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Back in the mid 70ts when all we had was Black Echoes - I would flip to the NS 🤔 think it was melting pot and view where the DJs were playing Brian Rae was my go to DJ - played oldies put 100% into his DJ ing and would take time to talk to a kid speeding my nuts off, asking stupid questions - When the Casino shut in 81, we opened the Peterborough Soul Club in 82 - Brian was a dj who without question would help us out - it’s been great knowing you Sir - RIP mate

Gotta love this SS was hated in the mid 70ts he got the blame rightly or wrongly for pressing everything that was discovered - a new sound would hit the turntables on a Sat at the Casino packed the floor - within a few weeks it was pressed and sold £5 a piece as well as booting and pressing every thing else in between. Guess you had to be there, to know 🤔 😂🤣

This gets my vote 👍🏻

July 3, 2017By Matt A When the story of how Britain fell in love with underground club culture is told, it tends to follow a familiar narrative. The initial focus naturally falls on the NS scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s, which effectively created the blueprint for modern club culture by promoting the idea of dancing all night to obscure music played by DJs whose reputation was built on their ability to champion records their rivals didn’t own. The story then moves on to the rise of house music, ecstasy culture and the rave movement at the tail end of the 1980s. It was during this period that dance music became part of the fabric of British culture, in the process sparking the rise of the “superstar DJ,” colossal events and a boom in music production that... the full article can be read via Britain’s First Dance Music Boom...Britain’s First Dance Music Boom: The Soul All-Dayer Scen...The scene that gave Britain the cult of the DJ, the UK’s first dedicated dance music festival and the future pioneers of rave.

When they were good they were great - 👀 one of my fondest memories was at the anniversary’s - at some stage there would be a slight pause either for prize draws or to thank the staff bla bla bla so no music, yet it was not uncommon to see people still dancing, moving spinning - 🤣😂

What happened to Clem Curtis? Curtis died on 27 March 2017 at the age of 76, after a short battle with cancer. Curtis has been referred to on various occasions, informally as "The Godfather of English Soul".

1st instrumental to be played at the Casino 👏🏻👏🏻

Back in 79 when I first started DJing to cue the records you could either use the lights that flicker or head phones if you went past the start of the record you pick the needle up and start again - till your happy - I still use that method in 2025 - hey guess what it works I saw a young guy take to the decks after me who put the record on and then cued it back - my advice “your gonna duck that record and needle up” he looked t me as if to say “ I know better”

blast from the past - stomper / shuffler

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First played St Ives 1977 but played out everywhere when it went big

1983 old write up with SS Sunday 1st May (Bank Holiday weekend) sees the promised marathon ‘Ritz Revival’ alldayer at Manchester’s Rotters with living legends Ian Levine, Colin Curtis & Richard Searling spinning ’70s soul before at midnight switching into an allniter situation with the addition of Northern Soul pioneers Tony Jebb, Les Cokell, Kev Roberts & Simon Soussan plus two as yet unspecified US acts (veterans of the Mirwood label looking likely) — now that is one that I’ll definitely try to get to! . . . Ian Levine is currently donning suit and tie and lugging all his records across town to do “up market semi-gay” Sundays at Kensington High Street’s Gardens, kinda like New York’s Studio 54 before it became ultra-commercial,

The classic chicken and the egg 🤔 Someone asks - What’s Northern Soul ? reply - You know the Motown sound mid 60ts yes Well it’s like that , but different 😂🤣👍🏻👍🏻

Without changing the subject to much Car Wash was played at St Ives 1975 If you cut and paste Unbelieveably Played At Wigan it takes you to Soul Source 2009 - let the arguments begin 🤣😂

Knew Chis & Harry back in the day (76) pre DEMOB days - Chris was always the calm one , I remember Harry on the balcony at the Casino with a roll neck top on - I said ain’t you hot which he pulled his jumper up to show a rounders bat in his belt as he was on the hunt for a non payer 🤣😂 Last time I saw Chris would be about 88 at the Scrubs he was on remand for allegedly setting fire 🔥 to something - I still talk to his brother on what’s app - great bloke, now he could tell you some crazy stories 🤔🤔🤣😂

Film is crap however when I heard this tune I had to share - can easily see this getting plays out - if someone cut the chorus line and looped it to make it 1:50 long - Happy to get this as a discovery 😂🤣 enjoy - remember where you heard it fist 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Djr head to Blackfriars (tube stn) it’s over the river Thames - Tate museum next door - grab a coffee and look out over St Pauls views of London - walk right along the Thames see the bouncy walk bridge - past Shakespeare globe - up to the Golden Hind into Borough Market food market / pubs / Shard - see London Bridge - keep walking right hand side till you get to Tower Bridge Witherspoons on the corner recommend scampi and chips - walk over tower bridge to the Tower of London or Green park tube - afternoon Tea at the Ritz (might have to book) through the park to Buckingham Palace - up the Mall or through the park - to Nelson Column - cross the square diagonal to Covent Garden stop off at the Savoy on the way American Bar in through the front door turn left - 👍🏻 Have a sling over ur shoulder bag so you’re hands are free / nothing in ur pockets sticking out - don’t wear expensive jewellery or chains Watch ur phone if ur able ride bikes everywhere / speed limit in most areas now 20 mph 🤔 Have fun

I remember hearing this at St Ives around 76/77 but know where else - one of those came and gone sounds - always reminded me of James Bond theme

Number stamped plus R I brought this back in 1978 for £5 major St Ives sounds back in 1976/77

RIP big man - you’re music will live on 🥲

Back at the Casino record bar area when I first started collecting around 75/76 - although I never knew SS his name along with a major record dealer got the blame for every new pressing , bootleg etc. A new sound would be played by a DJ and bang the following week pressings we’re getting knocked out at £5 a shot - and everyone would go effing SS again or the other guy - the feeling I always got was they weren't welcome, with people mumbling the usual - “if they come down here, there’ll get it”. Looking back I am sure they got the blame for some pressings and bootlegs - that had nothing to do with them - very convenient for other people to pass the blame 🤔

Just as a side note the image attached is the closest I could find - I can’t remember a score line in the pills they were solid - the specks on the picture were darker in real life and odd shapes - when walking around with the pills for a few minutes in ur pocket loose and with you’re sweaty hands in you’re pockets - yes it did turn you’re fingers blue 😂🤣

Paul Strychnine Blues - usually called blueys then you would ask were they Stychnine Blues - 50p each - buzz was the word but not great for dancing also if you sat down you kind of couldn’t be bothered to get up - but you were off ur head - I took 6 at Yate once not clever sat at a table all night blocked while people rushed around finding me sleeping tabs or babs to bring me down. they were only sold for about 6 - 8 months great for pub beer heads - Sulphate was in short supply - however when the next batch came through (usually the Welsh connection) thouse Strychnine Blues faded out - we still talk about them today and the thermos flask which was stashed with them buried in a garden somewhere big give away was white foam at the edge of ur mouth 😂🤣 😳Eyes open like really open Approx year 77 - I use to knock them out to the local pub - Hells Angles loved them rumoured to contain rat poison