ImberBoy

Ed I agree to a point, the forum is the melting pot, not the "scene" I compare it to the Manchester United fans, some travel the length and breadth of the country to support the team while others watch on Sky Sports, who are the real fans? The answer is both but it is those on the terraces who take the high ground, like it or not. Banging away on a key board is not the fookin Northernsoul scene, it is no not not not not, never will be and never was any thing like! You of course still have an opinion, every one does, and I will listen (read) every ones BUT The opinion of one who has just walked off the dance floor covered in sweat from giving it large to a tune compared to some one sat on a office type chair eating a beef sandwich and surfing between "Hot Juggs" and "Youtube", well I'm with the dancer ever time. Oh and no you don't need to dance but you if we want to We can leave your friends behind 'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well they're no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind And we can dance Safety dance Is it safe to dance Is it safe to dance.

Love it!!!! LOL

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Barry you out tonight mate?

If you once was an avid football follower home games and the all important away matches enjoying all of the build up to the games ringing round, saving cash, planning meetings, juggling loved ones and responsibilities, car sharing, services breakfasts, bleary eyed Mondays, the thrill of strange and some times intimidating new places, then Kudos to you! If you are now at home watching it on TV telling every one who will listen "I was there" then join a internet forum and post in the early hours of the morning proclamations that you "still have it" and it has all changed since I was a lad...... then not so much Kudos don't you think? Barry, arm chair fans are like old soldiers, they get a bit fookin boring after a while and very predictable indeed I know I am one of them. You don't have to do nighters and you don't have to do soul nights but you can only comment about the music that is coming out of your speaker, you can not comment on today's scene unless you are part of it and immersing your self other wise its like watching a football game on TV, you will see every goal but the pies wont taste the same. Today's scene is not last year, it is not Bradford, and it's definitely not Wigan Casino. There is a mega nostalgia scene but this is completely and I do mean completely different than "The Northernsoul Scene". The music is the same....... well sort of? The nostalgia scene has become a caricature of Wigan Casino I don't mean that every one is wearing Baggy Trousers but there is a reluctance to dance or hear new music that is epidemic in proportions. I'll use Michael Jackson as an example, his early solo stuff was fantastic then he became a pastiche of his former self loosing his superbly brilliant originality to regurgitate time and time again crutch grabbing moon walking and idiotic posturing, we all like the music but no one wants to see Uncle knobhead don a sparkling glove at a wedding and go for it! "Does the fact that I burned bright, for fucking years, supporting this scene stand for nothing, now that I don't attend?" Yup didley fookin squat mate, sorry for the bad news but your now just a has been forum fighter ................. like me.

Green Onions was deffo a Mod sound played at The Casino, I couldn't list any more? Time is tight? Sock it to em JB? Not too sure?? This track is a well half decent outing from a Spanish group? Better than the ultimate fookin Divvy "Duffy" Sounds Mod to me?? ">

Beeks, it's only about washing machines mate

Not a bad one to get stuck in your head, I have that fookin HSBC - Washing machine advert "eena meena deeka" doing the rounds in my gulliver! eenaa meenaa deekaa, daai, daamonikaa maakaa naakaa naakaa, cheekaa peekaa reekaa eenaa meenaa deekaa deekaa dee daai daamonikaa maakaanaakaa maakaanaakaa cheekaa peekaa rolaa reekaa ram pam posh ram pam posh

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Humpty Dumpty in a Spitfire.......... pmsl

Oh Baz almost forgot, want to see my medals?

If there is a "medal attitude' it's only ever after the perception of time having been invested. It's the same as newbie's on the football terraces, after "time"; there is a perceived realization that they become the "old guard'. As soon as this happens its natural to get into the "When I was a lad" mind set and even to look down upon those who haven't spent the same "time" and dedication to you. This then all gets a little complicated and fractured when some realize that the "When I was a lad" stance can be mimicked to fit in or even when one attempts to climb or score brownie points, idle boasts and fibbing follows. The Northernsoul old guard "medaled" it as does every one, natural, normal and inevitable.

Baz why not come over to the nighters with your little clutch bag of CD's to dazzle us all with your collection? Listen mate the Northernsoul scene is a broad church with multi layers, there are place where playing a flash stick of music is acceptable collection or no collection so there is never going to be a precise answer to your argument. I think every one would agree that if you're out at your local with Trev and Shaz for a couple of Baby Shams and a giggle then yes its ok to whack out your MP3 or Stick or what ever devise you are using to store music on. If you jump in your car and drive 100 miles to an allnighter and pay good money and invest time, petrol and effort into getting to a venue then it would be taking the fookin piss to see a DJ take from his key ring the music your about to dance to. I may have sounded a little rude when I asked why not come to the nighters but seriously why not come to the next nighter with me and we can both go and ask the DJ's and dancers their take on CD's played at venues. PM me and we will make arrangements mate, I'll buy the first beer.

I do hope your not suggesting that I'm not cultured? I have culture commin out of my arse!

Brilliant analogy "The Mona Lisa" Every one and his fookin dog has seen that picture, it is so well known that it means next to fook all to many. My son went to visit the Louvre last year on a school trip, he is 15. He intends to study art and told me that seeing the original Mona Lisa moved him and his class to nigh on tears but then again he makes his own fookin dress the little puff!! Art? We wont be having any of that nonsense in this house young fellow me lad, you're a Yorkshire man son and don't ever forget it! Fookin art!!!!!!

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IDRIS MUHAMMAD 'COULD HEAVEN EVER BE LIKE THIS' Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Kin mega!! I know this is well and truly played out now but it always makes me smile and feel good plus I love watching the complete party atmosphere of the dance floor as this gets played. FUTURES - PARTY TIME MAN

Ady, is that you in the mask, Maximus?? Spotted this track, "Thats no way to treat a girl"

I've spotted Kev Roberts and Russ Winstanley, any one else?

Brilliant sound track, how many Northern tracks can you spot? ">

Dung

It's better now than it's ever been. Now we are all middle aged pie eater with nothing more on our mind other than having a great night out listening to some rare soul music, yup you will always get the village idiot but they stand out like a sore thumb and people do not tolerate violent or anti social behavior now days. I can remember the air of malice and real foreboding sinister looks one got when traveling to a venue many years ago with youthful egos fueled by bravado and there where some really evil people out there connected with the drug scene. Remember the fighting between rival genres such as punks and bikers? Of course not as wide spread as one hears, but there where places and times that being a "Soulie" was not hassle free Now days seams a lot better organised, less dick heads and no one wanting to fight you because of your accent or cloths. You will always get the "head the balls", and the odd "Did you call my pint a puff" but at 40 odd most big hitters are heart attack fodder now days.

Playing to the floor? What a complete and utter cop out!! I would suggest that if you have a clear dance floor then some one has not done there home work! It's not about trying to please the punter on the night; it's about understanding the punter before they arrive!! If you have advertised in the local paper and dropped flyers off at local soul nights then you must expect hard working people just out for a night out who want to dance to the music they know and love, nowt wrong with that. But!! If you have dropped flyers at every established allnighter then you must assume that the punter will want to dance and hear the more rare soul. If you have offered to play a bit of Northernsoul for a mate at a local do then of course you must appreciate requests and play them, your integrity is not in question because it isn't that type of do. Play to the dance floor? Hell no!!!! You play to the venue!!!! The punter has to vote with his feet and this means an empty dance floor for a couple of months then so be it, the real deal will show up or you have got it very wrong, the owners is on you doing the appropriate research as to whether that particular location, time and event caters for the music you want to play. This is why we have venues going tits up because of people trying to make a quick kill. One last thing I would rather drink my own piss than go to a venue that plays fookin Duffy!!

When I go to a venue I expect the DJ to play original vinyl and he expects me to pay with real money. If he is playing CD's then I expect to get in with monopoly money.