Greedy Mick

Only one word... WOW. Hopefully this won't bore anyone reading this, my Dad was born 1918 and having been conscripted in the 2nd world war as a Military Police Man he landed in Normandy on June 7th, D DAY plus one. He spent the next 4 years in Europe and because of what he saw and did he said so very little. If it wasn't for my Mother I wouldn't have known that he was one of the people who liberated Belson Bergen. But of the the few things he told me, lol like guarding a distillery of Calvados in France.. I always remember him describing seeing coloured lights in the sky (don't know where in Europe he was at the time) But he and his friends were dumbstruck as they had no idea what they were seeing, they even thought they were something Hitler had invented.!!!! Although now with Internet etc we all know about the northern lights...

Finding all of this really interesting, thanks for posting. Learning new stuff every day. Have an old celestrion astromaster to look at moon and planets but really interesting about the Sun especially the size of it , it's almost hard to comprehend.. thanks again

Thanks for putting this up, I'd forgotten I have it currently listening to it now

Thank you, did not know that, love this site for all the info people have, 😀

Sorry if I have it wrong someonetold me that im your your Pimp was Album only and the 45 was a reissue? If wrong I stand corrected. I know my hang up with you is a 45 as have one of those..

Marlena Shaw I just want this feeling to last. Skullsnaps I'm your Pimp/All of a sudden ( same album) Willie Hutch lucky to be loved by you These are 3 I have that I can think of, off the top of my head.

I know these aren't Wigan instrumentals but still enjoy listening to Detroit strings in the pocket and lord Sitar and the Baltimore marching band ( can't remember what name Gary Rushbrooke introduced it as ? ) We now know as Forest fire on main street, by Gasoline powered clock. Big oddfellows and Stafford instrumentals

They were especially as they seemed to be collected from the chemist's on the way to a niter... prescription obviously 🙄

I still like instrumentals, can never remember the words though. 🤔

So so sad met Ted mid 80s and again when I got back into the scene after my divorce.. I will always remember him firstly for playing requests for my Son Kevin as he got into the scene and also sounds I pressured him to play with Ted having dance floor doubts.. 1st the traditions twinkle little star and little Willie faulks look into my heart at a nighter in Kettering which both filled the floor, thank you Ted x But for me the best memory is of my first spot in the back room of rugby and I dedicated my copy of Mac Staten to Ted and he threatened to hit me with his walking stick and run off with my copy... Will miss you Ted thanks for being a great bloke, great dj and a great gardener. Love and prayers to your family and friends. Mick and Kevin x x x

I totally agree. My 1st niter as a 15 year old was 1980, I'm now 60 and all my peers and artists are a lot older and of course we will lose them, it's so so sad and painful 😒 but it is what life is 😪😪 But the most important thing is that we have lived and danced that music and we will remember it always and take it to our own graves. Sadly I know but truthful x x

I've wanted a pages for ages. Gave up at 500.. can't believe the final price..

And get all us unfit soulie pensioners fit and healthy, maybe if she did this she would get paid by national health service 🤔 🙄 and dwp 🤣😂

Wow I'm gobsmacked I love to watch a busy dancefloor with everyone doing their own moves but all in time with the beat and tempo changes etc. Surely if this is the new thing northern soul line dancing will be the next thing. 😁

Please stay strong and enjoy life as much as possible.. as we get older we all have things to get through . I'm lucky no prostate problems . But diagnosed with acute heart failure.. I wish you all the best wishes I can. But I think we have to remember that we are all getting older and our health is not what it was.. but in our minds we are still in our teens / 20's 😆. I went to my 1st niter in may 1980 I was 15 . And have had 45 years of fun.. I will go to my grave with northern in my ears 👂 Do I regret a Moment... never!!! northern has been my life along with my twin son's Please stay positive Mick

Ha,,,, I've broken ribs in the past. And yes laughing is not funny

Wow, thank you 😊.. my sister used to go to the night owl nighters in Leicester in the 1960s. I grew up listening to soul and motown from her room etc.. and post wigan as a Leicester lad the oddfellows, hinckley and Loughborough were my local niters. Thank you for sharing. It is amazing how much this music means to us. It's probably something that you can't explain to people who have never experienced it...

I'm probably a youngster on the site, not 60 till May.. Been diagnosed with a fatal illness got 50 percent chance of another 5 years ( Do not want sympathy as it is what life decides) Can't participate in niter aids again and trust me with my nickname that is the most difficult thing. Only have an occasional pint of real ale or glass of barossa shiraz. But what I find helps me above anything is listening to the sounds that we love and grew up with.. sometimes they bring a tear to my eyes but they are happy tears of years gone by.. I am so glad that I discovered this scene as a 12 year old and Can't believe that after 48 years It means so so much ✊️ So to the Northern soul scene of 81 onwards up until today the biggest thank you 😊 Greedy

great spot, nice to hear walking by.

I'd be at Leicester Oddfellows 1st. Stafford 2nd. Leighton buzzard 3rd 100 club 4th Cleethorpes winter gardens 5th Bring back the memories.. These are the memories I would love to visit again from the 80s..

On Billy Fran.. Never managed to get one of these, one of my favourite 60s newies, along with Oscar Perry face reality

Or the same j j Jackson who recorded let the show begin on prelude?

Sorry I didn't realise that the Mecca wasn't a niter, my apologies for getting it wrong.

I was born in 1965 , was lucky enough to go to the casino a few times, although preferred the Saturday nights with Richard and Gary playing sounds that were new to me. Either new releases or sounds I didn't know.. Rather than the Friday night oldies allnighters .. Then was lucky to go to so many niters all over the country. My fave 3 are Oddfellows Stafford Leighton Buzzard ( just for the tables) lol then so many to mention in no particular order Cleethorpes winter gardens, morecambe pier , rock city, bradford, 100 club Peterborough,Blackburn, Loughborough, queen's hall, St Ives. Plus many more I haven't listed.. Then after being married and having children etc I got back into niters and then Rugby, Coalville, Ibstock, Blackhearts, Sheffield, Dark horses etc 😇 I know that I wasn't old enough to go to Blackpool mecca, the torch, but the one place I wish I'd been old enough to attend was the Talk of the North niters at Cleethorpes pier. Which if any do you wish you had been able to attend??

Very sad news. Great bloke & Great dj. Condolences to his family and close friends 🧡. Another one gone too soon to that big allnighter in the sky. R I P. Phil x x