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Top stuff - what a wonderful story & btw "I'm Not Afraid" & "Puttin' My Heart Under Lock & Key are brilliant, brilliant tunes !!!!

Big tune for Colin Curtis at Blackpool Mecca in his "last hour" sets.

One of the top tunes of 1977 or indeed any other year !!!!

'75 Mecca spin for Colin Curtis - brilliant record !!! Still sounds great !!!

On the Northern Scene the Modern Scene is known as "the dark side" & on the Modern Scene the Northern Scene is known as "the dark side" Harmony at last !!!!

"In Flight" album - I believe there is a little known law in this country that proclaims every household throughout the land must own a copy !!!

The finest record ever to grace the Northern Soul scene !!!!!

St Etienne (again !!) sampled Bobby Reed "The Time Is Right For Love" on their song "Spring"

Really really good - the're still out there !!!!!!

Has had a re-issue - as stated above. NOT a bootleg though - all legal & above board !!!

Casper Peters https://souldennis.blogspot.com/2011/06/casper-peters-find-my-way-1970.html

Don't want to get into oldies v newies myself either. Went to a Northern night before Christmas - music was ok - not very imaginative but pleasant enough. Got chatting to some old mates who still do All Nighters & have stayed with the Northern Scene . Got chatting to them about a few of Butch's tunes & how exciting the unreleased Pied Piper stuff that Ady had discovered sounded. Their eyes glazed over - they did not have a clue what I was on about - they all trudged off to the dancefloor to dance to something like "Girl Across The Street" My point is where has the hunger & the excitement gone ? I get that with new music & also with the new discoveries I hear from the likes of Butch & Ady.

Problem is there are more venues that cater for "these type of people" (what a horrible phrase that is !!!). There are plenty of gigs like this every week less than 5 miles from everyone's house all claiming that they don't play the "same old" when in reality they do !!! I have co promoted a modern soul night on The Fylde Coast for just over 7 years - we play modern underground soulful dance music - the same ethos as got me into the music nearly 40 years ago. It may not be the music of everybody's taste on Soul Source but it's vibrant & progressive - all the things the Northern scene could & should be !!!

Colin Curtis has had more imagination about soul & dance music in the last 40 years than practically any other DJ in this country !!!

Too busy enjoying themselves - people have commented onf/b how much they liked Colin's set.

Problem is that something that was "underground" 35 years ago has become very much "mainstream". Ian Levine predicted in 1975 that the scene would end up like this with the same music being played & middle aged people dressing as they did back then - he wasn't far wrong !!!. The word "handbagger" (hate the word !!!) is on at least 2 threads on this forum & it is all over facebook - yet many people deny that they have them at their gig - simple fact is if you put a "Northern Soul" night on that is the type of people you attract. What happened to the days of going out to hear newly discovered tunes - that was my REASON for going to them in the first place !!! There are pockets of people still trying to play "rare soul" & they are the venues that should be patronised & encouraged.

Worst Soul Numberplate Ever ? The title suggests that there is a good one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've no doubt Ian will be his usual bull in a china shop - hope he has a whale of a time without becoming the fly in th ointment.

Patrick Moten or Tom Moulton - doesn't matter because Ian never called himself either.

When did he call himself that then ?????????????

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This is brilliant - never heard it before - top top stuff !!!!

"I'll Try Something New" - Kiki Dee "Do You Love Me Just A Little" - Four Tops/Supremes "Tear It On Down" - Marvin Gaye "Everybody Needs Somebody" - Stevie Wonder