Soulsmith Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 "The usual slow build up after Christmas seems to have culminated in a more wide spread Christmas depression than in past years. I have been spoken to by many people in the last month or so asking me what is happening to the northern scene. Is Northern Soul falling apart? Is the scene dying? are just a couple of the questions...." Frank Elson, Blues & Soul Feb 1977. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
mischief Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I had my first beer in 1977 it was at the silver jubile party... bottle of light ale all to me self .. aged 9... thanks dad Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Billywhizz Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 "The usual slow build up after Christmas seems to have culminated in a more wide spread Christmas depression than in past years. I have been spoken to by many people in the last month or so asking me what is happening to the northern scene. Is Northern Soul falling apart? Is the scene dying? are just a couple of the questions...." Frank Elson, Blues & Soul Feb 1977. Must admit its not the same since kev roberts started to grow a beard. Billy Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soulsmith Posted March 29, 2006 Author Share Posted March 29, 2006 "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Mark Twain. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Simon T Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I had my first beer in 1977 it was at the silver jubile party.. Four cans of Special Vat cider from Tommy Upsalls, sick as a dog all over my brother's bedroom carpet. He cleaned it up and I've been repaying him for it ever since!! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soulsmith Posted March 29, 2006 Author Share Posted March 29, 2006 I had my first beer in 1977 it was at the silver jubile party... bottle of light ale all to me self .. aged 9... thanks dad Around that time you could have also ordered a 'Lumber Check Poodle Jacket' for £7.95 plus 25 p+p from Black Music magazine. How cool would that have been a beer and a Lumber Check Poodle Jacket Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
mischief Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 a bottle of light ale in one hand, a plastic union jack in the other whilst wearing a Lumber Check Poodle Jacket... I may have looked the dogs bollicks.. depending on the colour of jkt of course Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Simsy Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I had my first beer in 1977 it was at the silver jubile party... bottle of light ale all to me self .. aged 9... thanks dad I hear that, street party (don't have those anymore) Sawbridgeworth 1977 aged 11. Not much soul about, had to settle for listening to me dad's O C Smith, Lou Johnson and Brook Benton records. Not bad though. A lot of this that year ... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
pikeys dog Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I may have licked the dogs bollicks.. Ooh I Say! Sauce Pot! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest andrew bin Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Around that time you could have also ordered a 'Lumber Check Poodle Jacket' for £7.95 plus 25 p+p from Black Music magazine. How cool would that have been a beer and a Lumber Check Poodle Jacket some homo tried kissing me at prestatyn never happened in the wigan days Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
mischief Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 some homo tried kissing me at prestatyn never happened in the wigan days thats sick bet he had been on the light ale he never tried he did Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Winnie :-) Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 "The usual slow build up after Christmas seems to have culminated in a more wide spread Christmas depression than in past years. I have been spoken to by many people in the last month or so asking me what is happening to the northern scene. Is Northern Soul falling apart? Is the scene dying? are just a couple of the questions...." Frank Elson, Blues & Soul Feb 1977. ================== When the "Many" asked you Col, what did you tell them?? Winnie:-) Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
SteveM Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 ================== When the "Many" asked you Col, what did you tell them?? Winnie:-) Surely this should be in the 'all about our yesterdays' section. I can't be the only one to notice. Where is Shane etc etc. I think the Northern scene is falling apart. This would NOT have happened in 1977 etc etc etc. Comments only from those who were there please. (Everybody ) Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Winnie :-) Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Surely this should be in the 'all about our yesterdays' section. I can't be the only one to notice. Where is Shane etc etc. I think the Northern scene is falling apart. This would NOT have happened in 1977 etc etc etc. Comments only from those who were there please. (Everybody ) ================ Stop plagarising me Anyway, if we play new sounds, we'll attract new people and they'll be young and etiquette is a just a tradition, not a way of life Think that sums up both sides of the argument Steve? Still interested in how Col answered the questions though........Col? Winnie:-) Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest rachel Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Still interested in how Col answered the questions though........Col? Winnie:-) And when he changed his name from Frank? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest ShaneH Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 anyone going to have a go at rescuing this thread and adding some quality soul chat content? otherwise it's going to the far and distant land that is the 'all our yesterdays' section cheers Shane Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Gene-r Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 "The usual slow build up after Christmas seems to have culminated in a more wide spread Christmas depression than in past years. I have been spoken to by many people in the last month or so asking me what is happening to the northern scene. Is Northern Soul falling apart? Is the scene dying? are just a couple of the questions...." Frank Elson, Blues & Soul Feb 1977. 29 years later and, on both counts, the answer is still a resounding NO! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soulsmith Posted March 30, 2006 Author Share Posted March 30, 2006 anyone going to have a go at rescuing this thread and adding some quality soul chat content? otherwise it's going to the far and distant land that is the 'all our yesterdays' section cheers Shane Hang on for a couple of hours mate. I'm currently hatching a thought provoking comment....... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Winnie :-) Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 anyone going to have a go at rescuing this thread and adding some quality soul chat content? otherwise it's going to the far and distant land that is the 'all our yesterdays' section cheers Shane ================ Thing is Shane, it looks like it will go in the direction oldies/newies/youngsters etc etc which we're doing to death at the moment. If Col takes the lead and voices his thoughts on the subject perhaps we'll have more to work with? Winnie:-) Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soulsmith Posted March 30, 2006 Author Share Posted March 30, 2006 If I had of been Frank Elson, the world would have been a better place. For a start I wouldn't have written negative, disparaging comments about the northern scene whilst bigging up the jazz-funk scene. I'd have written more balanced articles like this one on the history of jazz..... Jazz was a revolutionary new kind of music. Monopolised at first by people with stupid names - there was Dizzy Gillespie, Falling Down Gillespie, Totally Paralytic Gillespie & Bix Beiderbecke. The Gillespie clan's great rivals were the Mortons. Notorious among them were Jelly Roll Morton, Marmalade Roll Morton, Jam Sandwich Morton, Hostess Cup Cake Morton and Spotty Dick Morton (later known as Figgy Duff Morton after his sucessful stay at Lulsgate Hospital). All this feuding came to a sudden end in 1928 when jazz was over taken by the aristocracy. it was now the property of Duke Ellington,Count Basie, Earl Mountbatten, Lord Longford and Kaiser Wilhelm. Not bad eh? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soulsmith Posted March 30, 2006 Author Share Posted March 30, 2006 ================ Thing is Shane, it looks like it will go in the direction oldies/newies/youngsters etc etc which we're doing to death at the moment. If Col takes the lead and voices his thoughts on the subject perhaps we'll have more to work with? Winnie:-) Cheers mate, just trying to put an entertaining spin on it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And when he changed his name from Frank? My parents always encouraged me to be Frank......at least I think that's what they said. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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