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LOWTON CIVIC HALL Friday 14th February 2003 7th Anniversary All-nighter spinning the platters that matter: Lizz Foster Paul Baldwin Ian Cunliffe Simon Hunt George Hunt Tim Brown Kenny Burrell Bob Hinsley Ron Pedley Kev Murphy Check out the R&B room with Pete&Friends Second Friday of Every Month Lowton Civic Hall, Hesketh Meadow Lane, Lowton, Nr Leigh. (Jusst off A580 East Lancs Road/Exit 24 M6) Tel: 01942 672971 Special Anniversary Gift To First 400 8pm til 6am Admission 10 pounds (limited to 550) CLUB CULTURE The home of Soul and Soulful Dance in the North West Valentines All Nighter @ Lowton Civic Hall A session of the Finest Funk, Classic Soul and Dance Music from some of the best nights at the best clubs in the country. Mecca - Ritz - Cassinellis - Parkers - Carlton - Cricket Club - Angels DJs Steve Connor - Baz Maleady - Kev Edwards - Pete Haigh - Bob Hinsley - Mark Grice - Paul Hawkins The last one was Superb - Dont Miss the Special Event! FRIDAY 14th FEBRUARY 2003 9pm - 6am SOUL CENTRAL @ LOWTON CIVIC HALL Hesketh Meadow Lane, Lowton, Nr Wigan, 2 mins from main A580, M6 and M62. Part of the successful Lowton Northern Soul Nights. Admission 10 pounds (Limited to 550 so please be early). Pick up your vinyl and CD wants. Dealers in attendance on the night.

Doesnt seem 12 months ago since we started at the Rider Club in Halifax but here we are and this Saturday is our 1st Anniversary. Guest DJ is the UKs No. 1 BUTCH Residents GUY HENNIGAN, ALEX JONES, EDDIE ENGEL&COLIN WOOD. All kicks off at 8.30pm until 2.00am and bar til 1.30am. £5 OTD. There is a limited amount of free CDs of the varied sounds that can be heard at the Rider so get there early to make sure you get one. Cheers, Colin, Rider Club, Halifax http://totn.topcities.com Gotta say congrats to all involved with this event, has some great nites there and highly recommend it. Quality sounds, quality djs, quality people!!

Dunno if anyone else has seen this "Northern Soul" video that someone has made for Molokos new track... Familiar feeling... This England remade for the nauhgties... link: http://www.video-c.co.uk

CSC Dome event was one of the major going ons of last weekend . Site has been updated with review of the nite, playlists and photos Click here for hit this Plays like 16 Timmie Williams "Competition" (Mala) 17 Sensations "Demanding Man" (Way out) 18 Executive Four "I got a good thing going" (Lu-Mar) 19 Flash McKinlay "Ill rescue you" (Bombay) quotes like It was very nice. Irish Greg and Alan played some very nice records. Then David and Kenny played some very nice records. All in all, it was a very good night and the people I met were really nice. photos like...... (withdrawn due to complaints) Watch out for next one featuring the return of Sidney Barnes !!! Last Friday in March being the one.

SCENESVILLE AT THE CAMDEN CENTRE, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21ST Just a quick note this month to give you all a bit of advance notice that Scenesville's 2003 dates kick off on February 21st with our long-awaited return to the Camden Centre. With no Camden Centre gig since the anniversary night stormer in October, it'll be great to get back there again, with it's superb dancefloor, amazing decor, power-packed sound system - and helpful management! To celebrate, we're reinstating the happy hour, and adding some extra bar staff in view of the overwhelming demand last time, so you'll be getting the same jawdroppingly cheap prices as October, but without the wait! Furthermore, since Chris is about to become a dad again, he'll be away from the decks for a few months wrestling with nappies and feed bottles, so we hope you'll join the whole Scenesville team in wishing him and Joely congratulations and the best of luck with their new little one. Meanwhile, back at the go go, the good news is that KITCH will be joining the team as a resident, at least for the time that Chris is away, and hopefully afterwards, too, if we manage to find a way of still squeezing everybody into the time available! Finally, we warmly welcome MARK HANSON as February's guest, with a boxful of stunning sounds that will slot into the Scenesville playlist like a dream. - Top Ten and more details about Mark coming up soon!

Hammy passed on his plays from the recent Spiders Web event at Edinburgh Sounds like a top nite Dont forget any thing similar always welcome Thelma Lindsay - Why Werent You There (MAGIC CITY) Marvin Gaye - Love Starved Heart (TAMLA) Carol Anderson - Taking My Mind Off Love(WHIP) BJ Thomas - Keep It Up (JOED) Howard Guyton - I Watched You Slowly Slip Away (VERVE) Leo McCorkle - Im On Top of the World (POPSIDE) Sugar&The Spices - Have Faith In Me (SWAN) Jimmy Robins - In My Heart (JERHART) Liz Verdi - You Let Him Get Away (COLUMBIA) Sam Fletcher - Id Think It Over (TOLLIE) Beverly&The Del Capris - Mama I Think Im in Love (COLUMBIA) Sandpipers - Lonely Too Long (GIANT) Gwenn Douglass - The Picture (MICHELLE) The Shadows - My Love Has Gone (GOLDEN SOUND) Patti&The Emblems - Its The Little Things (CONGRESS) Age of Bronze - Im Gonna Love You (GUAVA) Frank Dell - He Broke Your Game Wide Open (VALISE) La Reine La Mar - Thats Not The Way to Love (CLOUD) George Freeman - Down&Out (VALIANT) Cheers Hammy

In the past couple of years I have stayed out of the politics, At times over these years it has been very very difficult.Today I have had enough. Everyone should make up their own minds about who the perpetrator (s) may be. But I was going to head over to the Rocket as well as coming to Crossfire. Now if anyone visits the Rocket, IN MY OPINION, you are supporting the kind of parasite this scene does not need. You dont need to go to the Rocket to have a good time this saturday. The Rocket promotors dont need your entry fee. The Rocket promoters do need their egos massaged by a high turn out. All beit with hundreds of freebies handed to non soul people, just to add to the "atmosphere" of hundreds of people stood at the side gawping, or pratting about on the dancefloor with a bottle of beer in their hands. I will be down at crossfire on Saturday night. I hope to see most of you there too. miky

I have just learnt of the dirty tricks campaign being waged against the promoters of Crossfire involving the attempt of individuals, as yet unknown, to cause the maximum amount of disruption to the event and to try and steer Soulies away from the venue this coming Saturday. (I am certain by the time I post this everyone will have been made aware of the details.) As a promoter myself and as someone who knows the guys behind the event well (and admires their love of the scene and the music and their integrity) I could not just sit and do nothing as someone attempts to gain from this underhand dirty tricks campaign. It is at times like this you find out who your friends are and where people stand with regards to the way the scene should be. Therefore I am happy to say that I stand side by side with the lads from Crossfire and give them my 100% support. I have mailed all of the Plinston members and all of those in my email address book urging them to attend this Saturdays event if they can and I would ask all decent like minded Soulies to do the same. This sort of underhand campign MUST NOT be allowed to succeed, it is the thin end of the wedge and will do nothing for the scene that we all love and hold dear. Apathy allows these sort of individuals to flourish and grow stronger....vote with your feet as I will do this Saturday - See ya at Crossfire! TheBigO :-x

Site News Forum gone down after update on server.. will return in a couple of days Busy times at moment, been all over the place , so updates been a bit thin Weekend Busy time down South wise, with Capital Soul Club kicking the weekend off with one of the TOP uk regular soul events at the Dome. Regular crew plus guests Kenny Burrell and Ady L Then Saturday sees the BIG one! Yep its London United, a massive Niter featuring the cream of the countries Northern Djs, DJs from 100 Club, CSC, Scenesville, Valatones, These Old Shoes, and more all getting it on at the CROSSFIRE NITER - Saturday 31 Jan Check this line up out in just one of the rooms Ady Croasdell, Butch&Mick Smith (100 Club) Andy Rix, Dawn&Nick Brown (Scenesville) Irish Greg&Alan H (Capitol Soul Club) Jo Wallace (These Old Shoes) Soulful Chris (Valatone) PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS Ginger Taylor&Roger Banks Gonna be a stormer Dream team ? Too right! Heard a fair few making the trip down M6 Drunken Monkey Soul Club News All a bit quiet after the xmas bash , next one at Springfield is in March, featuring as always some of the Top Uk quality djs, Photos from xmas bash on their way once find a way to get 25 hours out of each day! Dates for the whole year are out in earlier post DMSC also been doing the LLANDUDNO Soul Nites now at the Bodafon Farm Park Soul , Llamas and Owls being just some of the attractions on offer , first one a couple of weeks ago was blinding!! Was really chuffed with way it went, it seems like this new venue is going to be a good one. Report on its way along with plays Next one is on Friday 21 Feb and its going to be more of the same : Drunken Monkey, all over the place Northern and to top it all off a farm full of the likes of llamas, eagles, yaks.....says it all! Weekenders: Was it almost 12 months ago that was suffering from an almighty rare soul hangover, well its getting close to that time to do it all again! Yep only 4 weeks to LLANDUDNO Connoisseurs Weekender. Yet again featuring some of the UKs top quality rare soul fiends and a right old rave up is on the cards Then its that big one again..... PRESTATYN The Midnight Hour - Northern and Modern Soul Weekender One big buzz going round about this one, it seems that most of the soul world is getting to this one Last one was described as run by Soul Fans for Soul Fans and certainly seemed that way, with a great feel and great atmosphere. This year has makings of a even better time, seems like a definite must goto Just re-read above...... blimey ! Things are looking good, wheres me shades Thats all mike h

Reference Sidney Barnes appearing at the Ritz---he will now being appearing at Lowton Civic on the 19 APRIL instead of the Ritz which is being refurbished provisional dates list: March 28th...The Dome April 6th....Berlin April 10th...Austria April 19th...Lowton April 20th...Jazz FM radio interview April 25th...100 Club - London April 27th...Band On The Wall - Manchester May 10th.....Yorkshire Rider Club - Halifax Caught him at Dome and 100 club and highly recommend catching him!

Had reports that last Fridays niter at Wilton was "best one for a fair while"! Ian Cunliffe kindly bashed out his plays from his spot (originally posted on soul talk) JESSE JOHNSON--LEFT OUT--OLDTOWN ( for Derek Pearson promised to swop it for anything out of his dj box--pissed again ah ) CARESSORS--I CANT STAY AWAY--RU JAC ( for Mr Pearson again --same as above !!! ) ROSE ST. JOHN & THE WONDERETTES---FOOL DONT LAUGH--VEEP BEVERLY SHAFFER--WHERE WILL YOU BE BOY ?--ONE-DERFUL ! LONNIE RUSS--SAY GIRL--KERWOOD SOUL SET --WILL YOU EVER LEARN--BI-ME MATADORS--SAY YES BABY--CHAVIS PERFECTIONS--SO LONELY--BIG B ( dedicated to Frank Giacobbia for sellin it to me last year ) TOMMY TURNER--LAZY--ELBAM BROOKS BROS--LOOKIN FOR A WOMAN--TAY EDDIE HILL--YOU GOT THE BEST OF ME--THELMA CAROL ANDERSON--IM NOT WORRIED--WHIP DUSTY WILSON--CAN,T DO WITHOUT YOU--BRONSE JOYCE TAYLOR--MEAN MIS-TREATER--WAL-LY JOHNNY CLYDE COPELAND--COMING TO SEE ABOUT YOU--SUAVE MOMENTS--YOU SAID--DEEP PERK LEE--THE DOCKS--BOSS BLUE JAYS--(it depends on the ) POINT OF VIEW--JAY RINGLEADERS--ALL OF MY LIFE--ACETATE ( for Mark Hanson who i sent over to Andy D to try and talk him into sellin Pic-Bill ) LITTLE JOHNNY HAMILTON--OH HOW I LOVE YOU--DORE TONY CLARKE--( they call me ) A WRONG MAN--M-S MASQUERADERS--HOW--LA BEAT ARTHUR WILLIS &THE SOULFUL DYNAMICS--THE HURTING IS OVER--ACETATE ( THANKS MR JAMES ABOUT TIME TOO ! ) FREDERICK HYMES III--TIME AINT GONNA DO ME NO FAVOUR--FAB VEGAS SAMMY LEE--WHAT GOES AROUND ( comes around )---PROMCO LEE SHOT--IT AINT ME NO MORE--TCHULA THATS IT FOLKS AS WOODY WOODPECKER SAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check this link out for a online video clip of featuring a Northern Theme Theyre full clips of a video for a band called Moloko, also showing on mtv, featuring a niter style venue and some familar down south faces and very well done indeed! (4 diff size versions up there ) click here for page