Everything posted by Wiggyflat
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What are the crossover tunes then.I stuck 1 or 2 enders in there and the rest are seventies and sixties uptempo stuff. -
Its easier if I photo it and post it up like I do on the collecting British Thread. There must be somewhere that plays this sort of stuff or similar without the r&b,popcorn,latin, slowies in the middle of the night.
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I'm sure I will find somewhere.........without the use of a tardis.
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As long as the Northern Soul Allnighters don't get cancelled.What's wrong in looking for the type of venue and music that suits your particular taste??.I'm still looking for my ideal venue although I found what I liked at Marton Manor in Middlesborough.Good crowd, friendly promoter, cheap drink (no broken glasses/spilt drink),deejays who were deejays and know how to programme music,hardly any talc (thank god...some of the people I have seen put talc down aint Wayne Sleep or Olga Corbett).I'm looking for somewhere else similar maybe closer. I'm not asking or much in music either. The basic Northern soul template ie late sixties and seventies with a smattering of newies in there in the same style to keep it progressing.I have loads of nights near me that advertise rare soul ie popcorn, midtempo,r&b but I will travel to hear the stuff I want to hear.It's not moaning and groaning.It's not just oldies either.It seems you get placed in the baggies oldies camp if you want to go out and hear sixties/seventies uptempo northern....with similar newies in there as well.I don't want to travel miles for a soul night when they are on my doorstep but I will travel for a good northern soul night/niter with good facilities/cheap bar and friendly people. BTW thanks to the people who replied on my last thread.I got some pointers.I was on the verge of posting up my playbox to emphasise what I was trying to get over but the thread was closed.I nearly got to the Barhouse in Chelmsford last night but the Gravesend ferry stopped at 7.30 so had to sack it.I will have to check out the Rochester gig as I'm there every second saturday.As I said promoters who went out their way to fire me friendly PM's and were honest about what the music policy is.
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And theres more..................as Carson would say
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The Free.....what a great tune.Its in the box. A failed Searling spin from 76 in need of a second chance.Theres a picture with him holding this with Kev Roberts and Russ Winstanley.
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Best of British Jazz Funk is a great LP...not sure if you can get it on Cd.Features Central Line/Freeez,Morrisey/Mullen plus loads of others. The vinyl copy is usually under a tenner and it's a double LP.I might start a brazillian or latin thread as I have tons of that stuff.
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Is this SKA/REGGAE or Jamaican soul....?
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My bottomless British pit...just for Pete Get searching.
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I'm on to it Pete.Got my camera posed.Check out the collecting British thread soon.
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I booked Roger Stuart who I thought was across the board (whatever it means) but he ended up playing a full set of traditional Northern Soul.I knew where I was with Ian Dewhirst(He played loads of seventies/cleethorpes/Mecca sounds).I played uptempo sixties and seventies.Think I will advertise the next as uptempo northern soul and seventies and leave it at that.What do you call records in the same style that are not oldies though?? and will people think its oldies/baggies and the top 500 and CD's.It used to be so simple...
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I like the 100 Club.Started going in 86 but it was unique at the time playing rare soul,r&b,early mod sounds, mid tempo and out and out northern.The 100 Club type of night seems to have spawned loads of other similar sort of nights up and down the country but the 100 Club is still a few steps in front of the game.As I said there are about 2 or 3 in London at the moment similar that are great places but I just want a change. A place that is not necessarily only oldies either but who programme uptempo sixties and seventies.I'm not trying to be controversial...if I was I would be saying that is crap that is good.As I have said I was at Marton Manor up in the Boro at xmas and the music played was exactly up my street.I don't want this thread to get into a slanging match either.
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Adey had no problem with London oldies...it said London oldies on the tin so I knew what I was getting.If I didn't like it I wouldn't pay my £15 and go.I like Solid Hit Soul and Boogaloo as well but I just want to go to some venues where the majority of the music is uptempo sixties and seventies and I don't mean played on CD/The Top 500.As I have said I love R&B,Jazz,Punk all different forms of music but I went to Marton Manor in the north east and wondered if there were similar nights all over the UK.
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I do go to Solid Hit Soul...a great night but they play across the board r&b,midtempo and a bit of latin etc.Theres about 3 of these gigs in London that are alike.I like them but I want late sixties uptempo and seventies..not an across the board mix.
Not bothered about travelling....and would prefer niters but dont want to get somewhere where I've been told its Northern Soul and find I'm at a rare soul gig which I could have had in London.....ie glad someone put me straight about Bournemouth that they do programme pocorn/r&b etc.I want a full on night of uptempo sixties/seventies.
What is across the board.......does it mean everything inc r&b,popcorn latin etc though and does the rarer room mean midtempo.I already visit these style of venues if thats what across the board/rare room means.Are there any venues that nail their music to the mast ie NORTHERN SOUL where you can go and know what you are getting ie uptempo late sixties and seventies.As I said Marton Manor did it for me I wonder if there are other places with the same music policy.
Went to Marton Manor last xmas in Middlesbrough. This was my type of night.Pure uptempo northern and quality seventies all night.There must be other places.
Come on no personal insults.I don't want the thread closed down!!
Yeah done Stoke but they are mostly oldies events.Is there anywhere similar who programme new stuff n a similar style amongst the oldies.
Uptempo late sixties soul and seventies stuff.No R&B,Latin,jazz,mid tempo,popcorn.I usually get a clue if its advertised as Rare Soul then I expect Latin, R&b,mid tempo etc and if it's Northern soul I would expect the late sixties uptempo stuff with seventies but it does get confusing.
Following on from Webby's highly charged debate re R&B.I've looked at the flyer gallery and I've noticed Quality Soul, Rare Soul, Northern Soul,Popcorn, Latin etc etc.I did a night in London recently where it was advertised as Northern Soul ie uptempo sixties/seventies dance music.Not necessarily oldies.Can anyone point me in the direction of similar nights around the UK.I don't want this to get into a slanging match re oldies....vests/bags/bootlegs CD's versus Rare soul....midtempo,popcorn, r&b,doo wop etc.I do go to rare soul nights and do enjoy them for what they are but I would like to get out to more Northern Soul Nights around the UK that play originals and lots of new sounds in a similar style and don't playlist r&b,ska,popcorn etc as there are at least 3 or 4 of these type of gigs I visit in London.
"Whine like a bitch".You are obviously on the backfoot if it's coming down to personal insults.Nob is spelt with a K.
You don't get it.I don't want to hear R&b at a northern soul gig.I expect popcorn,mid tempo,doowop, ballads and some uptempo at a rare soul gig.Got nothing to do about being receptive.I expect to hear R&b at an R&b gig.I expect to hear a choir in church.I don't expect to hear a vicar playing Black Sabbath in church and telling me its the new gospel music and calling me unreceptive because I don't like it in church.
The average soulie knows little about R&B.Mass generalisation.I have thousands of R&B records.I like R&B.See my British Sue posts on collecting British.I like jazz especially British Jazz, Don Rendell, Ian Carr, Tubby Hayes,Stan Tracey,Joe Harriot etc.I don't expect to hear my jazz at a northern soul gig.I don't expect people to start playing Tubby Hayes and trying to tell me it's the new northern soul.Your comment we have our own clubs hits the nail on the head....if I want to listen to R&B I can go to one of these clubs or try the R&B room but don't try telling me it's northern soul or rare soul and foisting it on people at northern soul venues because it's flavour of the week.Oh and a sign that people are losing an argument is when they start calling other forms of music as "shite". There's good and bad.Geat debate by the way.
