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Mr B Just saw your post. how are you keeping?

Great to hear from you. I'll see you at the Torch do as I'm going with Pete Dillon and Paul Rowan. Paul's deejaying and I've got the job of helping him as my collection is still playable. If you fancy meeting up before then and practicing your grandad dancing I'm deejaying at the Central Alldayer this Sunday from 1.30 to 2.30.

Hi Phil Long time no see, hope you're keeping well. As Pete said I'm sure the Dave from Barnsley was Ebby but nice to know that you managed to keep a relatively low profile that night!! Dennis said that you'd facebooked him a while ago and that you were living somewhere down Nottingham from what i remember. Are you still doing the Nothern scene or are you past it now?

I'd forgotten how funny this article was with it's references to people wandering round with glazed eyes. It was interesting that the reporters never approached the management, Dennis and myself, for a comment. Or maybe we were just hiding! I only remember two people getting busted, one because he'd carried his gear in a precription pill bottle, with his name on, which he had thrown on the floor when the squad came in. They then picked it up called out his name and hey presto, and another who got searched, got the sticker but then lost it and when he asked for a new one was searched again and they found one pill in his pocket. The best thing about being "the management" was that I could move round the club during the raid which I did whilst singing "just like Drynamyl and Duraphet" to the tune of Just like Romeo and Juliet and the squad not liking everyone laughing.

Eddie Parker I'm Gone Well and truly overrated, probably due to rarity. Kegsy Sorry Kegsy, can't agree with that one. It's one of those sounds where when you hear the first couple of bars you stop the conversation you're having and hit the floor. Easty

Hi Julian Of all people I shoud have a pretty good memory of the events of that day. As usual on the day of one of the allnighters we were down there early when, as far as I can remember, Flash came in with a copy of the paper. We all looked at it in a state of total shock. Our immediate response was " What the f*ck have you done this for?". Flash, surprisingly, thought he'd done us a favour by advertising the gig and couldn't believe our reaction, he was a nice lad though but obviously wasn't the brightest candle in the box as his subsequent mixing of water and mains electricity proved, but I can't remember Kim being involved, but then it was forty years ago!

After the Metro as busted in 71 who remembers Hernies in Leeds?

Looking for The Constellations, I didn't know how to and Mary Love Lay this Burden down. Any reasoanble offer considered. Please pm me with anything of interest

I don't think it mattered where you were from way back then, all the Yorkshire crowds, Leeds, York, Selby, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Barnsley and Wakefield used to get on really well. It was a bit like the Three Musketeers, only there was a hell of a lot more of us. I've only got to know Sammy recently through hime re-introducing me to Ady Dundas after many years but every time we meet at the Central Alldayers it's like we grew up together, but isn't that what the whole scene was, and still is, about just one big family? But I think Pete's right, we big city boys from Leeds always thought we were the dogs bollocks.

How about " a man called Swish, but why? "

It seems that the bus getting pulled over was a regular occurance, if indeed Kegsy's bus was Stevo's, as I was on it the night we got pulled just coming past Huddersfield Town's ground. I was at the front of the bus as we approached a set of lights which had the inside lane closed off and two police vans parked in the coned area, being reasonably bright I realised something was wrong and dived back to my seat at the back of the bus, pulled a packet with my gear in out of my pocket and just had time to stuff it down the side of the seat before the police steamed onto the bus and ordered us all to stay in our seats with our hands on our heads. We were then taken to the Central Police Station where the process of taking us out of our seats two at a time, putting numbered stickers on our backs and the lifting the seat and checking with a torch for gear before taking us inside for a strip search started. Eventually they got to our seat and my wife and I got up with some trepidation and watched as the seat was lifted and they looked underneath. Unbelieveably none of the police saw this little envelope fly through the air as they lifted the seat before disappearing down the back. We both looked at each other in amazement as we were led off the bus. About an hour later I got back on the bus to find my gear still where I had seen it land and immediately set about finding a drink to take it in case lightening was going to strike twice. Strangely, it was my wifes first nighter and she didn't seem at all fazed by all this. Maybe she just thought it was in the wedding vows and hadn't noticed at the time.

Anyone out there remember Stevo's magic bus to The Torch from Leeds?

Hi I'm interested in the two singles you have on offer, would you take £30 plus p & P for an immediate sale? Mike Eastwood

Just found out about this thread so I thought I'd put my twopenneth in. I was part of the West Yorkshire crowd rowd that went to the Wheel on a regular basis- Kenny Coleman, Rob LeMoine, Dennis Billingham, Flash Atkinson, who must still be playing soul sounds in the clouds but by now has probably learnt that water and electricity don't mix! Steve Welcer,Keith Rylatt, Spock-what was his real name? and many more. When the Wheel was coming up to closing word went round that a club in Wakefield,the Metro, was going to start doing all nighters to fill the gap so after the Wheel's demise we all turned up to see what it was like. It proved to be quite popular to the point that Tony the guy who owned it was overwhelmed and from week two onwards I ended up working at the club either on the door, behind the bar or even spinning some sounds! If I remember correctly the DJ console had a telephone handset for cueing up and I can certainly remember starting one sound off only for the arm to be knocked off the record by a huge drop of condensation falling from the ceiling, a regular occurance unfortunately due to the fact that the place was so small, had so many people in it and no ventilation other than leaving the back door open to let a draught blow through.There were certainly a number of people who played records at the Metro. which I would condider to be deejaying, so even if Soash was the "principle D J " he certainly wasn't the only one. As far as the night of the bust is concerned, as it was Flash's 21st we all opted to go to Keighley that evening and on arriving back at Leeds station all stood on the concourse umming and aahing over whether to go the Wakefield but a shortage of gear persuaded most of us to have an early night for a change. After the place was busted there were rumours going round the scene that we had fingered the place to the " squad " which was why weren't there after having been ever present but nobody ever had the nerve to say it to our faces. Dennis and I started up Hernies in Leeds a few months after, running all-nighters before we got busted ourselves thanks to Flash, who was deejaying for us, thinking he was doing us a favour by appearing on the front page of Saturday's Evening Post pictured running across the moors like a soulfull Julie Andrews with the headline " The Soul Sect is coming to Leeds". This was the name that the papers had given to the nighter crowd at the court case for the Metro. But that's another story. In the meantime I'm on the roster for an hour at the next Central re-union on November 6th, does that make me a deejay or just warmup Willie? So Iook forward to seeing loads of my old souls buddies then, and if anyone knows how to get in touch with Ady Dundas, who I haven't seen for years, I would love to get in touch with him