Stop me if this has been done before

Reading a post about a night in December with thirty odd events going on, just wondered if anyone can

hazard a guess or an informed estimate of how many 'practising' soul fans we have in the UK.

By practising I mean those who regularly attend venues, once or twice a month, every weekend etc,

M.

  MarkWhiteley said:

Stop me if this has been done before

Reading a post about a night in December with thirty odd events going on, just wondered if anyone can

hazard a guess or an informed estimate of how many 'practising' soul fans we have in the UK.

By practising I mean those who regularly attend venues, once or twice a month, every weekend etc,

M.

Do you mean how many people like soul music or how many attend Northern do's? big difference.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Nobody's practising Mark, everyones an expert

  pete60 said:

Nobody's practising Mark, everyones an expert

...I thought, well I've been practising a while but still ain't got it right...

But in answer to the question, I haven't been out for two weeks and that's shocking...

Edited November 25, 200816 yr by Rugby Soul Club

  Mark Bicknell said:

Do you mean how many people like soul music or how many attend Northern do's? big difference.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

See you lazy reading again Mark - skimming the surface

I did say regularly attending venues

M.

  pete60 said:

Nobody's practising Mark, everyones an expert

I knew that Pete, Yocky told me

  Rugby Soul Club said:

...I thought, well I've been practising a while but still ain't got it right...

But in answer to the question, I haven't been out for two weeks and that's shocking...

we practice at least once a week, sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes thrice and we still aint got it sussed

M.

  MarkWhiteley said:

I knew that Pete, Yocky told me

That begs the question, if the Yockster has told you, why do you need a second opinion?

Edited November 25, 200816 yr by pete60

  pete60 said:

That begs the question, if the Yockster has told you, why do you need a second opinion?

Because he constantly talks fekkin' rubish

  Mark Bicknell said:

Do you mean how many people like soul music or how many attend Northern do's? big difference.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

I gotta say Mark B, you have a significant point.

I don't get to venues these days but I am 'practising' (as you put it Mark W) on a very regular basis.

If someone collects records, researches the artists, labels, history and is 'on the scene' through this and other forums, is that a truly engaged soulie? - or is it that attendance at venues is the acid test?

Regards to all practising soulies

Richard

Edited November 25, 200816 yr by Premium Stuff

  Premium Stuff said:

I gotta say Mark B, you have a significant point.

I don't get to venues these days but I am 'practising' (as you put it Mark W) on a very regular basis.

If someone collects records, researches the artists, labels, history and is 'on the scene' through this and other forums, is that a truly engaged soulie? - or is it that attendance at venues is the acid test?

Regards to all practising soulies

Richard

Sorry Richard, didn't want to alienate the event non attendees the point of my original question stemmed from the amount of venues happening on a particular night and wondered if there was enough of us to go round the reality is you are probably a better 'practising' or 'engaged ' -as you put it, soulie ,than many an event attendee

Keep on Practising!

M.

  Mark Bicknell said:

Do you mean how many people like soul music or how many attend Northern do's? big difference.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Rumor has it Mr & Mrs Whiteley have been spotted at several Modern nights recently

Original post also states 'Soul Fans' so I'll hazard a guess at 12,387 give or take 1 or 2 either way

  MarkWhiteley said:

Stop me if this has been done before

Reading a post about a night in December with thirty odd events going on, just wondered if anyone can

hazard a guess or an informed estimate of how many 'practising' soul fans we have in the UK.

By practising I mean those who regularly attend venues, once or twice a month, every weekend etc,

M.

I am a practising piss artist in any event !

I collect as many little black 60s Soul 45s as my funds will allow !

So do I and other collectors not count in your "practicing" Soul poll ?

No? Ok.............. not bothered anyway !!!!

  mossy said:

I am a practising piss artist in any event !

I collect as many little black 60s Soul 45s as my funds will allow !

So do I and other collectors not count in your "practicing" Soul poll ?

No? Ok.............. not bothered anyway !!!!

Im afraid I have to concede Im a practising piss artist also, two bottles of red wine later and I'm I'm on holiday for 2 weeks so no driving tomorrow, hurray.

I try to go out as much as possible to soul dos, apart from Thorne at the weekend I hadn't been out for 4 weeks, a mixture of my car needing fixing and t'other week when I wantd to go to Soul Addiction at Coachman in Darlington (which incidentally is class) I had no one to come with me .

Suz

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  mossy said:

I am a practising piss artist in any event !

I collect as many little black 60s Soul 45s as my funds will allow !

So do I and other collectors not count in your "practicing" Soul poll ?

No? Ok.............. not bothered anyway !!!!

Mossy I was merely wondering how many event attendees as said in original post, seems you done a 'Bikcnell' and missed that bit

M.

think this has been touched on before but one way of knowing would be if all promoters advertising on here on any one given saturday were to do an honest CORRECT headcount and post up on the monday.....not hard really but probably impossible !!

ok there are plenty nights on that do not visit this site....add to that lots of scooter events where northern is played so it will be 'conservative' count but interesting still...