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....the knickers have to be flown proudly...I reckon!x I smiled and chuckled with respect not embarressment as they swirled......and I feel that as exhibitionists....WHICH WE ALL ARE who take foot or ar*e to the floor.....then we should be proud of our confidence and passion in shariing it with each other. NOOOO...put ure clothes back on Len....what I mean is.....we all go to see the spectacle and be part of the spectacle. I love the different characters....dress.....and individual 'things' that go off at a doo. I cannot think of anytime I walked out of a function and felt like taking the pi** out of anyone for their clothes or personna......luv'd it all....and the knickers.......were brill methinks!x Believe it or not....that very 2 second flash....may well encourage many other Ladies who are confident dancers to return or come for the first time to a gig. I work with many stage performers...dancers and the like. They would have loved her confidence throughout the program......end of! We are all different...and it takes all sorts. Northern Soul...luv it...X LUV SOOTY X ...oh yeeah....I HAD NEVER EVER EVER HEARD THIS....and was worth me license fee for the year....TUUUNE.....I reckon.....thank you BBC!!!!!!!!!x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6YGGDDMbw

...observe the masses and do the opposite Len....I remember saying that to the 9 clubs who assembled at mine when I suggested we do our thing.....and it still stands....X What also still stands is i'm gonna get Nina to slap u......no harm in keeping u in check is there?!x Next thing u'll be hiding new vinyl in ure box and tellin' her you've had it for aaaaaaaggggesss....and it's a downward slide from there mate....and I care about yer....so slap it is...!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....and stop scratching....u'll hurt yersellf.....I ain't figured it since aged 5.......and neither have 20+ psycho's......but they're all better for the experience....!x @@ ~

...I see all those terms of reference as relevant and proper Phild.....but i;ve only ever said 'Northern Soul' and used that reference when explaining myself or the scene to anyone....which for me...sez it all!x Proud of simply that....all encompassing...and as i've said...I think the show last night captured that 'Northern Soul' spirit I choose to represent and purvey....'togetherness'....full stop...X LUV SOOTY X

...good subject Winnie! Got me engaged whilst sitting here editing some bits for upload relevant to the show last night!x Since coming across it on me mates wooden Schweppes box in 1974 and falling for the music...I don't think i;ve ever said it!!! I only recall 2 lads actually saying it to me in me travels too! Now you've jogged me memory.....they were both super dancers.....and i mean super.....and both dressed 'traditionally' and were badged up!x Loved them both...and they followed me everywhere and still would! Perhaps it's a different 'faith' than what i;'ve achieved?! Never could dance like them ever....wouldn't attempt it! Perhaps it's an inner crowd that have reached that level of 'heaven' that some of us just pay homage too and admire?! I do anyway!x Back to me editing.....nice 1!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Super stuff Rebecca!!x Get ure ar*e to a gig...u'll luv it!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Soulman...I respect your opinions friend....but you can't say after 35 years....he didn't 'have it' still? It hasn't left him....a true soulie....I reckon...X LUV SOOTY X

I'll say it because it needs saying....and is pert to the BBC's approach to the scene as witnessed last night!x Yesterday morning a good 20 year friend of my Producer friend and now mine was having a meeting with the BBC Executives that deal with placement for music across the service and channels. In his bag he had some of our music which i've shared with you in here. By pure co-incidence....our friend has been a good friend to Ian levine over the years...dares to say he's been his 'guru' in such matters which Ian would acknowledge he has said! It came out in discussions we had when first meeting about our album. From my perspective it was great....somebody 'knew the craic' about Norvern and was out to promote our music and by default the Soul scene....which has always been my intention! I haven't been wrong! Anyway....his feed back after a lengthy discussion is that folk in the BBC are MAD...about Northern!!!!!x It bears out too. I hear quite often tracks backing trailers for this and that.....and ater last night I think because of Paul's approach and truth....I think it can only build better ties with the scene from within the service!x We already do brilliant with Sky! Regularly Northern tracks back football montagues.....feature as links to shows...and all kinda bits and bobs. Soccer AMs Max Rushden and the show ownerTim are Northern fans....and loads come through that medium too. Max is a Cambridge United fan...we worked together often before he got the job....(Sorry Ian!xhehe!x). I had a cable show in Cambridge which he watched ritually back in 2001/2 and we used Northern stuff to our program every week! Lovejoy took on board some of our ideas.....even had Chris Kamara doing cameos of stuff I did on our show! So...the 'influence' has been there for years!x ITV? Advert after advert feature Northern! Those folk like our mutual friend who deal with the Commercial aspect of telly.....are 'switched' on to it....indeed it is the 'buzz' word in the industry.....hence the super reception we are getting with our music....for the modern era!x One of the hats I wear is as a media man and self styled journalist....I notice these things......and felt the need to share it!x The scene is in a good place at present.....it needs capitalising on and invested into the future....by all who have time served and something to give.....I reckon...X LUV SOOTY X

That's your lot then Godzilla,,,,,,,hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

When the assertion was put forward as to why we all dance as we do......I pi^^ed meself and had to stop the proggy whilst I recovered.......and after I had.....took it serious!! Never figured that.....!x In fact...when I was living in Grimsby and moved to Cambridge in 73/4...my mates reckoned I looked like him....North and South!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X From a film makers perspective....and thinking 1/25th of a second...or frame at a time....and given the 26 minute window.........I believe the time available was maximised with the most positive comment/imagery and reflection....as could possibly have been given to it. From that perspective.....I think it was great...X

Paul....as i'm sure your reading this...as is Elaine....and all of you who took part....thank David Arthur for me....the Editor...X As a film'documentary maker in me time...and Soulie.....who edits his own stuff......I couldn't have asked for a better representation for the masses than what you all gave ...and showed. I laughed...felt emotion....and certainly related to all. That 'Togetherness' the scene has nurtured for the masses over the years...was captured and shown by you all. You said it Paul.....it's in you still....and anyone who has experienced it....can't ever forget......your always welcome...X I haven't read any opinion above. ...just watched the show and came and posted as a direct reaction...and post as i have. Thank you all...X LUV SOOTY X Edit.....and thank you for informing me/us of the Wigan Young Soul.....never 'erd of em.....but will get to know more!x ...ah....1 absolute nightmare it brought up......that 3 star jumper.....never ever went to a proper doo until 1992......but I had one of them.......in 1974...hand knitted by me mam........destiny methinks!!!x @@ ~

....you'd have been kicked outta the City Stop wiv that attitude Grandpa.....wot u like Lenny???!!!!x What was the 'buzz' we had? Our records? Others music??? My honest memory and with hindsight....it was simply we enjoyed 'the craic'....WHATEVER!!!!!x Len....that is what that wave was.....! Shifty....Fudge and yerself and any other DJ who met me in the 90's will tell you it weren't what was in my box that made things happen! It was what the people who went to Wigan for....THE CRAIC'. Promoters...'gangsters'...DJ's....old school Soulies were all scratching their heads wondering what I was about Len....remember?? They'd forgot what a 'Soulie' was about really! Yes I was 32.....no I din;t know nowt...didn't need too....just a smile...hand shake...hug when meeting nationwide....and job done for the night....and we danced....end of. I/we had several Anniversary dooes and treated them extra special every one. Reduced entrance as a 'thank you'....free badges for all...tapes for the first 100 in the door...all kinds of 'party' stuff....and everyone was up for it.....U WOS THERE U SADDO!!!!! Grinned like a Cheshire at every one!x That was the Len I knew! I'm gonna call your local Social Services and ask em to rescue ure kids before u get ure pipe out and give em breathing problems....then i;m gonna tell Nina u been messing with miserable stuff on ere and she'll batter u into some flippin excitement I hope!!!hehe!x Jeez....we is all dead a loooong time....init!x LUV SOOTY X St Ives re-union? I popped into the car park after having a meal at me friends restaurant in St Ives en route to London. Based on me experience of the car park and feed back from security firends and stuff since...it was busy and buzzing!x As said above.......original venue....celebrating 38 years of existence....and glad to have played me part in that journey for us all to still have it this day...for a party......I reckon...X @@ ~ Our badge in the 90's Len.....remember???? I meant what it said anyway...provided and paid for it to happen in more ways than money...it happened.and still does...wherever I will go irrelevant of whats spinning.....X 1500 badges went out and every one who got one felt the same and couldn't tell you what was played......!x Wigan was about people. Perhaps...like in the early 90's....some may have forgotten that..........I didn't....and haven't.........sod The Startones.....and star turns......X @@ ~ EDIT.....I may have you wrong mate.....perhaps your saying the scenes lost it again? You'd know I suppose.........hmmm. Been here before ain't we....!x.. Let me think. Sorry if I wos harsh on yer....but I don;t like seeing u being Mr Misery and Unsatisfied before ure time Len......I'd miss that grin....honest...X

.....awww jeeeez....IanD is gonna love this....hehe!!!x @@ ~ Dis-claimer....! After doing the 'Togetherness' film independently on me own nowt to do wiv anybody...several months later.I was asked by Kev to do the same kind of thing for the 30th Wigan Anniversary doo at Kings Hall....10 years ago! It was on the strength of the success of the first film of which 1,000 video copies went out there. However....the day fell on the morning I arrived back from abroad with a 'tropical' bug of some kind....horrific! Not man flu Ladies....proper this wos!!x I didn't want to go...couldn't hear meself speak....supposed to have interviewed Lorraine Silver....Tommy Hunt...and Ediwn Starrs Saxophonist as part of the film.....and couldn't hear meself talk! I was a mess...and didn't want to be there. I went....did what I could.....got all the footage/interviews.....looked ill throughout.....edited it....and gave the copy's to Kev. I got paid for the production and really didn't want to take anything for it.....as it wos cr*p...by my standards! The lighting was horrific too...red red red everywhere...and killed it big time. Anyway...I haven't spoken about it really on SS because I ain't happy with it...so don't! That was my previous involvement with Wigan Anniversary's at Kings Hall...and with the venue and promoters in question. In fact it was the last time Kev and I spoke 10 years ago until a few months back. So...i'll now say me bit on the current topic in this thread!x Anniversary's are 'Party's'. The bigger...the better. Kings Halls 'it' at present...isn't it? Could it be done better....more focused to Soulies of today with genuine reflection on the scene??? I'm sure. I remember the 30th....given the 30th anni...the crowd....then yep......things could have been better all round from a Promoters perspective. Same can be said of most large venues tho' I found. Is it a money generator...of course. Is that the intentions of the Promoters? I'm sure...business is business whilst your all enjoying yourselves!!....and it is there to do. This is why... My first big doo...or proper Northern Dooo was Keele xmas party '92. I danced to Bobby Goldsboro's Too Many People....3 TIMES.....and LOVED IT!!! I had never heard the tune in me life...or had the experience of a Nighter.....and to underpin it...never taken speed until that night.......! Point is...I left there that night chewing me friends heads off as I would have saying 'i'm gonna do a do like that and DJ at Keele one day!'....! 4 months later....I organised my first ever Soul Night. That was April 1993. From other threads now closed...Keb apparently said.the scene was at a lethargic stage early 90's. A transition was occurring from oldies to newies and a bit of R&B and Doo Wop thrown in...! When I travelled the UK for the next year lapping up the music and knowledge whilst making friends....I realised Keele was probably it...the modern Wigan Casino of the day....! It was great....every time...and I loved it. That 'experience' will be had by those attending this 40th. Rightly so....a night out init...like my first Keele was. It inspired me to host over 70 Soul Nights...9 A/Ns...re-launching a dead St Ives to success....and entertaining THOUSANDS Nationwide. Indeed I was part of the resurgence that swept the Country from '93/-98. Yes...on that wave...Chris King..Ian Levine and others came back. They admit such on the original 'Togetherness' film I made....out soon!!x So what? I quit...Shifty found his niche....others who came on that journey carried on...Len's still here and kicking well....and yes......if it wasn't for Keele....'party'...and an innocent fella walking in.....most of that would never have happened...END OF! So I find it difficult to 'rubbish' the occasion or indeed berate the Promoters. The 'chat' goes around about those who line their pockets on the night. We all know that! What's true...or bollo* is irrelevant.....in the grand scale! Let them have their party I say! I'd enjoy it for the craic as I do! Otherwise........put summink of use to the people en masse together yourselves....! Easy done.....yawn!x I'd help,,,,if there was a demand for co-soulies whose hearts in it to get it done!x Can't offer more than that except I wos really really ill Ladies....honest!x....look at how me face wos bloated.....arghhh!!x @@ ~ ...and no...I ai';t got a copy only the master.......and no I ain't copying it...it's cr*p...!x I will tho's salvage the interview with Lorraine...which was good...direct...and eye opening tbf!x I'll whack it on Utube and put a link in here for those interested...X @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....I did find it booted about 4 years later when popping into a doo up t'norf! Originally it was on VHS...I asked the dealer how much this plain DVD in a photocopied case was...he said £10 mate.......obviously hadn't watched it...hehe.....I bought one anyway...! Got it home....re...EEEEEEeed....everywhere....binned it!x So yes...there are some out to take the pi**.....and I can't be having it...where it is 'out of order'!x @@ ~ ..Edit.....I achieved everything and more....except me personal goal....to DJ at Keele.....nice 1 Neil!!x I'm over it tho'......got a new pi** off...The STAAAAAAARTOOOOONES.....waaaahhhhh....X @@ ~

Stafford?! Don't know owt about it or the tunes it gave birth too really! However...I did do a Stafford Re-Union...in Stafford! It was about 98/9...and I said ok when asked to be a guest! I walked in with about 20 folk who came from Macclesfieldand surrounds! There was about 50 there when arriving and I believe Guy...or Keb was there! I haven't got the flyer for it....or can''t find it but I saw it the last time I rummaged thru' me memorobilia and will look again! Being clueless as to what the music was at Stafford meant I just did me thing! The 20 friends piled the floor...t'others followed....and we rocked the joint! Left....and that's me Stafford experience!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

I agree with your sentiments entirely JimK...X 'Fraudulent' promotion is out of order of any kind....dead right! If we went to the Ritz and folk were playing OOTP copy's then we'd feel cheated....and that serious point hasn't been lost on me mate...X The Carla Thomas scenario wasn't in my brain until you raised the topic!!!x However....when I apply the OVO/OFO approach to that tune in particular.....I didn't know where the acceptability rested! I still don't really! Whether I can afford it or not is irrelevant....but if a £10 copy is considered acceptable for DJing let's say at The Ritz....then why spend £80 which could be used for another tune?!!!x I suppose if I read my initial comments..they could be perceived as being pedantic! That's the problem when keeping comment short....it's open for interpretation! So i'll expand!x A few months ago...a young 15 year old was kicked off of Soul Source unceremoniously for being....15! Rules are rules however they are applied. Ethan....is the lads name....he is a keen Soulie and budding DJ following in his family footsteps. They were disgruntled and a bit disillusioned at the time. I followed him up and offered to assist him with his collection and DJing aspirations. Folk will tell you that's 'standard' in my approach and indeed encouraged the youth back in the 90's when a Promoter. Many of you buy from such an individual today who was encouraged as a then 15 year old....16+ years later!x In essence I was investing in the scenes future....and it has paid dividends for all....job done!x This new lad Ethan...is at that point too....either he is encouraged...or becomes a stoner flogging weed like perhaps most of his mates will be instead of plugging into something useful and Sociable. Working with the Youth around the nation gives me such pessimism towards their futures. So....as I am putting a small collection together for him....as many dealers on here know...then the last thing I want to do is pile bootlegs or non PC copys on him that could detract from his aims to be a 'credible' DJ on the scene. Hence my sincere question. I have just bought a Carla for £80 to add to my collection. If that is what it takes to add to Ethans...then i'd rather buy him another lot of tunes for that £80!!! That's what i'm waffling about.......and sorry to have not given the full SP in the first place...ok!x So...is this issue 'acceptable' for the up and coming DJ...or not? Simples.... Thank you.....just being 'honest'...and asking for 'honesty'...as the thread sez...X @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....off to look after some other orphaned folk and taking them to GO-Ape in conjunction with a Charity. I'm excited because as they ain't paying punters...I will be putting my newly compiled CD of my recent additions to my collection on in the limo....end of!! 30+ records.and I haven't heard many of them since they arrived from around the world as a friend put them on CD for me....today is the day for me to reflect on these recent additions to my 'cred'......and I hope all of yours day is as happy as mine will be.....!x Edit....oh....and yes....The Startones ain't among em........ARGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!....and that's being honest.....poo....!X...but Patience will see me through........I reckon......!x @@ ~

We are both right Dave!!x the first copy's I had were light blue...like this...I say Kent...but it has Horace on there too!x So...would the above be considered the OVO and OFO? Or...a copy of the OFO on V? The reason for asking is that I would like to get another copy and was wondering whether to pay £80 for the blue or a £10 for this... ...from a DJing 'cred' perspective given the current subject and concern about OVO/OFO policys I may run into!!!x LUV SOOTY X ...I gather this is definitely out of the discussion tho'...for DJing purposes given the OVO/OFO parameters?!x ...and u looked good in the 100club pics I saw from last week end....nice 1X @@ ~

...erm Penny...if you don't mind me saying.....as a DJ of all music.....I would never ever ever doctored a tune to DJ with.....!x If it ain't right at 45rpm.......it ain't a record as made...a non thing...in my opinion!x I did do it once for a laugh....at the 100club.....B side of Raindrops on Top Rank by Dee Clark....it was xmas.....and I called it Emperor Of My Baby's Heart part 2....and played it at about 35 to get the effect...and it is Kurt or King Coleman for defo...!!! Folk danced.....it was xmas!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....and to be perfectly honest...I reckon it was speeded up in the first place at the recording!! How can the drummer and backing keep up with it?????!!!! Always found it interesting from that perspective...!x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_tLQBzxXA0

It's what I built my reputation on Simsy....I knew nowt else...! Missed out on getting bored with oldies or stuck in the mud for newies....it was all new....and I played 'music'...irrelevant of it's history or genre.....innocently!x U and ure Mrs can come to my first gig I promote again for free......my kinda guy!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

DJ's.....in the real sense of the word out in the non Northern 'circuit'? To be perfectly honest Winnie.....if I review the hundreds of 'DJ's' I witnessed on the Northern Scene in the 90's.....I wouldn't be able to count more than a dozen that could have hacked a doo where DJing was what it was about!! Perhaps 20 could have entertained at a wedding and pulled it off consistently for 5 hours. Take away their Northern which is easy to hide behind....and that number probably would dwindle to half a dozen whom I would pick to tackle the general public with music entertainment......from a DJing perspective!x Any headphone wearers have no chance in the front line either....hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Thanx Wigan Brian!x Genuinly had no idea...!x Now...here's a dilemma then! Carla Thomas...I'll Never Stop Loving You?!! Does that mean it shouldn't be played?! Ady gave us a Kent copy.....I was the first to spin it up t'North the night of the then 100Club Anniversary whilst I was at Blackburn A/N! It bombed quite regular when I spun it at Soul Nights.....but it grew and has become a 'classic' these days...and rightly so!x However.....I had 3 copies at the time...wore 1 out...scratched another....and swopped the last 'original' back in 1999! Ain't had it since! But...I have noticed it has been 'booted' or the like since those days! So...is it a 'blue' copy...of the original format which i;ve never seen if it exists....!....considered the 'original' format....or....as it is I believe a 'non' record like much of Ady's stuff just on studio tape or the like.......and if so............how the hell does one get the tape....?! Or is a 2nd copy acceptable of the first copy of the original acceptable?!x Just asking!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

...ahhh....Original Vinyl Only?....but OFO??....only flipsides only?! Bimey.....it's getting technical init!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...newbie...halfway there....where's me rusks...!x

...ONO....took me head off with that one Godzilla...hehe!x Still clueless......!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...newbie looking for teet.....!x

...erm..........wots OVO????!!! Willing to learn!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....newbie....X

Trawling through the above comments inspired this.... I have never been asked to play or not to play anything....ever!! Huh?! I'm the DJ init?!! A good DJ should suss the venue...policy or local interests upon arrival or know the craic after hearing whats gone before! Personally before becoming established back in the 90's I had been to every venue as a punter I DJd at...apart from a few S/Nights I DJ'd at en route to a Nighter! I danced....made friends and did Soulie stuff either as a DJ or Soulie...nowt has changed from my approach! Another good trait to develop for wannabee DJs is to be at a gig from start...to finish! As a Soulie or DJ....it was 'standard' for me! I was oblivious as to what had gone before 1992. When trucking UK wide to enjoy the scene as a Soulie.....I discovered there was discontent among 'the people' as the DJs had perhaps gone too far ahead of 'the people' with their sets and left much of what was good behind! As I made friends with all DJs and factions be they into newies...oldies...obscure....rare or pop....then it gave me an across the board playing field which i embraced! The DJ's who influenced my new collection back in the 90's?? Shifty.....who would put Our Love Is In the Pocket next to Betty Obrien's She'll Be Gone which was unheard of Nationally at the time really....and follow it with Don Varners Tear Stained and then The Phonetics Just a Boys dream.....all over the place.....but super tunes from wherever! Len....played Bud Harper....I'm sure I heard him play Jeanette before it went National followed by Janice...always with a smile and was dancing to other DJs throughout the night.....a proper DJ!! I danced to Butch at every occasion....but never sought to emulate or copy him.....no brainer!!hehe!x But took on board his confidence in presenting his music he believed in! Money? I could afford any tune Butch or any of them have....but I followed him often at the 100Club....and had the same confidence in my groove as he did....irrelevant of cost or rareity....and it worked for us both! He left me regularly with a £2000 pounder acetate spinning which I followed with a £2er on occasion from a Charity shop......and had the same success! So...money ain;t what is has to be I figured!x Dean Anderson/Andy Dyson.....unbelievable tunes they were playing in the 90's....out of the ball park....all done with a content they had which never phased them! Cool hands indeed!x Roger Banks...Bob Hindsley....Big Scotty....Pete Hollander...all cutting edge at the time and playing stuff you never heard anywhere else! Then you had what I call the 'entertainers'...which I am proud to be part of....Brian Rae...Keith Minshull....Derek Allen....Rob Smith....Dave Evison......always guaranteed floor packers and playing the best of what has gone before back in the 90's. To back all this up....I made friends with what were then 'armchair' Soulies....they'd been there done that and become philosophers of the music and scene so to speak! Richard Domar....and Kev Featherstone were it for me in the main! Richard was always willing to tell me the history of any tune if it had one in his huge catalogue he had in the 90's! Spent many times on the phone and at his gaff learning! Kev Fev.....he would get his magic box out at his house or at my little 50 people venue for 'rare' stuff...and play Emporer of My Babys Heart...Kell Osbournes Quicksand....and Bari Track and International GTO's......and not blink once!!! The best of what had gone before...and what was there to enjoy in the future! Waaay ahead of all our time he was! A student will become a Professor....and I gladly learned from them all...and am still a budding student............I recommend it!x Being exposed to all these different DJs....cos I went to dance to their stuff.....put the miles in and 'learnt' from them....it made me a DJ that was focused on the people in front of me....and apply my music I believed in with confidence. 'Respect' had already been earnt from the people by being WITH the people at functions! Never stood wiv 'the few' to be aloof from the crowd....so never had a barrier to overcome when getting on stage! DJing was an extension to being a Soulie......never ever put DJ first in me 'title'....Soulie....was suffice! DJing after earning that respect as a Soulie...was easy....and always will be...when among your own!x So the best advice I can give for any DJ really is...be part of it.....not 'it'!....unless your Butch...or Ady...or Fev......which we ain't!x I'm brown so have no chance anyway....so i'll carry on doing me own fing based on the above....I reckon!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

When I came upon the scene in 1992 Kev...most of the big doo's were sown up by a few...who knew who. The doors were closed for up and coming 'kids'. Shifty...Len...and many other good DJ's who had the presence and tunes were being overlooked...or not even loojed at really. There was no 'door' in...unless you had a mate in charge I suppose. The scene is no different to any other organisations dynamics!x We..as a collective...'forced'our way onto bills by promoting ourselves first...and earning a following....which meant dosh in venues doors. I paid for 110 to go into one of these venues personally and it was received with a smile! Never went to a gig with less than 20 people....which made promoters look up I suppose...!x So...what or who decided who is a DJ and will get exposure? Hmmm...the only advice I can give is what I did...win the hearts and minds of the people....and people power will make it work!!!x Although Neil who ran Keele in the 90's stuck to his principal irrelevant of how many ran up to him from our hoard asking when i was gonna get a spot...! I respect him for that....'the people' didn't!....I assure you!!! Mooooaning all night long....they did....and on the way home in the mini bus.....sigh!!!hehe!x I got over it about 10 years ago...! Some of them still haven't../and mention it every time we meet....."shame u never did Keele tho' init?"..hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

DJ personified... LUV SOOTY X