The Animal

Spot on. St Ives and Wigan.

Gil Scott Heron - "The Bottle" Ellusions - "You didn't have to leave" Mac Simmons - "Turning Point" Tony Middleton - "Paris Blues" Pierre Hunt -"I've got to have your love" Lenny Welch - "Hundred pounds of pain" Sorry more than three but dementia could keep me thinking things I thought I'd heard from the past going all night. Now where's the Casino again? Is it really still there?

There is a CD "Northern Soul 70's Floorshakers" which has "Ton of Dynamite" on it. Visit www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk Released 2005 Hope this helps.

Sonic Explosion - We belong together Frankie "Loveman" Crocker - Ton of dynamite Ronnie "Loveman" Stokes - Touch you again Anyone remember an instrumental by Eart Wind and Fire called "Bio"? It was the flip of a well known 12 of theirs. May have got an odd spin at Casino or maybe the Ritz. Seem to remember it was a fast shuffler.

A few more. Lou Ragland - Since you said you'd be mine. (Mentions himself) Leroy Taylor - Oh "Linda" Jackie Wilson / The Isley Brothers - Whispers (gettin' louder) "Peaches" JJ Barnes - Sweet "Sherry" Charles Mintz - "Candy" Baby Almeta Lattimore - "La La" The Originals - Goodnight "Irene" Liz Lands - Midnight "Johnny"

If this is the same night I remember in '78 or '79, this is how I remember it: The music went down, The lights went up, The announcement went down, People stood up, Two b*st*rds were taken down, Lots of cries went up, Some people sat down, All were cheered up, This all went down, Without hic-up. The two tw*ts were then helped all the way down the stairs (not feet first) by some of the bigger boys who had come out to play that night. They could have had muscles in their spit and farts by the look of them and I don't think the two con artists were seen again, Thank God.

Skip Mahoney - "Janice" Ronnie McNeir - "Wendy" is gone Four Tops - Walk away "Renee" David Ruffin - "Dinah" Bobby Taylor - "Malinda" Bobby Taylor - "Eleanor Rigby" The O' Jays - "Brandy"

Me and my mate Derwin and two girls got stopped by two DS on Manchester station. One was older and experienced, the other quite young and still wet behind the ears. The older one started searching Derwin while the younger one started searching the girls bags. I was papping myself as I had stuff hidden in the waistband of my trousers. One of the girls (Jackie) had some loose tampons in plain white paper wrappers in her bag. Excitedly, the young DS pulled out a tampon and held it up saying "So what's this you've got Miss?" He must have thought it was a cigar sized joint!!! Jackie snatched the tampon and her bag back off him and said "If you don't fooking know by now son you're in the wrong fooking job!" With that the older DS looked so embarassed he stopped the search and thanked us for our time and went off with the young DS getting a right bollocking! Went in my old Austin Maxi with 7 of us in one Sat nighter. By the time we got there the clutch was practically not working. Sunday morning in car park we couldn't get it into any gear. Arthur Fenn got behind the wheel with the engine running and we pushed him round the car park until finally he rammed it into 4th gear. He then drove round and round the car park while we all took it in turns to jump into this moving vehicle. Once everyone was in Arthur managed to drive all the way from Wigan to Selby without stopping. At traffic lights and junctions etc... I had to slow us down using the handbrake whila Arthur revved the arse off it to stop us from stalling. All the amateur mechanics told me clutch had gone, would cost a fortune etc... My mates dad had a look and said there was no clutch fluid in it!!! Bought a bottle of clutch fluid and car was a goodun for another few years and got us to plenty of nighters etc... Same car, one night peeing down with rain the drivers side windscreen wiper broke. Undeterred, I drove the last 30 miles hanging out of the window. Got to Casino freezing & pee wet through. Soon forgot this with a change of clothes and steam dried in Casino!!! Fortunately it wasn't raining next morning or that would have been a nightmare drive home!!

There was a Bostock store in Leeds Merion Centre (not market) about '79/'80. Mainly LP's & 12's. Bought Gil Scott Heron, Bobby Womack, Roy Ayers and lots of Motown there. Cheap as chips!!!

Paris Blues - Tony Middleton. Played by Sam Remember going on a minibus with my mate Kev Schofield from Basingstoke. We were 16 and others on the bus were Dave Greet, Budgie? and others from Southampton area. They looked after us young uns after a stop off (in London I think) where we purchased the necessary. Then we used to go to the Centre or Circle? club in Southampton on the Sunday night, then up for school on the Monday morning! Very happy days

Didn't Len like little girls aswell? A young girl in a swimming pool was once heard to say to him: "Will I really sink if you pull your finger out?"

A couple of stamina testers from my younger days: Frankie (Love Man) Crocker - Ton of Dynamite Roscoe & Freinds - Broadway Sissy Thought I was fit but these could push you, especially about 7.30 am!!!

Billy Arnell - Tough Girl?

Eloise Laws of Love Factory fame. Looks great on 1980 LP cover "Eloise Laws" on Liberty.

Dolphin Centre Darlington early 80's. Bailey's Doncaster 77/78? Drax Village Hall (1 Off about 78/79) St Mary's Hall, Selby 78, Oval Ball, York (not nighters)

Happy memories of yesteryear, but ask Arthur about the more chilling memory of the crossbow hanging on the wall in Ady's house in Snaith!!!