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Chicago Travellers -He Will Make It All Right on BGS vg++ Very rare LP with the supremely soulful 'Standing at the Station' on it. £120 The Inspirational Ensemble - He Will Save You - Private Press Vg++ again Very rare LP with the driving 'Come Holy Ghost' on it. £90 01 Standing At The Station.mp3 01 Come Holy Ghost.mp3

Yes, the student newspaper.......so to give an idea of their research here. Mick Martin never went to Wigan, was never, and is not, a soulie, knows nothing of the music, and I took him to his first nighter in 1986. Yet they write - "As well as portraying a lasting tribute to the cult of Northern soul, writer Mick Martin, a Wigan Casino veteran himself, seeks to explore the ideals of liberation and escape embodied in soul music."

RW has only ever been interested in Net Profit.....

spot on!

Reading lots of academic discourses on Northern Soul and some of the delusional rubbish that interviewees have given to past interviewers is beyond arrogance. Anyway here is an example where RW claims that a Northern Soul revival happened due to his book 'Soul Survivors' (which we all read as a fictitious load of guff!). Revival? It never went away, unless of course you have based your life around Wigan Casino and its commercial branding power. Here is the quote from the chapter for which she interviewed the man in question: "By the mid-1990s, Northern Soul had experienced a rebirth. DJ Russ Winstanley considers this rebirth a response to the release of his 1996 book, Soul Survivors." (Smith, 2009) This is what RW told her in an interview. Fortunately she sussed him out and counters the claim with an informed perspective.

Best just to ignore dire attempts at ruining a classic piece. They will keep attempting to do it as the playwright hasn't written a decent play since I commissioned the original 'Once Upon A Time In Wigan' in 2003 (a script that was created through an intense collaborative process between the actors, me and the writer) . Since then the script has been watered down, bastardised, hacked and sold to any fool to put on. No care, soul, theatrical or life experience of the reality for them to use as none of them were there. Its similar to what Binstanley has done to any semblance of respect for those great nights once had at Wigan, by turning them into a four decade long marketing and commercialising strategy. The play now resembles the tea towels, mugs and cheap merchandise that has informs the re-constrution of a tourist orientated simulacrum of Northern Soul.

Whoops! Just added it mate £50 + post

I am quite amazed that this is still not sold.....real soulful with a great flip too. A hard tune to find. vg++ (wol) £50 plus post which is a real bargain. seen it at £175 recently! SOLD

SOLD.

Gaining popularity very fast now and copies dried up! Put em on the Right Track (storming dancer) & It must be Love (superb mid-T) Vg++ on Real Thing £35 + PP on HOLD paulsadot@hotmail.com

Spiritual Aires - Working For Jesus on Church Door vg++ good soul/gospel and rare £60 HOLD Johnson Family Gospel Singers - Imitations on Raina Vg+ (vg++ really, but has few surface marks.) £45 On SOLD.

I would say it depends what sort of nighter. for instance a Goldsoul Top 500 or a rare soul event. A historical re-creation event or a moving on event etc. So the list is good, but maybe people can qualify what sort of events they mean? For instance I see Good Times Bad Times here and Margaret Little, which to me are not within the timeframe your referring to...

Well put indeed.

Yes, but I guess I am doubting that it will extend a Northern Soul strapline running beyond that or before that, thats my point. They tend to reify the whole scene into a narrow time warp......as if it began and ended there. Unless I have got it wrong and its covering the Torch and Wheel in this bit and then in the 80's and 90's section picks up the momentum of the scene again with Stafford, 100 club etc, etc and then in the millennium covers Europe & UK etc, in which case, I stand corrected and apologise to the fantastic producers.

'What!'! 'Say it Isn't So'!? 'Nine Times Out Of Ten' these programmes replicate each other, 'Marching' along the same path. Oh, god another Wigan-centric soul history, as if there was no scene after it. The Wigan brand being pushed yet again. 'If You Ask Me', its lazy, poor, un-researched journalism in these type of programmes, acting as if time stood still when the doors of Wigan Casino closed. Why do they never look beyond the commodified brand? They just don't 'Get it Baby'....

I had Sity and James covered as Gwen & Ray when I was playing it out in UK around 2003/4. Have you tried Andy Dyson? It is a very tough find. Good luck.

That assumes that the good stuff is defined by price....subjective as Peter99 says.

Why oh why......?

PM'd you.

Sons of Nature – Disillusion City, Town - Juldance vg++ £50 Rare uptempo proper funk edge soul. Sold Darryl Carter – Looking Straight Ahead – Hi m- £15 Beautiful tune I used to +3 it! HOLD Singers – Just A Little Further - Lebam vg++ £25 Dirty, dirty super cool soul. HOLD 4th Kingdom – Call It Dope – Janion (wol) vg+ £40 Uptempo soul stormer with superb xover flip. SOLD The Gospelaires of Dayton, O – God Helps Those Who Help Themselves - Savoy (white US demo) m- £30 Jackie Rhett – Get Him In Your Life – Raines vg++ £40 This should be bigger than it is really. SOLD Sensational Voices of Faith – Keep The Faith – Carter & Lloyd vg+ £35 Bethea The Maskman – Ghetto Love - B.B.C. vg++ (couple of slight surface marks) £40 Just the best dirty ghetto soul dancer 45! SOLD Bongi & Nelson – That’s The Kind of Love/ I Was So Glad – Editions Picture sleeve vg++ £60 Brilliant double-sided dancer. SOLD Little Dondi – I Forgot To Get Myself Together – Rains vg++ £100 rare and out there dancer, little known and deserves more. SOLD Sonny Anderson & Prince Conley – Love & Laughter – Emerson vg+ £35 Unique uptempo - funk-edged soul (I hate that term since it was appropriated for shit fonk!) that me and Karl Heard used to play out. Junior McCants – The Boy Needs A Girl – King vg+ £65

Totally agree. Also tells the real story of Wigan along the way...

Thanks for clarifying that both of you and sorry if my comments came across as accusatory. I am just shocked by some of the praise he is getting. Once guy on FB wrote "Whatever people say about Tony, he was a great DJ"........just moronic commentaries really and totally insensitive.

Thanks Mike.....

Tony Clayton a convicted, registered, Paedophile just died and yet people on here and on "I Went To Nottingham Oddfellows" FB page are eulogising the man! What is the point of having forums unless people tell it like it is, without being locked out. You cannot be liable for pointing out that he was a predatory Paedophile who ruined some peoples lives. Who cares if he played the best soul tune ever heard or was good or bad DJ? Some have even posted on FB that he was a "True Gentleman". If thats the state of honesty and reality on this scene then it is doomed. I am truly shocked not by his death but by the death of soulful honesty and empathy for those who were abused by him!