ImberBoy

Norvun bleedin sool? How many "Foreign Jonnies" have made records in none English speak? I can think of the brilliant Ricardo Ray Nitty Gritty are there any others?

Come on up now baby, don't bring me down. Don't bring me down when I'm high, I want to spread my wings, I want to fly. I think it was called "don't bring me down"? Who is it and can any one send me a file please XXX. Rita De Corsa??? Bit confused :-(

Wally, put this on my web site. The guestbook gets over a hundred hits a day, terrible news. https://www.tafsc.com/ Thoughts n prayers. God bless.

Bloody hell, just remembered this. A good few years ago I was on the net talking about what we used to wear when the subject ended up with "Spencer Bags". I learned that these are still available so after a while I decided to get some. Don't ask me why, I suppose in my heart I thought that if I bought these and wore these I would be magically transported to nineteen hundred and frozen to death when I was about 16 years young. I got the little package consisting of a very nice selection of sample material along with a little form to take to a tailor for a fitting. Form completed and material chosen, I sent me seventy quid away to Spencer's for my magical trousers'. A few weeks later I received a box all wonderfully wrapped and inside was a packet of tissue paper, carefully removing the outer paper I was greeted with my new trousers. I caressed them out of the box and they were huge! I had opted for the Godzilla 40" flares!! I put these on and stood eager to see my reflection in the mirror, surely now I would loose the beer gut, surely now I would look handsome and young........ Nope I just looked like a little fat Cnut with a massive pair of clown's trousers on! The sail, I mean the trousers disappeared under my bed, I mean when the fook would I ever wear these? What in gods name possessed me to buy them? Remaining under the bed for the next five years until The 2006 Blackpool weekender when I decided to out my self as a closet soulie. Here is the proof, please be gentle; https://www.tafsc.com/BLACKPOOL.htm enjoy the write up as well. God bless , ImberBoy.

The most ridiculous thing I ever did was try and make a pair of home made "Patchwork jeans". I started with a normal pair of Wranglers and then cut up various old pairs and started to stitch them on. Getting no where fast I asked mum to stitch them on, she told me to fook off and I would look a Cnut! Thanks mum! I resorted to "stapling" them on. Next up was a full length leather coat, well I was a school boy and couldn't afford on of those so I borrowed me dads black trench mac. Strutting down Imber high street feeling like one of the stylistics, with my new pants literally falling apart with every step I must of looked a right cnut! LOL

Mikey, not too sure if I would welcome an Imber revival, look what happened when the LP "Imber Born Imberbread" was released in 97, some of the best soul acts in the country collaborated on this superb album but most people (soul source included) concentrated too much on comparisons to Ian Levine's productions. Some people forget that acts like Driza Boneon emerged at Imber and the Mod scene at Imber was exactly the same as the Mod scene in London apart from the farm smocks and customised tractors. Will I have one of my testicles gnawed off now by Pete Smith for high jacking the thread? Sorry Bridget, the fookin devil makes me do these things!

Geoff, I am so jealous mate! It sounds as if you where present at a very important time in British music and youth culture, wish I could have been there as well. I don't think "Mod" music gave much to the soul scene but I do think the "Mods" pulled out a genre of soul music making it more accessible or at least played to a wider audience just as blue beet n ska went from underground to over ground. The "Mod" sound was a very clean, limp wristed almost "poppy" sound in its own right. The copyists who tried to recreate RnB and soul where exactly copyists. The Stones, Georgie Fame, and a host of artists who we now refer to as "Blue eyed soul", Dusty Springfields springs to mind. There are two distinctive sounds here, take for example what is British born "Mod" Freddy and the Dreamers or Gerry and the Pacemakers and of course The kinks, very British and very "Mod" and not very soulful indeed. The American Black influence on music didn't become "Mod", it was liked by "Mods" but I think it always remained labelled RnB or Motown, I think most "Mods" would have said I like this and I like that, that's "Mod" but I also like Motown, RnB and Jazz. Of course it is a mine field when we start to label music; it's like trying to explain the taste of food, difficult and some times impossible. I do know that there was a separation, slight as it may have been but a separation none the less. Geographically and genre wise, I am of course having to stereo type and refer to the "North South Divide". "Mod" existed oop North as well but gravitated more towards a separate genre and that was of soul later to become what we know and love "Northernsoul". The Marquee, The 100 club, The Flamingo and the Shepherds Bush music where all important but faded for a long while after fashions and taste changed. "Mod" lost its credibility when it was dropped like a hot potato by the South as fashions changed and the music changed. The North of England held "Their" music a little more closely to their hearts and Northern soul became ingrained into the culture oop North. Of course the 100 club and Drummonds and RSG and the like get a big nod of respect but lets face it they where started by Northerners who had moved down south. "Mod" British pop music. Sorry to stir the north south thang.......... Honest. :-) P.S. little disappointed that The Imber Beat hasn't been mentioned? :-(

Gordy? is that you mate? :-) Is half the old KTF crew in here?

Just stepped out of a cave! Well I have now been back in the UK for a good six months now after spending the last eleven years in Germany whilst serving with the Army. I have tried my utmost to keep a breast of the scene with the internet and the German scooter runs n Nighters but enjoy them as much as I did I know I have missed out on some major musical discoveries. On my visits back I was lucky, or unlucky depending on your taste, to sample the likes of The four vandals, Larry Tinder and The Phonetics just a Boys Dream. I listened to a live link up on the net as radio 2 burst out wake up to the sunshine girl and watched in amusement as the "chicken" adverts bought the scene closer to Joe public. Since getting back to blighty I have sampled Drax, Eggborough, The Blackpool soul weekender, Earl of Doncaster, Winford civic, Frobisher's and the usual smattering of soul Nights. I have been amazed at the sheer volume of new stuff out here! Just managed to get "Tribute to Betty tonight" thanks Bazza, I do feel as if stumbling out of a cave and its freaking brilliant. Before I would have to travel down to The 100 Club to have my Northernsoul batteries recharged but now I am a northernsoul sprogg once more, hope it lasts a fair while but I would dearly love to know where the best places are to hear the new stuff?? Not just Modern stuff but the dusted off and or rediscovered rare soul gems that have made you all go "ooooohhhh" or even "Aaaarrrgh" for the last few years.

Spoonful of sulphate :-)

Scarborough Scooter Run 2007 Scooters n Soul? Do they go together? Of course they do, like fish n chips. Yup not every one on this list will have had the slightest urge to even sit on a scooter but some, dare I say most? Will roll their eyes and remember Lambrettas n patchwork jeans, centurion helmets n RAF coats............ Sat here, well slumped here on my settee trying to look interested in Eastenders, is it me or are all the TV programs just for her? I'm bored shatless, my leg is giving me a bit of jip from an old ligament injury during my rugby days, and boy do I feel old. I am old, well forty five, suppose that is old? Helen Mirren is now 61 and I'd still give her one, mind you she wouldn't look twice at me now she has won the Oscar, bitch, wonder if my restraining order still counts? What I need is a pick me up, what I need is something to look forward to, what I realy need is a bleedin time machine! Well I kinda have a time machine, one that is whirling around in my head counting down the days. A time machine that is going to take me right back, before bleedin Eastenders, before my aching knee and before I had a care in the world. My time machine is Scarborough on the 6- 7 April. Last night I turned it on, I text the other time machine pilots of the AFSC (my scooter club) to plan accommodation, the answer was that we don't need it and we don't care............. we are going hard corps dossing out on the castle walls as we did so many care free years ago. This time we will have a bit more money in our pockets n Gortex, this time is still going to be our time. I can't fricken wait! Scarborough, wow, this is where it all started for most of us, Quadrophenia was the buzz word, two stroke smoke, parkas n jam shoes, combats n docs, water pistols n flat tops. Judy Street's what, Madness, Ghost Town, The Piranhas, being moved on by the police, dodgy tax disc, no tax disc, no brakes, jumpers for goal posts, ooooh, I can wait! If any one wants to crash with us, we are camping where we can get away with it, at the moment there is no official camp site and no more accommodation available so if ya wanna do it like we used to do it then give us a shout on the guestbook, e-mail, phone or text me. If you are coming from the south and want to break your journey at my gaff you are welcome. I remember as a very young man being in Rudi's in Scarborough talking to a fat lad from Barnsley, I sadly attended his funeral a few years ago, The Mighty Bub. RIP. Long live Scooters, soul, Yorkshire n fish n Chips! Brilliannnnnnnttttttttttttt yours Simon Cuerden

Love reign on me - The Who The Drifter - Ray Pollard Up your bum - peter and the test tube babies Wouldn't be a dry arse in the house.................................... I remember the sad sad occasion of Bub of Barnsley's funeral......... When its raining its raining ................ Fookin sad.

Pete a couple of years ago I got a Satnav from the states via eBay, the fookers at customs charged me fifty fookin quid and the royal mail knobbed me for a further eight bleedin quid. I think it's a lottery mate that's worth playing but some times you will get caught out and have to pay. Lord knows how they calculate the prices, prob a best guess of some fookin twatt with a clip board?

https://www.hargreaves-promotions.co.uk/sho.../AFSC-BADGE.gif Class https://www.scootgraphics.com/afscshop/afscenter.htm https://www.hargreaves-promotions.co.uk/sho...ea0226467f7face It took me years to sort a decent patch for our scooter club, we had shat ones forwarded but not chosen. You get what you pay for.

Bazza!!!! Kin brilliant!! This is the track, a thousand thank yous. Just got back from Germany after 11 years and its like been living in a fookin cave! You are a star sir, thank you.

I heard a newish northernsoul record for the first time, it's been out for about 5 years and I think the words (Genesis or Gemini) appear in the title or even the artist? Not much to go on I know, sorry. The track is a mid tempo modern kinda sound almost Ian Levinesque? I keep hearing it and seeing it fill the dance floor around Yorkshire, Soul Sam played it the other Friday at Frobisher's. Help???? I know I posted this in the wrong place and risk having a testicle removed but this freaking tune is in my head and becoming embedded into my DNA and I will probably end up killing prostitutes if you don't help me................ Pete Smith, you used to bail me out before, any anoraks out there even, cream egg for the chap or chappess who ID's this track n box of choccies if some kind soul can send me a file XXX. Imber Boy on his knees here.

Respect and thoughts, from all at The Armed Forces Scooter Club.

The Staple Singers Trippin on your love Slooooooooooooooooooow intro but the pace picks up to a finger snappin groove so I'm not sure if this qualifies as heart stopping speed? Now talking about intros that allow you to stick the kettle on, Terry Callier "I don't wanna see my self" allows you to cook a complete Sunday fookin roast before the dance floor explodes! So sadly this don't qualify either!

Ray Pollard - The Drifter Fookin makes me cry!

Bazzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Hey Girl You've Changed - the vondells kin brilliantttttttttttttt!!!!!!

All mega slowies played on the Northernscene, I know the tempo in the modern room can drop to flat line but in the main room does it get any slower than this............. Pyramid by Soul Bros Inc The game is over by Mandrill Show and tell by Al Wilson

https://www.tafsc.com/ Scooters n Soul? As connected as fish n chips! This is a web site built for ex servicemen with a passion for Italian scooters; you can come and have a look around, you're most welcome.

"How Can I Remove Sticky Residue From Vinyl? " Dude, please! Why any one would want to bang one out into their record box is beyond me! Use a sock like any one else....Or Kleenex!!! Sticky tape indeed!!! We are watching you!!!

No Pete, you can say "it isn't 'Northern' just because it hasn't been played before", it has to have been played at venues i.e. "Northernsoul" venues before it can get the moniker "Northern soul", other wise all of my Showwaddywaddy records are "Northern soul" aren't they? No there not, not because my own personal musical taste is shat, it's because they were never played and accepted as "Northern soul" on the "Northern" scene. New stuff of course is bled into the scene when DJ's want to break a new record if they feel "soulful" but this does not always work, if it doesn't work and the little black disk makes no impression on the dance floor or connects with the punter then it aint gonna become part of the "northern soul" make up. Driza bone pressure did........ Dolly Parton Busy signal didn't so Dolly Parton aint bleedin norvun yet Driza bone is, I don't make the roolz dude but these are the roolz. Ya can try to break em all day but ask our Dolly, the roolz is roolz. The punter decides not some speccy four eyed record collector obsessed with matrix numbers who has never been on the dance floor in his life, I wouldn't ask a train spotter where the shit house was and I wouldn't ask a record collector to lend his talk!

It can sound as "northerney" as you want and it can sound as "Northerney" as you want, that has nothing what so ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever to do with a sound being "Northern", it must be played on The Northern soul scene full stop!. There are scores of tunes played on the scene from the Crow to Purple haze to Busy Signal to the entertainer that do not sound soulful but have become part of this genre because they get play time at venues. Qualifying as northernsoul? You can fake a record; you can discover a record, but you can not get a record to be northern unless it is played at northern gigs.