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Long before my time of course, but Pete still wears Mecca sandals all the time - the Jesus type with buckles (not the jellies that some wore) - he's got a pic of everyone (Judith, Len, Ian, Les etc) arseing around with Bernie Golding in grey bondage trousers, he tells me the wonderful Judy Moss used to go in a ra-ra skirt with full petticoats, he also remembers clear plastic anoraks (and someone even turning up with the pockets full of water with goldfish in - though this may have been at the Warehouse (Leeds and full disco mode) and somewhere we have a shot of Les in his notorious hard hat and tool belt a la the Village People. Wedges (with or without tramlines - sometimes dyed rainbow strips) are surely later - I remember them in the early 80s along with whistles and cow bells amongst the Oxford/Swindon/Gloucester crew. Dx

There was defo a boot - the red print one - remember Richard Domar complaining about being ripped off with them. Dx

Trouble is we now know WHY Rolf wanted the kangaroo tied down. Dx PS Would STILL love a tape of The Supremes' unissued recording of it - at last a record that Diane's voice would measure up to.

What it's all about...

God the Vondells is still brilliant. Dx

If they were covering those records the article was absolutely not from 64/65. Dx

Regardless of some soulies also being into football etc, the original question is based on a fundamental confusion - conflating 'soul boys' with 'northern soul boys' is incorrect - soul boys are what casuals called themselves initally (at least round my way). Dx

PS Love A Go Go always puts a smile on my face too (in fact with Contract On Love, Ain't That Asking For Trouble, I Want My Baby Back and of course Nothing's Too Good For My Baby you can't really go wrong with the whole album)

Angie Girl, All I Do, Hey Love and Do I Do all nail it for me. Dx

Sam & Bill was pretty big for a while in the 80s. Dx

Eskew Reeder/Esquerita - one time boyfriend (supposedly) of Little Richard and sometime female impersonator.

I was told Bread on the B side of Sunny was played. Dx

Dave told us that he continued to run the school blues club after he left - hence meeting Jagger. Dx

Ray Pollard was an extra in Ghostbusters. Barbara McNair pops up in various things - including Playboy. Dx

Charlene Spiteri's all-time favourite record is love starved heart. Liz from Corrie went to Wigan and (according to Kev R) was the driver behind the whole Northern story line in Corrie. Steve Davis bankrolled Voices From The Shadows for a few years and went to the Canal Tavern not infrequently I believe, Jimmy White also collects soul. This is a bit of a pointless thread - there are DOZENS of celebs into soul/northern - so what????... However Anna Ford was NOT one of them - she only went to Wigan to do a news report. Dx

Les Cokell told us he discovered the Four Tracks (it's certainly archetypal Les) - however he also said that it was when he was doing the Mecca - not when he was playing the Wheel. Dx

Think it was the first press actually. Dx

I had a demo with we go together on it. Dx

What was the do Clarkie ran in a pub up an alley in Holbourn? Went to it a few times from Abingdon with Mark Sargeant or Paul Dunne. Went to the Norfolk Arms too once or twice - Terry Davies' do? Richard DJed there one time before we all decamped to the 100 Club. Also a club I think Ady ran somewhere between the Tate and Parliament - Sunday nights? Always got there seriously on the way down from Riker's finest. Plus the Water Rats and some club in the city that Pete Hollander DJed at that was a 100Club warmup - flogged Bob Connor my copy of Doctor of Love there, me a Pete H were still doing Northern Noise such as it was then - was with my Pete at the time so that would've been 91 (we actually met at Drummonds after Brian Rae sent him over to get sorted out). Must've been a few more - but I was usually bouncing off the walls waiting to go on to a nighter. Dx

Er I thought it wasn't Chris Clark - certainly sounds nothing like her. Dx

Er we've been talking about Malcolm X, The Black Panthers and The Nation of Islam. Dx

I think we're losing sight of the fact that Screwdriver are hate mongering fascist scum and should not be conflated with movements promoting civil rights and respect for self and others (sometimes rightly in anger) in a country we all know too well has never respected black culture and people. Dx

In addition to the above, I love Johnny Gilliam (but it used to make me too miserable to listen to when I owned it - sold it and promptly bought another) - for me 'The Man In the Street' by William Bell really does it too (arguably my all-time favourite record - I have two 'just in case'), as does The Valentine's 'Breakaway' which to me totally sums up what Northern Soul was/is to me (in fact I got to know one of my close friends sat in the café after Coventry allnighter - coz he was impressed that I was sat writing out the whole song in my wants list from memory - for something to do whilst still fly Air Riker). Dx

Were there not three decks (and a crap set of flashing lights)? Dx

Walter Jackson 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone' Dx