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Brighton 79 This was a rally organised by Scunthorpe Road Rats.Remember they had been doing scooters and rallies all over the north for a few years before this and there was quite a big northern scooter scene..This story is about on the way home.Entering Bishops Stortford.....the noise of our scooters immediately brought a crowd of plastic mods out. They were dressed like the jam clones wed seen at Brighton. Their fishtail parkas had all the obligatory targets and Who emblems...plastic...they were almost melting in the sun.They then got a load of questions from them and he describes what they were wearing, khaki overalls, us parkas,40 inch patchwork jeans and soul club badges, docs, brogues and tank tops.The plastics started mouthing off about the width of one of their riders trousers (remember northern soul and the casino was still open in 79) and it just basically goes on about a confrontation from there. This is from Time Trouble And Money by Mark Brough and his account of the Pre Mod Revival Scooter Scene 1973 up until 82 when he packed it in.In essence the north kept a lot of the mod ethos ie the scooters and discovering soul music and the south and in particular certain journalists/NME/Sounds and in particular Gary Bushell etc thought that they were reviving it in 79 when in actual fact it never went away.The north had just moved with the times.It is funny that this aspect of Mod never gets mentioned and all we ever hear about is Weller in 77.I suppose it doesn't suit a lot of peoples agenda that things were happening outside London pre 79. Were you there?. Maybe Sharon can start Northern Mod/Soul re enactments ? The famous Levine Must Go Banner scene from the Mecca,The Chris Hill Conga scene and the snapping of "that funk record" .The kid that spun himself to death(Dewhirst story.....but I still don't believe it),Soussans deejaying spot.....but of course the instrumental,famous chemist burglaries,Richard Searling leaving the Lp on top of the car and reversing into his dj box,the night when Dave Evison stuck Move On Up on and created "oldies".....maybe there's a film in this?.Oh yeah SOLD OUT!!

It is quite baffling what she will teach though.....correct me if Im wrong but didn't the wheel crowd get their backdrop moves from Major Lance.Will she be teaching this in a space of about a foot for authenticity. Can we then learn the later wheel moves( the later gay disco years) ?Will 4 button brown suit jackets be provided? Wigan stomping...Will she be providing selatios with numbers on like in a bowling alley or 8 hole dm's? Guest appearences from Jethro and Sandy Holt in a one to one q and a session Mecca Shuffle.....this is one of the hardest moves to learn.Will she be playing Time (Edwin Starr) over and over again until we have mastered it.Do we have to be wearing a tie in this lesson?? Stafford....a bit of a breather after the Mecca shuffle. Tight jeans and white socks with a mullet or post mod revival sta prest and bowling shoes.Correct angst facial expressions to Doug Banks Cleethorpes Pier-Spinning on the spot and into into splits(surely pegs and ballet shoes will be provided) The tourist-Make sure you have a full glass pint.Ask dj for any motown or the fat boy slim tune. Make sure you see floor moves being done.Walk over and drop your glass making sure when he drops again it will be an ambulance to a and e. finally talc.....remember its got to be Johnsons (cos thats what the picture is on the cd).Remember you don't really need it but its the law....put loads of it down so the floor workers come up like they have just sucked up the dust from cherobyl. The correct use of a beer towel.These have been provided with our sponsor on.Rare beer towels are hard to get what with the breweries shutting down and most pubs turning to food and gastro grub.Theres a northern nite on Wednesday at our local gastro pubwhen we play some really cool cd's though.Sorry no dancing but theres a good selection of food on large white plates Finally a talk about how British working class culture has been thrown into the mincing machine to be churned out in coffee book form for the chattering middle classes... Only £300 for the first lesson..

Alright Paul......met you a few times at the Ritz (early 9ts I think) when I came up with Oscar from London(we were well into Dingwalls early sessions and dancing to Bobby Montez-Jungle Fantastique at the time) .I have never posted before but this thread is hilarious.Seen some posts from James Trouble as well (I thought he was a deep funk deejay!!).It is the same with a lot of scenes though.The jazz scene was a prime example when acrid Jazz took over and clubs filled up with goateed head nodders and it got commercialised and watered down.It seems to me the northern scene is being pulled in a load of different directions.Theres the rockabillies attracted to the earthy 50s/early 60s r&b sounds,the oldies fans who want to hear played out oldies,tourists who want to spill beer and listen to cat food commercial and tamla,giffer soul fans who want midtempo all night, rarities boys who only want rare sides and seventies fans..........and you have got to please all of them.If you think the northern scene is tacky you want to get yourself to the Isle Of Wight Scooter Rally...full of Small Faces Underpants Weller Who Karaoke mod bands.Would you like your chicken in the basket sir.and ...more union jacks than the Queens silver jubilee in 77 could muster.I think the word we are looking for is integrity.Mark Brough did a book called Time Trouble and Money about the 7ts scooter scene pre mod revival and theres one bit about meeting a load of revival mods from Bishops Stortford later on and he used a word that has dropped out of use.....plastic....

Am I not missing something but isn't Trickster the reissue........I thought the original was Keb Darge but beware of a flood of boots coming from the far east.

Money sent.The address is in the body of the paypal message. Will have a relisten to Jimmy Armstrong. Im assuming its on refosoul

Seen a few black/silver Bits n pieces for £20-30 but they are boots.Don't know when they were booted though. Was it big back in the 7ts?The multicoloured label is the original which is what Im after.Willing to pay £80-£90 for a copy.

Anybody got Kris Peterson Just As Much and Bits N Pieces Keep On Running Away For Sale...any condition? PM Me

Ill take the 4 voices.Pm me your paypal address and Ill send as a gift