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The friendship club, that's long gone, there's a school there now. I remember the Pomagne now, foul tasting stuff.

Yes I went to most of them, they were quite good and not a bad venue for an all-nighter. Soul Sam was on a couple of times in the 70's, Richard Searling and Keith Minshull in the 80's. I remember one night in the mid 80's when there was about 20 punters in and on one of the coldest nights of that winter no heating on inside, I only managed to last until about 2:30. I only live about 2 mins. walk from the pier and have been watching i..

Not much in it but the Sheppards just nicks it for me.

I'll bookmark this one

Yes I remember that one, all those so called soul fans sitting on the floor looking the other way.

Not a big Stevie wonder fan but 'Never dreamed you'd leave in summer'

Could have been either Dick Collins or Big E, Dick was the one with all the decent records, he took over when E got sacked or left, not sure exactly what happened.

All big tunes at Paynes Cafe Royal just down the road in LLandudno at the same time

How about Restless by Margie Hendrix

My wife used to watch it so I kind of fell in with it. Like you say I found it OK at first, nothing special. I started to find it quite tedious a while back, I think these shows go on too long and the plots start to get silly as they run out of ideas. I don't watch it anymore and I would say from what I last saw of it you're not missing anything.

Don't really care where he's from, this does not sound like a soul record to me, that's just my opinion (I'm sure I'm not the only one).

No it's because he sounds like Val Doonican

Ray Merrel - Soul? hmm I don't know about that.

'The Real Thing' appeared at Paynes Cafe Royal a few times around '70 - '72 and were known as 'Vocal Perfection' back then. I think they changed their name when they appeared on Opportunity Knocks.

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