Mark Jones

He did a pretty good live version on my 21st too!

Bloody hell it was Hinckley then...wonder why i never made the nighter (weird as what at most of them)..long time ago sure I had my reasons! Probably female reasons!...alldayer was Razamatazz (formerly Jollees)...alldayer nothing to write home about but the Major was fantastic! Privelaged to see him at my tender age of 18 at the time! jonesy

Have asked myself in the past!...still waiting!

A few I think...i still am one! Not Strowger for a few years though lol

I best put people out of their misery...the picture is from Aug '83 (I was 19) but I saw Major Lance at the Razamatazz (formerly Jollee's caberet club) Alldayer in Stoke in that year (could possibly have been late 82...pretty sure early 83 though ...memory fading). The Major had done an allnighter before the alldayer...don't think it was Hinckley leisure centre (Maybe Bradford Queens Hall?) I know for whatever reason I couldn't make the nighter and used to go to Hinckley a lot (rictic revue etc) so i'm thinking it wasn't Hinckley Anyhow for whatever reason I had to settle on the dayer....remember they were both Chris Burton promotion events a la Major and Torch connection. The Major did a great performance with his unmistakeable dulsic tones. Happy days

No way I was 9! lol

Just a bit of fun! Had to laugh (oh that bad hair and baby face)..just found this photo of me on a Post Office Telephones (yes there's a clue-before it became BT) Training course at Bletchley Park (no I wasn't decoding the enigma machine, not quite that old!...but did see it) It was on what was known as a Strowger Telephone Exchange Course...the days when phone calls were routed using relays and electromagnets and not Transistors and chips! T shirt long gone but do you remember the year and where I may have bought it?

Tell me where ..I'll travel!!

Cleaned pic up for you a bit mate...too much time on my hands!

Ditto mate...but you already knew that! Listening to podcast 3 I'm back there again! Great hearing Otil Leavill I'm amazed again...such a cheapie still too! A few more for you from my channel!

Right click on link (where it says podcast) and click "save target as" (if you are using internet explorer) same but "save link as" if using mozilla firefox

When it's Guitar Ray I reckon...then again not adverse to a bit of Howlin' Wolf!

Finally got around to putting the cleaned up version on DVD for you Tommo....hopefully should have arrived with you today! Jonesy

Nice respect Dave! Get well soon Keith..all the best from Lord Hill in Shrewsbury

One on soulbeat for £15 https://www.soulbeat.co.uk/presta/product.php?id_product=381

Working on it now mate....Loughborough Town hall CESC...'88.....not sure how it will turn out but will do my best!; Thanks for posting to me!

Still got the moves mate! Working on the Leicester DVD for you as I type!

In case you don't know, If you want a personal copy of stuff I've posted on the tube to put on your media player or to play on your DNLA enabled TV etc it's quite easy to download the stuff I've already uploaded to the tube. Just google youtube downloader hd that'll do the job

Oooh I forgot to mention Sean Gibbon's Morecombe Central Pier do's too (before the pier burnt down) another awesome 80's nighter! Can we dismiss the myth forever that Northern died in the 80's please!!!

Apologies mate...must read the posts properly! Didn't realise 'soul over easy' was your good self! Get in touch mate will make sure I get the "new improved" Leicester video to you mate...in whatever format you wish...DVD or whatever. Not quite HD like we are all used to these days, but hopefully an improvement on the original. Enjoy the Kings hall mate. Jonezy

There's a few guys on the video who I knew very well at the time but senior moments and early dementure I've forgotten their names. I'll post up stills and hopefully you can help me out...it may be you!

Welcome

Not going to Kings Hall myself....saving myself for Errol Green's do at Whitchurch Archibold Worthington Club on 29th! But let Tomo know about the thread....think the Leicester video has become quite iconic "Northern Soul visually wise". Only second to the This England Casino documentary I reckon and Tomo is the star! lol. Which is amazing in itself as only a semi professional video rather than a TV production.

hee hee...if he wants one (for free) I'll get one to him anyway...postage cheaper to Notts than Oz!

I see Tomo has emigrated to Australia....weird that as I've booked November off to go to Aussie Northern Soul Nationals in Melbourne in November later this year...not been since last nationals were in Melbourne 5 years ago...be happy to take a copy of the "technicolour Oddfellows" video along with me if he's attending.