Mark Bicknell

Promotion is a key point, decent professional looking flyer and posters, get a network of people to distribute flyers for you and better to go over the top with flyers that not enough 3000 to 5000 per event should generate a decent percentage of payers through the door, events thread here on SS and Facebook is a superb advertising tool, get the details of the event to local Radio stations who host a soul show, try to build up an email mailing list so Membership is good in that respect so you can obtain all contact details, and make sure you have enough money in your back pocket to be able to pay all your expences DJ fees etc.if it goes tits up then it's down to you to cover the short fall. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Good list Keith as ever, you are so right about The Freeman Brothers not sure if you had arrived but played it at The Verve Allnjighter, stunning record. Mark

Bernard Smith And The Jokers Wild - Got To Be A Reason - Groove 2nd Issue - nice clean condition copy, cheques/postal orders/cash and pay pal welcome as a gift to avoid fees - £40.00 including postage, contact bicknellmark@aol.com or via PM here.

Ben E. King - Cry No More - Atco Wanted - Nice clean copy please, will pay fair price, contact bicknellmark@aol.com or via PM here. Now sorted, many thanks for the replies. Mark.

Like I said mate it's a gesture nothing more. Mark

I've included postage on big records as a gesture and thanks but that's my choice however you try getting free postage off the major record dealers lol at the end of the day it's business and if you give it free to one customer you have to give it to all of them so for the sake of 6 quid to get insured postage on a rare record is a small price to pay if it goes tits up and gets broken or something. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Not seen this until last night had time to digest it and reflect on it and I have to say I'm so glad I did'nt go to the pictures to see this as there would have been a scene with the manager asking no demanding my money back, forget the hype,forget the subject matter for a second as we are all a little protective of the subject but 'Soulboy' is quite simply a bad movie, bad script with very little story or plot, bad acting, low budget, it has no heart, passion or direction and I knew it would be average but it fell way short of that, I'm not having a go for having a go's sake but in a word it was crap and I would be very suprised if the film makers broke even on their investment here which I suspect as I said was very low budget in the first place not that low budget always means bad film but in this case it was a bad film, as a subject it deserved better, it should and could have been a gritty drama instead it turned out to be very retro in it's presentation rather than being pure nostalgia which are two very different things between actually being there and wanting to be there which is the fundimental error in retro attitude and culture it simply does not work unless you have a true understanding first hand of the subject. Before anyone shoots me down and says that this movie was a love story set in 1974 with a Northern Soul soundtrack fine not a problem with that it stll not a good film no matter how you dress it up sorry, one or two scenes made me chuckle like in the record bar when the bloke said he had stompers, toe tappers etc. almost fell off the sofa as it was so off the wall but had to hide behind the sofa with the dance off at the end what was that all about? Regards -Mark Bicknell.

Hollidays - I Lost You b/w Easy Living - Groove City - Awesome Detroit Soul in a strong VG+ condition, shows some marks but plays perfectly with no hiss, skips, jumps or surface noise, really hard record to find - £275.00 includes special delivery postage - cheques/postal orders/cash and pay pal as a gift to avoid fees welcome, contact bicknellmark@aol.com or via PM here.

A drug at number one says it all really as with pretty much all club culture the quality of drugs often make the difference or so it seems. Mark Bicknell.

DJ'ing one night and this bloke came up to me and said 'Hello' I said what? he said 'Hello' I said ' How dare you don't you hello me' lol true it happened.

Again point taken Chalky, sent you a PM mate to explain, just trying to do the right thing by everyone. Mark

Ok subject to getting the ok from the club owner looking like The Verve Allnighter will run on the following dates, 16th FEB, 11TH MAY, 13TH JULY, 24TH AUGUST, 21ST DECEMBER, and will try and work a couple of extra dates in if possible, almost impossible to avoid clashing but trying to do my bit to avoid this. Subject to confirming dates again with the club The Soulful Sundays Sessions will take place on - JAN 27TH - FEB 24TH - MARCH 24TH - APRIL 28TH - MAY 26TH - JUNE 23RD - JULY 21ST - AUG 18TH - SEPT 15TH - OCT 27TH - NOV 24TH AND DEC 29TH. All Sunday sessions run from 3pm - 9pm with DJ's including Dolly - Mick Howard - Ian Cunliffe - Keith Williams - Killa & Dereck - Tony Foster - Mark Bicknell and more TBC throughout 2013. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Point taken Chalky and forgive me but I checked the diary thingy here and nothing was listed on those dates, of course I will avoid those dates but what is the point in having the listings if you don't fillin the details on the dates??? in advance like everyone else appears to have done already. Mark.

Really sorry in advance to the owner of a watch which was handed to me early doors at The Verve Allnighter ,I was side tracked when DJ'ing and forgot to mention it over the mic, it was done during the night but was not claimed, Jacqui my wife said there was a chap in a bit of a panic looking for it outside etc. panic over the watch is safe and sound at the club, so if anyone knows the owner can they please get in touch with me as soon as possible. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Hi Chalky, I went into next years dates and have avoided all Lifeline,New Century, Bidds, Rugby, Stoke etc.dates,can't see 100 Club dates on the website for next year but trying my best to do the right thing here.

Just had a look at 2013 events on hers and looks like the following avoid clashing with major allnighters etc. All Saturdays - FEB 22ND MAY 11TH JULY 14TH AUGUST 24TH OR 31ST - FIRST ANNIVERSARY OCT 26TH DEC 21ST - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. That's 6 allnighters trying to avoid other gigs, will run these dates past venue and confirm as soon as possible. Regards - Mark

Looking to secure our 2013 dates at The Verve, Bury for our Northern Soul Allnighter, trying to avoid any clashing with other venues, hoping to go bi monthly and would like to run on either the second or 4th Saturday of the month, please would it be possible for other allnighter promotions to let me have their dates for 2013 as soon as possible please in hope that we can aviod any clashing, just trying to do the right thing being the new kids on the block as it were. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Had a few entries for this but still time to enter, closing competition Tuesday as need to send out winners tickets in the post. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Firstly many thanks to Mike for allowing me to do this little competition,givinjg away 2 pairs of VIP Tickets free of charge for The Verve,Bury Allnighter next Saturday August 18th 2012 - 9pm - 6pm. Simple bit of fun question will run this until Tuesday next week and then draw two winners out of the hat, send answers and full contact details as I will post out the tickets to - bicknellmark@aol.com or via PM here. Name five separate as in five different Northern Soul records issued on the legendary Verve Records artists and titles please? any combination of records will do as long as they were issued on Verve. Good luck - Regards - Mark Bicknell.

There are a couple of copies on UK ebay mate. Mark

When we ran The North Cheshire Soul nights in Stockport, Manchester for about a ten year period we were always busy always packed and had some pretty well known DJ's on, I asked Richard to DJ several times but the dates were wrong for him but after nailing a date down finally he came to the Cheshire to DJ, now the venue was one which filled around 10pm/10.30pm and the pace and night picked up, however when Richard Searling was on we were full to the rafters by 9pm which made for one of the best nights down there, Richard's name, reputation,integrity etc.is still one of the few DJ's who can actually put bums on seats or on the dance floor lol, he can DJ for who he wants when he wants if he wants, when he came to our event it was never about the money or anything like that more about finding a free date infact it was harder getting him a signed Spurs football as a gesture of thanks and let me tell you for a Chelsea fan took some doing. Regards - Mark Bicknell gh we were not an Allnighter

22 parcels you need help mate lol

Left one of this list Russ old bean lol Mark Bicknell