Winnie :-)

Bit harsh on the slap heads, and just don't see the exits being played...

And she's only 19, so not particularly well versed in tact, which was a point I made at the time. The thread has since been taken down.

So on a rare and northern soul forum, some people don't want to be associated with the term? isn't that like posting on the internet is ruining our lives forum? It's just a term, gives a quick point of reference, to say 2 people meeting, conversation at some level can ensue. Maybe some handy badges might help? Beginner, intermediate, advanced, awaiting canonization, deity. I realise that for suggesting badges, I must go back to languishing in the 'beginners' enclosure for a month, but Jesus was cool with personal sacrifice, and if you leave aside the whole crucifixion blip, he's reasonably popular, although there is a swelling in the underground movement, "Christians against flowing robes". Guess we all have to start the journey somewhere :-)

How is a work of fiction, which the last film was, setting itself up to be the definitive last word on northern soul? The film you're proposing, would it be a documentary, or would it also be a drama, very interested to know.

Someone will have to put one hell of an argument up, to prove definitively that the film has prompted or caused this.

You just click on the reply with quote tag, then when it comes up, just write your reply underneath the box, the original post is contained in Multi quote. Hit the multi post tag on the posts you want to include, they'll be a box come up with however many quotes you're making, click on that, and then post your replies under the boxes as before. Hope this helps

Actually looking back at talking to some of the lads on gear, perhaps we were ;)

More pertinent, how come none of us were dubbed badly when we were speaking to one another

And not a throwing star or set of nun-chucks in sight

It's excellent, even though the denials of certain aspects, and the myths about certain others are surfacing at a rate of knots.

What have you done with Manus, he doesn't write 3 word replies...

Tom Jones, and Frankie Vaughn used to do kicks, are we to suppose they'd first been watching one of Run Run Shaw's epics? I wasn't at the Wheel, but just can't see a conversation along the lines of, where did you get that dance move, oh it was some chinese guy on the Green Hornet. It's got to be that the drops and moves were originally seen at performances by black artists, copied and then enhanced. Maybe those doing martial arts incorporated some of their training, but to claim that as the origins, just doesn't ring true with me.

Diplomacy - the art of dealing with people in a sensitive and tactful way. :) Point being, that there may be some fallout, we don't know for certain yet, and I don't want to get involved in it on this thread

The whole point of the comment I made Coops was this thread was specifically for reviews of the actual film, there will no doubt be an entirely separate thread at some time, discussing what some may see as fallout

Great review Steve

Just wasn't enough bee-hives John

Just a thought, and very much a personal opinion, but this one comment could take the whole thread away from film reviews, which I think would be unfair. Just thought I'd highlight it before it becomes ''clown and costume hunting season'' yet again? Win

Really enjoyed the film. I went on Saturday and then went on to St Ives. There were moments when goose pimples just seemed to appear, as a particular scene triggered a similar memory. The acting was first rate, I went to the film to see it as just that, a film. I left aside the northern soundtrack as an integral part of the plot, and tried to view that side of things as a happy coincidence. I watched the story unfold, in a very well written piece of drama, if you've seen the film, and you were about at the time, you'll know every thing that appears in it as a story line, happened, maybe not all on the same night, or with the frequency that things were happening on the screen, but a passage of time was trying to be explained in a relatively short film, the way people got into the scene, then relied on it to bring joy at the end of the week. From my personal point of view, every avenue of what life for someone heavily into the northern scene at that time was included, and that in my view is what lends to it's authenticity. Speaking to my travelling companion on the way out, I said, the biggest compliment I could pay that film is that if it hadn't of had a northern sound track, I would already be beginning to look at it as a British masterpiece of drama.

I've seen a lot of your photos, don't think I've actually been snapped by you, so no personal investment in saying this, they really are good. There's one that Coops took, that I really like as do most of my friends, I'm clearly a million miles away, and didn't know it was being taken, one of my relatives however said it made me look like a crackhead, and that there were much nicer ones I could have chosen as a profile pic, but she's not on the northern scene, and bakes cakes for a living, she'd never get it. To me the images just show moments in time that in future days, I'll enjoy looking back on, so personally I'm grateful to the snappers

It really doesn't worry me, I've been photographed loads of times, hence multiple pics of me with gum at the corner of my mouth, or singing madly along to something. As long as the photographers are not 'walking amongst us' and in my experience they don't, I really don't care. Have had to explain things away a couple of times, but it's part of the fun

It's a storm in a tea-cup too me. I haven't met a photographer on the scene who won't take a picture down if asked, the majority at venues appear to be quite happy being snapped, if your personal preference is not to have your picture taken, then why try to impose that view on everybody else, everybody enjoys the northern scene in different ways as it should be. As the photographers who've contributed to this thread have said, a quiet word and it's sorted.

Maybe a quick word with the photographer and ask them not to take it, or if its already been taken, not to put it up might suffice?

Thanks for the info, will take it into account when working out travel times

I've just had a look at the tickets and it doesn't say which screen (1 or 2), just that it starts at 2:45, but I expect they'll say when we get there Does the cinema have it's own parking?

There's actually a lot to be said for what Aaron has written, but only if you've been on the scene for years. When you're 17 it's akin to asking to be allowed into the big boys game of football, whilst watching from the sidelines. ''We don't need another casino''! Just comes across as I never went, I never experienced it, and all you lot talking about it means I can't be involved in the conversation. Aaron, I like you, think you're a genuine lad, but criticising musical taste and clothing isn't the way forward, you'll gather a few devotees along the way, but you won't be changing the world buddy