How Long....? Just For Fun

[Suzannek]

And lovely with it but in 15 years time will you be so honest about your age

Thanx Age is but a number (till I find the Oil of Olay wont remove the wrinkles )

Suz

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[Guest KEN-SOUL]

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!)

[Guest Matt Male]

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.

[grantdyche]

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

[Guest]

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

[Guest proudlove]

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?

[spirit]

Interesting thread Matt, nice one.

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

[Ady Croasdell]

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, 2009 by ady croasdell

[SteveM]

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 ?

[Guest Bearsy]

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"

[grantdyche]

You still in Radcliffe mate?

No I've gone upmarket now Bury

Loooking at your name Is that you Rob

[Guest proudlove]

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.

[grantdyche]

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?

[Guest proudlove]

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

[grantdyche]

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

[Guest proudlove]

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

[grantdyche]

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

[Guest proudlove]

My wifes mum runs The Staff Of Life at parkhills

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

[Guest Matt Male]

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.

[ZapatootheTiger]

When I was a lad back in the early 70s, I...

a. knew no one else who liked Northern Soul to any great degree,

b. had very little money and...

c. had no transport, so I never went to a Northern Soul night.

I still haven't been to one and at the moment, a. and b. still apply

Edited May 26, 2009 by ZapatootheTiger

[Guest]

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

..what do u mean!!! might be going off you before I've met you

Jayne.x.

[Guest proudlove]

..what do u mean!!! might be going off you before I've met you

Jayne.x.

Thats its real nick name,honest,Steve

[Guest]

Thats its real nick name,honest,Steve

I know.. Alan Barnes wife told me that, she's from Radcliffe, I'm just passing through

See you soon!

Jayne.x

[Guest proudlove]

I know.. Alan Barnes wife told me that, she's from Radcliffe, I'm just passing through

See you soon!

Jayne.x

Id say see you at Cleethorpes,but your not going---Tee Heee!!

[burt weedon]

First time I went to wigan was 1975 to see Jackie Wilson, but got into it a few months before,

Edited May 31, 2009 by burt

[burt weedon]

ANYWAY THAT WAS ME N ME MATE IN SCHOOL UNIFORM TUMIN A LIFT.J9 M6 WENSBURY.

[burt weedon]

MAN AVIN A BAD MORNIN; 1973. NO MORE QUESTIONS;Pleeeze.