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Bbc - The One Show - Northern Soul Segment - July 2023


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11 hours ago, Roburt said:

The knockers will no doubt pile in once again. Why shouldn't Craig Charles interview folk on the scene, he's a soul radio DJ after all. Apart from having Dustbin Stanley on, it was an OK piece of reporting.

No better or worse than any other expose as far as I could see. It just followed the usual format of visit to a local club, interviews with enthusiasts, Russ on Wigan, a bit on youngsters, then interviewer gets invited to a northern night to experience it. We have seen this format numerous times before over the years. 

As for Craig Charles, he is a popular figure and well known by the public at large and most who'd tune into the One Show. So no issues with him doing it at all. 

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It's a no to Craig then... I don't know if he is representative, he just has a show and interviews people... Eddie Pillar always speaks very very highly of him. Good enough for Eddie Pillar, good enough for me...  not that I actually watch or listen to the BBC.

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Really just a short and sweet segment built onto a prom rehearsal. The emphasis was on young people and their accessing the music. Russ has more than earned the right to be included in any Northern Soul TV feature. I’ve gone off the One Show lately but this was an okeh tit-bit to throw to the common people - the Coutts/Nat West censors should be reasonably content therefore the Spanish Inquisition need not be called upon on this occasion.

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14 minutes ago, Wheelsville1 said:

Could be that i have got my wires crossed,i thought i had seen it mentioned in a news paper when he was being interviewed.

check my post above, the first post in the topic I linked to mentions the newspaper 'quote', also Trevor Nelson comment on Lowton is talked about

 

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Monny1916 said:

It's common knowledge amongst northern soul folk 

I beg to differ.

ALSO, Trevor Nelson may have said some negative things about a NS venue but I seem to recall him attending one of Ady's Cleggy Weekenders and having a really good time (my memory may be off though).

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3 minutes ago, Roburt said:

I beg to differ.

ALSO, Trevor Nelson may have said some negative things about a NS venue but I seem to recall him attending one of Ady's Cleggy Weekenders and having a really good time (my memory may be off though).

when I watched the programme, to me it was just a throw away comment about old northern blokes

here are, here's the actual clip

 

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6 hours ago, Roburt said:

So Trevor never even dissed NS at all. However It seems the other blokes & gal did diss it  ... who does Keb think he is to say Wigan played loads of pop shite coz the DJ's got lazy ... surely not ...  🤣😂😅😂🤣  

That short clip definitely went on longer than that and showed Trevor Nelson watching some dancers. From memory I think he kind of took the mickey a bit and dismissed the scene as 'not really proper soul' or something like that. I always remembered that and thinking 'This is where proper Soul is played you tit!'. Never liked him since.

 

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1 hour ago, Leicester Boy said:

Craig Charles isn't that bad a bloke I saw him at a funk night in Leicester. But he isn't really into ns. He always makes jokes regarding the records sounding the same 🤔but he is in the media and no doubt would comment on Morris dancing if asked.

I am really confused why some members think people not liking things that they do constitutes personal attacks.

I would also add far from expanding and spreading the word,these events are dowsing what little flames remain. Obviously just my opinion.👍

I don’t think they do see it as personal attacks do they?  I don’t think they want to be portrayed as they do in the media. Maybe as I said below they are tired of the lazy journalism and simply reeling out the same sterotypical soundbites, dress sense and records

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23 hours ago, Roburt said:

I beg to differ.

ALSO, Trevor Nelson may have said some negative things about a NS venue but I seem to recall him attending one of Ady's Cleggy Weekenders and having a really good time (my memory may be off though).

June 2015 maybe 15th or 19th , Craig Charles interview with the Guardian,  straight from the horses mouth 

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23 minutes ago, Monny1916 said:

June 2015 maybe 15th or 19th , Craig Charles interview with the Guardian,  straight from the horses mouth 

From a long article about Leon Bridges and Curtis Harding published on 18 June 2015:

"There’s little doubt, though, that in the UK at least, the classic soul revival is being marketed to an older, whiter audience. Bridges is currently playlisted on Radio 2 and 6 Music, but not on Radio 1 and certainly not on 1Xtra. Craig Charles, who has a Saturday-evening funk and soul show on 6 Music as well as DJing in clubs, says it was ever thus. That’s not a new phenomenon. “The whole northern soul scene was white,” he says. “Some black people who went to those events suffered racism. I suppose young black people are always looking to be ahead of the curve – in the 70s, rather than northern soul, black people were into P-Funk and Earth, Wind and Fire, and so on, not the 60s soul. Now black people have moved on from soul to dubstep and hip-hop. I think white and black musical youth are almost a generation apart.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/18/leon-bridges-curtis-harding-the-new-stars-of-classic-soul

Disappointing to read this but the same could be said of any type of events, as indeed it has already on this forum. "Some" means "not all", but why bring it up, especially when it has nothing to do with the main point he's trying to make. Not helpful of the interviewer to include it, whatever CC actually said.

Having checked Norman Jay's book he talks about going to the Casino, the Mecca and the Ritz and the "problems" he faced were mainly getting his mates to come along - many of those that did complained the music was too old and that the girls weren't interested :lol: No mention of any racism, and he says he had no fear of hanging out where almost everyone was white, which might be what some of the London crowd have difficulty getting their heads around, given their experience of London in those days.

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On 27/07/2023 at 15:58, Hooker1951 said:

 my point is that by the early 1990,s the scene to me was at its zenith , People were still young enough to do all nighters they knew what they wanted, loads of good  records had been discovered  and combined with the real strong oldies to me anyway it made for a better night

Cheers 

Mick L

Totally with most you wrote and the section quoted sums up my feelings too , some great nighters late 80s to mid 90s and good clubs too and a very varied type of soul music been played which was great if your taste is not just Northern oldies , new releases along newly discovered oldies  loved Bradford , Parkers and a few more.

 

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On 25/07/2023 at 22:03, Roburt said:

The knockers will no doubt pile in once again. Why shouldn't Craig Charles interview folk on the scene, he's a soul radio DJ after all. Apart from having Dustbin Stanley on, it was an OK piece of reporting.

Anything with  Dustbin Stanley on, is a joke. Just the usual lazy rhetoric wheeled out once again.

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18 minutes ago, Wiggyflat said:

It was terrible.....i judge these things from the tv pieces in the past that have been good. Why all these white fists....that's a white Aryan power symbol. These tv things went downhill after Dani Behrs Northern Soul Butcher one. 

This England. This is great even though nobody wanted it.

Something Else. Not many people have seen this but i had to pay a few quid to get it out the back door. An excellent piece covering records, the excitement etc. 

Jamesons People..Phil Dick one...this is One Show terrtory but is not too bad in retrospect and not as galling as The One Show pieces.

Morecambe on Hearsay....a great serious piece ....interviews about the  music from the deejays and promoters of the time .

Whistle Test...another great piece with talk about the music and the scene.

I don't think people know how to say "no" .It is being homogenised and dumbed down and the drugs and record hounds have been erased altogether to be replaced by fluffy baggy trouser oh look  at the quaint northerners. 

 

I am doing a lot of research from the Mod scene through the Northern scene and the amount of chemist burglaries is staggering and the amount of people who grassed their club up was suprising.Maybe not One show material

 

White fist is ayran power symbol... really. Always regarded white/any colour fist as more to do with communism than fascist. Sorry to go of topic 🤔

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Its a white Power symbol taken from the Black Power clenched fist .

ALTERNATE NAMES: White Power Fist, White Fist

The upright clenched fist has long been used as a symbol (both graphically and as a hand gesture) to represent themes such as defiance, unity, and power.  In the 1960s and 1970s, black nationalist groups in the United States and elsewhere often used a dark-skinned clenched fist gesture or image as a "black power" symbol.  By the 1980s, white supremacists in the United States and elsewhere had appropriated this symbol, substituting a white fist.  White supremacists frequently claim that they use the symbol to represent "white pride" or "white power."

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11 minutes ago, Wiggyflat said:

File:Racist Aryan Fist or White Power Fist used by white supremacists.svg - Wikimedia Commons

I'm thinking you've got the wrong end of the stick here.

My memory is not what it once was but wearing a black fist round one's neck and one racing glove was a thing for some in the early days, maybe pre-Wigan. Think that arose from the Black Power movement in the US  and that one iconic moment where the Black athlete raised a salute on the podium during the Olympics [1968 ?].

I'm guessing the white fists are meant to show solidarity as in White and Black together but unaware of the connotations with Aryan ideology in the USA.

Something that always stuck in my mind was the girl appearing in one of the many documentaries talking about her experience of Wigan. It was a respite from the everyday racism she experienced in Scotland. Can't remember her name now and she died some years back but some on here will remember her.

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16 minutes ago, Modernsoulsucks said:

I'm thinking you've got the wrong end of the stick here.

My memory is not what it once was but wearing a black fist round one's neck and one racing glove was a thing for some in the early days, maybe pre-Wigan. Think that arose from the Black Power movement in the US  and that one iconic moment where the Black athlete raised a salute on the podium during the Olympics [1968 ?].

I'm guessing the white fists are meant to show solidarity as in White and Black together but unaware of the connotations with Aryan ideology in the USA.

Something that always stuck in my mind was the girl appearing in one of the many documentaries talking about her experience of Wigan. It was a respite from the everyday racism she experienced in Scotland. Can't remember her name now and she died some years back but some on here will remember her.

No I haven't.....always was a Black Fist but at some point has changed into a white Fist. Lads from the Wheel era used to wear a black glove on one hand  to show affinity with the black struggle. It has somehow in the last few years changed to a white fist and it is a commonly known symbol for the white Aryan movement. (well i thought it was commonly known but obviously not!)I think a lot of people wear these symbols without even thinking of the meaning or looking no further than the image. Same as when that Nazi symbol was used on the Northern Soul float.I wonder how many on that show apart from Russ would understand who Dave Godin was yet can roll K.T.F off the tongue. 

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3 minutes ago, Modernsoulsucks said:

I think the Black Sun was meant to be the Wheel.

I will never forget that day at a meal with about 7 other people when a learned friend said look a float with a Nazi symbol on it....it's Northern Soul ! Kev you are into Northern Soul.....i spat red wine out.

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