Your First Exposure To The Modern Soul Sound

[MrsWoodsrules]

I would say most of that was being played by guys like Adam/Robin S (the DJ not the singer) and especially the generation after them, it was all modern, by definition and by era, the fact it was easily accessible, 10p for demos on UK copies in local shops, or 50p for the 12" or LP's made it even more appealing. I bought it without question. And I would say it was disco growing up, rather than post disco.

By the late 80's, when I was spending more time than was healthy at pure Northern events, and it was becoming much more segregated musically , there was the usual lot of band leaders playing modern versions of this stuff and slowly moving into House, the so called soulfull end, Robin S, Barry May, Pete Shirley, Gary Welsh, Fish etc etc merging the Northern Modern world with New Black music world, and we soon followed when the segregation got too much, and the quality at all nighters got worse, not least with the introduction of the John Wayne fan club with percussion supplied by Banner. And it moved on faster when Southport started, which actually along with places like Parker's and London burgeoning scene changed the face of the Modern direction for me, and more so a couple of Southports later as softish house (it didn’t seem that then) was produced (to much booing and throwing of beer mats at the 3 or 4 of us dancing, despite what the revisionists say). And it then changed for ever.

So I think its easy to ignore people who just stuck with new music, call it what you will, at times it was tiny, I was an irregular visitor during 80's in all honesty being an allnighter man,but popped my head in on lots of occasions, so the above is my view with huge gaps that would/could be filled and corrected by some on here. I believe there is a cracking book that just needs finished by someone who was there from the start, all through the journey and still is there. In my opinion it will be the second biggest crime of the century if that story isn't told.

And as for my first experience, 1980 Wigan Casino, when it was just Northern, and it started me buying new music from then on, and I still do, fairly frequently, but not often enough, and its definitely not Northern now. And its not DJ Genesis.

Agree Jocko lots of historical gaps as the scenes fragmented.

Would be really interesting to read a chronological guide through 80s soul.

After Wigan, l drifted, frequented Casanellis in Standish, the music was great there.

Remember a Jazz funk venue called The Studio, in Nantwich? great little place that, Toni Rallo Holdon On was big before it broke out. also Chantel Curtis Get Another Love, don't think it was open for v long though.

I went to Berlin a lot (the club) as Colin C had a regular spot, but other than that, drifted into other things like The Hacienda opened in 82/83, lots of jazz stuff happening too & got into other stuff like weed, I'm a grown up now though, sometimes.