German Soul Scene ?

[ImberBoy]

Having lived in ze land of the Bratwurst for the last 11 years you'd kinda expect that I'd be well versed in the German Northernsoul Scene, well I kinda aren't.

I mainly plumped for their "Scootering" scene, and it seamed as if the two "Cults" where a bit like oil and water? Of course there where some crossing, over but certainly not on the scale as in the UK with folks seamlessly enjoying the tastes of both camps. (Never been on a Scooter Rally? You'll love it, camping with hooligans)

Now I know John Buck ventured over to Berlin some years ago and I have heard that the initial reports on the night where a little "fluffed up" to say the least? The night was an almighty flop?

I have been to a few "Do's" over the years, some ok other dia fookin bolical! The thing is that you can have a realy fookin good time over there!

The real question is would I go back? Well the answer is definitely yes!!

Who has been over before? I know Terry Davis, Nige Brown, Dave Rimmer, Eddy Pillar and Keb Darge have been across but who else?

Is any one planning to go this year? When, where and can I come?

Here are a few write ups I did on the German northernsoul scene, some have been published in Manifesto, have a read, it's my personal take on their take on our scene, comments welcomed. Please note that derogatory comments may be met with a bayonet to the face.

Are there any Germanz on list?

The Velvet & Silk Mod-Weekender Krefeld https://www.tafsc.com/KREFELD.htm

Monsters of Funk and Soul Weekender https://www.tafsc.com/JAZZ.htm

Northern Soul All-nighter in the FZW Dortmund https://www.tafsc.com/Dortmund05.htm

Wuppertal All-nighter https://www.tafsc.com/WUPPERTAL.htm

Cologne Soul Weekender https://www.tafsc.com/Soulweekender.htm

The Soul Cellar Nighter in The FZW Club of Dortmund https://www.tafsc.com/Dortmund.htm

Terry Davies does Germany https://www.tafsc.com/TD.htm

SOUL BOWL Germany 20.04.2002 https://www.tafsc.com/Bowl.htm

Who the Funk is Keb Darge? https://www.tafsc.com/Keb.htm

[Dave Rimmer]

Having lived in ze land of the Bratwurst for the last 11 years you'd kinda expect that I'd be well versed in the German Northernsoul Scene, well I kinda aren't.

I mainly plumped for their "Scootering" scene, and it seamed as if the two "Cults" where a bit like oil and water? Of course there where some crossing, over but certainly not on the scale as in the UK with folks seamlessly enjoying the tastes of both camps. (Never been on a Scooter Rally? You'll love it, camping with hooligans)

Now I know John Buck ventured over to Berlin some years ago and I have heard that the initial reports on the night where a little "fluffed up" to say the least? The night was an almighty flop?

I have been to a few "Do's" over the years, some ok other dia fookin bolical! The thing is that you can have a realy fookin good time over there!

The real question is would I go back? Well the answer is definitely yes!!

Who has been over before? I know Terry Davis, Nige Brown, Dave Rimmer, Eddy Pillar and Keb Darge have been across but who else?

John Weston, Carl Willingham, Ian Cunliffe, Jo Wallace, Jodie, Chris Anderton. Off the top of my head these six have all been over, and are all members of SS.

I've been going out to Germany to DJ for ten years now and loved every minute of it, same with Italy. Have a look at the Hamburg Weekender thread that Ralf started, it's not until October, so will give people plenty of time to book cheap flights etc. If you want somewhere sooner than that how about the Baltic Soul weekender which is just over a week away?

Edited March 15, 2007 by Dave Rimmer

[Guest]

I fancied that Baltic weekender myself but being the weekend after Prestatyn there were two reasons why I've had to decline. 1. I'll be skint... 2. I'll still be in recovery mode from Prestatyn!

You're a hard man if you can make both weekenders Dave

[Dave Rimmer]

I fancied that Baltic weekender myself but being the weekend after Prestatyn there were two reasons why I've had to decline. 1. I'll be skint... 2. I'll still be in recovery mode from Prestatyn!

You're a hard man if you can make both weekenders Dave

Dead 'ard me !

[ImberBoy]

Quick note to Gilly and Elaine who I know read this forum every day, Elaine get some fookin house work done! And both of you join the list and stop lurking!!!!

[Guest stash313]

There's The Frankfurt weekender in May myself and Arthur Fenn are joining Terry Jones on the lineup.

Although I'm playing Modern rather than Northern, check out https://www.myspace.com/uptight_frankfurt for more details.

Consists of three evenings worth of Soul and an all-nighter on the saturday.

Should be a top weekend.

[Dave Thorley]

And here's a couple more for you. First one is a blast and celebrating my wedding there this year. Butch & Sam enjoyed it so much last time they are coming out for a week and having a mini holiday. Infact there are about 50 flying out from the UK for this

2 Allniters, over 2 rooms, DJ's Soul Sam, Butch, Marc Forrest, Gavin Page, Stefan Krapf, Lionel Girard, Stefan Kubernus, Malayka, Dave Thorley, Arthur Fenn, Ady Pountain, Ali & John Nightingale, The Mighty Renegades Of Funk.

April 27th-29th 2007

Apart from the two allnighters there are also two afternoon sessions;

Saturday @ Caffebar Kranen, a fantastic city centre, riverside location to chill out and hear some great music. Sunday @ Stillbruch, traditional German beerkeller, last year this was magic with Sam playing 2 hours of his personal favourite tunes

DJ's so far

Arne Karck

Ralf Mehnert

Markus Sichter

Flo Dalton

Sebastian Gerstung

Sam will also be doing what he does best again.

and everyone else, who comes along and has some nice records in his bag..

All of this in one of the hidden gems of Europe, Bamberg. City centre is a UNESCO World Culture Heritage Site.

Current flights from Stansted or Manchester just 74 Euro return (Air Berlin) to Nurnberg. Half hour from Bamberg. Accomodation starting from 20 Euro a night.

That's about £90 all in for one of Europe's best weekenders

Have a look on the website, there is loads of info, Hotel links, Location photos, pictures from last year etc.

www.soul-shakers.de

Malayka

________________________________________________________________________________

___

HAMBURG SOUL WEEKENDER (Germany)

05.10. - 07.10.2007

friday 05.10.

22.00 - 06.00

Allnighter at the famous

MANDARIN CASINO

Reeperbahn 1, Hamburg-St.Pauli

saturday 06.10.

22.00 - 06.00

2nd Allnighter at the famous

MANDARIN CASINO

sunday 07.10.

15.00 - 21.00

Soulful boat trip through the harbour of Hamburg

on the MS HEDI ship with the DJ`s from fri./sat.

DJ`S

DAVE RIMMER (U.K., soulful kinda music)

LARS BULNHEIM (HAMBURG, everywhere)

DAVE THORLEY (U.K., soul shakers international)

MARC FORREST (BERLIN, hip city soul club)

JOHN WESTON (U.K., bar)

THORSTEN WEGNER (HAMBURG, www.puresoul.de)

MALAYKA (CH, D, U.K., soul shakers international and soul weekender bamberg)

STEFAN KRAPF (Ní…"RNBERG, n¼rnberg soul weekender)

MARKUS GORA (HAMBURG, spellbound allnighter)

STEFAN KUBERNUS (Mí…"NSTER, everywhere)

JAN DREWS (HAMBURG, for dancers only allnighter)

RALF MEHNERT (HAMBURG)

The Weekender take place at the Mandarin Casino (the famous Ex-MOJO Club...birthplace of the continental Acid Jazz scene) into the heart of St.Pauli, the well known red light district of Hamburg.

Top DJ`s will play the finest in Northern Soul, Rare Soul and R`n`B in the main hall and upfront Modern Soul from the 70`s until now into the China Lounge.

For hotel bookings and more information: www.loveshake-music.com/weekender (coming soon)

You can book really cheap flights from Manchester (Airberlin) or London-Standsted (Ryanair). You will find a hotel list at the soon coming website.

Record dealers welcome.

Weekend passes 16

Allnighter ticket 9

Boat trip 7

Edited March 15, 2007 by Dave Thorley

[macca]

the bamberg do sounds really groovy. I think I'm gonna have to spread my wings, though if I do, it'll be to italy first, to one of roccia's events. this international soul scene is the dog's gonads in my opinion. my calender this year reads madrid in may, gij³n in august & valencia in october, all in this country admittedly, but they're pretty damned good here too, steve g & tony smith can vouch for that.

M

[Dave Thorley]

the bamberg do sounds really groovy. I think I'm gonna have to spread my wings, though if I do, it'll be to italy first, to one of roccia's events. this international soul scene is the dog's gonads in my opinion. my calender this year reads madrid in may, gij³n in august & valencia in october, all in this country admittedly, but they're pretty damned good here too, steve g & tony smith can vouch for that.

M

Looks like your busy already, but Bamberg would be a great addition, trust me I'm a doctor

[Dave Thorley]

James Trouble has just put these photo's up on the end of the Soulshakers Weekender tread, they show just how stunning a setting the city is for the weekender. Cheers James

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.p...mp;#entry459291

[Guest vinylvixen]

John Weston, Carl Willingham, Ian Cunliffe, Jo Wallace, Jodie. Off the top of my head these five have all been over, and are all members of SS.

I've been going out to Germany to DJ for ten years now and loved every minute of it, same with Italy. Have a look at the Hamburg Weekender thread that Ralf started, it's not until October, so will give people plenty of time to book cheap flights etc. If you want somewhere sooner than that how about the Baltic Soul weekender which is just over a week away?

Done Cologne twice, Munich loads of times, Frankfurt a couple of times, Nurnberg - what a weekend as well as djing at a Rocksteady Night at the same venue in Nurnberg - that was AMAZING - totally rammed and all dancing to Alton Ellis, Heptones, Sugar Minott, Jackie Opal etc etc - respect to Ozi Celik for organising that. Was going to be doing the Baltic Weekender but had a few hiccups so had to decline...but Mr Rimmer will report back with all the goings on DJ'd in Austria, Spain, France and Italy as well and all have fabulous soul events all with slightly different variations on a soul theme....bugger the carbon foot prints - get over there and have a Eurosoultastic time....you won't regret it Jo

Edited March 15, 2007 by vinylvixen

[Dave Thorley]

A few more pics to show how cool euro events are, venue shots of Bamberg

Main Room

Garden Terrace

Modern Room

Afternoon venue

[Dave Thorley]

And all set in a city like this, Bamberg

Edited March 15, 2007 by Dave Thorley

[Little-stevie]

Here is an event that my dear freind Michael Wink helps run...I have had a good time over in Germany and many freinds from there come over here on a regular basis..Met a good few at the last Soul Revolution..Details below..

Men from L.I.N.Z. 2007

15th Mod-Sixtiesweekender

25.-28. Mai

short pre infos:

The Men from L.I.N.Z. goes Bad Breisig

The Cave is back !!!

After leave Linz, we found a perfect new venue in Bad Breisig, what is at the left side of the river rhine. The venue is a cool cellar club direct at the rhine-promenade. Better than ever!!! Bad Breisig has much more cheaper hotels than Linz :: More infos follow soon:

Short Programm:

- Friday 25.May: Welcom Party

- Saturday 26.May: .Scootercruise, BBQ, Lunchtime und in der Nacht der groí…¸e Sixtiesallnighter

- Sunday 27.May: legend¤re Boatsparty and Sixtiesallnighter with Liveband (t.b.c.)

Top Euro DJs :: Live bands :: Boatsparty :: Scootercruise :: Scootercompetition :: BBQ :: Lunchtime discotheque :: Clothes and record stalls :: and much more fun

https://www.2menfromlinz.de :: https://www.bad-breisig.de

[Guest Andy BB]

We're off to Aachen in Germany in a few weeks for a weekender (April 19th to 21st 2007)

CASINO ROYALE - MOD/R'N'B WEEKEND

It was the casino visit that got me hooked. Very civilised, that and the daily brunch.

Can recommend Gijon too (Been to the Mod weekenders rather than the Soul ones there, but the town is really lovely).

Oh well, back to packing my bags for ermm, Pontins in Prestatyn.

[Soulie78]

Having lived in ze land of the Bratwurst for the last 11 years you'd kinda expect that I'd be well versed in the German Northernsoul Scene, well I kinda aren't.

I mainly plumped for their "Scootering" scene, and it seamed as if the two "Cults" where a bit like oil and water? Of course there where some crossing, over but certainly not on the scale as in the UK with folks seamlessly enjoying the tastes of both camps. (Never been on a Scooter Rally? You'll love it, camping with hooligans)

Now I know John Buck ventured over to Berlin some years ago and I have heard that the initial reports on the night where a little "fluffed up" to say the least? The night was an almighty flop?

I have been to a few "Do's" over the years, some ok other dia fookin bolical! The thing is that you can have a realy fookin good time over there!

The real question is would I go back? Well the answer is definitely yes!!

Who has been over before? I know Terry Davis, Nige Brown, Dave Rimmer, Eddy Pillar and Keb Darge have been across but who else?

Is any one planning to go this year? When, where and can I come?

Here are a few write ups I did on the German northernsoul scene, some have been published in Manifesto, have a read, it's my personal take on their take on our scene, comments welcomed. Please note that derogatory comments may be met with a bayonet to the face.

Are there any Germanz on list?

The Velvet & Silk Mod-Weekender Krefeld https://www.tafsc.com/KREFELD.htm

Monsters of Funk and Soul Weekender https://www.tafsc.com/JAZZ.htm

Northern Soul All-nighter in the FZW Dortmund https://www.tafsc.com/Dortmund05.htm

Wuppertal All-nighter https://www.tafsc.com/WUPPERTAL.htm

Cologne Soul Weekender https://www.tafsc.com/Soulweekender.htm

The Soul Cellar Nighter in The FZW Club of Dortmund https://www.tafsc.com/Dortmund.htm

Terry Davies does Germany https://www.tafsc.com/TD.htm

SOUL BOWL Germany 20.04.2002 https://www.tafsc.com/Bowl.htm

Who the Funk is Keb Darge? https://www.tafsc.com/Keb.htm

Hi!

I'm from Germany and there are some others on here...

It seems, that there are more and more soul events over here every year. The number of allnighters/weekenders is still growing as far as I can see.

The longest running weekender is in Nuremberg, I think since 1989 under different promotions. It's also the busiest one, there are around 700 people at the K4 on the second weekend of december for years now.

The longest running soul night / allnighter, as far as I know, is the Hip City Soul Club in Berlin run by Franz Heidl and Marc Forrest (both on this forum). Always top quality soul records spun there with an upfront attitude.

Nearly every bigger city has it's soul night / all nighter / weekender: Munich, Nuremberg, Bamberg Frankfurt, Dresden, Leipzig, Mainz, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen to name just a few.

There have been lots of british DJs over here for example:

Butch, Soul Sam, Andy Dyson, Mick H, James Trouble, Dave Thorley, Dave Rimmer, John Weston, John Mills, Chris Anderton....

But also some top DJs from other European countrys.

Some interesting websites:

www.soul-shakers.de

www.soul-magic.de

www.raresoul.net

Cheers, Martin

Edited March 15, 2007 by soulie78

[Dave Thorley]

Hi!

I'm from Germany and there are some others on here...

It seems, that there are more and more soul events over here every year. The number of allnighters/weekenders is still growing as far as I can see.

The longest running weekender is in Nuremberg, I think since 1989 under different promotions. It's also the busiest one, there are around 700 people at the K4 on the second weekend of december for years now.

The longest running soul night / allnighter, as far as I know, is the Hip City Soul Club in Berlin run by Franz Heidl and Marc Forrest (both on this forum). Always top quality soul records spun there with an upfront attitude.

Nearly every bigger city has it's soul night / all nighter / weekender: Munich, Nuremberg, Bamberg Frankfurt, Dresden, Leipzig, Mainz, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen to name just a few.

There have been lots of british DJs over here for example:

Butch, Soul Sam, Andy Dyson, Mick H, James Trouble, Dave Thorley, Dave Rimmer, John Weston, John Mills, Chris Anderton....

But also some top DJs from other European countrys.

Some interesting websites:

www.soul-shakers.de

www.soul-magic.de

www.raresoul.net

Cheers, Martin

Afternoon Her Martin

[Soulie78]

Afternoon Her Martin

[Guest malayka]

The real question is would I go back? Well the answer is definitely yes!!

Is any one planning to go this year? When, where and can I come?

Well, I'd say the german scene has - as you probnably already noticed, some really good, quality weekenders, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Bamberg....but of course, there's much more going on... the german soulscene in general is so much younger than the english one, hence the crowd...it's not ment negative but: they are still able to move on the dancefloor...you don't have so many people standing around and talking about how good the record is which just has been played, therefore people who express that with dancing....hope you don't get me wrong....

if you ask me where you should go to...defo Bamberg...

[Nickg]

I've edited the topic title to more accurately reflect the thread

Cheers

Nick

[Guest stromberg]

I've edited the topic title to more accurately reflect the thread

Cheers

Nick

aahh...I liked the title

Most has been already said and there is not too much to add, but I'd say if you are going for a soul event in the first place(instead of visiting the country and do sight-seeing, but you probably don't need to do that when you already spent 11 years over here)the weekender option is probably the best, they all have a two music room policy and from early R'nB to current stuff, everything is covered, so there is something for everyone. But if you are going to visit a specific city, you will find that most of the bigger cities have a more or less regular event, most have already been mentioned.

The weekenders all come highly recommended, each city/venue has something unique to it and you'll find a good and friendly crowd(usually 400 upwards), great beer at affordable prices and great music at every one.

Hope to see and meet some soul-sourcers overhere this year

There are quite a lot of germanz on here and I am sure they all will be helpful to all you folks thinking about making a trip over

See you in Bamberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg or N¼rnberg!

Best,

Stefan

[Guest stash313]

See you in Frankfurt Stefan!

[Marc Forrest]

Now I know John Buck ventured over to Berlin some years ago and I have heard that the initial reports on the night where a little "fluffed up" to say the least? The night was an almighty flop?

Being the man who organized this in 1990 I must say you are right in some aspect..it really was not too succesfull...but not really a "flop"..I had 300 in on friday and about 250 in on saturday...not bad for the very first internional German Soulweekender BUT The hall was buzild to hold up to 2000 people On the other hand back in the days we organized monthly allnighters (again with Gary Spencer, carl fortnum and Jon Buck being amongst our Guest DJ`s) which had 1000 people in. This was Berlin 1987 to 1990/1....

And yes I still do the Hip City on a regular basis with the best international Rare Soul DJ`s one can imagine...next one will be in may 5th with Martin Walgenbach and Oguzahn Celik and the big 17th anniversary party with Butch on July 14th...feel free to check my myspace...

[Guest Neil-ok]

Anyone got any playlists from any of the German niters?.

[Guest smigger]

Anyone got any playlists from any of the German niters?.

Try this for size

https://www.soul-magic.de/playlists.html

Just for the record as D¼sseldorf has not been mentioned......there are several soul does every weekend.

Non of them strictly northern. More an across the board approach with a mixture of Northern and 6Ts Soul, R&B and Funk.

And the Unique Club are organising a do in D¼sseldorf for April 30th with Gerald Jazzman, Eddie Pillar, Henry Storch and a very special guest. Without wanting to give anything away but if you check who Henry Storch

knocks around with when gigging in the UK will propably be able to have an educated guess. (Well, that's who I think it is anyway.)

[Soulie78]

Anyone got any playlists from any of the German niters?.

I've posted some on here, for example in the event lookback section for the Nuremberg Weekender in December. Here is the link:

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=38859

Very recently Marc posted his in the event lookback section of the scottish invasion at the hip city soul club in Berlin.

Martin

[Ralf Mehnert]

DOUBLE-TROUBLE (Hamburg Soul Weekender/05. - 07. october 2007)

Sorry...but...

I`d posted the following link on the events section before...but it fits in this thread so well...

www.loveshake-music.com/weekender

Most of the big Weekenders in Germany (Frankfurt, N¼rnberg, Bamberg) are located down south. It`s a pain for us northerners to travel a few times a year so far (even if we love every minute soooo much)...so we thought about giving it a go up north. The venue we have booked for october is one of the most established dancehalls in Germany. The Mandarin Casino (Ex-Mojo Club) has been visited by so many DJ`s (Butch, Keb Darge, Adey Croasdell to name a few) over the years...

The venue can hold approx 800 peoples (one big dancefloor for 6ts Soul, a smaller one for Modern Soul and a really big bar area to relax) and is located directly on the Reeperbahn. There are hundreds of clubs, restaurants, hotels, bars....(and for the lonesome traveller hundreds of strip bars, table dance clubs and and and.... you know what I mean) near by. We`ll try to be as good hosts as our friends from the south each year.

If you ask for playlists...look through the lists of DJs like John Weston, Dave Rimmer, Dave Thorley, Lars Bulnheim, Stefan Kubernus, Marc Forrest ond so on in this forum...this is what is expecting you...no overplayed Oldies in sight.

There are a few trendy quarters near by for shopping and if you`re into football...you can see the FC St.Pauli stadium from the venue. Hamburg is the City with the most bridges in Germany. You will see a few of them if you come with us on board on the MS Hedi ship on sunday 07.10.2007 to enjoy the fantastic harbour while the DJs from the Weekender will give you another dose of their sounds.

C U

Ralf

[Marc Forrest]

Anyone got any playlists from any of the German niters?.

maybe here.. https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=44708

[Guest Neil-ok]

Try this for size

https://www.soul-magic.de/playlists.html

Just for the record as D¼sseldorf has not been mentioned......there are several soul does every weekend.

Non of them strictly northern. More an across the board approach with a mixture of Northern and 6Ts Soul, R&B and Funk.

And the Unique Club are organising a do in D¼sseldorf for April 30th with Gerald Jazzman, Eddie Pillar, Henry Storch and a very special guest. Without wanting to give anything away but if you check who Henry Storch

knocks around with when gigging in the UK will propably be able to have an educated guess. (Well, that's who I think it is anyway.)

I've posted some on here, for example in the event lookback section for the Nuremberg Weekender in December. Here is the link:

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=38859

Very recently Marc posted his in the event lookback section of the scottish invasion at the hip city soul club in Berlin.

Martin

maybe here.. https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=44708

Cheers Fellas.

[Guest mirja m]

Well there's plenty of Soul Music in Germany...

The next weekender will be the Baltic Soul Weekender with Ann Sexton and Leroy Hutson playing live.....

Check www.baltic-soul.de

bless,

Mirja

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Baltic Soul Weekender

23. - 25. March 2007

Weissenhaeuser Strand

www.baltic-soul.de

Live:

Roy Ayers

Joy Denalane

Leroy Hutson

Ann Sexton

Omar

Marva Whitney

Erobique

Jeff Hendrick

James Kakande

Carl Keaton Jr.

Ngone

DJs.

Andreas Hellingh

Boris Dlugosh

Crout

Cuebism

Dan D.

Dave Rimmer

Disco Boys

Eddie Piller

Gary Dennis

Hans Nieswandt

Henry Storch

Joerg Recordshack

Jo Wallace

Knee Deep Brothers

Lloyd Attrill

Matti

Michael Fuchs

Mike Thomspon

Mirko Luetkemeyer

Mousse T.

Oliver Korthals (Mojo Club)

Pari

Ralph Tee

Rob Wigley

Sinan Mercenk

Smudo

Stefano Oggiano

Steve Hobbs

Supergid

Turntablerocker

Vincenzo

plus

24/7 Radio Hosts:

Junior Giscombe

Bernd N.

www.baltic-soul.de

[Ralf Mehnert]

mirjia,

is it true that:

- a few of the DJs cancelled the Baltic Soul Weekender (especially a few from the Northern room)?

- a few of the life acts will not play (heard Roy Ayers booking agency cancelled it ...and there`s another life act who will not come as well)?

PLEASE GIVE US THE REAL LINEUP.

THIS MUST BE POSSIBLE HALF A WEEK BEFORE THE EVENT.

Thought about to come over to the Weekender for a night...but not for some electronical/house music DJs.

Ralf

[Dave Rimmer]

mirjia,

is it true that:

- a few of the DJs cancelled the Baltic Soul Weekender (especially a few from the Northern room)?

- a few of the life acts will not play (heard Roy Ayers booking agency cancelled it ...and there`s another life act who will not come as well)?

PLEASE GIVE US THE REAL LINEUP.

THIS MUST BE POSSIBLE HALF A WEEK BEFORE THE EVENT.

Thought about to come over to the Weekender for a night...but not for some electronical/house music DJs.

Ralf

Well I'm still going

[Guest]

DOUBLE-TROUBLE (Hamburg Soul Weekender/05. - 07. october 2007)

Sorry...but...

I`d posted the following link on the events section before...but it fits in this thread so well...

www.loveshake-music.com/weekender

Most of the big Weekenders in Germany (Frankfurt, N¼rnberg, Bamberg) are located down south. It`s a pain for us northerners to travel a few times a year so far (even if we love every minute soooo much)...so we thought about giving it a go up north. The venue we have booked for october is one of the most established dancehalls in Germany. The Mandarin Casino (Ex-Mojo Club) has been visited by so many DJ`s (Butch, Keb Darge, Adey Croasdell to name a few) over the years...

The venue can hold approx 800 peoples (one big dancefloor for 6ts Soul, a smaller one for Modern Soul and a really big bar area to relax) and is located directly on the Reeperbahn. There are hundreds of clubs, restaurants, hotels, bars....(and for the lonesome traveller hundreds of strip bars, table dance clubs and and and.... you know what I mean) near by. We`ll try to be as good hosts as our friends from the south each year.

If you ask for playlists...look through the lists of DJs like John Weston, Dave Rimmer, Dave Thorley, Lars Bulnheim, Stefan Kubernus, Marc Forrest ond so on in this forum...this is what is expecting you...no overplayed Oldies in sight.

There are a few trendy quarters near by for shopping and if you`re into football...you can see the FC St.Pauli stadium from the venue. Hamburg is the City with the most bridges in Germany. You will see a few of them if you come with us on board on the MS Hedi ship on sunday 07.10.2007 to enjoy the fantastic harbour while the DJs from the Weekender will give you another dose of their sounds.

C U

Ralf

Lindsay! I do believe I've found where we're going in October Which hotel are you two staying in Dave?

Edited March 20, 2007 by ♫ Soulgirl ♫

[Ralf Mehnert]

hello soulgirl,

dave rimmer, john weston, dave thorley, malayka erpen and marc forrest will stay in the Kogge Hotel. you can find a link on our website (www.loveshake-music.com/weekender)

ralf

[Rob Wigley]

mirjia,

is it true that:

- a few of the DJs cancelled the Baltic Soul Weekender (especially a few from the Northern room)?

- a few of the life acts will not play (heard Roy Ayers booking agency cancelled it ...and there`s another life act who will not come as well)?

PLEASE GIVE US THE REAL LINEUP.

THIS MUST BE POSSIBLE HALF A WEEK BEFORE THE EVENT.

Thought about to come over to the Weekender for a night...but not for some electronical/house music DJs.

Ralf

Hi ralf

Ive been booked from day one but needed Dave Rimmer to sign autographs for me, so he's coming along with his pen.

Prestatyn "Hardliners" Steve Hobbs, Lloyd Atril, Mick Farrer, Conrad Boole.

I was on hand with stand by acts which are NOT required as everyone is coming.

see you there

reagrds

Rob & karen Wigley

Edited March 20, 2007 by Karen and Rob Wigley

[Ralf Mehnert]

thanks rob and karen

[Reg]

Any ideas on where to get cheap flights to Hamburg?

[Guest malayka]

hi reg, i think stansted is best, ryan air flies to hamburg....it is worth going to hamburg, the city is great, the people are nice and the venue is brilliant...i am so much looking forward to it!!!!!

[Guest]

hello soulgirl,

dave rimmer, john weston, dave thorley, malayka erpen and marc forrest will stay in the Kogge Hotel. you can find a link on our website (www.loveshake-music.com/weekender)

ralf

Haha... I looked at that one and though WooHoooo It looks fabulous! Who's having the punk room?

One last question, how far is Lubeck airport from the venue?

Edited March 20, 2007 by ♫ Soulgirl ♫

[Reg]

Thanks! I do fancy the Soul Shakers event in April but I'm having a baby the week before so I think I'll be otherwise engaged My husband has been suggesting a trip to Germany for ages now so the Hamburg weekender comes just at the right time

[Dave Thorley]

Thanks! I do fancy the Soul Shakers event in April but I'm having a baby the week before so I think I'll be otherwise engaged My husband has been suggesting a trip to Germany for ages now so the Hamburg weekender comes just at the right time

Shame you can't make it, but clearly not the right time. But see you in Hamburg, it's going to be a great event. But for everyone else get the Bamberg Experience, as Butch calls it. 800 plus soul fans from all over europe. See the photo's further back in this tread.

Edited March 20, 2007 by Dave Thorley

[Guest malayka]

Thanks! I do fancy the Soul Shakers event in April but I'm having a baby the week before so I think I'll be otherwise engaged My husband has been suggesting a trip to Germany for ages now so the Hamburg weekender comes just at the right time

That's the only reason ( and a real good one!! ) I accept you not beeing there in April!!!!

[Ralf Mehnert]

to soulgirl: the punk royal room is long gone. marc forrest will sleep there with his girlfriend...by the way...dave rimmer will sleep in the erich honnecker room and john weston with angie in the honeymoon suite. don`t have a clue what they have for dave thorley and malayka....

to reg: you can book cheap flights from manchester with airberlin directly to hamburg-fuhlsb¼ttel airport (30 min by shuttle bus to St.Pauli/Mandarin Casino) or from london-stansted to hamburg-l¼beck with ryanair (l¼beck is around 60 miles away from hamburg...but there are shuttle busses from l¼beck airport to hamburg as well)

[Guest malayka]

Hi ralf

Ive been booked from day one but needed Dave Rimmer to sign autographs for me, so he's coming along with his pen.

Prestatyn "Hardliners" Steve Hobbs, Lloyd Atril, Mick Farrer, Conrad Boole.

I was on hand with stand by acts which are NOT required as everyone is coming.

see you there

reagrds

Rob & karen Wigley

don't want to be difficult...BUT there are still some question marks...why did one of the djs tell me last weekend he is not going to dj there but is still on the list? why do people I know and trust tell me that some of the artists wont appear on stage because of certain issues? it just would be nice to get some light in the whole story....

[Rob Wigley]

don't want to be difficult...BUT there are still some question marks...why did one of the djs tell me last weekend he is not going to dj there but is still on the list? why do people I know and trust tell me that some of the artists wont appear on stage because of certain issues? it just would be nice to get some light in the whole story....

I have had the DJ times and artist times e-mailed to me (as i think all the Djs have) and all the acts are in there with a time on stage.

As I said ,I had acts on standby that are not now required.

DJ line ups DO change especially where travel is involved.

Really looking forward to this one and seeing the German lads who make the effort to come to Prestatyn on their home soil.

Rob & Karen

[Guest mirja m]

Hello,

no idea why, but Ralf Mehnert is spreading false rumours on a German Forum, too.

He has tried on many occasions to get a ticket.

First he claimed to be a winner of a tombola and after the office told him he would not get a ticket that way he said he was umemployed and could not afford a ticket so he wanted one for free.

(Ralf is not unemployed, since he recently appeared in a Hamburg Newspaper due to his job)

The promoters have signed contracts with all Live acts on the bill and have no reason to believe any of the acts are not coming.

ROB. It is difficult to understand for people who do not deal with international live acts, that there a constant changes. In germany there hardly ever were live acts on weekenders, so it is new to everybody.

we are very much looking forward to the weekend and hope everything runs smoothly. this is the first big one for us too, so we just hope everything will work out fine.

there will be about 2000 people on site so we expect some nice parties.....

best regards,

Mirja.

PS dearest ralf: in case you have any questions, we suggest to contact the office first and inform yourself before posting it on forums and spreading false info.

PPS. no, you are still not the winner.

;-)

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This is the confirmed line up...

Baltic Soul Weekender

23. - 25. March 2007

Weissenhaeuser Strand

Live:

Roy Ayers

Joy Denalane

Leroy Hutson

Ann Sexton

Omar

Marva Whitney

Erobique

Jeff Hendrick

James Kakande

Carl Keaton Jr.

Ngone

DJs.

Andreas Hellingh

Boris Dlugosh

Crout

Cuebism

Dan D.

Dave Rimmer

Disco Boys

Eddie Piller

Gary Dennis

Hans Nieswandt

Henry Storch

Joerg Recordshack

Knee Deep Brothers

Lloyd Attrill

Matti

Mike Thomspon

Mirko Luetkemeyer

Mousse T.

Oliver Korthals (Mojo Club)

Pari

Ralph Tee

Rob Wigley

Sinan Mercenk

Smudo

Stefano Oggiano

Steve Hobbs

Supergid

Turntablerocker

Vincenzo

plus

24/7 Radio Hosts:

Junior Giscombe

Bernd N.

www.baltic-soul.de

[Rob Wigley]

Great, Dave Rimmer has had his promo shot done and will be offering a signed photo to evryone who wants one, he has has a spare copy done as well in case there is a rush.....

see you friday

Rob & Karen

Edited March 21, 2007 by Karen and Rob Wigley

[Ralf Mehnert]

mirja,

nice posting. I never want to spread false rumours about your event. That`s the reason why I don`t write DJ X and live Act Y cancelled the Baltic Soul Weekender. I just asked a few questions, because I`d heard from four different friends that a few artists from the lineup will not come to the Weekender.

...and I`d never seriously tried to order any tickets, because I`d thought I have to work over the Weekender days. I got an email from one of your office girls a few weeks ago with an invitation for the event. It was obvious that this girl made a mistake, because I`d never ever contact you about any tickets. I`d asked her via email about winning into a newspaper competetion. It was just a joke. After her nice answer I know what I`d known before...I`m not winning anything. As a second joke I`d asked her about some free tickets, because I`m workless in the moment and my girlfiend is a strong smoker...so I can`t afford it. Don`t take me to serious...maybe my humour is a little too sick for this office girl. I`d no more contact to any of yours until these days.

Meanwhile something changed at work..so I`ll have a free weekend and I thought to come with a friend for the saturday night. So I like to know what is expecting me at the coast. That`s all.

Think it`s much easier to talk eye to eye but it`s a problem when you and Daniel haven`t been seen at any Soul event into the last 3 years. And I personally prefer other clubs then the posh ones Daniel DJ`ed regulary so it`s not easy to meet each other.

So maybe we can talk about all this nonsens at the Hamburg Soul Weekender later this year. I set you and Daniel on the guest list.

[Guest]

Great, Dave Rimmer has had his promo shot done and will be offering a signed photo to evryone who wants one, he has has a spare copy done as well in case there is a rush.....

see you friday

Rob & Karen

This promo shot?

[Thejan]

This promo shot?

That's our man!

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