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NO, in a word mate. Elaines Company ran a dance club for 3 years (in preparation for the film) and I basically organised it and invited people in. No steps were taught as we were trying to create a method that mirrored how we did it originally. Which was dance, observe, share, copy, invent. Of course we were making an historical film so it had to have some references to that period in terms of dancing and we would discuss these and point them out. It was 3 years to allow an organic process and one that had some real soul to it. The last year these sessions were some of the best i had been to in a long time....full of energy, a social group who travelled and looked forward to seeing each other and a discovery and re-discovery of music. For many of them they were hearing what we call oldies for the first time and their joy and energy at hearing them, made me re-listen to stuff i was sick to death of hearing hammered to death at mainstream events. They gave it a sort of new life (hard to explain, but it was real). I never taught one step in those sessions and often i would say just look and if you want to learn something ask the dancer to show you or try to mimic them. I really enjoyed Soul-Funktion, a breath of fresh air and the people there had great heart and soul, left me with a smile on my face. that's it then nowt spontaneous about this then , 3 years in the making ,that's just the dance rehearsals before filming , they don't practice that much for strictly and millions watch it every week ,

no thanks mike thinking about amalgamating this with the onesies ,

the soul dress code plod will address this issue and stamp it out with a well placed polyvelt

I watched it and thought it was mildy amusing and typical of what the Beeb or any other channel would do to present the :scene: . from various comments on this thread and others about peoples dress code , I would ask this question . is there a promoter out there who would bar people from their venues if they turned up in bags , vests , or circle skirts , imagine the scene on the door . soul dress code police with tape measures , measuring widths and lengths or maybe a template like they have for hand luggage if it doesn't go through you cant come in , . well ?

the snake ffs

my addidas holdall looks really tatty so the mrs dedcided to buy me a new bag , its a nice bag but . should I take my hard earned patches off my old bag , or go out to one of these events and buy some new ones for my new bag , or should I just keep keeping on with my old bag .

Drove down the M40 this morning south from Cherwell services north of Oxford to the M4 saw loads of red kites at least 40

NS OVO RW SHOULDNT THAT BE OXO

also think about the amount of shoe leather used , have you had a pair of brogues re soled lately ..

contentious subject , but maybe one of our more enterprising amongst us should start clapping lessons for the uninitiated, a chance to make a few shillings and educate the masses, yes clapping in tune is great, love it , we also have names for people with different dance styles , most obvious is skippy sue , the pirate , my little pony, bullfighter (she was at the grov last nighpt lol) knife throwers assistant , mr disappointment,ecky thump , roadrunner, mr fookal, paul wellers dad . fumpher dumph,polish on polish off.

well if I had a collection mine would be up for sale now especially if it was as,. so many say part of their pension fund

sincere apologies for the fact that there were established events in Yorkshire which predate wigan where everybody knows is where it all began , ps cant get any emoticons on .

some nice moves

this the same radiants Stacey,s dad ? https://youtu.be/zDCYAycrKKY

well that's my box sorted for tonight

suppose you cant get the internet over your way then oh and please read my comment highlighted in red on post 112

back in the day lads and lasses from my neck of the woods travelled to a place in stoke and managed to bring copies /tapes of the music played there and thay used to play them at the youth club .I was about 16 at the time and some folk used to get their records from a shop in Sheffield called violet mays or from Nottingham believe it was called selecta disc and that's when I first started on the scene I did buy a few records but decided I had better things to blow my brass on namely lambrettas .,didn't see many dealers at sou;l do,s back then before WC I will apologise for being old though

its a decent record but don't think I would splash a few k on it

bit of agism here do you mean people that go out in droves every w/end however dressed, to listen and dance to the wonderfull music and enjoy themselves ,, that's digusting they ought to be taken outside and thrashed

back in the day people weren't as squeamish about owning boots and people on here have admitted this,, its only since the dealers and collectors got established that these have been frowned upon , don't think it was all about the rarity of the sounds it was more about the setting (venue) and the travel because there wasn't a soul do in every town the events back then were few and far between and there were a lot less people into it then that's where the elitism came in .

that's a rather bold assumption you make in the statement after your first line .I don't think rarity came into it, in fact it was a problem to overcome initially because of the scarcity of records ,I always thought the music which we now call northern soul was chosen because it was uptempo dance music and was devoid of the crap around the commercial music back in the day . and that if anything the ovo policy adopted by some on here has nowt to do with ethics its more about ensuring that those who have the money or amassed their collections of originals can monopolise the scene and exclude others especially young people and women who do not have the disposable income that some fortunate people have, thankfully the other 50% are only interested in what comes out of the sound system and do not concern themselves with the elitist mentality of some on here . collectors collect records , dj,s play records and punters enjoy the music and you can be any one or combination of these three , the punters seem to be having a great time regardless of their choice of genre of what we call northern soul .

or 4 soul nites of say 8 till 1 ,5x1hour spots but what are these mythical top 500 who gets to choose