Back Street Blue

A Why do your punters need talk when they dance at that slow pace (only kidding Len) B Don't let old ladies in, they're notorious for deliberately falling over to get a bogus claim in, bloody compensation culture pensioner b*ast*rds (still only kidding Len) C I think that Johnson's baby powder bottle is a cover up

Agree that too much is a pain in the arse, but a bit of talk helps me to dance. I've never taken my own, I just walk through other people's and that's usually enough to do the trick. What does me in though is when the floor in the Gent's is swimming and my shoes get wet, then its a pain if there is no talk! Remember going to the revived wheel at Whitworth Street once when some bright spark threw a load of waxy type soap pieces on the floor and it was like an ice rink, so know what you mean when its too slippy. Get some leather's on mate and sling your trainers, that's the easy option.

Good call......and in the same vein, title-wise at least, Mel Torm - I'm comin' home baby

Think M's opened pre-75 and remember DE doing the oldies hour at 6 O'Clock downstairs from 75. Think the internet has as much to do with the revival as anything. Don't know if M's has specifically influenced the revival but maybe the familiarity with the stuff played in there leads people to want to associate with it when returning to or discovering the current scene?

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Don't know, but my copy got smashed to bits by my ex-missus

Ethel Skinner's "Willy"

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Met a younger couple who were were into the "rave scene" in a big way and who still regularly go to revival type niters, they told me that they felt that NS was the blue print for the dance music scene that followed........high tempo dance music played at all night events.....full of pill heads! The fact that the music and fashions have been adopted for commercial use means that NS has influenced popular culture in the broader sense. The music itself has influenced various later musicians so there has already been a kind of legacy passed down the way I see it.

Couple of my mates used to go up on the roof regularly for a cool down. Know what you mean about knowing your place with the main men or "big time". I was the baby of our group as the lads I went with were all 3/4 years older than me, and I was stick thin and suffered from terminal acne. Felt very intimidated first time I went to WC and too self conscious to get on the floor downstairs at first but I always felt more at home in M's right from the off. Towards the end of my time there I was having big problems with paranoia and can remember on one occasion spending the whole night hiding in the bogs from some imaginary assailants! Didn't stop me going but it did stop me from being so greedy. Always liked clocking the old school dancers in M's who were more footwork than summersaults. Can understand some folks thinking it was all very tired musically but there was something cool about hearing those old familiar tunes in that environment.

Cracking article.

I saw them in Majorca when they were doing a Drifters style barrel scraping tour, but they were ace. Saw Chairman of the Board at Baileys in Oldham. My mate Mick Malone was on his feet and going mental and caught the General's eye so he called him up onto the stage and he sang "Everything's Tuesday" with them.......and got written up in B&S as "the Oldham Songbird".................WTF!!!! Thought the Elgins were good at WC.

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Fantastic. I'd go anywhere with a dance floor to hear that set. Only problem is I wouldn't get off the floor for a bar/bog break til you get to Melvin Elling. Milton James and The Four Sights are both new to me, love 'em.

With one or too exceptions, no offence but not keen on the bangra track or the two before it, that's one of the best cue's of tunes that I've heard in a long time. Don't recognize any of it except maybe the Volumes (from the "I dig your act" line), what a f*cking dancer, and absolutely love the Danny Woods track, awesome mate.

Wayne sultana and the banana benders, remember it well down the youthy. Saw him sing it live at the Amsterdam Bar in Huddersfield C1980. He invented the bar top Cayote Ugly dance routine there and then as he delivered the lead vocals from among the Timothy Taylor's and Colt 45 beer taps.

Not an epic journey in terms of mileage but tortuous coming home. We got the SELNEC trans-lancs "express" which went from Stockport to Preston but stopped at every lamp post along the way. Then we got a bus from Preston to Wigan. Good news was that under 16's traveled anywhere for 2p on SELNEC buses, so my terminal acne came in useful! Train to Wigan from Vic station was favorite but I remember missing the last train once when I was with Carl Holden and Mick Malone. Carl talked a black cab driver outside the station to take us to Wigan in exchange for the expensive wrist watch he'd "pocketed" earlier that day. Big time arrival getting out of the cab that night.

Loved M's and spent most of the night in there when the flasher and weak spot and stuff like that started setting in in the main room. Always went in the gents at the back of the room to get changed, much less of an ordeal than the main toilets down stairs, not paranoid or anything, honest!!!!! Favourite instrumentals that were regular tunes in M's were Davis & Tyler - hold on help is on the way and The Dynatones - the fife piper. Bill Cosby - little ole man, Soul Sisters - good time tonight, James Carr - that's what I want to know, Rex Garvin - sock it to'em JB, Williams & Watson - a quitter never wins, O'Jays - looky looky, Fantastic Johnny C - don't depend on me.... also got regular plays in M's.

got the album for my seventh birthday............."13 shades of VD"...........straight up

val doonican - delaney had a donkey

the mar-keys - last night the bar- kays - soul finger the astors - candy booker t & the mg's - green onions ...and if eddie floyd - i've never found a girl (to love me like you do) gets in, love it by the way, so does william bell & judy clay - private number!!!!

.............see I told you it was soul ................don't care if it isn't, loved it at WC and still love it.

Duly noted Mr S, I had assumed it was a cover as I heard it later and I think the OP's vocals have a later feel if you know what I mean.

should have stuck to washin' his levis down the launderette!!

love baba brooks - gun fever ! thanks for sharing, yet again, will give these a proper listen, there's a lot I've not heard before.