Back Street Blue

Not been on here for a while so only just seen this......RIP Al Jackson. Will let my mate Mick Malone know, they were friends and Mick went out with Al's sister (Carole ?) for a while mid-seventies. Sad news indeed.

Here's the Freebee from the 2012 Dayer

Great thread. My mate Mick Malone, deffo, bloke with the porno-tash , seated bottom left in this shot (great pic's thanks). We went to most of the bank holiday dayers in the 80's. Did some of the 90's niters with Ronnie Hanley too...…..happy days indeed.

so very sad........here's a bit of Winston and Simon on the floor...........

just found out........RIP Winston you will be sadly missed

Cheers Chalky

Nice one Ski..............I also grew up with Ste Smithies (Big Boomer) who you'll also know from the Pineapple. My mate Lemmy was at Seddons, he was Crossley Skins and also a Wigan regular, and still out and about. All the Best mate

That's yer man......United Top Boy too BITD

Yes Mate, grew up with Pete and was out with him and old Royton Skin Gary Riley and Pete "Dickie" Davis a couple of weeks back. "HCHBB" (High Crompton & Heyside Boot Boys-Starks, Witty, Steve Smythe et al were Motown regulars......I was too young to get in.

Went to get tickets for this from Hime & Addison with Wrighty and Mick Malone from Shaw. I didn't get to the event which was the first Niter for them and a few of my other mates and kick-started things for quite a few of us younger Oldham kids.

Ah yes.......cheers Patto.......Mopsey told me there's another one too?

Clarence Jackson - If it don't fit don't force it / Andre Williams - You got it and I want it

Al Gardner - Sweet Baby / The Cavaliers - Ooh it hurts me

My shoes have a hole in the bottom, and laces that took me places, won't show no pity on me........but if they won't slide or shuffle, they go straight back in the duffel 🙃 Trainers are for.........Training, got my first pair in 1982, wore pumps 'til then for doing stuff you need pumps for. Consequently, can only dance in slippy leather soles. Now I'm a fossil, I've ditched the big heavy jobbies and the thinner and the lighter the shoes, the longer I can keep going. Mates who still do floor work put their addidas on if the venue's talced up to avoid coming a cropper. Four years old and four pages on shoes.......must mean something 😁...........we all need to get out more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bad News.............

JH for me, that's the first I heard and that's the dancer

I was born and bred in Shaw, a small town next to and bordering Royton. Never heard of Egmont Records and the old Wheelers from Shaw and Royton that I know never mentioned it. Worked on the building site when houses were put on the site of an old mill on Holden Fold 1979/80. Funny do eh?

bloody hell, not heard of Pantiles or Valbonns since I lived in Windsor 85/89 went Pantiles a couple of times with my squaddy mates from Arbourfield......piss ups and punch ups though.....didn't know there were soul nights there also went Valbonns in Maidenhead, knew one of the Bouncers and remember one Saturday night when LFC where staying at the Holiday Inn at Langley and he said "watch this" and promptly turned away Ian Rush and his team mates who arrived at the club expecting the VIP treatment......made my day

"A youth culture left in the hands of old men?"...........I prefer to see it as a dance scene which has been followed by successive generations, all with differing tastes, fashion and dance-styles. I won't get into the academic arguments about other genres as I don't have a degree in English or Music, although I did get a blue at Cambridge if that counts (but I missed the pink and went in-off on the black). That said, saw Bowie at the Free Trade Hall in '73, saw the Stranglers at the Tower Club in 70 something, own the Beatles White Album, Sgnt Pepper and Abbey Road, love a bit of Jazz-Funk, used to go Hacienda

Sound thanks Baz.........I remember you and Shelly from City Limits.......see you at the Horti soon mate 👍

here's me at the heart of the Oldham potato famine in '76............and then at Davy's Sheffield (the wrinkly on the left) with Fraz and Mopsey in 2014......

my two penneth......great thread by the way..... Jamo Thomas - Arrest me............... O'Jays - Hold on.........

Didn't know they had done any Soul nights? Started going about 85, GSH was on there (poetry reading!!!) and Sade before she got big. Went to a few Greg Wilson nights there in the pre Madchester era, and then more frequently in the naughty nineties with my ex-NS mate who got into the Dance scene in a big way.