Mike

First things first - big thanks to everyone who came along and turned Friday into such a fantastic night - it was great to see everybody using the event to just have a great big Soulful party. Thanks also to the tireless bar staff who worked like demons to keep everbody topped up with drinks, particularly in the face of overwhelming demand during the happy hour - theyll have reinforcements next time, so life should be a tad easier for them - and also for all you thirsty punters, who should notice your drinks arriving that bit quicker! Thanks to the DJs who all turned in what I thought were superb sets - I tip my hat to them all, particularly our guest Kitch, who exceeded even the high expectations I had of him. And finally thanks to those who took the time to offer such encouraging comments after the event - its really reassuring to know that people haveenjoyed a night - it makes all the hard work worthwhile! Anyway, here are the sounds that hit the decks: SCENESVILLE SECOND ANNIVERSARY PLAYLIST - 18/10/02 NICK BROWN TROY DODDS - Rise Up And Walk - PENTHOUSE RONNIE SAVOY - Loving You - WINGATE COMMANDS - No Time For You - DYNAMIC HESITATIONS - She Wont Come Back - KAPP LP MIGHTY JOE YOUNG - Suffering Soul - WEBCOR HOLIDAYS - I Dont Want To Let You Go - COVER-UP CHANTS - Baby I Dont Want To Lose Your Love - RCA VICTOR UK ENJOYABLES - Push A Little Harder - CAPITOL FOUR BARS - Guess Who Loves You (inst) - UNISSUED SHRINE PIC&BILL - Sad World Without You - PAGE ONE UK LAVELL HARDY - What Kind Of Woman - ROJAC DEREK MARTIN - Sly Girl - TUBA VARIATIONS - Yesterday Is Gone - OKEH BUDDY SMITH - When You Love Someone - COVER-UP RINGLEADERS - Win You Over - UNISSUED M-PAC DYNAMICS - I Wanna Know - BIG TOP DANNY MOORE - Somebody New - ALLRITE TOMMY YATES - Somethings Got To Give - VERVE DAWN BROWN TEMPESTS - Someday - SMASH LP FOXES - Mighty Good Sign - FENCOE CAROL&GERRI - How Can I Ever Find A Way - MGM DOUG BANKS - Aint That Just Like A Woman - GUYDEN HB BARNUM - It Hurts Too Much To Cry - RCA VICTOR DRAKE/EN-SOLIDS - Please Leave Me - ALTEEN POINTER SISTERS - Send Him Back - ATLANTIC DOLLS - The Reason Why - TOY TOMMY NAVARRO - I Cried My Life Away - DE JAC MATTHEW BARNETT - If Your Love Is Real - PUFF OTHELLO ROBERTSON - So In Luv - ERA TIMI YURO - Itll Never Be Over For Me - LIBERTY SPARKELS - Try Love (One More Time) - OLD TOWN LEWIS CLARK - I Need Your Loving So Bad - TIGERTOWN TOMMY RIDGLEY - My Love Gets Stronger - INTERNATIONAL CITY BARBARA MCNAIR - Youre Gonna Love My Baby - MOTOWN FREDDIE HOUSTON - If I Had Known - OLD TOWN CHRIS DALE WADE FLEMONS - Jeanette - RAMSEL EDDIE KENDRICKS - Change Your Ways - RCA VICTOR BOBBY&BETTY LOU - Dr. Truelove - TARX HERB WARD - Strange Change - ARGO LASHAWN COLLINS - What You Gonna Do Now - SINCERE TANGEERS - Let My Heart And Soul Be Free - OKEH BOBBY KLINE - Say Something Nice To Me - M B JUDY HUGHES - Fine Fine Fine - VAULT GENE TOONES - What More Do You Want - SIMCO BROOKS BROTHERS - Looking For A Woman - TAY O JAYS - Ill Never Forget You - IMPERIAL SAM DEES - Lonely For You Baby - SSS INTL JACKIE WILSON - Because Of You - BRUNSWICK FOUNDATIONS - Change My Life - PSYCHO SEVEN SOULS - I Still Love You - OKEH PATTI AUSTIN - Leave A Little Love - CORAL JOANIE SOMMERS - Dont Pity Me - WARNER BROS BOBBY REED - The Time Is Right For Love - BELL GEORGE KIRBY - What Can I Do - CADET HYPERIONS - Why Do You Treat Me The Way You Do - CHATTAHOOCHEE TERRY CALLIER - Ordinary Joe - CADET WILLIE TEE - Walking Up A One Way Street - ATLANTIC KITCH ADMIRATIONS - You Left Me - PEACHES HONEY BEES - Lets Get Back Together - GARRISON LES CHANSONETTES - Dont Let Him Hurt You - SHRINE DURETTES - Sweet Sweet Love - SVR DREAM TEAM - Im Not Satisfied - GREGORY JUDY STOKES - A Real Man - SOUL POWER CHARLES MINTZ - Ill Come Running Back - UPLOOK APPOINTMENTS - I Saw You There - DE LITE LOCATIONS - Mr Diamond Man - RON PAUL SHARON MCMAHON - Got To Find Another Guy - KAREN PHONETICS - Just A Boys Dream - TRUDEL MELLO SOULS - We Can Make It - MELLO PRIMERS - How Does That Grab You - HALE MAGNETICS - I Have A Girl - RA SEL NURONS - All Of My Life - NU RON CHUCK HOLLIDAY - Just Cant Trust Nobody - GLORIA DUSTY WILSON - Its Gonna Be A Tragedy - MUTT REGGIE LAMONT - Cant Get Along Without You - MAMIES CHEERS - Think It Over - UNISSUED BOB COLLINS/FABULOUS FIVE - My One And Only Girl - MAIN LINE BLENDELLS - You Need Love - DONTEE PEEWEE SHUCK AND HUEY - Beside Myself - FLAGG ROBERT SPENCER - My Wedding Day - UNISSUED BUDDY SMITH - When You Lose The One You Love - BRUTE APPOINTMENTS - Keep Away - DE LITE ANDY RIX JIMMY RADCLIFFE - The Thrill Of Loving You - JAYSINA ACETATE CINDY SCOTT - In One Ear And Out The Other - VIRTUE ACETATE CHRIS BARTLEY - I Go Out Of My Mind - T.M. ACETATE RONNIE WALKER - I Should Cry - VIRTUE ACETATE SEVEN SOULS - Its Time - COVER-UP MARIE KNIGHT - Thats No Way To Treat A Girl (alt. vers.) - UNISSUED MUSICOR TINA ROBERTS - One Way Or The Other - SECURITY BARBARA MC NAIR - Baby A Go Go - UNISSUED JOBETE CASHMERES - Dont Let The Door Hit Your Back - EDGEWOOD ACETATE CAIROS - Stop Overlooking Me - SHRINE DETROIT RHYTHM SECTION - I Know Something - UNISSUED TRANELLS - Blessed With A Love - FLO JO RONNIE MCNEIR - Shes Such A Pretty Girl - DE TO SOUNDMASTERS - Lonely Lonely - JULET PASSIONS - If You See My Baby - ELVITRUE AND SATELLITE LARRYS BOYS - Wanted In Three States - VIRTUE ACETATE BRENDA HOLLOWAY - Crying Time - UNISSUED JOBETE LEWIS SISTERS - Breakaway - HITSVILLE ACETATE WALLIE AND ROSE - Switch Around - BELTONE ACETATE KENI LEWIS - Not The Marrying Kind - AUDIODISC ACETATE JESSE JAMES - Love Is All Right - VIRTUE ACETATE KIM WESTON - Dont Let Me Down - UNISSUED JOBETE CINDY SCOTT - World Of Happiness - VIRTUE ACETATE NICK BROWN SOUL INC. FEAT CECIL WASHINGTON - My Proposal - COCONUT GROOVE MAJOR LANCE - You Dont Want Me No More - OKEH PIC&BILL - What Does It Take - CHARAY ZZ HILL - You Just Cheat And Lie - KENT CASHMERES - Show Stopper - HEM SHIRLEY EDWARDS - Dream My Heart - SHRINE ANITA ANDERSON - Little Bit Longer - CONTACT RAY POLLARD - This Time - SHRINE MIRACLES - If Your Mother Only Knew - TAMLA PORGY/MONARCHS - Hey Girl - MUSICOR RE CHUCK JACKSON - Hand It Over - WAND DOLLS - The Reason Why - TOY CLYDE MC PHATTER - Lonely People Can Afford To Cry - AMY Picks of the night for me were Andys Lewis Sisters acetate and Kitchs Robert Spencer track. It was great to hear Dawn pull out the Foxes 45 and Chris clearly made an impression on the 70s fans with his Foundations disc, a real piece of class which there will always be room at Scenesville for. Watch out for details soon of Scenesvilles Christmas party at the Glasshouse club in Blackfriars and more Scenesville dates at the Camden Centre next year, to be announced shortly. Meanwhile, thanks for making Fridays anniversary a party to remember, and if you didnt make it along, heres looking forward to seeing you soon! All the best, Nick

New Tighter Format - Odd bits of news will go in Forum, while stuff like from weekend will be on main page. SCENESVILLE -SECOND ANNIVERSARY Friday nite One of the big events of the weekend was Scenesvilles Second Annivesary down London town way. Reports from this are that it was "awesome", the music, crowd and atmosphere all being top notch. Certainly seems that this was the place to be this weekend. ANDY RIX, CHRIS DALE, DAWN BROWN and NICK BROWN with special guest KITCH 100% Real Deal 60s Rare Soul! they advertised it as, and sfrom what heard sounds like they delivered and then some. Hats off to the lot of them and congratulations on 2 ground breaking years. As one punter said "probably the best soul night Ive been to this year, absolutely brilliant." NORTH MANCHESTER SOUL CLUB @ BURY Friday Niter 4th Annivesary DJs included Richard Searling, Kenny Burrell, Kev Murphy, Terry Davies, Ginger Taylor, Dave Booth and many more. Event here celebrated its 4th annivesary on Friday, and always seems a popular event Managed to grab a few views from some who attended and they varied quite a bit. Those who were after the style on offer gave it a very good. Of course these were just views passed on, if were there can use comments to get your views in. GOLDBOURNE MINI-NITER - a mini-review After a stop off at Joe Dunlops local in his outpost for a meet up at a back room soul nite, which was a good nite, meet up and a laugh, had round 100 odd in and guys dj-ing gave them what they wanted. After good time there got to Goldbourne. Just for bit of a challenge once in Goldbourne asked every drunk directions to add a bit of a edge to journey, gotta say town has a great set of Saturday nite drunks, with almost clear directions, and not one sending us wrong direction. Left before church being the key here First time at this one, and name "the goldbourne catholic club" and the look outside of the place gives bit of false impression, but once in place bit different, first feel was a smart venue and well laid out. With record area, couple of bars, other room with decks casually playing varied selection mainly 6ts mix was what heard Main hall smart, good seating all around and all that, late bar, normal prices. Crowd wise, lot of the usual rogues, someone mentioned tourist once with regard to this place, but didnt spot any meself , crowd thinned out bit later on. All seemed enjoying it. DJ wise, some of North West names caught as didnt get there till 12 ish were Carl Willingham, Terry Davis, Kev Murphy and Dave Holt. Dishing out their current top sounds All car load thoroughly enjoyed nite give it a thumbs up. Heard that plans for a monthly regular niter till 6am here on the third saturday were solid and after the nov date would adopt that format. So that may be of interest with those planning events. Know cause of all these possible clashes thinking of moving the 2003 DMSC series of rare soul mayhem nites to a Wednsday afternoon.! CLEETHORPES WEEKENDER Word on the 6ts 100 Club website is that this has been sold out already. Ouch!! The other major Weekender of 2003 at Presatyn is going very well, and along with the quality Conniseurs weekend at Llandudno it seems that the old saying "you can have your cake and eat it three" rings true. Said last year about these events "Soul for the Soul Fans run by Soul Fans" You Know The Real Score!! MORE OLD SCHOOL TRICKS - when will they learn ? Seems a lot of people are upset with a certain promoter/dj with some rocket-style dirty tricks up in Yorkshire way FINAL WORD Mate caught Johnathen Ross show on radio 2. Seems Dale Winton was guest, on show Ross mentioned Northern, apparently your man Dale Winton said hes well into it, says has loads of records and is a regular at that Rocket..... and as cant think of anything to say after that! Seems a good place to finish. mike h

Dates for one of the UKs finest if not the "finest" niter. 100 Club London Also check out the website 6TS SITE for more info, details of 2003 weekender, photos and loads of laughs - a right old enjoyable time. ALL NIGHTERS SATURDAY NIGHTS 1.30 AM - 8 AM JAN 11 FEB 15 MAR 15 APR 12 MAY 17 JUN 28 NOTHING IN JULY AUG 9 SEP 13 (24TH ANNIVERSARY) OCT 11 NOV 8 DEC 6 XMAS PARTY THURSDAY DEC 18TH 9PM-2AM

Golborne Catholic Club High Street,Golborne,NR Wigan Special Guest DJs Terry Davis,. Kev Murphy&Dave Holt Plus regulars Carl Willingham, Ian&Dave Brown, Dean Mitchell, Lizz Foster, Tony Else Admission £4 (£5 after 10:30) Music 8:30pm till 4:00am. Late late bar. confirm date anyone ??

Weekend: Well if anyone can add up the amount of events going on this weekend let us know cause lost both count and track of what was going on. From Dublin to Down South seems like this part of the world was kicking , even Chester services had a bit of an atmosphere. Lowton was an enjoyable nite, heard places like Halifax, Tonys and more went down well. As always if out and about and wanna pass on your view just throw it up. Can use Email, comments, forum, or just open window and shout. North Wales wise details of next Llandudno Soul Nite almost out, hopefully tomorrow nite November sees BUTCH guesting at Broughton followed the next week by some right old rare soul violence at the Monkey including yet another top of the tree rated DJ - Andy Dyson Next weekend sees the annivesary of one of the UKs leading soul events - Scenesville down London way. Lot of interest on this one. See next post for a taste of what you are gonna get twatted with. Busy times, good times, leave you with a old saying " Cream Always Rises To The Top"

Hey all, Its countdown time for Fridays second anniversary megasplurge at the Camden Centre, so just to warm things up for those of you who are planning to get down there and shake your little tushes to some ace Rare Soul sounds of the Scenesville variety, Heres a quick Top Ten from our special guest DJ, Kitch LITTLE RON - I Found Someone - CHARADE THE MELLO SOULS - We Can Make It - MELLO THE NU RONS - All Of My Life - NU RON THE LOCATIONS - Mr. Diamond Man - RON PAUL THE FABULOUS IMPACTS - My Baby - Cover-Up DUSTY WILSON - Its Gonna Be A Tragedy - MUTT CHARLES MINTZ - Running Back - UP LOOK THE CHEERS -Think It Over - UNISSUED THE PRIMERS - How Does It Grab You - HALE ROBERT SPENCER - Our Wedding Day - UNISSUED Pure superbluousness! Also, DONT FORGET - its happy hour between 9:00 and 10:00, when entry is just £5 and drinks are half price so get down early and have a blast on us! Scenesville - who in their right mind could possibly refuse!!! See you there! Nick Cheers Nick for passing on, more details and weblink in the soul source event thing up above somewhere. Dont forget its well easy to add events, and know one or two who use it.

Greg passed on that CSC web site has a cunning competition where you can win a top prize! Get over to for full details and hours of fun Leicester - news that last weekend event earned 2000 quid for charity mate Plus Andy Ds recent charity cd was a money spinner Hats off to all involvedWeekend looks like a cracker - lowton, tonys, halifax, dayer in brum and more! Should be a good one. See you around

Things are manic as always in the run up to the next soulful night at the Plinston Hall in Letchworth. So, rather then the normal individual e-mail to each and every one of you we have taken the step of mailing this cover all mail and hope that those of you who run your own sites and newsletters etc will be good enough to post those bits you feel are relevant. Firstly due to the overwhelming success of our opening night (and a HUGE thank you to all of you who supported us) we have opened a second room upstairs for the November 1st event concentrating on Modern and crossover goodies. The Gallery Suite (known as The Ghetto - Its a family affair) overlooks the Kennedy Gardens and has a 16ft x 16ft dancefloor with a huge carpeted area for those who cant squeeze on! There is a separate bar and toilet facilities and DJs for this try out will be Taffy, TheBigO and Nathan. Open from 10pm-1.30am. Expect to hear such gems as Mr Day Soul on wax; Mind&Matter Under your spell, Gloria Gaynor Mend whats been broken; Millie Jackson Dont send nobody else and Lisa Stansfield 831 to name but a few. We are hoping that come March all 3 rooms will be open on a regular basis, but more on that later. The opening of The Ghetto allows us to throw in an extra 100 soulies and so we should see an easing of the crush on the dancefloor of the first night. In addition we have had a long and productive chat with the Plinston management and have addressed many of the opening night teething problems, namely more bar staff, more beer, no drink on dancefloor enforced by Security etc etc. So hopefully we should see an improvement on all fronts, let us know if you have any concerns on the night. November 1st is the next event from 8pm-2am and features our very special guests, Dave Rimmer, Dudleys top bunny, with his brand of top notch Northern goodies and the lovely Nick&Dawn Brown, faces behind the successful and scene leading Scenesville events in our nations capital. Expect tip top sounds to get you fighting for dancefloor space from them. They will of course be supported by the Usual Suspects! WE STRONGLY STRONGLY ADVISE if you are travelling to purchase your advance ticket from the box office before the night as we think this will be another sell out, probably in less than the 2hrs it took our opening night to sell out!!!!! Dont be caught out, get it sorted!!! On that note the Plinston done gone changed their box office number. The new number to call is: 01462-672003. Denis monotone voice will guide you through the buttons to press, please do try and stay awake! We have booked all of 2003 events and so can you make a note of these. They are: Fri 7th March, 9th May, 4th July, 5th Sept (Anniversary Do with Live Act we hope) and 7th November. If you are a fellow promoter let us know if we clash and well do our best to get things sorted out so no-one is left holding the baby so to speak. Future guests that we are hoping to confirm shortly inc. Butch, Andy Rix, Soul Sam, Ady C (for a West Hampstead memories night) and Guy Hennigan. Oh, forgot, all future event tickets will be on sale on the night (i.e Jan 10th will be available on the 1st Nov night). See the Sinister Sisters, Jane & Jenny, on the night. One last mention, Sat 16th November sees Randy Cozens celebrating 17yrs of Southgate (or Soulgate as we all know and love it) at Ye Olde Rising Sun, opposite the BR station in Southgate from 11am to midnight. 24+ DJs inc Taffy and TheBigO and the whole range of soulful grooves. Top man, top dayer and all for free!!!! Having missed only a couple over the years we can strongly recommend This thing of ours. Many a tip top tune has been played there first and then gone onto bigger and better things across the country, such as Bobby Kline, Teddy Pendergrass, Anette Snell, Millie Jackson the list is endless. Check out the scenes best kept secret and the greatest little soul alldayer - EVER! (Trademark) Thats all for now then brothers&sisters. Look forward to seeing many of you on the night. Til then, remember...Time is passing us all by, so be young, be foolish but above all else....... BE HAPPY! North Herts 6Ts Mafia

Sad news that Don Varner past away this week, am sure right in saying that all thoughts from all soul fans go out to his family and friends RIP Don Wilson Varner (25 June 1943 – 7 October 2002[1]) was an American soul singer. Varner was a baritone who sang both uptempo soul in the northern soul style as well as ballads. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Varner grew up in the same neighborhood as Eddie Kendricks.[2] Varner moved to Chicago after high school to pursue his music career but returned to Alabama after six years to record in Muscle Shoals.[2] at Rick Hall's FAME Studios. He wrote songs including "I Keep Holdin' On" for Sam & Dave (with William Crump). Varner also worked with Quin Ivy in Sheffield, Alabama[2] and released several songs including "Masquerade", "Down in Texas", and "Tear Stained Face" on the South Camp and Quinvy labels. Varner did not release many recordings but performed numerous live shows in the South with other major soul performers.[2] He moved to California in the 1980s and toured as the lead singer of the Johnny Otis Show.[2] He toured numerous European music festivals in 1985. In his later, career, he began to record gospel music. He died in Moreno Valley, California in 2002 of a heart attack at the age of 59. An album of his music from 1968–1974 entitled Finally Go Over! was released posthumously.

HI ..GUY AND GALS.. JUST A REMINDER TO ALL THAT THE A.N.S.C WITH BE ON SATURDAY THE 12TH OF OCTOBER AT THE BELMONT SOCIAL CLUB IN THE HARDGATE ABERDEEN 8PM TIL 2AM GUEST DJ,S THIS TIME ARE ABERDEENS ..ALAN PATERSON DUNDEE,S ..ANDY LATTO PLUS RESIDENT TRIO RICHIE CONN, STEVE RIDDELL,TUBBS.. £4 AT THE DOOR

Dont forget Leicester Soul Night, Sat Oct 5th, Half Time Orange Club, Burnmoor St, Leicester, (next to LCFC) Top national DJs playing the best in Northern, R&B, Modern, Oldies and current biggies, in 2 superb rooms; Mick Smith, Carl Fortnum, Mick H, Ally Mayer, Andy Riley, Bob & Rob(Coalville), Ady&Colin(Hinckley) 8pm -1am Adm.£5 on the door. There is a real buzz about this-the last one had 300+ with a great atmosphere. All proceeds from this night will be given to the family of the late Tim Maine, who helped promote this venue- your support will be much appreciated. Details; ally@pyramidposters.com tel 07971 596679

Just two of the many events on this weekend all over the UK Check out the calendar for full score! Soul in the Bridge Lancs Ward Liberal Club Stamford Street Stalybridge {opp bp garage} 8pm til late addmission £2.50 cheap bar prices resident djs Sid Jones Steve{sox}Thomas guest djs Paul robinson info {Sid} 0161/338/7294 or e-mail sidney.jones2@btopenworld.com Friday 04 Oct 02 Sheridans Present by popular demand Twisted Wheel Revival Night With Original Twisted Wheel DJ Brian Rae 9-2am Bar open till late Unit 50 Calder Wharf Mills Huddersfield Road Dewsbury