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Here you go Steve...done a write up on my fb page after visiting 5 functions this weekend and passed on your regards to Rod here!!x He asked where you live now and I said seeing as you are called Winsford Soul then I assume Winsford.. we both chuckled.... Nice fella!x @@ ~ X

Will do...after me shower!!!x

Nice one Steve x Been here on business all day...everywhere is fluffy!x @@ ~ X

Hi!!x Last years short film I did of the Manchester Soul Festival held at The Printworks has had 190,000 hits.... Point is there is interest. I put this online few days ago...had 8,000 hits already so put it here for you all to enjoy!x In the past 5 years the event has raised over £125k for The Christie Hospital in Manchester which is why I supported it for the 1st one when approached by Frank Byrne RIP and Paul Kidd. Super day and quality set up x The other Charity function I support... Dancing on the Carpet at Blackpool held May Bank Holiday weekends again was a success this year with new folk heading the event...yaaay. Over £6k was raised this year aIready dished out to the 3 charity firms! X I have produced a fab 1 1/2 hour DVD of the occasion but sadly there were only 500 copies available...and nearly all gone so not advertising or owt just sharing the...Err...news!x Have a happy day! X LUV SOOTY X P. S Popping into a few Soul Nights this weekend...for research purposes! Say hi if you see me early evening at Widnes's United Services club or later on at the Farrington Conservative Club...or at the Towngate Soul Collective Soul Nights held in Leyland tonight or Saturday at the Blackpools Soul Club Wainwright Club gig...may even get me camera out!x

Afternoon all!x Quite proud of this pic...Bear sent me it...Sooty Bear... There you go!x I hosted him a few weeks back...played Thunderbirds and Mission Impossible original 60's version as he came on the stage. Massive grin at me as he arrived!x Luvly fella off camera and with him again next week!x LUV SOOTY X

Evening!x Thanx to those at the wrong crowd's doo in Lancaster last weekend for the warm welcoming!x Nice to put faces to names too and here is Soul Sources very own Winsford Soul and Steve S and Chalky.... super folk quality music and glad I popped in!x Last pic is my fav from recent weeks.... My baby Gurl Lexy...as close to the Queen as could be yesterday as the Queen visited Cambridge LUV IT and her... And my baby of course.... Thanx M'am! X LUV SOOTY X

Le Lexy is my 'significant other' and i'm happy with that Pete!x However....a dog doesn't tell me i'm 'ridikoloss'....!!!!xhehe!x That terminology comes from her Mam aimed at me I gather....but I do get my own back on the annual 'family' trip we have together to the seaside....!!!!x I also luv Lexy's bravery in givng it laaaarge....but....like her Mam when it comes down to it....runs a mile...which is why I care for both!!x Enjoy your peace...and quiet...whilst you can mate!!x You've heard of the chicken run...well this is the swan scarper....hehehahahahah!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X realworld.mp4 chickenrunyt.mp4

Hi all!x Some of you have waited 3+ years for this....and it is finally coming!x Due to a new dawn that enables the next event to reach its full potential I am pleased to announce that the film I made of the original first ever Dancing on the Comedy Carpet for Cancer Research UK is being edited for release...for free for all!x Many 'faces' featured on it and lots of happiness was had...so super to be able to share that joy now the...err...comedian...has 'retired'!x Here's a 'taster' of what's to come and indeed the Local Authority have granted permission to the new Committee running the event the right to hold the event on the Sunday Bank Holiday 26th May 2019....I...will be there...and look forward to what I believe will be the biggest attendance yet........there to do....as I said 3 years ago!!!x Enjoy and I will be back with the full film when done!x LUV SOOTY X

I do seem to produce gorgeous Gals Peter....and yup she'll be joining the endless stream of heart breakers i'm sure!!x Off on a UK trek tomorrow taking in Scotland and the South Coast and all in between including Manchester...Birmingham...Newcastle...and .so will see upon my return what is well....and what ain't my old Mate!x Me personally.....always good and looking forward to spending every minute i can with Lexy as she gets older! I see her once a week every week....more than what i did with my first two who I saw once a week max although not 'quality' time with them....that was for their first 10 years....then for the next 7 I was out at NS doo's every weekend I came home so they saw even less of me....and I regret it all today...the lack of time with them bit!x So 3rd chanced Peter and i'm taking it....!x Here's a pic of my eldest daughter Nats....she married last year and lives outside Beverley near Hull now....gorgeous gal too....and Lexy's Mam...6ft 1" bruiser....and I have the marks to prove it...hehe!!x My Son got married a few weeks back too....both him and Natalie danced at Northern doo's as kids...proper little Cambridge Stompers.....but sadly suffered the downside of me and their Mams 'come down' after our intense involvement with it....so aren't interested today! Hopefully Lexy will take an interest in the vinyl...she loves music and dancing...so on the right track and I can leave her my collection to be appreciated....and not flogged as 'good riddance to that'...hehe!!x Thanx for asking mate and hope all's well your end!x LUV SOOTY X

Morning!x Just scrolled through the pics posted since I last popped in a week or two ago....and sorry i can't click 'like' to them all as i'd be here all day....but SUPER stuff and thanx for sharing!x Here's a funny moment i've had since I posted my last lot of pics.....my baby girl 'givin it laaarge'.....until i told her a Tiger was coming...hehe!!x LUV IT...and her!x Linton Zoo near Cambridge!x Popped in t share another 'film' that is overdue...the 1st Comedy Carpet event back in 2015.....now able to be edited and released to my satisfaction!x I said it would....and will drop a taster in one of the forums...coming soon for all those who featured and were there...!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X tigercoming.mp4

Was spinning the Hyperions in the mid 90's...£400 back then...but always sounded a £1000 pounder and dances like one...!x LUV SOOTY X @@ ~

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I asked Mike if you lot are causing any grief and he said no....so things are quiet Steve!!x Sorry I ain’t been making any noise in here but I restrict it to the real world these days...still got Grenfell...Peedo activity in the football world catching perpetrators and bringing to account wrongdoers on me plate...and manage to fit in 1400 mile treks around the UK sorting all kinds of things out...which keeps me mellow tbh!x However I have had discussions with folk now running Blackpool’s comedy carpet....and theee comedian has been removed at long last. I now believe that function can go forward and reach its potential and may invest some of my spare time into helping that happen...so still got my hand in so to speak and indeed buying tunes.....dunno where I’m gonna spin them tho’...hehe!x I popped in to share info on another function I’ve been involved in since Frank Byrne (RIP x) started it....the Printworks! I couldn’t post the link to a film I made which has had 50,000 hits in 2 weeks but Mike has sorted it so it will be an article as such which he is featuring on the site this evening!x All good and great to hear from you!x LUV SOOTY X

You too Martyn...I like folk who are always buzzing and make an impact...hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Hi all!x I popped in a year or so ago...and looked at your pics....LOVE THEM!x I take about 100 a week when out there of all kinds of things...and last week i did a 1400 mile trek around the UK and choose the sunrise at Saltburn from the pier end out of that journey!x 2nd pic I came across these minis heading for some car rally somewhere at a service station on the M5! 3rd pic is of the Newport Transport bridge in Wales....great piece of engineering and captured its Victorian heritage in the early morning mist methinks!x 4th is of my local Town St Ives...besides promoting successful nighters in the 90's there...it also has a wonderful Medieval centre and bridge...caught here in panoramic view at 8am 2 weeks ago!x 5th and 6th and final for now is of my baby girl Lexy!x We spend a day each week together...I come back for it wherever I am in the World...end of. We do all kinds of things...visit museums...go canoeing...and she loves climbing and daring/scarey stuff...oh and insists on wearing wellys wherever/whatever...but her fav is...going on a bus! This is our trip on an open top bus with good friend Shane as the driver!!x All my pics are done with an Ipad...the recent ones done with the new Ipad Pro 10.5"....it does me...I reckon!x Keep clicking...I like pics!x LUV SOOTY X

Found this I made for the intended 'release' last Xmas...!!x The trailer came from a warped video which is all I had at the time!!!x It WILL be up in full for this one.....X Definitely outta here and will be back for Xmas....!x By the way Geeselad...Nick Knowles of SOS DIY fame LUVS his Northern too...!!x He came to me with £20 Million and 100 workers for the Grenfell folk...he knew i'd helped organise/co-ordinate the people surrounding Grenfell since day 2 and since his approach I have found the dosh/donations to match it from Global contacts. So it will be an ongoing telly project for the next few years....and I err.....imagine his luv for it will proliferate....a kind of assisted DIY....to save his Soul!!!x As I say above......priorities take me elsewhere....and Grenfell is me 'chillout'....honest....but I do miss you all....and I will leave Lexy to say it for me....she is my alpha and omega....and there is nothing left to say.....!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X p.s...the VHS copys are not for sale....!!x Kev Roberts sold out within 4 days I think I recall...all 750 copys back in 2003...!!x The film is going up for free for all...enjoy!X

BRILLIANT....luvly to read folk are still respecting our roots with quality tunes!x I first heard Dance Dance Dance in my school youth club aged 14 mid 70's. Luv'd it....made me dance. When I made a decision to DJ on the Northern scene it was among the first 100 records I bought...from Robyn Gourlay...!x That was '93. By 94 I had a mint Roulette demo and was dead proud of it!x So...I get asked to DJ at the 100 Club Xmas Party '94/5 or it could have been '96....!....and I kick off with it after Butch....hell yeah. The place was LAUNCHED....and half a dozen late teens/moddy types came legging up to the decks after they had danced their ar*es of to it to ask WTF WOZ THAT???!!!x I....was overjoyed with its success that night....and I was 15 again....job done!! A tune....will always be a tune....I reckon!x I'm outta here....and I leave you with Lexy's 'dance lesson videos'....!!!!!!!!x We all gotta start somewhere!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Thanx Patto and all...X I do miss popping in and can say the same for many other personal/chillout forums/websites featuring interests I have. In essence...I devoted myself to some National tragedy's in the past 2 years.....and a moral 'crusade' against some National outfits protecting peedo and other degenerate types of abuse. Politics plays a part too...and carries responsibility. I travel 2000 miles a week UK wide on average visiting 20 +_ Towns/Citys and Valleys......I luv it don't get me wrong...but I have to remain 'focused'!x I only see my new Baby Gurl Lexy once a week.........more than what I saw my first two 28 years ago!!! Some of that was down to the Northern scene back then....!....I digress!x Got it all in order....but ....it takes me chil;lout time up and leaves me little time to 'engage'....and I don't like to be ignorant.....the net is a two way thing....and I like to reply. However....I find if I don;t say owt...or get involved...it don't happen....!!!!x With that...gotta say me bit in anuver thread.........!....see what I mean.......it can take your life over.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....been there done that.....7 years HARD CORE.....and no regrets....X Great to be with you all again and will pop in for Xmas with a link to the free Wigan 30th link......and thank Mike and all at Soul Source for keeping on this facility for us all...X @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

I can say without hesitation he certainly was Geeselad....and the 'evidence' is confirmed on the Wigan 30th as good friend and 'hard core' Soulie features on there in an interview I did with him.....his job then...and for 20 years??......roadie for Motorhead!!!x He sat in the gantries Worldwide sorting the light show out from a laptop....headphones on listening to Northern as Lemmy Aced the spade from the stage....!!!x Tony collected records wherever touring in the US and Lemmy always took an interest in them....and had tapes made of the music!x So....yup!x I can name hundreds of 'stars' that do too from all aspects of life....many of whom i've 'turned' over the years!!x We are not alone....!!x Now...I will add a 'happening' that occurred this year which gave me some fantastic personal satisfaction!x I first heard Northern as a 5/6 year old....'66/7. Me Mam had one of those wire racks of records....argggghhhh...I know...but...there was about 20 records in there...Conway Twitty...Gene Pitney...Elvis....Beatles....and....as her name was Pamela....she had Wayne Fontanas Pamela Pamela!!! I played the records often....both sides......so at 6ish...I heard Something Keeps Calling Me Back.....and discovered nearly 10 years later when attending me school Youth Club Friday disco that it was reeled into the Northern Soul sound!!! So..........imagine when i met Wayne Fontana....possibly the first ever 'singer' i'd heard....and had had in my life for 50 years!!x I told him so too....and he was well chuffed....and have become good friends!x Here is a chat i had with him at The Printworks and a little film of the event....for myself and posterity...well chuffed....and you know what...he can still sing it as was....respect!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

...I play it EVERY time I dj at party's.....and used to at my Soul Nights in the 90's........to myself.....whilst packing away with the lights on.....since I added it to my collection in '93!x I was prepared.....!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Hi all!x Sorry I haven't popped in for over a year I think....been busy UK wide doing this and that in the real world...oh....and trying hard to remember from 29 years ago how often to change a nappy and the like due to a very late addition to my family in the form of a baby Gurl named Lexy who is now 22 months old...with a ready made Bro of 29...Siss of 27 and is an Aunty to a 5 and 3 year old........and it kicks off when the Furby comes out among em all with Aunty Lexy dominating proceedings...hehe!!!!x I have been to a couple of venues and National events to keep my hand...and ears in!x However....for all my ramblings I use my FB page and stick with that these days as far as 'social' stuff goes on the net and occasionally pop into FB forums covering the Soul scene for a bit of banter and chillout!x So sorry for missing birthdays and the like if I did...and hope you are all getting from the scene what you seek and hope for!x I have added a Birthday song for all of you whom I have missed...sung by Lexy.....on it!!x My reason for popping in is that I have got into a luvly chat with friends who live in Detroit. They have music interests and connections in different genres to mine in general and I began to explain my interest in Detroit and its music industry from a Soul perspective! I was just about to explain our Northern Soul scene and its history to date....and thought i'd post my reply here......especially as I have many Soul friends UK wide who may be interested in my reply!!x Have a happy day all....and THANK YOU for your continued positive/happy remarks re the 'Togetherness' Documentary! I have the Wigan 30th Anniversary video master in full on my editing computer waiting for me to have a spare day to upload onto the net for the first time ever...by me....and that will be done...for free for all for Xmas......so have a good un!x @@ ~ X ------------------ Unfortunately Janeene my exposure to the many Motown/Soul stars over the past 25 years either DJing/hosting with them or chauffeuring them when visiting the UK leaves me with more than just their 3 minute song for which we all appreciate!x I know many of their truths....of the environment the women in particular grew up in....and to be honest......watching a 'show' of them doesn't reflect my understanding of the 'genre'...and their commercial tunes don't do it for me really!x In essence....I have too much information.....sigh...X The Soul scene over here who appreciated the non commercial songs is now the longest running 'underground' music scene in the UK!!x It's roots began in the late 60's and 'raves' using their music...much coming from the Detroit backstreets...proliferated Nationwide during the 70's!x We call it 'Northern Soul' because in the main the tunes began being spun up the North of England in the beginning!x The scene was dying slowly through the 80's as the many 'kids' of the 70's got married/kids etc....like me!x However...like me...in the early 90's our kids became 15+ and didn't want to be seen with their parents.....so we began going out to doo's again....sparse as they were back then!x I started my Soul night which ran for 7 years in '93...and many more began springing up around the UK run by folk who loved the music and wanted to revisit their youth! Today....25 years later.....we are now Granddads and Nannas.....and 1000's are heading out UK wide to revived...yet dignifiedish....Soul nights playing the generally unknown tunes by the populace!!!x In fact the scene has more supporters today than it ever has had......although the downside to that is the 'underground' element for which many of us had pride in...is now becoming 'commercial'...and songs that were 'commercial' are creeping in....and some are playing our prided records off CD's!!!x That....was never part of my scene since aged 14.....and pride myself on playing records to this day....whatever genre you want!!x I don't attend Soul doo's anymore other than National Charity events....love the music and always will....but if I want to have a 'party'......then i'd rather spin me other collection of classic 50's/60's/70's from all genres....for 7 hours at a wedding or summink and sling half a dozen well know Northern Soul songs in there!!!x I always went out on the scene to enjoy myself with good music and like minded folk....that ethos....remains!x Today....every day....hour...there are now telly ads featuring 'our' music in which the general populace had never heard before....yet we've been dancing to them since the 70's!!x Bob Geldof...and even Johnny Rotten all sold out eventually....init!!!x Here is a film that I made Janeene which explores our scene for folk like you who have no clue about it!!x 1.5 Million have watched it Globally in the past 2 years since I put it on line! There is a lot of our music played in it and as I say....many of the tunes were made by kids in your locality....and many of them don't even know their records are revered 50 years later! They made them stoned...one Summers day....and forgot about it in the main!!!x Enjoy!!x Oh....and Lemmy of Motorhead RIP....LOVED Northern Soul too......I kid you not!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

......there you go Chris!!!x https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=302095115098#ht_500wt_1282 @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...dosh will eventually find its way to support a function for a foottball fan who was beaten senseless and left a 'cabbage' for the rest of his life.....Thanx...X

SUPERB stuff TOC and all and give my regards to the Prof....!X @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X