Amsterdam Russ
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Yes, Northern Soul Amsterdam is a new club. It's been set up to replace the monthly Amsterdam Soul Club (ASC) nights, which are no longer happening. Instead they're holding "mini alldayers" to coincide with the "Soul Cruise" ferries that come over from the UK three or four times a year (the next one is Thurs 26th Nov). Northern Soul Amsterdam consists of myself and Pete45 (resident DJ at ASC) and the event on 12th December will be our first one. If that goes well, we'll look at making it monthly. The Northern Soul scene over here is pretty small, but expanding. As well as our Northern Soul Amsterdam event there's another new one called Soulful Sunday (an afternoon/early evening session). The second of those events takes place this Sunday at Checkpoint Charlie. There's also a monthly night in Rotterdam (at Rotown), and Pete45 and myself have a night organised in Den Haag on 28th Nov at O'Casey's Irish bar. So, there are a few events to choose from. We've a Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/northernsoulamsterdam/ so you can keep up to date with what's going on. -
Great - the beer selection alone should keep you and everyone else well happy!
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Soul Music Video feature Name: Northern Soul Amsterdam Category: Event Trailers Date Added: 2015-11-15 Submitter: /profile/9478-russell-gilbert/>Russell Gilbert Event promo for Northern Soul Amsterdam launch party 12th December 2015 @ Café Batavia watch now... /videos/view-1102-northern-soul-amsterdam/>Northern Soul Amsterdam
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Event promo for Northern Soul Amsterdam launch party 12th December 2015 @ Café Batavia
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Just this afternoon had to pay €17.20 for goods bought from Amazon.com priced at €69.93. The charge comprised of €4.20 VAT and €13.00 as a handling charge. To add insult to injury, the package wasn't even for me! Have to say I'm buying less and less vinyl from the States nowadays because of these charges and the often ridiculous mailing costs in the first place. I find it incredible that some eBay sellers can still mail out a 45 for $6-8 while others want to charge $20+. No problems at the cheaper end of the postage scale if you know the seller will mark down the value of the item, but otherwise it's no longer worth it. Add to that the terrible euro/sterling rate (from my perspective) and buying from the UK is considerably less attractive than it once was. Hunting vinyl locally, or buying within the EU, is the only way to get value for money - unless you're lucky enough to have nabbed yourself a bargain.
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Thanks for the offer, Andy. Now sorted with a Key-Loc issue. And thanks to everyone for the offers.
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Wanted: Sunny & the Sunliners - I'm no stranger - Key-Loc (EX cond both sides) PMs please.
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Saw a few a couple of weeks ago from our balcony. Normally all we see from there are swifts, so I can only presume that the swallows and martins were extending their hunting grounds as the insect population decreases with the dropping temperatures. Have seen a number of birds of prey from the same balcony over the same period - much more so that I've usually seen and guess they're also extending their range in the search for food. Thank goodness. I was running out of ideas. Now for the photos, please...
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If there's one thing I miss about the UK since moving to the Netherlands, it's the countryside - gently sloping hills, an undulating horizon and the like are a welcome sight when you're in a land as flat and as managed as this (it's so well managed they even plant the trees in straight lines!). Thanks for sharing.
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Fans might be interested to know that Eli "Paperboy" Reed was recently a special guest on the long-running Fingerpoppin Soul show from Amsterdam. As well as performing acoustic versions of a couple of his new songs, he also talks about his musical heroes! Listen here: https://www.mixcloud.com/fingerpoppinsoulsoulradiofroma/fingerpoppin-soul-11142-17-09-2015-special-guest-eli-paperboy-reed/
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Isn't this just the same as book clubs and wine clubs? Sure to be of interest to some, but I doubt it offers much for people with specialist interests.
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"Made in the EU" on the Nolan Porter is bit of a giveaway. Shame they're not all as obvious as that to spot.
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I wonder if before their extinction dinosaurs argued among themselves about the process of evolution.
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Pretty sure I also have a one-sided test press of the Barbara Lynn track.
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No fixed date for December yet, but will enquire and see if I can find out for you.
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The growth of the "scene" in Europe was exactly one of the points I raised early in that thread to counter that argument.
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At the start of the year I set up a small group on Facebook called the European Soul Club Network. The idea was to get a better idea of events a group of soulies over here in the Amsterdam area could look at going to. Unexpectedly, the page took off and it's grown quite a bit and already has a pretty good calendar of European events through to the summer of next year. It's nowhere near comprehensive, but it's made me realise That there are an awful lot of soul nights and nighters going on, with Belgium and Germany being particularly active. The Netherlands is also becoming more active. Just this Saturday we've got a soul cruise coming over from the UK with a "mini alldayer" taking place in Amsterdam during the day. In the evening we've got the monthly Amsterdam Soul Club event with Pete Lyster as special guest. It's an increasingly soulful place is mainland Europe! https://www.facebook.com/groups/europeansoulclubnetwork/
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Mahalia Jackson's great interpretation of this traditional spiritual... https://youtu.be/Bun3GjyVcEU By the way, haven't we had this thread before or am I suffering from gospel deja vu?
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Yes, but then it would become a shrine for people to visit - like the Wigan shopping centre.
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Just seen the following posted on Facebook. Perhaps old news, but it's new news to me. Or is it just a wind-up (whoever wrote it can't spell "Emmerdale"!)?
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Instead of the "two things that are killing the scene", how about a thread on "two things that are keeping the scene alive and kicking"?