Little-stevie

Yes Boba... Always loved the Latimore and had it for years but then i heard Ov take on it, fantastic cover indeed.. Don't need to choose between them, love them both.. Soundfile anyone please??

Sent pm Dave... The last time i spoke to him via email was August last year, hope its the same email.. If not then leave a messsage on oz soul forum...

Gonna send something in the morning for sure.. Love this mans music so so much.... First track i heard was called "lets straighten it out"... blew me away for sure... If any can find a soundfile of this track that would be great.. Real deeeeeeeeeep soul just how i like it..

That bloke dressed like a pirate who i first clocked at Prestatyn this year and again at Middleton last weekend... Does anyone know this person????

Hi mate Upstairs front row, i can spit on you from there .. Lets meet for a pint in the Protection, or lets make that a few pints... Anytime after 6pm... Really looking forward to seeing this lady of soul..

Jo is more your Y2k STYLE DJ WITH A LITTLE DEEEEEEEEP DISCO THROWN IN.. .. I am her agent... Yes a dj list on here would be good... Maybe with a little profile too..

"Aint gonna bump no big fat woman" .. great tune to get the party off to a swing.. Soundfile anyone

Really nice read in the Manchester Evening news yesterday with regards to Mavis Staples.... Just what its all about for me.. I did the trail from Martin Luther Kings grave stone in Atlanta through to New Orleans in the early 90s, i wanted to see the Deep south and get to some blues/soul clubs.... Its gonna be something special for me on Monday... Any other soul source members gonna see her on tour ????? Mavis' songs of truth and justice Kevin Bourke 8/ 4/2008 WHEN soul queen Mavis Staples sings `I saw it with my own eyes' of the American Blacks' struggle for freedom on her latest album We'll Never Turn Back, she's bringing more than 50 years of the truth to the song. It is a track which can't help but raise the hairs on the back of your neck, just as Staple Singers Stax classics like I'll Take You There can't help but take you higher. Her dad, the legendary `Pops' Staples, picked cotton in the blistering Delta sun down in Mississippi before heading north to Chicago and forming a gospel group with his children, including the young Mavis. The Staple Singers sung at JFK's inauguration in 1961 and influenced a young Bob Dylan. "The first time we met him, he knew all our songs already, knew the words already to our songs and he knew all of our names," recalls Mavis, now a robust 69-year-old who'll be visiting the Bridgewater Hall next week. "We'd run into him a lot and Bobby and I actually courted in the Sixties," she admits. "Bobby was a cutie and I guess maybe I was a cutie too! Off and on, for several years I guess, we'd write letters to each other and smooch." Martin Luther King Another significant man entered Mavis' life in the mid-Sixties when `Pops' took his family to hear Martin Luther King Junior preach. "We were in Montgomery, Alabama," Mavis remembers, "and King was preaching that night at his church. `I like this man Martin,' Daddy said. `I like his message and I want to go to his 11 o'clock service. Do you all want to go?' We did." During the service, King acknowledged the group's presence and later met Mavis and her siblings before speaking alone with their father. Back at their hotel, `Pops' famously told his children "If he can preach it, we can sing it." Over the next few years, the Staples' output reflected more and more what they saw around them, including Freedom's Highway, a song written for the famous march from Selma to Montgomery. When the family moved to Stax Records in Memphis and hooked up with their studio musicians, there followed a series of classic `message songs', including Long Walk To Washington, (If You're Ready) Come Go With Me, Respect Yourself and, of course, I'll Take You There. "It was our transition to the contemporary gospel that got us in trouble with the church. I'll Take You There came out and suddenly the Staple Singers were singing the Devil's music. I'd tell people the Devil don't have no music, all music is God's music," Mavis hoots. "Anything I do is gospel! That was true back then and it's still true now." Awe Despite alliances with Curtis Mayfield and Prince (the diminutive one was so in awe of Mavis's voice that he called their collaboration simply `The Voice') Mavis somewhat slipped into the shadows for the Eighties and Nineties. But she came back strong and true with the gospel-tinged Have A Little Faith and even more so with the Ry Cooder-produced We'll Never Turn Back collection of freedom songs. "For a minute I thought `does the world want to hear freedom songs now?' But pretty obviously we still need them," she tells me. "There's still bigotry out there and seeing what happened with Hurricane Katrina was like watching flashbacks from the Sixties. "Where I live in Chicago, you still hear about black families moving into a neighbourhood and finding someone has painted something insulting with the "n" word in it on their garage wall. So we're still singing our freedom songs and most of the songs on the CD are songs from the struggle, ones that we sang during the marches." An exception is a spine-tingling affair called In The Mississippi River. "We had the Freedom Singers with us in the studio and one day we were all taking a break when Ry and I heard them just singing this tune neither of us had ever heard before. It turned out to come from the time when the authorities had finally gotten around to dragging the Mississippi River for the bodies of some white activist kids they knew were there. They started pulling dozens of bodies out of the water, victims no one had ever even heard about! "So this CD and these songs, that's my life full circle." Mavis Staples, supported by Jhelisa, performs at the Bridgewater Hall, on Monday, April 14.

Copies out in the post today... Let us know if there is any problems with the post.. Still got plenty of both fanzines and the new issue of Soul Up North....

And his wide pants set on fire and stamped out by all the gang, just like some of them Muslims do to the American flag on channle four news.. Time to put this to bed... As i said before hundreds of nights to choose from, go where you want... I have promoted nights of this type since 1988 in Manchester and its a nice change to the regular scene, its good to have something different with a fresh feel and that works in the big city... Like every topic on here you get a different take on what is right and wrong, never gonna get all the folk on one side, no never,thats what makes the forum what it is sometimes.. Just like forums on trains/football/ comic mags etc etc.. people will have a passion for something that others think is naff, the thats the way of the world.. I don't give a foooooooooooooook if some folk don't like what i love, i just gather the people around me who feel the same way... mOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE ON INDEED...

Can anyone tell me where Edwin Starr lived at the time of his death, the address if possible.. I think it was around the west midlands someplace??? i have a friend wanting to do some charity event and they are plan to call it 25 miles and do that distance from a chosen spot to his house.. Its also gonna be some kind to the man himself... If you have any info then please pm me or email.. stevecato64@yahoo.co.uk cheers Steve

Its just a vocal minority as ever on here.. Most people i know don't give a flying f"ck what age a person is and i aint ever had younger frinds put off events because its a much older crowd who don't want them there... I don't think about age at all, its all about folk having a good time together with a common interest.. 9,000 members or more on here and we listen to the views of just a few and take that as the policy????????????? .. Duffy aint the issue here because of one record, just like Banarama and many others who made a northern soul style track,they are not gonna become soul icons and just move on to the next tune depending on what the manager thinks will sell the most...... I hope her next tune is far removed from soul or this thread could put Levine or Mr Roberts on the back shelf Like i said before,hundreds of choices of event now from city center joints to the woking mens clubs out in the sticks.. You just go where you wanna go...

Same old farts and a few new faces.... Thats gonna be the name of my next club night for sure...

I see that Ian Beal is still alive and kicking then.. ... I am sure there are plenty who would want to own something like this... Its just a post to an event that some would like and info.. Lets not have the Monday morning bashers pulling it apart..

Had this email sent to me today... I thought i would pass it on... Hello, Just to let you know that there is an exhibition of Northern Soul / Wigan Casino paintings by renowned artist David Barrow at the AC Gallery in Huddersfield. The exhibition runs from 5th April to 26th April. Everything on display will be for sale including his famous "On My Way" original painting. Please see the attachment for more details. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, Chris edwinfineart@hotmail.co.uk DAVID BARROW EXHIBITION 'NORTHERN SOUL' 5th - 26th April 2008 AC Gallery 11 Byram Street, Huddersfield www.northerngalleries.co.uk

Just found this topic again.. Would be really nice to add more to it... So good to see where we all came from... Steve x

I don't think there is much of a problem with regards to playing boots or original records.... Most people know what places play boots/cds and who stick to the real deal and original vinyl.. Maybe we could have a different section in events for the not so real deal events

HUNDREDS of soul events every month around the Uk and Europe.. There is so much choice for all that i don't see whats the point going on about certain places... Its quite easy for me, if i like a place and the music then i tell friends too and will return there, if i don't then i will find another event... Just like the 80s and 90s we shall see new people come onto the scene, many will stay and some will drift away,its always been the same.. I promote the upstairs room at Soul Revolution.. we have a nice mix of people with younger and older soul crowd plus the influx of a few others, i find it quite easy as i greet most folk and chat to them, we aint had any problems apart from New Years eve with a few pretty drunk, i got them out straight away.. Any night that gets a good few non scene punters will always have problems for some, if you don't like that then there are plenty of other places to go... I have quite a few non- scene friends who come to my night in London, they all have a nice time and know what the score is, i do also like to go to some rare soul events and talk in the dark corners with the chin strokers and children of the night... I like to travel around the country and Europe to different events and a good mix of folk,some like to stay local every week with a safe crowd that they know, whats the problem, plenty choice for all... Just do what you wanna do and do it now.. Long time dead

I too would like a coming together like at ther Ritz in Manchester in the 90s.. The trouble would be with rival promoters as you say .. Maybe its you Mr Vickers that could get all the chiefs round a table and get them to smoke the peace pipe and have a group hug ... Its a nice idea Russ but i don't think it could work anymore, too many soul clubs going on all over the country every week and folk don't need to travel that much....Plus we have more and more weekenders, who would put up the cash for a fortnightly large event with so much competition.. I am happy with it as it is...I would like a large niter thats just two or three times a year for a coming together if anything..

I have copies of the rare soul fanzine from America There's that Beat issue 7 for sale... £5 plus £1 postage... pm me if you would like a copy.. Paypal available.... plus issues 55/56/57/58 of Soul Up North £3 plus £1 postage..

We are mates but can function apart at Middleton,just meeting up a few times each night for a cuddle..

Plus a bit of deeeeeeeeeeeeep disco for you kid .. 60s early 70s rare soul/deep soul/Gritty,Moody Soulful,bluesy RnB,crossover,titty shakers galore

Come over for dinner sometime and bring the boxes.. I could help you have a sort through them

Why a spilt in the scene Have a look at this thread in another 24 hours... Across the board nights with 10 different types of sound would be hard to promote indeed... Banjos/flares/whistle/crack/speed/pills/poppers/skinheads/mods/disco queens/ shandy drinkers/ two steppers/chin strokers/victor meldrews/ Wigan stompers/ Stafford plodders/ plumbers/ finance managers/ hookers/pimps/ junkies/ creeps/ piss heads/ posers/... This would be really something to see..Back to the 80s

So across the board means what then???? something different to a lot of folks it seems.. Is it just 60s/70s uptempo dancers.. 60s/70s stompers/mid tempo/rare underplayed/RnB/ crossover/ disco etc etc etc.. 60s/70s/80/90s/y2k.. Dancers /stompers/two steppers/deep soul/ soulful house Maybe across the board should mean mixing Duffy into late 50s RnB and everything in between from monster oldies to the deepest disco OOOOOOOOOOOh its a tough one aint it.. Good luck to you all "No slitting at the back please"