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needs a bit of pitch but its the bizzness, been spinning for the last 18mnths

on the contrary Northern soul for the majority is more rigidly defined than its ever been, its usually a selection of around 100 known oldies.

there was no promt from me, I cringed when he said he'd seen it, ' er your into that soul shite arent you? I saw this film the other night.....' My point is even from that, (soulboy) he got it, travelling to dance, the focus on music, turning away from beer culture, its all there Perhaps like you intonated that is the story, the very concept of underground music culture in this shitepop era is sensational enough to interest people.

fair cop guvnor, the dancehall looks spot on, and to a certain extent the atmosphere seems there in essence. it is unfair to be so judgemental from a trailer, snide remarks are uncalled for and it really isn't relevant if she went or not. She, like myself, certainly grew up in the 7ts and was probably surrounded by the culture at least. I do have some apprehensions based on this trailer, the previous one was brilliant, and I actually thought soulboy wasnt that bad, it had some humour at least and it was set in an actual soul city.

a mate said he'd seen soulboy on TV (is it really that bad?) and said, thats just like what we used to do at the Hac.

in fairness, yep your right, it needs room to breath a little.

I'm really hoping it does, but that didnt come across strongly in that promo. Pete mentioned it was a story about a trip to the states, bringing back a killer tune. I just dont know if that story has a wider appeal, its pretty difficult for anyone on here to say too, cause we all are interested in that story.

totally agree but you also need a plot that transends its setting for it to have any appeal beyond a northern soul audience.

thanks pete, didnt come across well that, did hear mention of the stateside trip, but there's no clips of then trailing through some warehouse or of two dopey northern kids finding there way from the airport to 'the hood'. Will that kind of story have appeal beyond the scene anyway?

it does indeed 'look good', but I have to say from the clip I'm struggling to find a real story in there, and thats what makes a great movie imho. Hate to knock it at this point but surely it needs to have an emotive plot that people, not on the scene, can connect with?

my brothers mates told my about greaser mania after easyrider came out too.

what! you mean there was a mod scene before Quad!!!!!!!

made the same point penny a couple of months ago and got shot down for it. I always get more of a kick dancing to something I like dont know or is recently familier to me then a tune I've heard before.

were not the only scene suffering from this, https://djzimmie.com/2013/09/05/end-of-djing/?inf_contact_key=ea5d6a7b8cd46e59708bff907d1d46a7436017c230be24d1d3e3e5c292bb9f0b

interesting point matt, from a anthropological view now's more interesting than then, there were loads of youth tribes in the 70's, how many middle aged, youth obsessed sub culture are there nowadays?

I been to some quality oldies nights Ive also seen a few car crashe wedding like the one mentioned bellow you post, there is a variety of quality in oldies nights.

I wouldnt say it was a good dancelfloor chalky, it has some seriously hard, lumpy bits to dance on, most of it is ok. I would agree with you about the talc though, the floor is pretty slippy, its just the lumps!

anyone remember the stoke oldies crwd throwing chairs accross the dancefloor at the lesuire bowl, mid 8ts?

men at work- downunder!, I often say I want this playing at my funeral. I'd just love to imagine everyone going, 'i didnt know he liked Australia' (I have no association wirt it whatsoever!)

you might call it intollerance, I'd just cal it passion.

'out of time' Adey, it was 3 times a night round local (stoke/ cheshire) nights, think its come from the later day wheel crowd.

much has been said about the divisions within the scene, or the split betwix the billy smart and the stafford tunes, ahem, I mean rare soul factions. yet the narator of show remains oblivious to the tensions, strange that!

chris Farlowe! I know! but its massive in certain circles, there are loads of 'I went to the wheel' ers too.

it all comes down to how you define 'underground', and thats a tricky one, it certainly is and indeed was mainstream in certain areas. Around Stoke NS was THE popular music of the mid to late 7ts, kids down my street used to do skipping to 'what' as well as the rollers chant, 'b- a- y, b-a-y' ect. Is it really mainstream in the true sense? I'm sure there's loads around the country who've never heard of it, especially amongst the young, who are probably far too busy getting tattoo'd over 90% of their carcass whilst high on a mix of mad cat and veno's. Is it underground? well even the most commercial side of it probably is, to a certain extent. Is it cool anymore? you seen any of those weekender photo's? I sometimes catch the big band show on sundays evenings on R2, they advertise concerts by swing band's around the country, Cromer pier and the like, and I wonder about the 'big band scene', I'm sure its not cool, but its probably got more dignity than what's left of NS.