for me now

Interesting Reg! Thought you made your own?

Yes... Stef Malajny from what I've read.

Especially at the Mecca.. the undoubted leader at the time for trail-blazing insults! *Edit: Sorry, just seen that Joe got the Mecca reference in first

About 2-2 1/2 years ago!!!! An allnighter of some kind at Sheridans a couple of times a month, Chris W's CIS monthly nighter and still a few soul nights with real atmosphere! It's all very well saying the "the good ones will survive", but by then many will be pissed off with half-full venues run by Johnny-cum-lately's with nothing new to offer, who just want to get behind some decks no matter what the effect.

You had mates? Where are they now, eh?