MarkWhiteley Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Mark Bicknell Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete Eccles Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nobody's practising Mark, everyones an expert Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Rugby Soul Club Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 (edited) 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, 2008 by Rugby Soul Club Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
MarkWhiteley Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
MarkWhiteley Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nobody's practising Mark, everyones an expert I knew that Pete, Yocky told me Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
MarkWhiteley Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 ...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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete Eccles Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 (edited) 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, 2008 by pete60 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
MarkWhiteley Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 That begs the question, if the Yockster has told you, why do you need a second opinion? Because he constantly talks fekkin' rubish Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Premium Stuff Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 (edited) 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, 2008 by Premium Stuff Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
MarkWhiteley Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Cunnie Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 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 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 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 !!!! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Suzannek Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 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 x Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
MarkWhiteley Posted November 26, 2008 Author Share Posted November 26, 2008 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Spacehopper Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 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... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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