Mike

Well after all views, reviews etc it seems that the event of the weekend was The Keele Allnighter, been told next one is in Dec. For interest here is a playlist from Keele from Irish Greg which went down really well to a packed floor. Of course Greg is co-promoter of CSC whose next event is on this Friday in London Town (see prev post). Check site out for more info and details. Plus just for info, this was originally posted on the rare soul discussion list - SOUL TALK (If feel a bit like you are missing out and fed up of egos, abuse, off topic crap and just want the latest on-topic, friendly , worthwhile rare soul discussion, just hit that sign up link matey!) ....and this is what Greg played at Keele, although not necessarily in the correct order: Pat Lewis - No one to love - Solid Hit Utopias - Girls are against me - La Salle New Wanderers - Aint gonna do you no harm - Ready Flash McKinley - Ill rescue you - Bombay Other Brothers - Its been a long time - Modern O.C. Tolbert - You got me turned around - Unissued Topper Fuller Brothers - Moanin & Groanin & Crying - Keyman Tamala Lewis - Just don't say nothing - Marton Other Brothers - Nobody but you honey - Unissued Modern Joe Matthews - Ain't nothing you can do - Kool Kat Mary Saxton - Losing Control - Beechwood LP Brand New Faces - Brand new faces - Lu-Juna Judy Freeman - Hold On - Unissued LP extended version Gary Dean - You can say - Young Betty Lou & Bobby Adams - Dr Truelove - Trax Kindly Shepherds - Lend me your hand - Checker Velvets - Got to find me somebody - 20th Century Joanie Sommers - Don't pity me - Warner Bros Johnny Maestro - Stepping out of the picture - Scepter Nat Hall - You don't know how I feel - Loop Cliff Nobles - My Love is getting stronger - Atlantic Gloria Edwards - My love keeps gettin' stronger - Unissued posted via the comments:

Busy weekend after Runcorn and Wilton, it was off to Broughton and then Keele Niter last nite Got there about 1.30 Been told that earlier on wasnt much dancefloor action But from 2am caught 3 great sets by Irish Greg, Butch and Roger Banks Dancefloor packed, place had a good buzz Three hours worth of then oldies spot by Rob Jones which wasnt my cup of tea Keith Minshull finished nite with a good set. Doors open at 10 so missed 4 hours of the niter inc sets by Mick Smith, Dave Welding, though got to say the 3 hours 2-5 were great stuff. Overall ...from what I saw Well what an improvement, when last year the event closed down, it was said that the event had run its course. And to tell the truth my experience there agreed with this. This one though was a completely different affair. Crowd was from all over UK Down South, London, Cambs, Yorkshire etc etc and of course many from North West and North Wales. A lot of familar faces and a lot of catching up Place had a good buzz, Greg, Butch and Roger did great things and the crowd responded. Look forward to seeing future dates, regulars and line ups. Going by those 3 hours if go for same am sure this new version will be a winner. And will be another recent addition to the decent soul events list. Broughton was a good one, main guest was Arthur Fenn with Mark Speakman doing the North Wales slot. The normal guest timings had changed so only caught a bit of Arthur Fenns spot. regulars Soul Sam and Brian Ellis pushed out what they are good at, a good quality mix of all era soul Version of Family affair by Misia ?? was a stand out.

Yes folks, go get em out and check that your dancing shoes are polished...your drinking arm is in good working order...and that your record-searching-fingers are fully exercised, ready and able, cuz as is by magic, yes tis time once again for you to enjoy an evening of fine quality Northern/Rare Soul at: THE CAPITOL SOUL CLUB, at THE DOME, in Tufnell Park London, THIS COMING FRIDAY 27th September! Guest DJs on the night are Russ "Show us ya knickers" Vickers and Ian "BlowUp" Jackson...joining the regular crew of Alan, Greg, Carl and David. 9.30 to 3am...doors close at midnight...£7 in. For directions, membership details (cuz its members only!), lotsa pictures of soulies enjoying themselves at previous nights* and playlists of the kinda thing youre gonna hear, go to: http://www.capitolsoulclub.homestead.com/cscindex.html *-if you have any decent snaps of you and your mates larging it at the CSC nights at The Dome, then feel free to email them in (link on-site...jpegs only!), and if they scrape past the stringent rules of decency and depravity, then we might just post them up for the World to see! gmcallinney@westminster.gov.uk

Llandudno Risboro plays -Sep event Last event was a bit down numbers wise but the sounds more than made up for it A classy mix of all styles soul was well appreciated by both ears and feet. Details of next Oct event to follow soonest Knocked together a few playlists from the guest and regs on the nite Phil Blacknell Septembers guest Big Daddy Rogers- Im a big man-Midas Johnny Nash- What kind of love is this-Groove Gillettes-Same identical thing -J&S Sugar&the Spices-I have faith in you-Swan Collins&Collins-At top of the stairs-A&M Bobby Thurston-Just ask me-Mainline (LP) Betty Wright-Man of Mine-Alston Chuck Ray-I dont mind-Tam-Boo Bay Brothers-What does it take to win your love-Millennium Esther Philips-Nobody but you-Roulette Shirley Lawson-One more chance-Soul City Johnny Caswell-You dont want me no more-Decca Jerry Cook-I hurt on the other side-Capitol Carol Anderson-Sad Girl-fee Mike h - reg - mix of 10 current, requests and populars -sep Isonics - Sugar B J Thomas - Keep It Up Tyn Tymes - Baby I Love you Eddie Floyd - Thats All Houston Outlaws- Aint no telling Judy Freeman-Hold On test lp version Gayle Adams - Baby I need your loving -12 GQ - Make Your Dreams A Reality - 2002 mix -12 Eddie Wilson -Toast To The Lady Albert Washington - Im the man Mark Speakman -reg- current, requests and populars -aug Imperial Cs - Somebody Tell Her Virgina Blakely - Dont Let Nobody Love You Bunny Sigler -Girl Dont Make Me Wait Moses Smith -Girl Across The Street Sweets-Something About My Baby Adams Apple -Dont Take It Out Of This World Soul Bros Inc - Pyramid

Posted on soul talk by a "concerned dealer" and passed on with permission as may be of interest to some WARNING!!! Whilst selling records at Keele last night I turned to talk to a mate and someone took 3 records out of my box and walked away with them. Fortunately I saw him out of the corner of my eye and challenged him, took all the records from him and recovered my STOLEN records, by the time I`d found the promoters the guy was nowhere to be seen. The strange thing was that he`d actually bought some records from me earlier although the value of the records he bought was £10, the ones he`d stolen £100! A brief description of the guy; mid 40s, yellow polo shirt covered in old patches and a beige Nike cap, keep a look out for him around the venues.

Bit of travelling last nite, hit read more for quick look back at Pavillions - Runcorn And a long journey and a short visit of Wilton All Niter Plus some odd bits of other news, gossip, etc mixed in After a week of car and washing machine trouble, weekend was well anticipated. As always North Wales confusion crept in as thought was going to south Manchester event, but turned out was off to Pavilions at Runcorn, which for some reason thought had already been on this month. Steve T (Holyhead) was main guest and had a space so off we went with a shady north Wales crew Dick John, (if anyone wants to catch dmsc soul nite video online, when see him tell him "sort that video"), Chris and Dave F being rest of bunch. Pavilions was still where it was last time, and still as smart inside. Venue well plush, and good layout and feel. A enjoyable venue.Those who dont know event its run by Bernie OBrien and Steve Fletcher, helping out was someone who had a fair bit of chinwag but didnt catch name, know youre online mate so apologies. Way have had event described to me in past, is this is a selfish thing for promoters, they do run another event where emphasis is on popular play what crowd want, which is mainly an oldies event. But this one is the balancer, the fun thing, a "let the djs do their own thing" and no policy. Dont like that "across the board" term as been misused a lot. Feel of nite to me was a classy mix of all era soul. Bernie on decks at first then followed by Cogs (not that sure on name, may be wrong and guy on door was cogs??) Heard some nice stuff , crowd was a bit down on last time was there, though werent that many early on, gotta say the early dancers were well impressive, rare nowadays to say that but well smart and stylish. Was a strong 70s+ feel overall, highlights included likes of the great jerry butler - dont step on my dreams and more similar style grooves, had mentally noted a lot more but gone west at moment. With the odd classic thrown in , Soul Self Satisfaction was dedicated to the late Martin Ellis. Steve T was on next at 11 as the main guest, asked my advice earlier as I have guested here before, I told him the crowd was all into early R&B the earlier and the more down tempo the better. Of course he wisely ignored my advice and continued the set trend with a smart mix of 60s current plays, few classics and 70s+. Not a representive mix but some examples being - Pretty Little Girl Next Door - Bobby Day , Holland Dozier - New Breed Kinda Woman, Gayle Adams- Baby I need your loving. sure Steve will add when recover as didnt catch all. Bernie finished of nite with bit more of a good mix of all era soul Odds Alan B wouldnt give out details of that other version of Vooddo Working apart from a few clues as it was actual legal issue not dub. Did say other stuff but gone west. Mentioned next weeks main guest at Viaduct is Ginger. Overall, numbers down, but still an enjoyable nite, some great sounds on the 70-2k trip, some could have done with out, but "something for everyone and all that Orig plan was just the one event but come 1am most of us had a strong desire to crack on, though Steve t had work in morning, such was our thirst we sweet talked steve t into just making a flying visit to wilton, suppose steve is more than likely cursing us right now at work. Yeah and we deserve it Wilton Enough is enough, someone tell me what is it about yorkshire, every time in last couple of months been there, have had a right bundle of laughs. This time no different, as was planned just to nip across for a few hours time was tight. So as wanted to get most was in a rush, first thing we found out that exit number we were given was wrong!! Which made the mobile phone directions we were trying to follow a bit hard. Cut the crap - think one hour 50 odd miles, another motorway exit, 3 security guards, a 24 hour garage, and 30 mins of Pete Coulson mobile phone credit, later we found the place If someone wants to tell why does it seem that all events in yshire seem to be located in the middle of industrial estates feel free Off topic: just worked out why Yorkshire Rider crew had probs finding DMSC, wasnt my tip top directions, it was fact that there was no industrial estate within 10 miles of it." That might be it " said our young soul fan "...nay lad dont be daft. Has thou seen all that green stuff around here, and wheres all security gates and wire fences, nay lad thou is wrong, keep thy foot down, now weres my snap box" - advance apoligies By time got there, worked out what time had to leave as Steve T was at work in morning, mmmm we had one hour A quick haggle on price with door staff , in, catch up with a fair few not often seen, not sure who was on when in but played some nice stuff, was told numbers were down, 2 cups of tea, Chris Sheppard then was on and Let It Be Real- George Hobson hit the spot, (seen this had spins at wigan 78, how did it go) Steve T pointing at his watch, a quick attempt to flyer every one in 2 mins, and that was it, a 2-3 hour journey ahead, and to make matters worse found out that a bloody security guard had given us long way directions, and when driving around were just 50m away from venue Back home at 7 Final thing on wilton is was it worth it? My own view yep, even though spent more time industrial estate touring than in actual event (check out the argos distribution depot for a superb example of the latest version of the highly rated secur-r-us gate barriers) Event been trying to get to for a fair while but usually either clashes, or plans failing means no go. As said was told numbers were down, and dance floor reaction was a bit on/off , but even short time event there , place had that "feel" you associate with a good quality event . And as recently some events happenings have left me wondering "am I on different planet" well that hour cleared it all up . Definitely be going again, a hour not really long enough for fair view suppose, but what saw, felt and all the rest despite numbers down, will undoubtely result in yet more battles with those bloody Yorkshire industrial estates. WEEKEND OTHER GOING ONS Reports that Bury was bit quiet, though was early like, Stockport been told was a packer and a stormer, featuring those masters of rare soul destruction Andy Rix and Rob Thomas Broughton and Keele tonite Buzz about Keele tonite with it seems a fair few doing it. mike Anti-hype checker report : As on Saturday, September 21, 2002 11:42 AM 1234 occurances of the words DMSC, Monkey, and Drunken were found and removed in this message

Some quality events around this weekend, check out event calander for info!! Monkey flyers are out and about, front is at top, the back with the info on is below for a full view , hit here

Hi all. Back again with all the latest news regarding North Herts biggest Rare Soul event - the Plinston Hall. Firstly the next night is Friday 1st November with guests Nick&Dawn Brown and Dave Rimmer joining the usual line-up of Hammie, Fingers, Taffy and TheBigO&Ab. Tickets are a MUST for those who intend travelling and can be reserved on the door or paid for by credit card from the box office on (01462) 480282. £5 gets you in to a guarenteed packed fun filled night. Please note: Our events are not, at present, members only so you CAN turn up on the night and pay at the door. We do not advise this if you are travelling to the event as the last one sold out in under 2hrs. All the opening night problems (too few bar staff, overcrowding, bar drunk dry etc etc) have now been sorted and we have opened the upstairs Modern/Crossover room for this night (6 months ahead of schedule) to cope with the demand. Top Modern DJs will be booked for the forthcoming events and please note NO SOULFUL GARAGE is envisaged!! We are talking with the management about the possability of holding allnighters at the venue and so far talks are encouraging. However, we want to build a strong database of members asap as this will be members only events. Drop us a line at nh6tsmafia@aol.com for further information. Thats it for now. January sees the lovely Ginger Taylor gracing the decks and we are hoping to secure the services of Soul Sam in the Modern room (TBC). Butch will also be making his debut at the club sometime in the new year and the R&B/R&S room will be opening in March 2003 so watch this space and find out why we say....Herts - Full of soul! TheBigO

Heres a tasty look forward to CSC Dome nite on Friday 27 Sep. A top ten from Russ Vickers (who every time have caught him doing a spot has always thrown out some right tasty stuff). 1. Isonics - Sugar - Kammy 2. The Tears - What youre doing to me - Smash 3. The Fabulous Dimensions - I Cant Take It Baby - Saphire 4. Skip Jackson&the Shantons - Im on to you girl - Dot - Mar 5. Curtis Davies&the Arkettes - Tell Me - Ronnie Records 6. Dee Dee Sharpe - Deep Dark Secret - Cameo 7. Claude Huey - Why Would You Blow It - Galaxy 8. Sokina Muhammad - Im a Beleiver - Prestige 9. Charles Mintz - Running Back - Uplook 10. Chuck Cockerham - Have I Got A Right - Mala Need say any more.......apart from corking stuff!! Check out CSC SITE for more info

Andy Dyson is putting together a worthwhile tape for charity, None of the over the top stuff heres Andys own words I figured if I charge £3 inc p+p for the tape it will raise whatever less post and tape cost which i havent the foggiest idea what blank tapes cost.so feel free to send what you want but £3 is enough.the tape will consist of some of my current plays and deep and general soul first priority is quality but equally and hopefully tunes that are unknown to the masses.ive only done one tape in the last 5 years that went to flynny, oh and chalky came up and did one himself to be quite honest ill probably never do another other than sales tapes.also i must add this will not be a sales tape , and you have my word every last penny will go to a childrens and the m / s charity.if you want a copy send to me at 12 MICKLEBRING GROVE , CONISBROUGH , NR DONCASTER ,SOUTH YORKSHIRE ,DN11 - 9UT .HOPE YOU ENJOY oh nearly forgot ill stick £100 of my own money in regardless of amount of interest,also the planned soul night will run along the same lines. andy dyson. there you go, sounds worthwhile cause and done in right way am sure the tape will be of the highest quality so get your hand in pocket and do it....!!!

www.geocities.com/northmanchestersoulclub northmanchestersc@hotmail.com NORTH MANCHESTER SOUL CLUB @ BURY TOWN HALL PRESENTS THEIR MASSIVE 4th ANNIVERSAREY ALL - NITER ON FRIDAY 18th OCTOBER! 3 ROOMS OF SOUL OVER 10 HOURS (8 P.M - 6 A.M) WITH 19 GUEST D.JS! ROOM 1: THE BALL ROOM PLAYING CLASSIC NORTHERN, MOTOWN AND TODAYS INDEMANDERS. D.JS RICHARD SEARLING KENNY BURRELL GINGER TAYLOR TERRY DAVIES KEV MURPHY SEAN LIVESEY BOB HINSLEY DAVE BOOTH NEIL JONES ROOM 2: THE ROOM AT THE TOP. PLAYING RARE&NEWLY DISCOVERED 6TS AND R&B SOUNDS. D.JS MARK BICKNELL ANDRE MINTA STEVIE Z DAVE BOOTH JOHN KELLY STEVE GRUTCHLIK LARRY CLARKE ROOM 3 MODERN&CROSSOVER: THE BEST IN 7TS CROSSOVER THRU TO Y2K2 ANTHEMS D.JS MARK GRICE BOB HINSLEY PAUL HAWKINS DAVID BELL MICK HOWARD SEAN LIVESEY DAVE BOOTH ADMISSION £10 ON THE DOOR OR TICKETS £8 IN ADVANCE! FOR MORE INFO OR TICKET PURCHASING RING NEIL ON 0161 7669086. OR GO TO www.geocities.com/northmanchestersoulclub EMAIL: northmanchestersc@hotmail.com RECORD DEALERS WELCOME RING TO RESERVE A TABLE. BE QUICK GETTING YOUR TICKETS FOR THIS ONE THERE ALREADY FLYING!!

Well seems were rumbled, some have commented on team monkeys frequent trips to caribbean and other suspicious things. Investigative reporter Nick Brown of Scenesville fame recently told the world via Soul Talk, the truth behind the DMSC nites and the legendary "Two drinks for one promotion"!! Thanks to him our grant from McGill University, Montreal, has now been suspended! And there is no longer a need to enter blood groups on memberships application forms. just hit that read more... to read more Found this in the latest issue of Fortean Times and couldnt resist sharing it with you all. The article is a paraphrase of a report which appeared in the Sunday Telegraph of May 3, 2002, and appears in a feature collecting together items on this theme. Club promoters in the North Wales borderlands might particularly enjoy it! ******** A study that involved giving alcohol to 1000 green vervet monkeys has shown that small primates behave very much like humans. The vast majority drank moderately and only in the company of other monkeys (but never before lunch) and preferred their drink to be diluted with fruit juice. Around 15% drank regularly and heavily, preferring their hooch neat or with a dash of water. The same proportion drank a little or were teetotal. Five per cent were "seriously abusive binge drinkers". They get drunk, pick fights, and consume as much as they can before passing out. As with humans, most heavy drinkers are young males, but monkeys of both sexes and all ages like a drink. The research took place on the Caribbean island of St Kitts, where monkeys have developed a taste for alcohol in the form of fermenting sugar cane, and now frequent the islands bars to gulp back abandoned cocktails. The study involved keeping the animals in cages and offering them a choice between soft drinks, alcoholic drinks and diluted alcohol. "A cage full of drunken monkeys is like a cocktail party," said Professor Frank Ervin of McGill University, Montreal, who led the study. "You have one who gets aggressive, one who gets sexy, one who thinks everythings funny and one who gets really grumpy. The binge drinkers gulp down the alcohol and pass out on the floor. The next day they do it all over again." ***************