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Super stuff folks!x Say Hi to Dennis for me Jerry!x He;s probably left his hair behind after all the racing around he did...hehe!x Caroline...and yes...a super singer she is/was! I don;t know if she did anything else after this? There was talk of it but I don;t recall any further tunes they made up to say 1998/9. Thanx for the info....and have you got a spare 7"...or perhaps Dennis might have 1!!x Sepia...in all my time of going to auctions/boot sales and general back second hand shops....the 'record dealer' has got to be one of the most 'tight' people to 'trade' with!! I will say no more....but where their 'soul' goes during such trading is beyond me!!hehe!x LUV SOOTY X I suppose it's the same buzz they get when running off taking ure tunes cheaply or selling you them dear....as when I used to walk out of a business deal with £20k for a £500 valued deal! Same buzz...different level. Seedy tho'...mines business...records are 'personal' shirley? Never 'stole' from the people. The State and system/Large corporations/Banks/Govts and local Authorities yep..fair game! Lord Leverson and other inquiries are exposing how they have taken the P out of 'us' all over the years. The fact I started in the 80's and retired taking the P out of them in 2000 before they were all exposed means I was sharper and they were slow! I still don't have a bank account or credit card after 30 years....stuff em all I manage me own affairs!x Unlike the record dealers...at least i wore a suit and tie for my 'daylight robberys'...hehe!x @@ ~ Since 2000...when I put a suit on....folk just laff.....!x I like that better...X More stills from the forthcoming DVD...including the moment Kenny bought The Nomads...that very night!x

...Little Dancing Dennis!!!....they were inseparable at the beginning of the Manifesto launch....and super dancer Dennis was/is too....Polly had a grooove in him as well I recall!Thanx for the reminder 'Givemesoul'!x I know they did a few 7"...and I wish i'd have had one of those too....as I would have kept it!!!x I don;t do LP's or anything outside of 45's when DJing or collecting...all me boxes are 7" size that hold my stuff....and perhaps that's why I let the 10" acetate go....it was collecting cobwebs in me LP box which consists of.... Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen which me siss got me when i was 11...16 Big Movie Themes....a lovely album featuring 50 WW2 songs and original singers.....and a few 12"...Blueboy/Marlena Shaw...Shirley/Propellorheads and Candi's You Got the Love....and I think....that's it....and the 10" sat in front of the lot!!! So...I passed it on where it would get to the front for playing....not storing! I do regret it....I could have made a clock outta it or summink! A DJ got it I believe....it was one of the stipulations at the time of sale! Did me best for it!x The Manifesto Mag went 'ballistic' in it's first years which began about the same time as us 'newcomers' all took off around the UK in the 90's!! This article appeared in it which reflected the times at the time....and reading some of you folks comments across the forum.....some things don;t change!!!x Founately for me...the music has remained constant....since 1974....and I focus on that these days still!!x This article I wrote was in issue 3...February 1995! Forgive the quality...but it can be just read when zooming in in windows photo viewer and the like for those wanting to read it.... As for the record itself....I used to play Brainstorm...Loving is Really My Game at about 7.52am @ Blackburn....and The Exciters Reaching For The Best....at such times too.....and this was definately an 'extension' to those and i thought well done...and believed in it and it certainly produced results on the floor wherever I played it!x Happy Days...and a 'rare' tune indeed!!X I'll be happy for the tape to just go to someone who will appreciate it....and tbf....the point of the Ebay 'sale' iwill be to promote the music and scene anyway!!x We have been editing the forthcoming 'Togetherness' DVD....and I have watched and listened to every word said by Soulies and DJs throughout. Terry Davies says this to me on it....'the scene will die with us'....that was 10 years ago! His enthusiasm shown...passion and dedication....as listened to again this week...inspired me to do my bit where possible today...to 'pass it on' and am happy trying!x As for the DVD itself...there are 3 potential Distributors whom we want to give 'sole' rights too wanting to review the whole product....and...I found some other bits to put on there....so....we is doing a final edit Monday/Tuesday and then we go see these folk and get it all sorted! After watching it in its entirety...the original film....I am surprised at how timeless the comments made by all are! Also...the 'passion' of all pours through the film. It ain;t about blowing my trumpet as such....the film does capture THE scene...from a ground floor perspective...and it is for me perhaps the bestest 'natuaral' documentary i've made with my Production Company...and we've done over 100 films for me to gauge in the past 13 years! I'd give you all a copy for free....cos it was done for 'fun'..for me....but....business is business out there....and i'll do my best to get it all delivered to you as cheap and cheerful as possible!! On it...X Sorry for the small delay as I had said it would be available in April....but it will be worth waiting for an extra week or two....timeless means...timeless!x We have just negotiated the rights with the purchaser of the 1st album to allow us the right to put the 'original' versions of the Zoots Northern sampled tracks...on vinyl!!! They will not be the commercial releases which feature new singers...but the ones you've heard already in here...by 'normal' folk...which I think will be rarer and fitting for the northern scene methinks! We reckon they'll be double A siders...and perhaps....perhaps if the interest is there....then we'll produce new songs for release in that series purely for Soul fans...and their kids"!!! As said....doing me bit to appeal to new genertions and tie the scene in with it and benefit too...and will keep you posted!x All the proceeds I make from this 'venture' re the DVD is going to 3 Fans trusts.....keeping it real...and 'for the people'...X The records potential is all to be discussed this week too in conjunction with the DVD release...! So a lot to be excited about methinks....and as we are in a 'modern' groove...it's time to play an all time classic 'Sooty Spin'....and I used to kick off with it regular around the UK....but i'll end with it here....night night!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X EDIT....just remembered.....I have this 12" in me LP box too....a happy memory from The Barn at Braintree 1976/7 funky nights....went twice....brilliant!x...it also means the beddy byes is delayed for 5 more minutes......rave on.....hehe...!X...I have the 7"...and it gets played at me party's.....no worries!x @@ ~

Evening all!x Hope you've all had a good week and week-end!x I have for numerous reasons...yesterday...1 of the 3 local football clubs close to me heart...or the people are....ensured their league status...Histon FC...which was nice!x Then...during the week...I found lot's of happy memories and memorobilia from the Northern Scene...tucked up for possibly 10 years or so!!!! Today...as the weather killed the Boot Sale...I went through some of it...and other 'music' paraphernalia such as record player...sss...and things! Amongst it all...right out of the blue...I came across this...>>>>> Now Soulies...i'm looking for some help...and an update...before I put it on Ebay for a tape collector to cherish!x What I can tell you from memory is this...! It IS...an excellent tune! Made in 1996...by The Beachcombers...based Bristol way at the time! The luvly Lady on the cover is the singer...and i met her a couple of times....but it was her partner/husband whom I knew...Polly...the guy wh began/took over got involved with the Manifesto Magazine in the 90's!x We spent many happy nights and days together and supported the magazine monthly and things were good! Then...he called me and said...'my Mrs has made a record'! When we met...he gave me a 10" Promo metal record of the tune!! Dunno how many of them he had made...but I think....I believe...there were only a couple! As I was National at the time...he gave me one of these 'rareities'! I played it....job done! He gave me this tape of it too! I haven't played it ever I don;t recall as I had the record! But...it features the tune repetitively throughout in crystal studio form! Check the 'tune' out...and my history with it here...!>>>>....erm....and wot happened to the 10"......doh........and there's some 'old' faces on t too... ...so it's 'brill'!x What I need to know is for the sale....what happened to the tune since 1996/7!!!! I know Polly had some 7" made of it too...I remember seeing one! But...that's it...I know nothing...!x Is Polly out and about still? If so it would be good to hear from him...and...I feel real bad but I forgot the.his Luvly Ladys name....and she can sing init!!x So apologies for that....and any help is appreciated!x LUV SOOTY X Now...this ain;t a 'plug'...just a fact....as you all play records....I collect record players! However...I have 1 surplus! I have put it on Ebay... xsootyx...and it is SUPERB! I;ve made a vid to go with it...and 'promote' Northern Soul in there too....it all helps!!x For those interested in all things 'vintage'...there is some Subbuteo in there as well...from 1979/80....and I 'tell all' of behind the scenes stuff of the football world to go with it....and...how I stole the FA CUP....swear to God...Allah...Jehovah and me Mam...HONEST...and can prove it!!!x @@ ~ Bestest thing that's happened tho'...is hearing that tune again and the many happy memory's it brought back....thank you all...!!X P.S...if a soulie through this forum buys the record player...i'll pay the postage...and be happy it's gone to a good home and it will be appreciated...like it has been at mine!x ..so.....waddya all know????!!!x @@ ~

WOOOHOOO!!!...Ruben Wright - I'm walking out on you...just heard it for the first time....never heard it!! Tune! Proper Soulful Northern...why ain't I heard it Geeselad?!x That note at the last second....super!x Found the Buddy Miles on Utube...and I can see the interest....but too laid back for me mate...!x Some serious production going on and yup....the man can sing!x Reminds me of some of the 70's funkadelic albums I heard in me time!...Bootsy Collins type of thing?? I don't know nowt about LP's though....never collected them or look at them....so perhaps missed loooads in me time...I stick to 45s....then I don;t forget to change the speed switch during me doo's.....it can get complicated when im tryng to dance...cue the next tune and answer the donut at the side asking for some tune they'll dance to for 10 seconds before running off texting someone I find!!hehe!x @@ ~ Thanx for the info Geeselad...X I went to a regular boot sale this morning where very few collector/dealers go! It's usually swamped with Eastern block folk buying furniture putting a house together and stuff! They have the cash these days!! The traders know that and sell stuff accordingly Since having me first dance to Northern at Netherhall School Youth Club Friday Disco 1974....educated at Cambridge yaa....dancing to Double Life Jerry Fuller and hanging in for Tommy's Going To A Happening...in all them years...i aint met a Soulie from Romania...Lithuania or Poland as yet! Those Eastern Block folk whom i;ve shared me music with like it.....but have their own 'thing'....and dance together in groups! So...they don;t go looking for records...and very few folk sell them up this boot sale! Supply and demand at work! There was only 4 stalls with any tunes...and i found these 2 US Bell 45s....in a plastic see through bag together! The lady (Angela,,,X) said they were her fathers who liked Jazz! There were loads of his LPs and a few Jazz EPs...and these 2 oddments!! I gave her £2...she'd asked for 50p each! It helps my guilt complex when I find a nugget!!hehe! However...I feel as though i've found 2 for my collection! Know nowt about either....and well pleased with them both!x Angela's Dad died before xmas....and he was a music lover. She herself went to a few Northern discos in the 70's....and didn;t realise it was still around! She also doubted these were 'soul or northern soul as she didn;t think her dad knew of it!! I said i would give the tunes a write up if they were good....and I also said I would cherish them as her Dad...Nigel...did...x She is popping in to the forum to read this......and yes poppet....they are good enuff for my collection and these folk in here methinks!x Your dad knew his stuff...respect...X.....and I believe he had Sooooullll!x In memory of Nigel....R.I.P...X Paul Dayton....About This Thing Called Love..........grrroooooovyy methinks!!x Then this.....which is reaaaal bouncy and catchy...! Dean and Dina???? No idea....but luv it!x Thanx for not slinging the records Angela....and they will get spun at my partys and stuff and I will give cred to Nigel for the inspiration I promise!x Now get ure ar*e to a dooo!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Went to a small Boot Sale this morning at a Junior school....and the music teacher had decided to flog some of his Dads tunes!!!! I got 4 and give him £5 for his charity pot! He wanted 20p each!!!! Picked out the 'Soulful' ones...or some Soul connection! The first is this 'awesome' haunting tune sung by Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers called 3 Rooms With Running Water! I have 1 other tune by the Rebel Rousers called 'As I look'...an uptempo stormer...but some debate as to whether it was Cliff Bennett featured...but the tune is super! So is this....played it twice...and it sticks in ure brain! I have read it was written by....Jimmy Radcliffe...and indeed his name is on the vinyl! It was sung by HB Barnum too so the blurb i;ve found sez?! Other than that I know nowt....except its mine now!!!x Value...me rare record collector 2012 sez £15....but I ain't ever seen one at a boot sale before or i;d have got it!x The 2nd of the four is an easy one to find...on President....but...on this....at a boot sale???...naaa!!!. I have 'I Can't Hear You' which is brill...'I've gotta claim on you'...one of her early R&Bers and the double sider on President featuring 'It's In His Kiss' on the A side! This tune is 1 of the original tunes i learneded as Norvern back in 1974! My President copy has been moved sideways into the disco box for the Its In His Kiss classic side...and the below has replaced it in me Northern Box...es....and it's mint!!! Value??...£20 it sez.....but to me...priceless....and takes pride of place as theee find for today!!x The other 2 tunes were....well......I think they are brill in their own right....and will go in me 'funny's box'!! Never heard this version....but it's a good old 'Northern' version......and the best i've ever heard...booked at £6...and worth a laugh....hehe...!!! The other.....has got to go in me 'funny' box.....nobody can dance to it....or keep up with this can they???!!!! Shirley not??!!hehe! Never heard it until today......manic Tina at her youthful height i'd imagine!!x Can't find a value for it in me book?!x Going in me Soul Box tbf!x Big one on in the morning and I will see what's about and report back if I find another nugget!x LUV SOOTY X .......awww jeeez.....gotta go to Heathrow now on me own.....and all that's in me brain is....Plllleeeeaseee Mr Cuusterrrr......doh!x @@ ~

Had the pleasure of looking after Doris Troy this night! I escorted her from the above venue too I think Bretby...or The Ritzy for an A/N appearance afterwards...forget which!! Picture this.....the 4th tune my mate played me in 1974 was Doris's I'll Do Anything! Luv'd it ever since and indeed is perhaps the most prolific record I see at boot sales from a Northern perspective over the past 30 years! So....although in my businesses i have dealt with 'the stars' of all types....I was particularly excited meeting Doris! I wasn't dis-appointed! She jumped in the back of the car....said....'do you mind if my Girlfriend come sit with me Sooty'? "Of course not!" I replied happily! Her bubbly Lady friend jumped in....and as we drove through Nottingham they shared the happiness that 2 'lovers' would after an exciting set she had just done in the S/N! Then...she said did i have a problem with gay relationships?! I said "no....me mams gay and has been all me life!" They both became real 'cosy' and we drove around the Nottingham ring road for an extra 20 minutes as they gleamed my lifes experiences with me mother her being gay...and why?!!! I asked her the same! We arrived at the next gig 1/2 hour late as she'd insisted i drive around again as they were both fascinated by the 'chat' we were having! 20 years later....and as said....dealing with many stars that would never even know of Doris....I have to say.....she wouldn't do anything for a man 30 years after making the record...like she had done in her time...and I can't blame her after some of the tales she mentioned as her experience with so called Soulful men. Similar to me mam....which is why we 'got on' I suppose! She recommended me to many of her friends for a discreet VIP service when visiting the UK and we kept in touch thru xmas and stuff until her death in 2004...X We both lived in the real world...and she was an absolute STAR....and she has a place in my thoughts each time i look through my telescope at the night sky! Doris Troy....RIP...X LUV SOOTY X ...I read ure smallprint Wiggyflat! Nice 1...X Say hi to Anton and Dave if you can for me.....2 guys whom i shared the floor and decks with in me time and super Soulies...X...'ere...the 5th record my mate played me in 1974 was...The Cheater...Bob Kuban! Spooky eh?! I never knew wot u just said until now! Learn summink everyday.....nice thread!x @@ ~

No probs mate!x I come from a Norvern education kicking off with The Champion...Tainted love....and Dance Dance Dance the casualeers....first 3 tunes me mate played me in 1974! Still enjoy hearing them today....!! Footsie...and i remember Space by Magic Fly was in his collection of 'northern' back then too!!! 1 tune I never forgot and don;t see often that I always wanted to play at a gig was....Tom Jones....Hide and Seek!!!! STOOOOORMER!!! But never did!!hehe!x...tell me i'm wrong...!x So i've had a wiiiide induction course...! However...my education on R&B has gone pear shape since leaving the scene 'actively'! I don;t know whats played today....and when I see chart records by soul singers discoey stuff calling itself 'R&B'....then....I dunno where to start these days! But...here are 3 of my tunes that I spun regular as an R&B flavour....my way of thinking...when stomping around the UK in the 90's!x ...and a stomper to go with 'em... I see Mack Rice baby i'm comin home mentioned in the thread....another fav of mine to spin....and I always had this to play as the lights came on at Blackburn or any A/N I finished the night DJing at....at half volume....and always made me feel we'd had a good night!x Since then i;ve played it at full blast as the last record going on the deck with lights on....telling folk to drink up and help put stuff away at the end of a wedding/Barmtsfah or funeral!!! Good excuse mefinks....!x......and....and......they all smooch to it 'oblivious'....everytime......tune!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Which Ray Agee are we talking about Chalky??!!!x The Losing record absolute guaranteed....of course!x But are you saying this other one i'm talking about...'I'm not looking back'....is Northern too???!!! If so...i'm so pleased to hear that! I have always liked the record....and would have danced to it meself no probs! When that piano/sax orchestra all 'bang' back down into the beat again is a definate 'spin' moment i've found!! What I mean is that it just had summink 'missing'...or 'extra'...that ensured it didn't make me 'tool box' of 100 records when 'on the move' doing 3 gigs a week-end trying not to play the same record twice!!! In essence...it didn;'t make me top 100 to 'share'!! If it has been played since I came across it....then BRILLIANT!!!x If not....then I could understand why the hesitation or thoughts! Hard to put a finger on this 'feeling' about it....but done me best to explain!x Whilst I understand folks 'passion' about music.....I have never took it too serious....I enjoy it all!...and try to share that joy as much as possible!x LUV SOOTY X

...has it finished???!!.....!x If its any comfort...things ain;t changed in 15 years!hehe!x It used to be argued as passionately as witnessed here in toilets and Service Stations between 9 and 10 in the morning!x Difference is now....the same conversation....goes global these daysl!!! Healthy stuff all done in a respectable manor too!x Refreshing it is! I visit many forums of various types. 'Debate' such as been had here wouldn't get this far without degenerating into personal ,malarkey and stuff! Respect to you all...and i mean that...as someone who has been 'live' on the super highway since 1985!!x Great place to stop by wiv me cuppa before bed methinks....nice 1!x LUV SOOTY X ....ah.....among the passion and perspective.....I dd ask a question.....! Was it 50...or 500!!! Since putting that Ray Agee record in my box circa 1995....I haven;t seen another copy.....until you brought it up today Pete s! I was surprised.....and hadn't mentioned it to you in our chat....or anybody....because it ain;t 'Northern' really....not just 'there' methinks!!! But you brought the tune up.....and I was genuinely gobsmacked to see it! I've been hearing it weekly at our studio for about 4 months!!!....so understand me sincere interest!! Can anyone help and tell me what happened to it after 1995 on the scene....if anything?!?! Fank You!x

...forgive me for jumping in here....but Pete....that tune Ray Agee...'I'm Not Looking back'!! You consider it not 'northern'...?! Interesting! I can only repeat how it happened and what was said....but here goes...! I was in Cottons Stockport circa '95/6. Rob...Robbie....a dealer who began wearing a dress and was waiting for a sex change.....rushed up to me as we arrived....with a box of 50 of these tunes!!! He pulled the first 1 out....GAVE it to me....and said...it's just arrived....this is 'it'...the entire stock! Spin it....you'll luv it and it's 'Northern'!!! However.....whilst Rob...Robbies judgement in life may have been confusing at the time....as far as Northern went....he had...for the previous 2 years...seen me right with tunes! BUT...the week before at Blackburn....I had swopped in all my excitement...my Grapevine copy of Lester Tipton....for 'Train To Nowhere' by the Champs.....about 15 minutes before finishing the night off at 7am! I was 'vulnerable I recall!!!hehe!x I heard it on headphones and....and....played it among me set as the 'instrumental...and everybody danced!!! Never played it again.....and every time i see it at a boot sale....for 10p or a quid...I wince......nearly 20 years later!!!hehe!x Personally...I liked both tracks in their own right. I never did get to play the Ray Agee at a Northern doo....and wouldn't have.....unless vulnerable at 6.45am again!! It was one of those 'nearly' was tunes.....and kept it in me collection ever since!...erm....2 years ago....my Producer mate heard it.....I wanted to share the piano and sax all the way through with him! He liked it soo much...he included it in the requested 30 he took away with him to 'play' with for the next year.....! I didn't mention it on the phone t'other week.....but here it is....! It ain;t R&B....it ain't Northern.....just a happy tune methinks!x If you listen closely....you'll hear me and Pete 'screaming' in the back ground enjoying every minute!!hehe!x Amazingly....the intro....sez all....and indeed perhaps epitomises what Northern Soul has been to me over 40 years of education on it!x https://www.skooters.cc/zoots/cominhome.mp3 It's become one of Pete's favourite tunes of all times!! It reflects that as he hasn't done a lot to it either really!! Music....a personal preference....I reckon!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...Rob...Robbie ripped that box open and gave me the first copy Pete....so he said? I think his interest was 'moving' the t'other 49 at the time...! Perhaps he'd seen me Lester Tipton go so easy the week before......?!.....flippin' vultures......I needed looking after init!! My mate Fudge constantly called me a tw***t.....see why eh?!hehe!x They took the P alllll the way back down the M6.....sigh....!x Waddya know about the record then Pete?!x Was there that 50...or 500???!!!!x

Sorry to have caused you any grief Mike! Shifting the posts about and stuff i'm sure you can do without!x I have and had no intention of being a 'problem' and let's put it down to me getting used to 'how things are' in the 'house' ok!x Now...I don't understand your reference to 'Mods' Mike?! Do you mean 'moderators'...or Mods as in scooter types???! If it's the moderators....this post was a direct response to comment I made to either you....Chalky or Dave via E-mail when I joined a couple of weeks ago to come up with something 'structured'! That's why I addressed it to you all...out of courtesy!x If it's 'Mods'....scooter type...........then.....I wasn't aware that I was!!! All me mod friends would be surprised!! They love me Northern...or did!! Can you tell me which it is you mean?! Then I can do as requested with pleasure...X LUV SOOTY X This tune was probably the most successful spin that both 'scenes' loved equally from me...Mods and Soulies...!x Me mam liked it too and she wos a hippy in the 60's!x

...u got it Pete! Ain't looked at the record for ages...but yup....Downliners Sect on Columbia and the intro comes off the B side of Wreck of the Old '97....called Leader of the Sect! Manic stuff once kicking off! Ain't heard anything else of theirs but have just seen some other tracks on Utube so i'll check em out...thanx for the tip! Never seen their stuff at a boot sale that's for sure....except this one!x LUV SOOTY X ...Pete my producer mate was also inspired by this 1 track to make this too!!x I'm sure they is saying 'Here's Chalkyyyyy as the tune kicks off.....!!!hehe!x @@ ~ https://www.skooters.cc/zoots/hansup.mp3 ...those crackles on the intro...are the real thing...we left em in to pay respects to this nearly dead piece of vinyl!! I;m glad I saved it from the so called sh*t heap!x

Found it!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Morning guys!x Just got back from a long meeting with friends and having a cuppa before bed. Some of them started talking about Car Boot Sale finds....from an antiques perspective! I shared my vinyl experience at boot sales with them. When driving home...I thought of all those folk i've met....barged me out of the way on occasion too!hehe! Quite often they are waiting with increasingly sweating brow dripping over your shoulder hoping u ain;t found that 'nuggett'! All in all...super people and i've enjoyed meeting them all! That experience has been UK wide....wherever I go....they are there! Fortunately I aint got a clue what i'm looking for....so give way happily!! In fact....a Soulie/DJ and dealer whom i;ve respected for 20 years said....as we happened to be shoulder to shoulder flipping thru some tunes a couple of years ago at a boot sale...."...that's a shame...it'd be worth £40 if it weren't broken!". I went...;yeah shame init...do you like it?!"....sez I...."naaaa....heap of shit."...he judges! He got up confidently and went his merry way. I jumped into his box he left and whizzed to the record! Lifted it up...cracked edge.....but din't have a clue what was on it!! So I bought it for £1! It ended up being 'The Sect'...Leader of the sect! A mid 60's moddy tune which jogs along nicely....then maniclly!!! The copy was just...and I mean juuuuust....playable! It was good enuff to make me collection anyway! A couple of months later...me Producer mate Pete...A.K.A ZombieBoy....pops round to hear me tunes! I thought he'd like the funny intro...so played it among me 'unusual' bits during our session! He when returning 3 nights later...asked to record it along with 30 others! 18 months later....or 6 months ago......he had sampled it into one of our tunes for the forthcoming album! That re worked tune....has just been bought by an ad agency......for 40,000 times what it cost me! It's in the grooove...init? Here's that sampled intro worked into 2 Northern tunes.....and there is more....but not here and now...soz!!x The advertisers are happy with just this.....alreeeeeadyyy!!hehe!x https://www.skooters.cc/zoots/sectshine.mp3 I haven't said the Soulies name....because whilst I have respected him and his music....he's never paid me that compliment...ever. He'd only see it as me 'givin it large' if I told him. There's folk who have the music in them and flaunt it....and those that flog it....X I buy!x So Mike/Dave... I thought of contributing to the forum in some 'unique' way! I read threads and want to add bits everywhere....cos I have things to share!!! but not the time to do so! So as said in an early e-mail....i'll do summink 'structured'....and commit to it! Then I can read all over a coffee and get plugged back in to whats 'happening'!x This 'feature' BEST BOOT BUYS ...can be it...if it's ok?! Many Soul mates will tell u it fits too!!hehe!x Shifty and Fudge used to cry with laffter at how 'brave' I was to play 'boots' on occasion at Soul Nights! To me....I was a DJ and there for the people! I never played a tune if someone had it in their box and sharing the stage....never....that would be dis-respectful..I felt. But...at my Soul Nights and at those I DJ'd at....if you came up and asked for a tune...and nobody had it except me.....then I played it! Why not?! It made folk happy.....pure innocence honest!x Anyway...those that slated me for it never give u praise where it counted either! Ady Croasdell gave me the first copy of Carla Thomas's 'I'll Never Stop Loving You'....a few weeks before the Anniversary doo when the tune was due to be given away freely as he did! I played it at every A.N and gig over the next few weeks...Blackburn...Nottingham....Manchester....Bristol and Grimsby I recall....and used it to promote the 100club for Ady....my choice...or my excuse to play it!!!hehe!x. So...I was the first....but those who know about me boots...din;t know that to go wiv it...did they?! Good job I know me own truth init!x That last bit is for Tony and crew in Bromley...X He emailed me to catch up and say that some of the 'chat' his way from 'the youth' had been that I played boots!!!....hehe!x Me and Tony were chilled 15 years ago....we is still 'chilled'!x Nice to hear from u mate...X.......and you tell em.....never...at the 100Club....X I found Fats Domino- If You Don;t Know What Love Is...on a Friday afternoon in a Sally Army shop in Aldershot! Heard it on a tape from Norwich's finest Kev Fev Featherstone just a week earlier...X Went to 100Club next night....kicked off with it......LAUNCHED the place...everyone wanting to know wtf it was!!!.....din't need a boot...or boot sale that time!!!hehe...x As I go to boot sales regular....then i'll share my favourite find that week! The most exciting Soul find I have had since actively collecting rare Soul for the past 20 years....was at a Car Boot in Doncaster 17 years ago....I remember it well!! Driving past one Sunday morning on me way home from somewhere...and I saw this big field full of em.....so I stopped! I walked to the first stall.....5 records all scruffy....loose....in a tray of matchbox cars and stuff. Pick em up...Ken Dodd...Tears......The Monkeys...I'm A Believer...Clive Dunn Grandad....Mud...Tiger Feet.......and this tune.......my copy with the label all worn......but plays LOUUUUUD...and whilst it was found at a boot.....it ain;t a boot.....honest!!!!!x ....do you think my Soul DJ/Dealer mate would have got past Ken Dodd?hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X .........that's neat that's neat....i reallly lurrrve ure tiger feeet.....I remember dancing to that xmas party at me nans! Happy days! Time and place for every tune methinks! Yeah....good therapy for me this Forum....thank u guys!x...nite nite!x

...as there is no 'genre' stated in the asking...if it's no problem...I will post me two favs from last week ends car boot sale finds! I have learnt about music for over 30 years by collecting tunes from boot sales.....'randomly'! It is also my 'chill out' time most Sundays having a wander! 99 times out of a 100 i haven't a clue what i'm taking home each week....but that's the fun! On average...I pay 50p.....£1....for a 45....and occasionally find em at 10p each!! Generally I take home about 8-10 a week and 2/3 out of them will make my collection! That collection incorporates soul/Motown/Northern stuff...but....then i have a 'quiz' box...which has themes and quirky stuff from tv/films in it...then instrumentals that 'hit me' that go from the late 40's...to date.....all found at a boot sale! All the 633 Squadron...John Barry...Duane Eddy etc go in there! Then there is me 50's/ 60'/70's and best of the rest section! Me general 50's include rock n roll/rockabilly and Doo Wop along with the classics! 60's is full of stuff like the below! The 70's section is filled with the obvious classics and not many obscure stuff added as it is a lot of shuffling thru records to get to find them....and can't be ars*ed with em all really! I did dance to Funk in '76/7/8 when things like Olympic Runners Keep It Up and Jam Jam Jam were being stomped played in dark rooms in village hall disco's an odd time or two i made them...uptempo stuff...but never got excited by the 'disco' sound that overtook these into the 80's! Then there is an odds and sods section.....all YMCA/Time Warp party stuff! In there are loooads of obscure tunes for occasions such as 7 'Happy birthday' tunes some done by obscure singers on US Soul labels....1 of which i will upload as it does near verge on a 100 club definate....I reckon!!!x The 80's/90's/2000 are covered by about 150 records....Love Shack....If Only I could/Sid Youngblood...M People..and probably on 10-15 tunes represent the 2000's!! For me...after the 70's...it's all been regurgitated! I can 'predict' a tune within 5 seconds....and haven't listened to the radio for music since 1995! I listen to 5 Live....ritually! I was known for playing I'm So Happy-Philip Mitchell UK wide and Brainstorm- Loving is Really My Game at Blackburn @ 7.45/50amish...in particular! So I do like me 70's...but they gotta be that good!x After Donna Summers 'I Feel Love'....I think it took years before anybody came up wiv anyfink new on the pop scene! I have found some absolute nuggets from across the era's that are tunes in their own right that never made it in the charts or owt....or...in my wide scope...could verge on being considered 'Northern' from all genres! To start then...last week I found this by Paul and Barry Ryan. I have Barry Ryans classic hit from the late 60's 'Eloise' but never knew any of him or his bro's tunes from the early/mid 60's! This one....'Baby I'm Sorry'....makes me hairs stand up on me arms like Fred Hughes Oooo Baby I luv U does after 35 years....and that bell/gong.....haunts you all the way thru the tune......50p!....on Decca...!x The second is perhaps an all time 'classic'...BUT...in 7 years I never heard it played once or had the chance to dance to it...and i;m dis-appointed with that after hearing it several times this week!! On US ABC Paramount...Lloyd Price B side...Have You Ever Had the Blues.....10p....and the Personality on the A side plays perfick too! I'd have paid £5-10 for it...but....the pleasure of 'finding'...is priceless to me anyway!x Last year I did a 50th Birthday party for a group of Soulies who piled over to ours regular in the 90's. After i'd give the girls a lift to the venue....then the fellas...I was left with a home made CD in the back of the limo....which i discovered on the way home...! SUPER Northern with an R&B flavour that I have never heard...! On there is this Lloyd Price track...sung by a woman....r&b style....dunno who it is? But...I still prefer Lloyds version....and have done a twirl in me music shack quite happily this week to it!!x 10p...or £10....worth having methinks....enjoy!x LUV SOOTY X Thanx to all the PM's...E-mails and texts piling in still!!!x Special hi to Shaun from Boro's 3 Sad Men...Russ from Portsmouths crew and Donna in the Welsh mountains....who has been bellowing northern out across them valleys since 1988.....when I had a house and business there!XXXX Great to hear from you all and that your all well....and....that your glad to hear from me too!x It's a cult!!!hehe!x 'Underground'....hard core!!!x @@ ~

....ah! Erm....the latest...newest tune on vinyl I have managed to find is Eels...Mr E's Beautiful day....after watching the road trip film....tune!x I have got a studio demo/acetate whatever u call em of Mercy Duffy and Plan Bs 'She Said!...dunno which is the newest...no date on em!! I was given them and didn't look to go to a shop and get them as such....although i would have if needed! Other than that I haven't bought a tune on vinyl from the charts or owt since Propellerheads made the tune with Shirley Bassey....history repeating itself....Candi Staton 'You Got the Love'....and Blueboys Remember Me with the luvly Marlena Shaw! Unfortunately Shirley and Marlena are on 12"....and they have stayed in me LP box which has about 10 LPs in there from me childhood!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....I bought a 'new' copy of that uptempo Contours tune on a supposing tamla demo last year?....but probably a new boot?! Forget what its called! That had little grooves like a 'new' Dells EP I got some years back.....no run in groove on em....instant tune,.....nightmare!!!hehe!x @@ ~

...only buy/collect vinyl...for 38 years. End of...,X LUV SOOTY X

Hi 123 Motown!x It is a bit out of context I suppose! This post was a thank you to Dave for moving the original thread I started to the 'saeles' forum which was considered mpre appropriate! You can see the 'original' here! Returning friend???....I heard Northern Soul in 1974 for the first time in me life. I was 14. I then went into kids homes...borstal prison and at age 18 set up home wiv me then Mrs to make a life. We did for the next 10 years. At 28...I retired! After a couple of years of messing about in the early 90's...I decided to put a do on with my mate who played me Northern back in 1974 first day arriving at a Cambridge school! We bunked the afternoon off...and played his 100 tunes!! In 1993...after nearly 20 years of listening to these tunes on 4 tapes as me only music i had in any car....I played them for the first time on a deck....and danced to em in a venue...for the first time...aged 32! The same records as i borrowed Waynes from '74!I knew nowt about the scene....pure innocent tunes played...due to the previous circumstances!! Business or HMP pleasure....was certainly summink to do wiv me missing out!!hehe!x On the occasions I came home from the kids homes...I would go to a football match....get 'noticed'...it was the 70's......and be returned! Never did disco's or owt.....weren't free as a kid!x I left being 'active' on the scene after 7 years catching up! I think I crammed more in that 7 years than perhaps my youth would have had anyway!! However....'returned'???!! The music....has never left me....since 1974....and never will....gigs or not!x Dance Dance Dance made me dance back in me kids home in '74...as did Catch the Teardrop did in me conservatory when I heard that 35 years later! That's why I pursued these peedos as described above. I lived with these lads in a kids home for nearly 2 years. I took my mates 100 records back with me once. I remember as if it was yesterday in the echoing gym 'Pain In My Heart'...Tainted Love'...'Seven Day Lover'...the Right Track...A Little Togetherness...ricocheting around the walls!. It was my first ever Northern spot...on a record player to me mates! It took 19 years for me next spot! Unfortunately...it took 27 years for me to find out these mates...brothers...had been abused....in '74. I had to do something. End of. I felt guilty I suppose. I was 'there'...and knew nowt....they never said. So...for me...I went back to my roots that some of you may have been planting at Wigan and A/Ns all round the UK! I had 'brotherhood'....without music....but shared it with them all!x I quit the scene in 2000...to go back to that gym we all shared....and make them happy again. I've done so....or done what I can...X Perhaps it is time for some rejoicing and a return?! What do you think 123 motown?!x R u a Psychiatrist then Soulmusicforever???!!!x Having had 27 different schools/kids homes before aged 16 from Middlesboro to Hull to Grimsby and Cambridge.....and in between hamlets........5 'official' dads not 1 being me own....being brown among whites as me mam and siss are.....and being educated in this Country's finest establishments akin to Cambridge/Oxford Unis but more tailored towards people as opposed to products.....then....I consider meself 'different' to the norm....and try to share such where i can!!!x I hope you ain;t a psychiatrist.....cos my consultancy fees to cream my lifes experience for your future careers application are as they are mate......can't do discount even if u is a soulie...leeeeave it out Guv.....business is business init!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X We are all the centre of our universe from our eyes. My 'soul scene'...I became conscious of....aged 5. Some have it in their boxes....some have it in their hearts. I ain't a carpenter....so never got round to making a box. But I have shared what i have got....wherever i've gone. Vinyl has certainly assisted with that. But plastic...i ain;t.. Nice meeting you two and thanx for saying hi!xx Edit....here it is...the very first doo after 19 years of listening and never dancing to it! I put meself on at 7-8pm.....I was scared!!!hehe!x A year later....after stomping around the nation.....I ended up at the 100club. I played Seven Day lover...James Fountain. I always put a bit of each in me set! Instrumental...70's...mid tempo...still don;t know wot that is??!! Always think of len when I hear that word!!!hehe!x 60's/R*B...and STOMPERS....if one can hack it!! Why should i have changed that at the 100 club?! The place went mad....with enthusiasm....and i remember Ady smiling leaning against the back wall! All I saw was a packed room of happy folk.....and me??....I was in that gym....X I was told by a dealer that the consensus among some of them folk was that it wos a 60's club! I said...bu**er if i'd have known that I would have brought me Searchers and Beatles.....I thought it was a Norvern venue like everywhere else i go!! We were both then drowned out by Soulies wanting to congratulate me for the set........and nobody to date ever finished that chat.......and I DJ'd a further dozen times at least for them to do so!!!X Besides....I had Mod types rushing me asking wot the hell that uptempo dancer wos.....I said it wos a 60's.....Dance Dance Dance. I fink it wos a 60's anyway! It got the biggest cheer of the night.....I was in me bedroom at the time dancing.....so din;t really notice!x Here Soulmusicforever.....I got a stock of couches my removal firms collected from Psychos who quit practising......going cheap...as ure a Soulie!!x @@ ~

...Ady deserves the cred Len...X He came to our does...and 'supported' our ethos...and knew a Soulie when he heard one...and listened to a Soulie who knew Soulies...and I will always respect him for that...X I think 5 'newbies' ended up sharing their stuff at the 100Club via The City Stop on merit! A 6th...Shifty.....bought it....hehe!x It's all I needed to hear Len...ure up for it....consider it done mate!x That's 2 spaces filled for the bill then! Ain't worried about packing it Len....! Do that with a call the night before...! I have had dooe's at my places over recent years.....and limit it to 300...by invitation!!!x None of them are invited.......unless....we can't find 100 ex city Stop folk or chilled Soulies out there! 1 days notice if we can't,,,whatever happens....we'll be there....and i look forward to just that anyway mate!x LUV SOOTY X ...the last Northern doo I had 'local'....was when a handful from Boston whilst attending some 3rd anniversay gig in Cambridge popped out to see me a couple of years back! They stayed...and we danced in the conservatory!!! They left to get back in time for the doo's finish in Cambridge!!! I went to Boston FC last year to do a group of theirs 50th....loads of faces and friends and a super night had by all! They'd all pile down i'm sure!x If i'd have had this place in the 90's Len............how many????......and the nearest neighbours are a mile each side???......how looong would it have gone on for??? Good job I didn't.....Fudge would have pitched a caravan somewhere....!x @@ ~ ....when you ask am I back.....I have never stopped 'promoting' really! If you look in the pic at the decks/conservatory....you will find the walls covered in Northern Soul and music memorobilia! Those fluorescent posters are of St Ives/Maltings and stuff!. For a few years it has been a safe house for celebs/profiled folk and the like when it suited me. Private doo's. I take care of everything for them...including music...transport and clearing up their scandles! Point is....nobody left without knowing about Northern Soul....whoever...! My decks...do as I please init. No complaints to date!....if anything....lots of inspiration where it counted!!! I'll tell you and all more in the article i'm gonna do for the site!x But....like Fudge....i'm easily pleased!x @@ ~ X Send me a text mate....and I will call you with some dates...X Job done!x 07521042699 ...shall we ban him?....I ,mean proper....!x This is what he did to me....me first night I got a spot at Blackburn! He came round about 5. Mrs was gonna trim me hair for the occasion...as u do! He said he'll do it so she can get ready. I looked him square in the eye and said DON'T F*** ABOUT...PLEEEASE! He looked at me straight back.....and said 'naaaaa....only jesting.'. I sat down.....and his first strike was with a number 1......straight down the middle of me head back to front. I had to have it all shaved off. I was in a mess driving that bus all the way to Blackburn....TW*****T....in between laffs...embarresent...and ...and...just a mess really! About 10 minutes before I was due on....7am.....me and Neil here were chatting....and this loud shout came from our left of "WAAAAN****EEEERRR.....!"....as he....it....took the pic! My worse ever ever pic from the scene....! Never had me hair like that in me life....1st time at Blackburn.........wtf......??!!!!!x It was my 'dream' spot....hard core heart....7-8am...8.03am! It shoulda been a reeeeal happy night!!! TWAAAAAAAAAAA**********TTTTTT. Mind you....we wouldn;t be talking about our first nights with such reverance without him....would we?!x Ban him.......burn him.......flippin.......I was doing so well wiv me recovery in recent years too..............can somebody find me pills.....!x

PAAAAULLL!!!x Paul Donnellys name has come up as a visitor to the forum! We is old enemies and good friends!x We were scrapping each uver in the 70's through football kinda...him 'Boro...me Cambridge!! The Soul scene United us and indeed many Boro/Cambridge folk that was good for all in Cambridgeshire during the 90's!x If it is you Paul...then are you up for the City Stop?!x You came as we came to the local gigs and DJ'd at them via the 9 Clubs and Cambridge Stompers too. Loads of lads/ladies from 'Boro piled in.....proper it was!x As I said above...it's City's last season....possibly...probably....maybe....likely going to Histon for a while until they have a new facility sorted . We could donate the proceeds to Citys Fans Trust...as I have done the Fred's Rap tune! I remember many happy 2ams playing footy on the pitch by moonlight as we left the City Stop!!....so nostalgia....and doing our bit for Community clubs in Cambridgeshire?!x I'd call it Peterboroughshre....but it ain't....hehe!x Hope all yours are well...X The lads on the trailer for the DVD are from Boro...where i say there's plenty of banter bit...they all knew you...I asked em!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

...you always smelt like the 80's....hehe!x Good clean guy u is Lenny....!x That microphone trick I showed u??!! It served me well all over the place right up until the V festival a couple of years back!!! I walked into Blackburn about 3am one morning.....saw Little Scotty and folk running around asking for headphones......I calmly walked into the room....put me bag/box down....walked over to the stage....several 'names' all rifling through boxes/bags looking for some.....walked up to the decks.....good friend Bob Hindsley was just going through his 'going blanc' routine which dogged him minutes before his set everytime....hehe....and pulled the faulty headphones out...and plugged the microphone in it.....init!x Everyone 'froze'...shock....looked....I smiled at them all....no words said....and went to get a drink.....! The party carried on....hehe!x Never used headphones in me life Len if you recall! I 'see' the music....wiv the lights! When you know every sound in that grooooove....it's easy!...I find!x If no lights...I can hear it when I 'scratch the record'...wiv me head close! 1 word of warning for those reading.......don't plug the mic into an output socket.....in ure panic! The ball blew off and drew blood on me ear once as a begiiner wiv headphones.....that's why I binned using em!x Hence my calmness....with experience!hehe!x @@ ~ Coming back Len???......erm....never left really! Done charity does over the years n stuff! DJ wise I have a few functions I get to play in the centre of Cambridge or other open air stuff around the UK and play vinyl from across me collection....including Northern of course! Do a gig in Amsterdam when it's Queens Day/Week end.....one looong week-end of music for me...enuff for a year! 10-20,000 get to hear me latest boot sale acquisitions!! Happy times!x I did a do at last New Year....or was it the year before! At a friends restaurant ...food included....and it finished at 6am in the morning when billed for 12.30am!!! Nobody in the room had been to an A/N in their lives....or had such an experience!!! All were 30-60 year old folk!! It's the nearest i've been to 'it' in 10 years!x It's the nearest the Indian waiters had been 'near' it too.....haha! I told them that a bunch of girls....30'-50 year olds were prostitutes......! The Boss...my mate....said he couldn't get the staff to work beyond 1am when organising it.........they were dancing to the Macerena and smooching to Ray Pollards The Drifter at 3am!! It was me Sister and her friends who 'entertained' them! I din't tell me Sister about why they were so 'accomodating' that night until 3 weeks later when it was her Birthday! I announced it at the family meal she'd organised......and her dinner went all down her dress.....hehehe!!!x I said i'd do a couple a year....they have Elvis...an Asian!!...who does a great job a couple of times each year too! Unfortunately...i've been too busy to book a date! The Gaffas call me each month since to see if I can do another.......and ask are those girls coming again..........! However...as for todays Northern scene...I have had many pms/E-mails....!Thank you all!!!x I don;t have 'time out' much these days....and perhaps I will take up some of the kind offers up.....for the craic!x If i'm doing some 'talking'...I better be seen to be doing the walking! If you remember mate.....nobody did more 'walking' than me to ensure we had the success we all did at the Maltings/St Ives! First to arrive....last to leave at every gig nationally!! Job done!x So...if there is a grand occasion to raise money for charity...then I would gladly giv up Time Team for it...yeah.....why not?!x But....no chance of promoting n stuff.....apart from when The Zoots Collective get a spot at the V....or the next Olympics or summink!!!hehe!x There is this 1 last opportunity beckoning tho' Len! The City Stop! Cambridge City FC are moving...ground being demolished after this season! The venue is open until June! I have spoken with the manager of the venue now...and he only has a few Fridays available until June! You were a part of that 5 year success story....sold out rammed every month. Looads of DJ's went through it and many got their first chances there too as an 'away' gig. It attracted over 700 members at it's peak...Cambridge Stompers! Considering all of that 'happening'....I was thinking....should we do 1 last 1??? We'd pack it no probs....Cambridge still has an active scene with doo's regular since i quit! Many are Soulies who were hard core at The City Stop through the 90's! What do you think? U up for it? I could call Shifty if his Lordship is still giving me his pleasure!!hehe!x Only need 100 to make it happen....that's no problem....but....I would love to fill it with 100+ ex City Stoppers....if at all poss...if I...we...did it! We wouldn't have a time restriction as such either......they is pulling the place down afterwards......!!!x What do you reckon?!x You up for it John...Kings Lynn John?!x...I got kit sitting around still!!!x Let me know Len...or any other reading this who was part of that venue! It would be a shame if we didn;t do 1 last one....like a school re-union....I learnt much there as did u obviously!!hehe!x My Northern had consisted of my mates 100 tunes going back to 1974 on 4 tapes! That was it until 1993...and the City Stops DJ's...you included....teached me loads!!!Thanx...X Bud Harper....never heard it until u played it! Rob...That's My Girl.....which I knicked and took natiownide and had success with it everywhere! DJ's from over 30 Soul Clubs from around the nation came there as 'guests'! Super stuff! A school of learning it was....fancy going back to see how ugly we all is 15 years later???!!!??!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X .....u ain;t seen this mong have yer???....!hehe!x ...I felt safe at the City Stop. Fudge never used to get in me face until after we left there. We'd jump in the bus.....17 of us...and go to the 100 Club....he;'d flick paper and matchsticks at me all the way down the M11. I'd avoid him before me spot by mingling and dancing.....and then as I go on stage....a tap on the shoulder...i'd turn around...and 'Soots....YOUR SHI*E' would bellow in me lug hole....for inspiration. 7 years he did that. It dented me confidence i assure you!x @@ ~ Here's the promo for the Togetherness DVD Len...i've put it in the other thread in 'sales' Forum....but as this is being read too...i'll put t here!x Nice 1 Len...let me know if ure up for it ok!x

No apologies folks...the tunes have had to come down as i'm sure you can understand from a Commercial aspect! I understand perfectly....but....as said....wanted to pay me respects to the 'hard core' before the masses got it all!!x I've whacked together a 'trailer' to give you an idea of sorts as to what's on the DVD! All done on Movie maker as i'm not at me production office for a few days to do it 'proper'! However....this ain't about glamour and gloss or image for me.....it's personal. it's about trying to carry the music on and appealing to new audiences who take music serious enough to want to know the background.....and end up at a gig.....as a newbie. Simple as. ZombieBoy(Pete) and I also know that any of these tunes playing in a car will entertain Mam...Dad...son...daughter....and possibly get Grandchildren dancing and tapping....all at the same time. My first words to Pete when i heard the tunes he'd done was....'they unite generations'. Job done. Indeed the 2nd album is being done! As for the Togetherness vid...I've watched it for the first time in about 5 years....and it's timeless! The comment said by everyday names of DJ's and Soulies....is still valid today...and always will be....I reckon!x My production Company has made over 100 films in 13 years. Mainly in the entertainment/sport industry. It is tho' in essence just a front for us to use covertly to expose...pursue....capture....and imprison peedo's and protectorets of peedo's within Local Authorities/Social Services Nationwide. No different to the recent BBC/Savile story. Difference is....we would have nailed the modern Execs who continued the cover up! We've been 'at it' for 10 years.....or I have....since partnering a Solicitors practice here in Cambridge. In that 10 years....since making this vid....we've ensured over £4 million compensation has been awarded to over 400 victims.....in 3 seperate cases....in Cambridgeshire alone. Since the BBC outing.......the phones have gone maaaaad. You can read more about it all at www.matso.tv/equal.html Click Keith Laverack icon. Like with music....I have an independent approach and it has been effective. Point is.....whatever footage...film....or event i've been involved in.....none of the productions came anywhere near as enjoyable as making this 'off the cuff' one as we did this night in 2003! It was a night off!!!!x I asked questions that I never got the chance to ask throughout my 7 years of activeness around the UK. I got answers....and feelings expressed....that you won't hear anywhere else! Chris King and I arrived on the scene 'together' in the early 90's. Him as a kind of come back after his Commercial successes....and me as a 'newbie'. For 7 years....he never spoke to me on the occasions we shared decks/venues. I even DJ'd at Bretby which he and others kicked off again....and loved every moment of it! 2 HUGE personalities.....I understood...so did he...and we never crossed words or attitude. This interview was the first time we'd ever spoken....and it was natural...and we've been friends ever since. It's good to talk!x I will pop back before the final DVD is available to update you all. There is some discussions to be had and friends to talk too before it's all finalised....but whatever we end up with for you.....it'll be worth it...I reckon!x Thanx for reading....and for keeping 'The Faith'....X LUV SOOTY X https://youtu.be/leJzCNWSyTo I looked thru me tunes......and the ender for the credits on this trailer....epitomises my experience in here with YOU all....THANK YOU...X I will be in touch Dave/Chalky....thanx again......XX....ooops...and if u see Fudge...or anyone does.....tell him u've never heard of me....and he's a tw********t.......hehe!x......now where's me pills.......... @@

...and we have a winner for the fun quiz above!! 19 entry's wrong to date....but the first one right is Deb & Storky from Daventry!x Well done and as soon as the DVD is done we will send you 5 copys with pleasure!x Thanks to the 20 who took part for the craic!x LUV SOOTY X ....ooops....there are 53 Northern titles featured in the flyer!!x I had to count it 5 times to make sure...and i made the flippin thing!!!hehe!x Have a great week-end all..X @@ ~

...double post....I better take me pills....!x @@ ~ X

...it's called endorphine Pumkinseed!x I had an overactive thyroid removed in 2004. I take 2 pills a day as a replacement....but.....if i don;t take them...after 2 days....i'm launched! In essence...I stop taking a drug to get a natural high!!!! Bottle that bu**er and we'd be Billionaires Rodders!!!hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...i've caught Bass in the Florida glades in me time....but never knew about the Pumpkinseed.....nice 1!x Here's a ditty we've done for an advert due to be broadcast in May/June...but can't say which...or what.....contractual bo**ox.... ....for when u get ure rod and line out.....Captain....hehe!x