Culcheth Meets Ashton Christmas Cracker

Looking forward to what will be our final night of the year and what a year it’s been! Reiterating the musical ethos of the much loved and much missed LOWTON CIVIC HALL soul nights, CULCHETH has strived to maintain a focus on quality sounds, with a mix of rare, underplayed and classic original records and so this year along with a small number of other venues has, in our opinion, kept to the traditions and expectations of the rare soul scene and its loyal followers.

Mentioning a number of other venues following the values of the scene, one such venue is Ashton Ukrainian Club. This year has also seen Ashton consolidate its place in the North-West soul calendar as a ‘must-visit’ event and so it’s with great pleasure that we announce a joint promotion between ASHTON and CULCHETH on December 7th.

DJ’s on the night, representing ASHTON will be two of the driving forces of Ashton’s success, SIMON INGHAM and MICK HOWARD and representing CULCHETH will be resident DJ’s KEV MURPHY and BAZ MALEEDY, adding to the line up for the night will be special guest, CULCHETH and ASHTON regular, and resident DJ at RUGBY, SWINTON all-nighters and Rare Soul Bol Weekenders, DAVE RIMMER!

There is no doubt, this will be a real CHRISTMAS CRACKER, so get it in the diary for SATURDAY 7th DECEMBER!
 

A meeting of the minds!! If you haven't yet tried Culcheth, what are you waiting for? Two great rooms, this month a flavour of Team Ukrainian, what's not to like!!  

So as we near December and CULCHETH is on the first Saturday of the festive month, December 7th… We get right in the festive spirit with and absolute CHRISTMAS CRACKER in the form of an ASHTON Meets CULCHETH SPECIAL!

A two room Saturday night out but the main room featuring residents from ASHTON UKRAINIAN and CULCHETH joined by SPECIAL GUEST DAVE RIMMER for a night of rare, underplayed and classic soul sounds

Here's a sample of just one of the sounds featured on the 'wheels of steel' by Special Guest at CULCHETH

Should be a great mix of sounds, like this, initially played for the other side "image of a man" but as the saying goes "flip 'em over"

Johnny Sayles is on heavy rotation on the decks at the moment, here's a great 'under-played' oldie that's ripe for re-activation and in the box for the Christmas Cracker

Proving the point Quality doesn't have to cost £££s From an artist that has provided two Iconic dancers that shook the scene, take a listen to this !!!

Dave Rimmer currently has this mid-tempo gem for sale on Facebook Rare Soul Sales, if he doesn't sell it before the 7th me and Robbo are hoping he'll give it a spin as it's one of our favourite sounds...

7 minutes ago, Bazm said:

Dave Rimmer currently has this mid-tempo gem for sale on Facebook Rare Soul Sales, if he doesn't sell it before the 7th me and Robbo are hoping he'll give it a spin as it's one of our favourite sounds...

 

A Big Bad Bob Hinsley spin as I recall and one I got for a bargain price off Soul Bowl, sadly no longer in the collection!!

1 hour ago, Micksmix said:

A Big Bad Bob Hinsley spin as I recall and one I got for a bargain price off Soul Bowl, sadly no longer in the collection!!

I almost gave it a spin at the last Ashton for the big lad. Phil Wainwright put me onto it many years ago and then sold me his copy. Great record.

6 minutes ago, Jessie Pinkman said:

I almost gave it a spin at the last Ashton for the big lad. Phil Wainwright put me onto it many years ago and then sold me his copy. Great record.

Power House intro and production !!

18 hours ago, Bazm said:

Johnny Sayles is on heavy rotation on the decks at the moment, here's a great 'under-played' oldie that's ripe for re-activation and in the box for the Christmas Cracker

 

That Johnny Sayles can certainly belt out a good tune. lol

Here's another of Mr Sayles underplayed oldies.

6 hours ago, Jessie Pinkman said:

That Johnny Sayles can certainly belt out a good tune. lol

Here's another of Mr Sayles underplayed oldies.

 

Whilst on the subject of Johnny Sayles I remember Hoss having 2 really good unreleased tracks by him on acetate. One night at the Radcliffe allnighter he told me I could have a recording of them if I could sort it out. Not thinking straight, I thought I only live 20 minutes away I'll take it home now transfer them onto CD and then I can bring it straight back to him, so off I went. As I crept into the house at 2 am hoping to set up the equipment without waking up the missus. The dog gave the game away barking like mad. What the hell are you up to she shouts. It's okay I won't be a minute. My technical ability is very limited so the chance of me pulling this off was virtually nil but I thought 2 great unreleased Johnny Sayles tracks is worth a go. I can't remember the titles but I do remember Andy Dyson playing one out one night.  Hopefully somebody will remember them?

7 hours ago, Jessie Pinkman said:

Whilst on the subject of Johnny Sayles I remember Hoss having 2 really good unreleased tracks by him on acetate. One night at the Radcliffe allnighter he told me I could have a recording of them if I could sort it out. Not thinking straight, I thought I only live 20 minutes away I'll take it home now transfer them onto CD and then I can bring it straight back to him, so off I went. As I crept into the house at 2 am hoping to set up the equipment without waking up the missus. The dog gave the game away barking like mad. What the hell are you up to she shouts. It's okay I won't be a minute. My technical ability is very limited so the chance of me pulling this off was virtually nil but I thought 2 great unreleased Johnny Sayles tracks is worth a go. I can't remember the titles but I do remember Andy Dyson playing one out one night.  Hopefully somebody will remember them?

Think Baz can help, there was a Japanese P Vine album, with I believe the said tracks ??  

Was this one of the tracks?

1 hour ago, Micksmix said:

Was this one of the tracks?

 

Mick comes up trumps once again. Well done mate.

5 hours ago, Micksmix said:

Was this one of the tracks?

 

Correctamundo...I've been playing this out for a while, IMHO it's brilliant! The other track which is an R&B stormer is 'Tell Me (Where I Stand)' (which I'll post later) and was actually issued on the 'B' side of Chris Kings I Can't Get Enough UK Soul City 45 release. Another in the playbox

Been digging around ITB for tracks that represent Ashton - not easy coz many of my spins feature at Culcheth too ..... hopefully not a bad thing 

This track I think actually featured on one of the Lowton Anniversary LPs? Kev Murph pointed it out to me at Ashton

Now don't get me wrong, I love top 500 'sounds' but I REALLY love it when some of those 'forgotten' sounds get another airing and here's a point in case, thanks to CULCHETH guest DAVE RIMMER...

Quality tuneage from Mr Rimmer's playbox

16 minutes ago, Bazm said:

Now don't get me wrong, I love top 500 'sounds' but I REALLY love it when some of those 'forgotten' sounds get another airing and here's a point in case, thanks to CULCHETH guest DAVE RIMMER...

Quality tuneage from Mr Rimmer's playbox

 

Moe always sings "Nowhere to run" whenever she hears this brilliant oldie. 

On 28/11/2024 at 23:29, Jessie Pinkman said:

Whilst on the subject of Johnny Sayles I remember Hoss having 2 really good unreleased tracks by him on acetate. One night at the Radcliffe allnighter he told me I could have a recording of them if I could sort it out. Not thinking straight, I thought I only live 20 minutes away I'll take it home now transfer them onto CD and then I can bring it straight back to him, so off I went. As I crept into the house at 2 am hoping to set up the equipment without waking up the missus. The dog gave the game away barking like mad. What the hell are you up to she shouts. It's okay I won't be a minute. My technical ability is very limited so the chance of me pulling this off was virtually nil but I thought 2 great unreleased Johnny Sayles tracks is worth a go. I can't remember the titles but I do remember Andy Dyson playing one out one night.  Hopefully somebody will remember them?

It may have been my old acetate.  The titles will come to me, they are on the Pvine Lp but slightly different takes.

PS Just seen Mick's post and Baz M's comment.

Only a matter of days until Culcheth 

Storming Soul from the Windy C and one that might get a spin on Saturday, fantastic double sider!!!!

It's a 2 Roomer so, Modernistas get set for another So Soulful Saturday, Modern Soul session at CULCHETH this Saturday 7 th December! Messers Plumb, Maleedy, Smith, McKinnon, Wildman and Ratcliffe will be dropping Soulful bombs, from the get-go at 8pm!

Expect 70’s and 80’s right through to the latest new release vinyl and everything in-between as we explore everything ‘Modern’, from Alverez to Zoom! Rare, not so rare and just damn good…

Following on from a few plays recently from CULCHETH and ASHTON guest Tim Ashibende, here's a great underplayed oldie in a coupe of boxes for Saturday