How Long....? Just For Fun

Posted May 13, 200916 yr

For some reason i always assume everyone on here has always been around for ever on the northern scene and i'm often surprised when someone tells me they've only been into Northern Soul for a few years. Personally i don't care how long anyone has been around or how old they are. There are people on the scene who have done more for the scene and made more of an impact in a few years than i ever have and good luck to them.

I just thought it would fun and informative to do a poll and find out what the average time around is. Is it true the scene is full of relative newcomers or lifers or a mixture of the two?

If you are a returnee add your first time around to your second time around (or third if you keep clearing off then coming back).

Edited May 13, 200916 yr by Matt Male

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1. How long have you been into northern soul or on the scene?
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May 17, 200916 yr

Longy said:
Mike

Hope you're right mate, I think I have at least another 30 years in me yet ( as long as I can get my zimmer through the door and people dont mind the smell of pxss !!! )

The zimmer frame sounds like a really good idea... but i was thinking more around the lines of the electric chair. Obviously quicker than the zimmer frame, more comfortable, and you would beat the Golden Torch brigade to the bar every time! (presuming that is, that they are not camped out there already!)

May 20, 200916 yr

221 votes is pretty good, thanks everyone. Here is my final graph then, obviously a small sample of the scene but if we say there are maybe 3000 people tops active on regular weekends that's still around 8%. But llike i said just for fun, although all the anecdotal evidence is that the mid 90s was a lean period and so it seems in terms of newcomers. Cheers.

May 20, 200916 yr

Started about 74-75 Radcliffe youth club,

Great looking guys,Pulling fantastic looking girls,dancing to some decent sounds(Casualeers etc.)

Me all spotty shitty haircut and greasy skin,

What am I doing wrong? I think to myself,Hence my introdution to Northern Soul,

6 months later standing in a line on Station Rd,Thinking how will I get home when they dont let me in!!

35 years later sat on my fat arse and talking about it to people I've never even seen let alone know,

Now that's what I call music

Grant

May 20, 200916 yr

I have been into it 13 years now started when I was 15 northern soul till I die its in the blood for good as they say

May 20, 200916 yr

grantdyche said:
Started about 74-75 Radcliffe youth club,
Great looking guys,Pulling fantastic looking girls,dancing to some decent sounds(Casualeers etc.)
Me all spotty shitty haircut and greasy skin,
What am I doing wrong? I think to myself,Hence my introdution to Northern Soul,
6 months later standing in a line on Station Rd,Thinking how will I get home when they dont let me in!!
35 years later sat on my fat arse and talking about it to people I've never even seen let alone know,
Now that's what I call music
Grant

You still in Radcliffe mate?

May 21, 200916 yr

Interesting thread Matt, nice one.

Despite 'only' 200 odd votes, I suspect it paints a reasonably representative picture.

May 21, 200916 yr

I think it was May 1969 but it could have been 1968, I can't remember if I was in the lower or upper 6th. It's been hilarious!

PS I did have some leave of absence in 76/77 for punk but kept going to nighters dressed oddly.

Edited May 21, 200916 yr by ady croasdell

May 21, 200916 yr

Matt Male said:
221 votes is pretty good, thanks everyone. Here is my final graph then, obviously a small sample of the scene but if we say there are maybe 3000 people tops active on regular weekends that's still around 8%. But llike i said just for fun, although all the anecdotal evidence is that the mid 90s was a lean period and so it seems in terms of newcomers. Cheers.

Have those who have voted counted those years from when they first attended a venue and included a number of years when they weren't actually "on the scene" or do the answers just show the years spent on it ?

May 21, 200916 yr

SteveM said:
Have those who have voted counted those years from when they first attended a venue and included a number of years when they weren't actually "on the scene" or do the answers just show the years spent on it ?

i bet there are loads that are lying too

yeah i never left the scene me i was born into it in 1957 listening to Ruby Andrews when me head first popped out in that hospital with that bloody miserable midwife shouting "what the fooks this shite your listening too"

May 21, 200916 yr

proudlove said:
You still in Radcliffe mate?

No I've gone upmarket now Bury

Loooking at your name Is that you Rob

May 21, 200916 yr

grantdyche said:
No I've gone upmarket now Bury

Loooking at your name Is that you Rob

No its not,its Steve Proudlove,it just never ceases to amaze me hoe many soulies there are in the area.

May 21, 200916 yr

proudlove said:
No its not,its Steve Proudlove,it just never ceases to amaze me hoe many soulies there are in the area.

Do you live in Radclifffe or to give it's real name Dog shit valley then?

Lived there for years,I was born in Ainsworth,moved to Radcliffe in 68,

Lived on Ulundi St,then moved to Countess Lane,

We may know some of the same people?

May 21, 200916 yr

grantdyche said:
Do you live in Radclifffe or to give it's real name Dog shit valley then?
Lived there for years,I was born in Ainsworth,moved to Radcliffe in 68,
Lived on Ulundi St,then moved to Countess Lane,
We may know some of the same people?

Hello mate,I live in Hollins,have lived all over the place,Bury for the last 15 years.I left the scene in 1979,but started coming back in the 90s was amazed that the scene was still going.It was sparked by a phone call out of the blue from the late ,great Martyn Ellis,when he started DJing again.Tend to go out to niters every couple of months(it takes me a week to recover,Im an old git)but every 4 weeks at St Bernadettes on Manchester rd,a cracking oldies night.Cheers Steve

May 21, 200916 yr

proudlove said:
Hello mate,I live in Hollins,have lived all over the place,Bury for the last 15 years.I left the scene in 1979,but started coming back in the 90s was amazed that the scene was still going.It was sparked by a phone call out of the blue from the late ,great Martyn Ellis,when he started DJing again.Tend to go out to niters every couple of months(it takes me a week to recover,Im an old git)but every 4 weeks at St Bernadettes on Manchester rd,a cracking oldies night.Cheers Steve

You live about half a mile from me,Bronte Ave near the top of Dumers lane,

Small world aint it!!

Not been to St Bernadettes,Don't get out that much nowadays,Drive a taxi,weekends = money for me,

Grant

May 21, 200916 yr

grantdyche said:
You live about half a mile from me,Bronte Ave near the top of Dumers lane,
Small world aint it!!
Not been to St Bernadettes,Don't get out that much nowadays,Drive a taxi,weekends = money for me,
Grant

Used to live on Tarn drive,used to roll back down the hill from the Swan +Cemetary! Cheers ,Steve

May 21, 200916 yr

proudlove said:
Used to live on Tarn drive,used to roll back down the hill from the Swan +Cemetary! Cheers ,Steve

My wifes mum runs The Staff Of Life at parkhills

May 21, 200916 yr

grantdyche said:
My wifes mum runs The Staff Of Life at parkhills

I wish mine did--------but on second thoughts Im not sure?!!!

May 22, 200916 yr

SteveM said:
Have those who have voted counted those years from when they first attended a venue and included a number of years when they weren't actually "on the scene" or do the answers just show the years spent on it ?

Hopefully the answers are those years spent on the scene, not including any 'time off' as it were. I count myself at around 21 years, since i had around ten years off, otherwise i'd be 31 years, like Mark Freeman who started going when i did but has never had a break... and it shows.