Northern Soul Uk

Bari Track, backing track to Rose Batiste - I miss my baby

OOOH!! Bitchy! I can't complain about playing Rave, it's not done bad for me! Ian you might want to tune in to https://www.cowbellradio.co.uk/ on Tuesday September 4th at 7pm. I have been asked to do a 2 hour DJ/Interview show about what got me into the music and the tunes that made/make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, even to this day. I have been asked to choose 25 of my all time favorite tracks that influenced me. I know you will love all of them Ian. No Rave in sight by the way, all Nothern, Jazz/Funk and relatively obscure Disco tunes.

I would but I am DJing in York tonight, Rave would you believe. But I have DJd with Louie Vega a couple of times and seen him play numerous times. He is amazing! and if I wasn't working I would be there in a breath!

Yes, but that was a LONG time ago!

When I had a break from Northern, like many of us did, I got into the House/Rave scene big style and actually DJd it for a good length of time, and still do a bit. I was amazed to be honest at how similar the Rave scene in particular was to the Northern scene. Traveling miles to the club you liked the best, taking drugs, dancing all night, and very loved up. I used to say to them, I have seen all this before in the 70s, but they couldn't get to grips with it until I explained the Northern scene of which most of them were too young to remember. There are a lot of people that used to and still are into Northern that got into the dance scene and vice versa. What REALLY pee's me off, is that whenever there is a documentary made about the Dance scene in the UK, it always seems to concentrate on the South and Manchester, and Leeds never gets a mention. Leeds was responsible for many household club names such as 'Back2Basics, Hard Times, Orbit, Ark, Leeds Warehouse, Kaos, Soak and the 'Leeds Gallery' where I was resident DJ/Promoter for 9 years. I just wish that the programmers would start to see that it was not all about the South and Hacienda, and look a little further with their research. Eric Morillo was good though

I agree! They are about 20 years too late if they are talking about the start of the underground dance music scene in the UK. Might have been a better idea to start from now, and work backwards.

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Oh Crumbs!

This is my original, got it on the night :-) Also my original 'Torch' badge. Good days eh?

Used to go from Leeds to Bridlington with the 'Central' scooter club, camp at Bempton in Brid. I remember one year we were camped at the side of a raised railway embankment, not knowing that at the other side were camped a load of Rockers. We found out in the middle of the night though, when our tents were being pelted with bricks and stones, we made a fast getaway I can tell you. It was always Bridlington for the mods and scooter boys, and Scarborough for the rockers, until one year the Mods decided that they wanted to go to Scarborough instead, so hundreds of Scooters rode in to Scarborough and kicked f**k out of the rockers and out of Scarborough, and from then on the Mods went there every year. One memory stands out on that year when a rocker was riding up the front on his bike and some Mod hit him in the face with his crash helmet at about 30mph, sending the rocker backward off his bike, and the bike carried on into the sea wall. Ah! good old days

Yes and something else that happens a lot is that one person will ask for a request, and you might say, "I'll try to play it if I can find it", and then they send one or more of their mates to ask for the same record, trying to make it look like there's few want to hear it. I tend to cotton on quickly nowadays and say "The more people you get to ask for it, the less chance you have of me playing it"

get ready for the fireworks.

What a tune, not played out that much because of it having too many breaks, was played a little in the old days though, and very cheap to own. Sounds Orchestral - Cast your fate to the wind.

Thanks Flynny, much appreciated matey. Steve

Or how about the the person (there's always one) who comes up and says "Will you play......? everyone will dance to it", so you bow to their "better" judgment, play the record and no one, not even the person that asked for it dances. Priceless!

Yeah we've all had the taking the needle off the wrong record, and having a record with an intro at the wrong speed and not noticing til the beat comes in, it's all par for the course of being a DJ. But what about being turned round looking through your records to see what to play next, and the record that is playing coming to the end, finding the record that you're gonna play, turning round to put it on in a panic to get it cued up in time, and finding that some twat while your backs been turned, has very kindly taken the headshell off the deck you're going to cue up on, and are stood at the other end of the venue waving it in the air laughing? Yep! Leeds Warehouse in the 80s, remember that Mr Ian Dewhirst with the very piss taking but top man, Paul Vincent? LOL! I'll never forget it

Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops

Being a DJ for some 38 years you can imagine that I have had some very bizarre instances, but one stands out more than most of the others. I was playing in a club in Leeds, now called 'HiFi' but then called 'Liquid'. I was playing along merrily to a packed club with no problems. Can I add here that the DJ stand was in a corner of the club which consisted of not much more than a sturdy table with the equipment on and no protection from knobheads, of which one now enters the story. So there I was playing away, when the aforementioned person came up to the DJ stand looked at the record that was playing, stopped it with his hand, turned it round so the the label was the right way for him to read it, turned round to his friend and said; 'See, I told you it was that one". He then let the record go and carried on as if nothing had happened. I was so stunned as were the folk that saw it happen, that we didn't say or do anything, just carried on regardless and spoke about it for years later As I say, there are many more instances that have happened to me whilst DJing, but I'm saving them all, as I might write a book on it one day :-)

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Thank you Gene, I wasn't sure when you said that it hadn't been released on 45, that you were meaning just in the UK? which is why I put this up. What a brilliant track, and there is only one soundbyte of it anywhere that I can see and that is the one above. When I get mine from the states I will record it and put a decent quality recording up for all to hear. Yes it does look lovely on the US UA label, same label as I remember 'Keem o sabe' by 'Electric indian coming out on, and same colours too. Not a great tune that, but just sparked the memory of it off when I saw the label. Thank you Gene, would still like to know what the Jackie Edwards one is worth these days, 2 years is a long time in NS terms :-)

Can anyone tell me if this is rare or hard to find please? as someone mentioned earlier in the thread that it didn't get released on a 'UA' 45? Thank you

This might help. Was there, but all I remember is the place being huge (Queens Hall), a temporary dance floor in the middle, and the music echoing like f**k! The Queens Hall was demolished in 1989 for some strange reason, I think plans to build on it that never came to fruition, as it is now and has been since, a car park.

Yeah there and the stall in the Merrion Market in Leeds. Used to get loads from there, all the 'Verve' stuff. Was it called 'Geroles' or was that only in Domestic Street, Holbeck? where I found 6 copies of the 'Shakers - One wonderful moment' for 20p each and sold them for £20 each at the 'Torch' on the same night, £20 then being the equivalent of what? £100-150 now? Ah Good daze! :-)