ImberBoy

The Blackpool dance comp is soooooooooooo bad it's good! It has to be thee most cringingly embarrassing moment in Northernsoul history ever!

can the Mods please tell me why this subject has been moved? It surley isnt the only ever threrad that has a youtube clip in? I was asking a question about the scene in Japan and not "Have you all seen this crazee clip"????????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPqBfESmgek

Thats what I was tryin to say lol

If you could bottle your soul night and feed it intravenously to some of the other soul nights we would see an instant improvement in soul! I was amazed, refreshed, inspired and down right happy to see this diamond of a soul do shining in a bucket of shit. Barnsley, Saturday night and perched high above a trendy nuevo pub was a room filled with familiar faces from Wigan Casino, Canklow, School, the local area and Scooter Clubs, these are the people who by all accounts should be dancing to the "Snake" and being stuck firmly into the time space continuum created by their Casino past. Can middle-aged folk be trendy? Can the older soul night "Soulies" be progressive and knowledgeable? Well it seams as though there is a small yet strong enclave of soulful people out and about in Yorkshire, I can not begin to say how proud I am to have been there, and honest it was like finding sanity in the asylum. Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, sorry if I don't mention others but I have a theory that we have seen the cream float to the top and culture a new and pure soul, I am struggling to find the words for this because there are no clichs to describe the difference in this superb soul night and some of the many others who have been lazy or scared to evolve. There are soul nights out there who deserve the highest of accolades and this is one of them, yes we have an oil and water situation happening and the "reenactment crowd" aint gonna like what they hear, no that's not true because if a leap of faith is made then I am sure after some exposure a natural divvy vaccination will take effect, no you don't need a cure for Northernsoul but you do need a cure for "Northernsoul Repetition Disorder" and Doctor Soul is in da house! Sorry to the DJ's who I asked to play the "Snake", good answers yet "F*ck off" was not the most eloquent lol. Mega soul night and thank you for restoring my faith back in the manor. Having left this most excellent soul do me n Deka jumped into the car and headed towards Burnley, we parked the car and entered the do just as some bloke called Karl Herd took to the decks, well he may as well of been the Captain of the Star Ship Enterprise coz he took us to another dimension in soul, the dance floor was up for it and I can honestly say that I have never ever heard so many new records played in such quick secession with the quality of the classics, surely Mr Herd has sold his soul to the devil in exchange for this record box? It's not normal, it's not right and it's down right sexy n hot! I would love to see Sean Chapman double deck with Karl Herd, can any one make this happen? Andy? Northernsoul is still out there, you got to look n talk to people but more importantly ya gotta dive into the unknown the water aint cold I promise!

I wish I'd said that! Great analagy

Why on earth is it depressing chorleysoul? Bidds Nighter is on the 17th of October and Maxims Nighter is on 21st of November so its not all doom and gloom :-)

oooh thats good, I like it

"Bags o' smoke" lol hey didle didle straight down the middle ! aint war hell!

don't need a pint, I'm in me shreddies dancin like it was 19 ninty nineeeeeeeeeeeee Tom Jones rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh2z615MOcE&feature=player_embedded Is that it??

Too late

Have we gone full circle in Northernsoul? Are we failing as a music scene? Have we gone full circle in Northernsoul? Just been reading the posts about why we need DJ's, the great bun fight at Manifesto's Soul Night and Keb Darge - Scotland's Finest Export since Whiskey. It seams to me that we have different groups who seam unable, unwilling or even uneasy to hear new and unfamiliar tunes and one of these groups seam to be on the up and up, are these all the people who left the Northernsoul scene when it was pronounced dead after the Casino closed? I feel like I am about to paint my self into a corner but it is my personal opinion that we have a large group, who are now the majority, who stopped listening to Northernsoul after the casino and they have missed the third wave and a change in music when the likes of Richard Serling, Guy, Keb and Ady plugged away when all but the very faithful remained. Now I do not intend to take any high ground because I was there, I was at that age, too young for the Casino I was amongst the group who where, as it turns out, to be privileged to hear and absorb the newer sounds. I believe that the legacy of this gives a more open minded approach to Northernsoul and that is why the likes of Middleton and now Maxim's separates some groups like oil and water, this is the only tragedy of Northernsoul. Robbo once said to me that at the age of ten you have heard every sound you will ever hear and only the frequency will be different, but we were both off our tits at the time so this may well be bollox? I can honestly say that a stop you in your tracks record is rarer than hens teeth, you more than likely need to hear some thing a few times before it sits well in your mental duke box and I think this is why a certain group don't or wont listen and dance to new stuff, to say its all shit is just a cop out, most of the Northernsoul records sound shite when played cold, try it on a none soulie. If we are not carful we are going to become a pack of cats and dogs with those clinging to the likes of frank Wilson (nothing wrong with the track but the example stands) and the others who can and do want progressive new sounds. I saw this kind of thing happen in the early eighties on the scooter scene when the Southerners and the Northerners met to find their particular takes on Mod where as different as chalk n cheese. I also think that we have our fair share of shady promoters who just want to cram their venues with Soulies wearing baggy pants, no disrespect to baggy pants mind but you get my drift. (I do wear them from time to time) I also think some of you DJ's need to remember us dancers more and at least bring the tempo mid way when the floor needs it, I will dance to anything new, I have danced to some howlers but I have also danced to music that sounded as if it had come from heaven. Dj's stop blaming the audience and the audience stop blaming the DJ's, just dance and enjoy it1 Lets get back to our Northernsoul roots and stop holding on so desperately to the past, you can listen to the snake on the way home.

Helen Shapiro - Tell Me What He Said Any one playin this of late??

Alan I think your testicles are swolen mate? They look like fookin spacehoppers!!!

Thats the badger Toad!!!!! Mega many thanx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OsNxigAIvE

Didn't Richard Searling play these at the bum end of the Casino ?

ID needed please, here are the best of my recollection lyrics wise......... Papa whooo Papa whhoooo whoo Papa whooo Papa whhoooo whoo Here I am ...... commin at yer................... It's a 100mph stomper and an oldies record??? I will know it, and so will you, as soon as it is ID'd coz it's a well known???

I like it

I wish I had and I think many do miss the fact that they where too young or didnt go at the time but the spirit lives on

Superstar DJ here we go Itchin 4 a scratch mixin n messin I know we have many DJ's on here who have distinguished themselves in many genres, have any of you sampled or mixed and Northern tracks? If so let's hear em The only mixed track I know of is by Frank Popp Ensemble?

Soulman 1964, it takes a big man/woman to apologise. Just read the thread and I wish I had of been there! I am definitely coming to the next one, not for the bun fight but for a music policy that sounds as if it dares to break away from the same record box that is shared by most DJ's up and down the manor, I can't wait, hope its not just another soul night? Our Barney started a thread called "what do we have DJ's for?", not a bad read and one that poses some of the clich problems a small venue has, do they play safe and fill the venue to the rafters with Soulies singing and clapping along to all of their favorites they had just listened to via the CD player on the journey in? Or do they try to select a few DJ's who can give some thing a bit different to the norm, who knows these may become the next big thing? Yorkshire has always had a mega interest in Northernsoul but this play safe attitude of a beer and a dance is quite new and the play safe soul night is far away from the original concept of rare soul music in the north of England, I think we all need to decide what we want. I kinda suspect that some of the punters are expecting a Derby and Joan type experience rather that the original concept of hearing new music, please please please remember that the hallowed halls of the former glory days served up new and exiting music and any thing that entered into the norm was dropped like a hot potato. I am looking forward to this venue because I support Northernsoul in my beloved county, I hope I aint gonna walk into a place with a load of puddings sat with faces like slapped arses waiting for the "Snake". Here's a tip, before you go out say to your self that you are going to hear one or two well known's but you are going out there on a Northernsoul adventure to discover new sounds and to have a dance to new and hopefully exiting music, who knows the ear worm may take root and the unknown to you may well become your next bestest ever ever ever fave. Right can some one sling up the details of the venues location please, I will be coming with out lass from Penniston way, any one want any mutton? Bahhhhhhhhhhhhh

This is still avalible for under one hundred https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVgM7qeAlko

Mega, cant see much topping that

Any of the Hull lads remember Paddy and Kev Smith from Keyingham or Rocky from Leven near Beverley?