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On MixCloud you can then pick best shows from such as Solar Radio, Starpoint Radio etc. There are loads of great new releases shows there too dependent on your taste - if you check out the websites for those, then check Mixcloud for the shows you like the sound of - there will be loads there that can be downloaded ready.

I've had the misfortune to be interviewed on R4 a couple of times and what you hear is a tiny edit. You speak with a researcher first who takes notes and feeds them on. The interviewer has seen that, but often has little knowledge or interest in the actual subject unless close to them (to be fair, they cover a lot of subjects doing a daily show), it's just filling 5 minutes and trying to find an angle. They also know in many situations their audience has passing interest at best, nobody ever checks back for detail accuracy normally. My most recent interview was ended when I wouldn't give them anything scandalous or confirm their line towards muck raking. They didn't want truth, just an angle that would perpetuate the subject and fill time - BBC is now like them all in needing social media clicks. All the other interviewees had ducked out based on the researcher questioning beforehand. It's not worth scrutinising a segment too much.

Great music from the early days. One of those artists where you'd trust the name if you didn't know the actual song first.

A useful article: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/archive-of-contemporary-music-save-3-million-records-digital-streaming https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/16/archive-of-contemporary-music-new-york?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other There have been some useful other articles about ARC specifically too. One thing I find interesting is that the mega rich music upper tier of the industry, including artists do not solve this themselves - which they could without noticing.

Yes I remember it well. If my recall is right, it was from this very early one: https://www.discogs.com/release/892917-Various-The-Essential-Northern-Soul-Story

Of relevance to reading this thread, the Ace label put out two pre Family Stone CDs 'Precious Stone' and 'Listen to the Voices' of Sly's songwriting and production work that are still available. The earlier 'LA Happening' release on their Kent label is essential of course.

He has just put out an autobiography with some related interviews online.

I just don't hear any Soul in it at all, but that's true of other songs too.

Curtis is an artist I had to have everything he did and keep it close to me. I bought his biography and couldn't bring myself to read it in case it put me off. I try to get all the back catalogue of an artist and keep buying their new releases, but Curtis was even more vital with Stevie and a few others.

I've got a few Amp Fiddler albums and mixes, that's sad news. Who knew he was on those songs too.

Donny Hathaway's This Christmas was in mind earlier.

Well well! The Dancing Slipper....less than a mile from my house and our son lives around the corner. It's now a language training school but was my Mod haunt in the 1980s, great for dancing and underage drinks... ahem...... if you went then, we know each other. Lots of tales. It was definitely open as a venue in the 1980s and 1990s. I even went for a carvery dinner there to see Edison Lighthouse (who was never a real band so...????) as a big group about ten years ago. I don't really know why we were there. It was on its last legs as a venue by then. It was also the venue for a key Tubby Hayes live album too as shown above. There is still a small but thriving West Bridgford jazz scene that continues through from 1950s-60s. I have not seen any other Dancing Slipper R&B related releases which I would get. One thing I have to correct living here, it's West Bridgford (ah that's better, just let me have that one). Yes the Brit / Boat are half a mile up the road at Trent embankment and in other direction is wonderful architecture of The Test Match pub. Dancing Slipper, King John, the underground Beerkeller now gone (saw a line up of Dr Feelgood there and I was dancing on the table), Hand and Heart, Hearty Goodfellow, Thurland Arms - loads of ace venues and Soul/Mod places. There used to be crowds hanging around Thurland Arms on a Sunday Night every week - we'd go just to be around everyone with Rob playing music even in winter. Fun times. Anything needed on Dancing Slipper etc - just let me know. My old blog here might be of interest around the intersection of British jazz, Soul, R&B, Mod, Ivy League clothes, design, architecture, Nottingham, London etc: https://squareendknittedtie.tumblr.com/ - I haven't updated in ages but it still seems to be up, including the pictures. It looks like the categories I tagged the posts with still work too. PS Cecil Gee has the profile, but it was Austin's on Shaftsberry Avenue where the musician crowd also started to go (Not to be confused with Austin Reed on Regent St back then, Austin's was an independent who imported from USA.) It was where Charlie Watts went, then where Clapton and Townshend first met. John Michael was even better but expensive and away at King's Road, he opened Sportique on Old Compton Street. I can write about men's fashion of that time for ages - Sam Arkus, Vince, Blades, Que, the original Ivy Shop in Richmond etc. It's all at the blog linked above. I reached out and got to know a load of the people involved in the clothes trade from that time and asked them their reccollections. Paul Smith was an old Nottingham Mod mate of a boss from the 90s who was still sharp and became a friend. They used to go to the Poly ballroom orginally before Dungeon etc got popular. You may see me on a Christmas ale 'All Dayer' at Central Avenue here in WB next week, it's a wonderful place to drink. Any other of us 'local?' Feel free to contact directly.

If they are sold they are indisputedly illegal and to me the DJ should be called out. It is totally unacceptable and they know what they are doing.

I find it fairly mediocre, am I alone? The intro is easy to do on a guitar.

Great music,also see The Sextones too for a similar feel

Wonderful reading.

Expansion is issuing the albums mentioned in the title on CD as 2-for-1s. Most notable is the first album which has been hard to get and not reissued until now - mine is a Japanese CD that while good sounding seems off vinyl and is legally dubious at best. SimplySoul has them to preorder for 8th December.

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On the digital version available at Qobuz this is in 24bit quality and sounds wonderful. Their artist compilations of those on the above release are also excellent. Being a now rare, legal download service you can also pick the songs of your choosing from the single artist compilations. Ed Crook also has the wonderful Northern Soul dancer on the b-side to That's Alright available too. It's really worth digging into Numero at Qobuz.

To ease into venues - it may be worth listening back to Richard Searling's shows on Mixcloud. He often does ones related to specific venues. Back in his BBC local radio days, he would mix the songs with interviews from DJs and people who went, which I always found nice. Colin Curtis and Ian Levine have Mixcloud shows for Blackpool Mecca of course too (but some of that will be at the Modern/funky end of Northern Soul you may be less interested in). There's a lot there to be found at Mixcloud. I heartily recommend Chalky's that he mentioned before.

It maybe worth searching discogs and looking at track listing on venue themed CDs and LP compilations. Also there are a load of Northern Soul history books, now very cheap online that provide such lists

With a more casualised Northern Soul experience emerging where some people just want to hear the songs, there may be growth of this in parallel with the existing scene (perhaps to the ire of those longer into the music). I don't think they look to the established scene at all, just play some music while socialising. How does it work on the Southern based parallel soul scene with their boat cruises etc - is that off source format or digital? It's hard to think forward a decade or two and envisage who the younger DJs are that will be able to afford the vinyl that will be sold at high prices. With two sons in their twenties, they have so many demands on their finances and education debts that I cannot see how the vinyl will transition into the hands of a next generation (at commercial rates).

We could argue The Joker, even Frankie Crocker aren't stellar musical productions - but they are all in the weird and wonderful history now. I don't want to edit Northern Soul, it genuinely covers the sublime to the ridiculous.