Reg

I've not seen it Billy, have you got a link? Or invite me to join...my facebook name is Reggie Evans

Ah well there's always gonna be one, or two.....or 3.......lol I really don't know where he gets the enthusiasm after 30 years. I get bored every 5 years or so...have a year or so off barely going anywhere and then start going out a lot again. It's only recently since having the nippers that I've had this long a period where I have hardly been anywhere, except weekenders and occasional soul nights. The last (non weekender) allniter I went to was the New Century Anniversary last Christmas and the one before that was Middleton about 6months before..and it took me all week to recover I must be getting old as I definitely don't have the energy to stay up all night voluntarily on a regular basis

Chalky, you are the joint number one soul source guru with Pete Smith I don't think anybody can really argue with that mate

Paul, shouldn't you be in bed....?

I reckon that more single people tend to go to niters, whatever their age. I know for a fact I went out to niters more when I was single. And I am married to somebody I met at an allniter Or if they aren't single their partners don't tend to go....on the whole I'd say? It definitely is also a social thing I think, however much people say that the music is better than soul nights etc etc..

Brilliant

The allniter Dave Thorley ran ticked a lot of the boxes for me...except the "in Greater Manchester" one

That's why most people like going to niters

I can't understand the fascination with allniters anymore - I can't be bothered most of the time these days unless it's a weekender. I don't want to drive to one, I can never get a lift back and I'm far too long in the tooth to spend 5 hours on trains travelling home. Plus they go on far too long these days. What can people possibly talk about for 10 hours? And then there's people who start getting really grumpy or wierd about 4am or repeat stories they told me already at the beginning of the night and I can't stop thinking about my bed. PLus,as several people have mentioned already, you feel like crap for half the week afterwards To be fair though I've never been any different, even when I as 16 it would get to 4am and I'd be nodding off. Maybe it's borderline narcolepsy or possibly a short attention span

he he

Just as an experiment I googled "northern soul" and the first page didn't bring up any pages relating to Ian Levine Productions. I then typed northern soul into youtube and it mainly brought up This England clips and similar and lots of embarrassing videos of old people dancing at soul nights. Now if I was 18 that would put me off more than some synthentic strings on a backing track

I'm not very impressed with how some members have taken it upon themselves to torment Ian on this thread...so much that he's decided to leave. How many times does he have to be told that folk don't like his music, there's other bleedin threads on soul source-surely you only have to tell him once if you think it's all rubbish really? He's kicked off now because he thinks he's backed into a corner and he is defending what is basically his life's major work. I know he's a big lad and doesn't need me to defend him but I think that some people should be ashamed of themselves. He's done a lot more good than harm to the NS scene and I think he deserves a bit more respect.

The Tom Jones single is brill, the youtube clip doesn't do it justice as I don't think it's the single version.

You are allowed to have an opinion of course you are. However what I can't understand is that somebody like you (who comes across as a decent chap usually) seems obsessed with telling Ian how much you don't like his work. I think that it has now been firmly established that you don't like what he does. It's like Vic and Bob used to say "you wouldn't let it lie...."

Pete you are becoming the wise old guru of Soul Source (well not too old.... )....

I love live acts when done well with a proper backing band. I saw Kim Weston at Prestatyn and I have to say it was a bloody travesty having a legend such as her singing to terrible backing tapes when The Spinners the night before were afforded a full band. I have seen a lot of great acts over the years including greats like Curtis Mayfield, Edwin Starr, Bobby Womack,JJ Barnes, Maxine Brown and many more and most of them have been a joy. Seeing some of the clips on here as been equally wonderful...how can anybody watching Jerry Williams play the piano, tapping his foot away not be touched? And actually seeing the VelVets singing a song that I must have heard hundreds of times in the last 20 odd years made my day. I can't understand the mentality of anybody claiming to be a music fan who does not want to see music they enjoy to the point of obsession performed live The memory of seeing Curtis Mayfield back in 1987 will be with me forever more than any allniter or night in a working mens' club that's for sure!

Yep Dave, I think that's about right...

To be honest you could be right, I know one of the residents and he always makes sure he is there early doors. I dunno whether that is Andy's requirement or just that he wants to do that

I used to get worried about stuff like this but nowadays I can't be bothered-if I have a problem with how somebody promotes their night or what djs are on (or not) then I just don't bother going. But to be fair it's unusual for an event to misadvertise like Stoke did this weekend even though they must have known for weeks that Butch wasn't playing. Although I'm not entirely sure that most of the 900 or so who go would really care if Butch was on or not. But for the few that do care it matters As far as the repeats are concerned I really don't understand why the djs can't leave playlists so whoever is on after knows what not to play if they haven't been there all night. How come you never hear repeats at Middleton, Lifeline or the 100? Is it because the djs are there all night or is it because the organisers make more of an effort rather than just playing anything because they think folk won't notice

But what about crossover? We had a modern oldies thread the other month didn't we? Records like Stevens and Foster, The Pages and a lot of those records like Daybreak that are on the white Essential Modern Soul LP/CD. I absolutely love Modern Oldies!!

Wow!!! Tony you are just showing off now!!! I thought of another by the way - Barbara Lewis Bet you've seen her too haven't you

I'd love to see Chuck Jackson and it looks like I'm gonna have to shell out for the November Prestatyn again as he's on there next year..would have preferred to see him in March with Bobby Patterson and The Volumes but there you go! Jerry Butler would be great but I don't think he likes flying does he? Chris (Bearsoul) and Carlos saw him last year in the States and said he was fab!

I remember Soul Sam putting the wrong side on once ...but it was the instrumental so he meant to do it.... Another time I was playing a track down the phone to a friend that he was going to buy off us and Joe my 3 year old wandered up and turned the record player off at the plug!

he he,I won't ask you about the Stormy cover up!! Great times, would be lovely to repeat it oop north again wouldnt it!

Aw!!! Big Hug!