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Muchas gracias ! Mike 👍🎶🎶

I wouldn't sign up for a course in Media or Cultural exchange Toad. It'd just be a waste of your parent's money. You'd be more productive in penning aural and photographic history from the Afro American artist's worshipped by disenfranchised citizens of UK. I feel the excluded find the Black American experience is a magnified and eloquent articulation of what is felt. Thus the feelings of empathy. The artists need people like yourself to give the 'subcultculture' context and platform in the UK necessary to get Arts Counsil funding. Blah blah blah.

It has been 'studied seriously' by the people who have driven the scene for the last 50 years, otherwise it wouldn't exist. Pre-internet, it was very difficult to find out anyrhing about anything unless you put in the effort. It's a bit rich to be told by academics that it deserves to be studied seriously now that others have put in all the work and it's all out there in the public domain. But I suspect that rather than the depth of knowledge and research that has taken place on the music, you are talking about 'studying seriously' 20-30 year old modern day hipsters, wearing daft 70s clothes...

Hi Dave Rimmer, Sorry to hear that you were not able to catch anyone on the launch date. Myself and Beth Kane (the photographer) were running around all over the place. However, please do let me know if you ever have the time to visit again as I would very much like to meet you to discuss the exhibition. I am the curator and researcher for 'All Beause of You'. In terms of your review, indeed at least 8 of the portraits were taken at events, including the Blackpool weekender in November and The Night Owl in Digbeth. In order to get past the stereotypical expectations of Northern Soul, we were instead interested in the lives of these young poeple, asking to photograph them in places that meant something to their scene experience. We also wanted to show the variety and breadth of Soul fans in terms of style. The venue wall was to give an idea of the types of places that host events. The records were indeed mostly represses as I was not prepared to store original vinyl in such a public place and did not wish to ask any of my DJ/record collector friends to put their collection at risk. These records were illustrative only. Whilst this exhibition is a one off, I would welcome any support from my friends who were happy to offer their records up for a short time for any future events. The text boards represent brief but concise summaries of my doctoral research. This is ongoing and focuses on the experiences of the younger generation (32 and younger), so whilst some of the information may read as incorrect it represents the ways in which young people of the scene make sense of their engagement. However, I would be very interested to hear your comments in person, so please do let me know if you are ever back in Birmingham. I am not an expert in Northern Soul, but I hope to learn a lot about young poeple within the scene. This is only possible through the time and knowledge that they have offered me, and my own experiences at events. Whilst I am interested in the experiences of these younger members, I have also had some excellent conversations with Soul fans of all ages who have made me see Northern Soul in a different and interesting way. Please do contact me through Soul Source messaging with any comments or suggestions. Media and cultural research is the study study of Media texts (such as films, TV, adverts. radio, music etc) and the communities that develop around them. Along with popular music studies it is a new area of academia, but essential to valuing what was previously rejected by academics as lacking in depth. In studying music scenes, we say that they are important to both the people who are part of them and also for wider society. Music such as northern soul is central to the lives of many people, and such should be studied as seriously as any other aspect of life. - I hope that helps!

That's kind of you Manus. I'm glad you and others appear to have enjoyed it especially given we hadn't had much time to prepare for the show and basically made it up as we went along. As you know Adrian Corbin is an old hand at the radio and makes it easy. Here is the track listing . Once I've edited out the commercial breaks I can make it available for anyone who's interested (contact me off-line): Tommy Tate Playlist The Big A.C. Show R Uckfield 23/1/2017 You Taught Me How To Love – (Sundance) Ordinarily (ABC) I’m Taking On Pain (Okeh) Lovers’ Plea – Blues Busters (Doctor Bird) Stand By Me – Imperial Show Band (featuring Tommy Tate) (Big Ten) Darling, Something’s Gotta Give as Tommy Yates (Verve) If You’re Looking For a Reward as Tommy Yates (Verve) Happy Is The Man (as Andy Chapman) (Atco) Let Us Be Heard (A Prayer For Peace) – (Jackson Sound) Get Your Money Where You Spend Your Time – Frank Bey (Blue Dot CD You Don’t Know Nothing) This is a Perfect World – Staple Singers – (Stax) Just A Little Overcome – Nightingales ftg Tate – (Stax) I Don’t Want To Be Like My Daddy – Nightingales ftg Tate Help Me Love – Isaac Hayes (Enterprise LP Black Moses) School Of Life (Ko Ko) If You Got To Love Someone (Ko Ko) How Sweet It Would Be - George Perkins – (Soul Power) All That Shines Ain’t Gold – Luther Ingram (Ko Ko) This Train (Juana LP Tommy Tate) What Gives You The Right (Sundance) Everything Out In The Open - Johnnie Taylor (Malaco LP In Control) The End Of The World (Sundance)

RIP. Love his music. Personal fav:

I've got all the 1966 tracks, and playing on my show. Please check out radio forum ..The Soulful Shack Thanks

Look on the bright side they could have given you a functional cowboy set & you might still be in jail.

Merry Christmas & A Happy & prosperous New Year to one and all [now where's my pressies]. I'm led to believe one must look underneath a tree of some kind. Not as easy as you'd think, I can't find my one present in the midst of my wife's plethora [Christmas word of the day ]of presents, oh to be popular.

Very very sad video. Northern Soul the movie is a bag of shite!. Fantastic soundtrack tho.

Merry Christmas & A Happy & prosperous New Year to one and all [now where's my pressies].

Happy Holiday total all S.S . amigos (especially Tattoo Dave ,my kind of guy!) LOL Johnny Hart ,Malaga

Very nice Steve!

getting out of hand now prices are ridiculous

Wishing everyone on SoulSource and across the wider Soul scene every health and happiness for Christmas and the new year from the two of us in a very stormy 80mph on the Beaufort scale 'Storm Barbara' 600 feet above sea-level on the top of this Cornish hill! Best wishes!

Merry crimbo to all who know me and them that don't your missing out big love to all sourcers and messy crimbo X baz

Thanks, "RECORD" button duly pressed.

------- ricky.

Prices are erm...steep

Great to see all her stuff together, well done Ady.

Only just read this as not been on here for a while. Saw her at Manchester Ritz a few years ago..great performer and awesome voice. So sad and gone way to soon...RIP Sharon...you'll be very missed.

I feel very sad about the news and i'm really shocked, since she just had survived the cancer, ready for her comeback as told in the documentary movie. I met her in person after a show and when she saw that i'd just bought the "Condition"-single, it was HER idea to sign it with an autograph (i did not dare to ask for that). It felt very strange to the her autograph on it when i played it today...

"She didn't want to stop singing" Her last days told by Gabriel Roth : https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-sharon-jones-gabriel-roth-last-days-20161119-story.html

Such horrible news - one of my favourite artists! No one like her!

Very sad R.I.P sharon jones xx baz n shelly