Chalky

Well if they are sold then yes they are breaching copyright laws.

Funky Soul, Funk edged Soul...however you wish to describe it. Good or bad? Does it have a place at venues or is a lot of it a case of the Emperors New Clothes.

On Sallies question I think there is a demand for a Rare Soul Weekender. People are asking us all the time when are going to do another. It is just finding a suitable venue with the right amount of rooms or another friendly hotel very close by. As soon as you mention all night to some they don't want to know. We ran weekenders at The Ye Old Bell where we had all-nighters as well. We supplied a mini bus for those stopping at the travel lodge a few miles away but didn't want to go down that route again, wanted everything at hand. We also feel we supplied, over the weekend, some of the best soul music anywhere in Europe at the time and I still don't think it has been bettered musically. There hasn't and still isn't anywhere in this country that does what Lifeline did at it's weekenders IMO. The list of DJ's was amazing and that is what we would like to get back to again at the right venue.

Ignore the above, I've reduced the size........ Grapevine & RCA Northern Soul Listing2.pdf

If anyone would like the PDF shout up and I'll look at putting it up at sendspace or divshare or somewhere similar. It is about 86mb and not sure if I can reduce the size???

The talk about the Grapevine demo the other day made me dig this booklet out of the garage. Can't remember the year it was done, it might be inside but it was put together by Malcolm Hegarty. Anyway I've scanned it and attached as a JPG's as the PDF document was too large, it might be of interest to some of you. It does have some of my scribbling, I'm sure I have a clean copy and if I find I will scan and replace.

Joan, you misunderstand, there is nothing at all wrong with discussing Sallies request as to whether there was demand for a rare soul weekender, there was nothing wrong with your response either. The topic though is now sharing a discussion about the merits of funky soul, I'm simply saying can we stick to the topic, nothing serious just a simple request. If others wish to discuss funky soul and whether it is any good or not feel free to do so in it's own topic. I believe that when members open a topic under a given heading it should be largely discussing the topic title (I know I know, topics have a habit of going off at a tangent). Some might not want to trawl through a discussion on funky soul to find the discussion about whether or not there is the demand for a weekender.

At no point have I said people cannot give their opinion. From a personal point of view I am opening a topic which is about the need or not for a Rare Soul Weekender to find some arguing about the merits of funky soul. All I am saying from a mod point of view this isn't the topic to discuss the merits of funky soul. Why not start a topic and discuss funk edged soul and have a good proper debate about it? Why can't people just accept a simple request?

Some of you will remember Pete Lawson's fantastic magazine. I've just got mine out of the garage, my intention is to digitise all three of them. I've already sliced issues 1 and 2 down the middle as I'd done scans of some pages in the past. However Ion getting the mags out this time I'm mission g several pages from the first two. Can anyone help me pout with the missing pages or borrow me the magazine so that I can scan? Gutted I was to find them missing pages!!!

The topic is about LaBrenda Ben. Norma Jenkins is the same record and is unissued. The Sparkels was the one released on Old Town.

This topic is about whether there is demand for a Rare Soul Weekender. Can we start another topic to discuss the merits of funky edged soul please then at least fellow members know what they will be reading when they open a topic. Thank you.

a fellow member, funkysoul, asked if I would help out buy uploading an unknown track for him, here it is, anyone identify it? https://soundcloud.com/chalkster/unknown-r-b-track

no it wasn't...not the one being discussed here.

If we find a suitable venue then we will be running a weekender.

If you had explained what you meant better then I possibly wouldn't have removed it, off the cuff remarks do cause trouble and different people read such remarks in different ways.

One post from dimples making unfounded allegations removed.

Meant for Qunivy and in relation to carvers, cuts or boots not sh*te records. Bootleggers and counterfeiters have been around a lot longer than this scene and whilst ever there is a demand for a product they will remain.

By all means discuss it but there was a topic last week covering most of this and there is one on at least a monthly basis covering the same grounds.

Lifeline is still looking for a suitable venue to hold a weekender. I too miss then and I don't n anything has replaced it in this country. How successful was Manchester? Heard mixed reports regarding attendances?

Space isn't limited here so maybe you should rewrite it and get the correct facts out there?

I understand there is a difference. It's getting ridiculous all these debates. Most who are voicing an opinion no where they are going to go for their soul fix, who is Djing, what they play, what format and what the promoters policy is. Some don't even go to venues. Phil have you never played somethng you shouldn't?

I'll see if I can find it later, people will be surprised to see OVO isn't restricted to the so called upfront scene as many seem to believe.

As Andy has the info he needs will close the topic. Not the place for venue chat really. Thanks.

Yet again another event topic removed from this forum. Most should be aware of the policy regarding this, especially long standing members. If not it can be read in the link in the first post on this topic.

There is a Frank Wilson take but thought that was from tapes? I have it at home on a tape or cd. The Vows was recorded on he West Coast. Check Don't Forget The Motor City for the details.