'soul Boy' Outrageous Filmic Tosh

[Davenpete]

I suppose this is more or less the right place for this porridge brained ramble today - and I'm sure it's been said before but...

Having received a copy of the Soulboy DVD as a 'special birthday treat' from little brother I finally got round to watching it about 4.00am this morning (note to self - remember that unlike yer usual fry up weekend an evening do on a Sunday does NOT provide 24 hours to achieve a vague semblance of normality ready for work on Monday).

Amazing! Music set 'feel', period, actual records included - all wrong for the ostensive year (and not simply in detail - it just WASN'T anything like right) - after several replayings and rantings by the Boss we discovered Double Cooking burbling in the background that must've come on by accident from Tunstall Hospital Radio on the old radio that was scene dressing during the 'please cut my hair so it looks like it will do in 5 years time please, give us a snog' scene... Kev surely you've got licence option on about £50 worth of licensable material from the KTel (seriously) vaults that'd been more representative of the supposed period... Alarm bells rang when I saw 'specially recorded original Northern Soul soundtrack' flash on the cover, should've said 'ill-advised investment of limited budget on inexplicable own goal'... Then out of dazzling glare of the gloom beneath the 'Wigan' balcony Jimmy Radliffe and 'The Black Ship From Hell'?... Were there subliminal messages being sent out there?

Dancing patchy of course (why not just pick out some of our lot and get the makeup artists to nip down B&Q for polyfilla) - what was weird was that the floor moved just completely wrong as a whole - I guess the extras must've been filled out with show kids from Yvette Pottie's Five Towns Academy for the Performing Arts (and Launderette). Loved the Rambo style dance off - they must've got confused when they saw those bits about kick boxing champions in past Northern TV documentaries.

...The whole thing felt like a strange sort of 'legendary gritty realist dramatists triumph again with new Grange Hill spinoff 'Zammo Goes Casino Crazy for Piped Vests and Barm Cakes' - no doubt much lorded amongst Guardian and Independent Arts Critics for it's uncompromising portrayal of a young girl choking to death whilst trying to swallow giant black and whites on the dancefloor ('they MAY have been 4 times the size of a red and brown, but for all the good they did me I might as well have stuck them up me arse' - no change there then) ... A later-day Boys from the Black Stuff for the 3 Day Week Generation - only with big trousers, no tarmac and Les 'The Ginger Harry Green' Battersby.

Must admit though you have to give the young production team their due - I never thought that the BBC's Wigan Casino Play for Today from the late 80s would EVER be out-dafted- at least THAT was darker inside than Shotts at 4.00am in mid summer... Though you know I DO have to say that it's not until you hear oldies that've not been played for 25 years-plus that you're reminded just HOW good they were - and remember that as a group they recorded so many more great storming cuts that are so much less well known than Tiger Feet - which appeared to be the key theme track that tied the whole package together.

'Music consultant Keb Darge' - you NAUGHTY man.

Still towards the end it was lovely to see everyone's favourite (especially mine) dancefloor sprinkler system - Graham from Cheltenham - a west country diamond amongst the taffs.

Dave 'I hope my head's less potted when the clients role up this afternoon' Carne

PS What goes around comes around - did anyone notice the 'With the Support of the Stoke City Cultural Heritage Fund' credit? Do you reckon anyone can persuade the West Yorkshire Police Community Liaison Team to put on a Charity Northern Soul Gala Dinner and Evidence Planting Dance in aid of the Queens Hall Allnigthter World Heritage Site Campaign Committee (incorporating Crofty's Echoes Bankrupcy Memorial Garden and Paul Philips Heritage Trail project).

.. .One last thing - promise - once again a VERY happy 60th to that finest TRUE gentlemen - Mr Sneddon - from both me and the boss.

Edited July 19, 2011 by DaveNPete

[SHEFFSOUL]

does anyone except the poster understand any of this..makes Dave Godin sound monosybillic!!!

[Guest MrC]

does anyone except the poster understand any of this..makes Dave Godin sound monosybillic!!!

No, I don't really get it either

BUT.......

"a young girl choking to death whilst trying to swallow giant black and whites on the dancefloor ('they MAY have been 4 times the size of a red and brown..........),"

I think the posters (or my) memories may be slightly misted... I'm sure Black & Whites were smaller than Red & Browns

[Pete S]

No, I don't really get it either

BUT.......

"a young girl choking to death whilst trying to swallow giant black and whites on the dancefloor ('they MAY have been 4 times the size of a red and brown..........),"

I think the posters (or my) memories may be slightly misted... I'm sure Black & Whites were smaller than Red & Browns

Much smaller...

[Davenpete]

Watch the bleedin film.

Dx

[Pete S]

Watch the bleedin film.

Dx

We all did do, 6 months ago, and are still recovering

[SHEFFSOUL]

its all been said and done by now surely.....except my notw type behind the scenes, fallouts, rows, never to be talked about (maybe when i do my autobiography) personal experience of the whole disaster!!