Steve L

As a parallel thread to the one "Records that couldnt make a comeback" Heres a few that shouldnt ever have seen a turntable: Lou Lawton - NICK nack.... Dean Barlow - 3rd window.. Kenny Thomas - Crazy world Futures - Party time man All absolute garbage Any more ?

Whats unbelievable about that then mate please enlighten me

Dont usually say a lot on here but this is my pet subject so here goes: IMO disco & rock n roll records ( sorry should that be modern & R&B? )have no place on the scene, if people like this music and want to go out and dance to it then thats fine by me - each to their own and all that but why this music has attached itself to the northern scene is beyond me. Before you all start shouting about moving on, keep an open mind, attracting young blood etc etc dont bother cos it doesnt wash I just dont like "R&B" or failed disco records and thats that. By the way I'm not an oldies freak who wants to go out and listen to the same played to death oldies every time either( Some people seem to think that if you're not into modern you must just want to listen to played out Wigan oldies ). The scene for me has always been about 60s SOUL from when I first started out in '74 with the classic stormers up to now when I'm a bit more into the mid tempo stuff. The problem I've got is that I'm not into travelling very far and all my local venues are either for the handbag crowd, the beer towel brigade or "across the board" ( see Chalky's comments above ) so if anyone out there fancies starting a night up in Mansfield to play quality 60s SOUL MUSIC you'll have my full support signed one frustrated soulie

Well said that man

Never mind lads you'll be able to cheer yourselves up and take your minds off all this politics shit by watching Scotand play Italy tonight and get another 3 points on the way to qualifying for the world cup

Following on from above: The whole weekend was fantastic. How can you say give us something new from the artists??? For f*cks sake, these people are in their 60s & 70s! They gave me everything I wanted. I spent about 45 mins talking to Troy Keyes & Ritchie Pitt on sat night after the performance - all they kept saying to me was thank you so much, I said no I want to thank you (and countless other arists) for giving me so much pleasure over thelast 30 years. They were absolutely gobsmacked by it all! Many a time I have listened to a record and thought the poor sod who made this has no idea how much it's loved by all of us, so it was nice to be able to convey these sentiments to the peole who matter. Roll on next year !!!!!

What planet are you from? You need to get life youth!

Its nothing to do with what time you like to be in bed, a handbagger is someone who gets excited and dances to stuff like Third finger left hand & Band of gold

Funny that, I had a mate who liked motown about that time cos his older brother was into it! The rest of us used to take the piss, we thought he was a twat cos we were all into Slade, The Sweet & T.Rex - Motown? whats that all about? A couple of years later ( summer holidays '74 ) we started going to the local youth club where they were playing this "shit" motown & soul. The 1st thing that struck me was that the lads were all dancing! What the f***? Dancing's what girls do. I cant remember how long it was before i started thinking " this isnt bad, this soul stuff" but within a few weeks I was hooked, dancing - the lot! The rest as they say is history- Notts Palais, Coalville, Peterborough, Wigan, Ritz, Leeds Central etc etc 31 years later me, my mate & his older brother are still at it ( arent we youth? )

Heres a few to send me off with: Sam Bowie - Think of the times we had together Ronnie Savoy - Loving you Robert tanner - Sweet memories Whispers - Remember me Johnny Gilliam - Room full of tears Charles Mann - Its all over over The first three would be for the people I love, the rest for everyone else. Then I'd want everyone to have the best soul do ever starting off with Fabulous Downbeats - Life goes on!!!

Had some great nights at Trotters Chalky, it ran for about 8yrs through the 80s I didnt miss too many. Also Rob & Chris Marriot ran a midweek night At The 8 Bells in Mansfield around 78-79, had a couple of top nights there when Searling came down and spun his top tunes of the time ( Cecil Washington, Vickie Baines etc ) Incidentally I dont know if you went to Trotters right at the beginning but it started life as Stewarts ( Banqueting Suite if I remember rightly ) before changing names.