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With over 100 events this week it can at times be a bit of a scroll fest when finding events in our guide To try and assist you we have added, along side our 'local near me' feature, a new 'Weekly Map View' popup feature. Now every weekly event page be it, the index page for all events, or alldayers, or soul nights, live events etc and be it this week, or next week, or the week after, last week and so on... ...all now have a built in popup weekly view map, that shows all the events happening that week Just tap the below link and you get the below popup tap to zoom in Your weekend check just got a bit easier? Let us know... Event Guide link https://www.soul-source.co.uk/events/

A new comp album release from Barely Breaking Even (BBE) Music available via vinyl, Cd and stream The Craig Charles Trunk Of Funk Vol. 3 Release notes clip Craig’s latest collection, his tenth in total, like all the previous releases has been curated in partnership with his long time compilation collaborator Greg Boraman of IMPRESS!VE Collective Music & Arts and blends up-tempo club classics, with fresh music from the cream of the crop from the contemporary soul and funk scene with a smattering of old school classics. Tracks 01. Mercy (Smoove Remix)- The Third Degree 02. In The Morning – Say She She 03. Somebody Help Me Out (Boogie Back Radio Mix) – Beggar & Co 04. Rendezvous – Sai Galaxy 05. Starlight (Radio Edit) – Dave Lee, Omar 06. LYB (Love You Better) (The Waz Exclusive Trunk Of Funk Remix) – Kylie Auldist 07. I Don’t Mind (Mr. Lex Trunk of Funk Remix) – Lexsoul Dancemachine 08. I Thought It Was You (Live) – Sunlightsquare 09. Watchu Want (Exclusive Trunk of Funk Vocal Version) – The New Mastersounds 10. God’s In Control – The Harlem Gospel Travelers 11. Ain’t No Good (But It’s Good Enough For Me) – Sister Cookie 12. Gonna Lift You Up – Sugaray Rayford 13. Shake (2022 Remaster) – Kaz Hawkins 14. Big Time – The Nextmen 15. Prophet – La Rochelle Band 16. Power (A.Skillz Remix) – The Niceguys 17. Trust Me – Sly Johnson 18. Day in Day Out – Cotonete 19. Tarzan – Roy Ayers 2 x 12" Vinyl Album - £30.00 CD Album)- £14.00 More info via https://bbemusic.com/product/the-craig-charles-trunk-of-funk-vol-3 Listen/stream/buy https://orcd.co/craigcharlestof3

Details of an upcoming photo book due out very soon below along with a connected exhibition in Bristol 'Photographs of the northern soul scene in the 1990s by Elaine Constantine are the subject of a new book, published by RRB Photobooks, and exhibition at the Martin Parr Foundation. The photographs, many seen here for the first time, were taken in venues including Manchester’s Ritz, London’s 100 Club, alongside smaller venues such as a lad called Steve’s kitchen. ' RRB Photobooks, July 2024 Softcover, Kraftpak printed card 22 x 24.5 cm 64 pages First Edition including 100 Special Edition copies with limited edition 10x8" print in card slipcase Text by Richard Benson ISBN: 9781738516346 Pre-Order £22 | £95 Special Edition RRP: £25 | £125 Special Edition This work will be on display at Martin Parr Foundation 11 JUL - 22 SEPT 2024, and from a new publication published by RRB Photobooks. All pre-orders will be signed and dispatched from mid July. Full info and more via the RRB Photobooks website link below https://rrbphotobooks.com/products/im-comun-home-in-the-mornun I’m Com’un Home In The Morn’un By Elaine Constantine - Martin Parr Foundation - Bristol - 11 Jul to 22 Sept 2024 Large exhibition prints will be on display in the MPF gallery alongside ephemera from the era. Exhibition Party - Thu 11 July, 6-8pm Join photographer Elaine Constantine and the MPF team for an evening of photography and discover the northern soul scene of the 90s to launch I’m Com’un Home In The Morn’un. Complimentary drinks will be available from local Bristol brewery Lost and Grounded. FREE event, sponsored by Lost and Grounded. https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/exhibitions/im-comun-home-in-the-mornun/

Had the below press release passed on from label founder Eric Foss: Secret Stash Records now taking pre-orders for 250 unit hand numbered limited edition Bull & The Matadors 7" Hailing from East St. Louis, Illinois, Bull & the Matadors consisted of James Lafayette “Bull” Parks (born June 7, 1945), Milton Hardy, James Otis Love, and Robert Holmes. In 1968 they made the trek 4 hours Northeast to work with the legendary Leaner family and their Toddlin’ Town label. At that time the zany NBC-TV comedy program Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In was at its ratings zenith. One of its most popular sketches was a hilarious courtroom vignette that revolved around the punchline “Here comes the judge.” The judge was portrayed by Pigmeat Markham, a chitlin’ circuit comic who had made the routine famous at the Apollo Theatre. Pigmeat cashed in on the craze by cutting a full-fledged soul dance number logically titled “Here Comes The Judge” for Chess. Not to be outdone, Motown’s Shorty Long donned his own white wig and belted a different song by the same title for the label’s Soul subsidiary. Both entered the R&B charts that June, and both peaked at #4. Meanwhile, Toddlin’ Town writer/producer Andre Williams along with Leo Hutton cooked up their own Rowan & Martin tie-in, “The Funky Judge,” and got new Toddlin’ Town recruits, Bull & the Matadors to give it their own spin. Nationally distributed by Florence Greenberg’s Scepter Records in New York, “The Funky Judge” crashed the R&B hit parade at the end of August in 1968 and sailed all the way up to #9 R&B and #39 pop over the next three months, proving there was plenty of life in the judge routine yet. Despite the song’s excellent showing for the scrappy little label, the Leaner family chose not to issue the sequel “Where Did The Judge Go,” recorded that December... until now that is! According to Secret Stash founder, Eric Foss, “Both of these tracks, including the unissued side, were supposed to be on our Toddlin’ Town compilation. Sadly that project was permanently shelved over a songwriter/publisher dispute. Thankfully, however, these tracks were not part of that dispute and we are still able to get this unreleased tune pressed up for those who want it.” Bull And The Matadors’ “Funky Judge” B/W “Where Did The Judge Go'' is available exclusively at secretstashrecords.com. The hand numbered limited edition (only 250 units) 7” records will ship July 12, but preorders are now open. More info, images and purchase options via https://secretstashrecords.com/