Steve G

Thank you Mats.

Thank you Mats. This week's show: https://www.mixcloud.com/steve-guarnori/soul-time-2592015/ Part 1 2015 Soul Jarrod Lawson - Sleepwalkers (Opolopo remix) (single / Soul Lounge Twelve) Portia Monique - Never give you up (Joey Negro extended) (Soulful Deep & Dope) Jeff Redd - You're my love David Morales and Janice Robinson - There must be love (Nigel Lowis remix) Mousse T & The Love Birds - Close to you (The Jam Files Vol 2) Gladys Knight - Just a little OG Black 9 - Open Arms (Sea of Dreams soundtrack) Noel Gourdin - Love N Success Guiltypleasures - Unhappy (Cautionary tales) Haggis Horns feat John McCallum - Give me something better (What comes to mind) The Groove Association feat Georgie B - I can't wait Andre DuBose & Family - Give it up (Gospel Slow Jams Vol 1) Tamar Braxton - If I didn't love you (Calling all lovers) Essaba - Love find Chops Turner - Hurry back Katrenia Jefferson - Living a lie Part 2 Oldies Garfield Fleming - Don't send me away Bobby Jones & New Life - I am somebody Fifty/50 - Like a diamond Presidents Council - I don't wanna lose you Jules Johnson & Dynamics - Take a little time this time Ernie Shelby - Right here where you left me Na Allen - Everytime it rains Betty Wright - Tonights the night Lee Mitchell - The economy Four Below Zero - E.S.P (P&P Version) Richard Carl Watson - Are you going to be there First Class - Candy Mark IV - Signs of a dying love Northern 3 Admirations - Don't leave me Ronnie McNeir - Isn't she a pretty girl Johnny Gilliam - Room full of tears

Eh? Blimee Russ you old dog, didn't think most "soulies" did that kinda ting man….

Very true...

Just a pressing plant mistake

Very different scenes these days. I remember being at a large oldies event, lets just say what some would call "the bagged trousered brigade" out in force, beers towels, hats, holdalls, white sox the lot. And a "Worst of Wigan" soundtrack from the DJS - every DJ playing Mickey moonshine, Kiki Dee etc. I distinctly remember thinking "what the hell am I doing here? Never again, I have got nothing in common with these people whatsoever". But then again I haven't been out to too many rare soul do's either recently…maybe just becoming a grumpy old man LOL

Its also a timing thing for me. Northern = mainly Wigan / torch etc. era. Rare = mainly post Wigan era.

Rare and underplayed gives you the option of playing underplayed non rare of course which i like. And you never hear the term "Rare and overplayed" Rare is the most over used term out there, records of which there are hundreds floating about described as "rare" left right and centre.

This week's show: https://www.mixcloud.com/steve-guarnori/soul-time-1892015/ Part 1 2015 Soul Angie Stone - 2 Bad Habits Stan J - Give it up (Peace & Soul) - Ga 14 tracks Andre Lee - Lets go stepping (The truth) Cecil Parker - I really really love you (remastered) (If I sing) Roderick Drane feat Paul johnson - Throw a party Gerald & Tammi Haddon - Enough of your love (Hashtag Us) Guiltypleasures - Whatever pleases you (Cautionary tales) Joni Nehrita - Waste my time Faye B - Ready for goodbye (Joe Black sweet 83 remix) Lenny Williams - Can't nobody do me like you (Blues, grooves and other moods) Tim Owens - Here in my heart (Real life EP) 65 Divine Delegation feat Brent Suber & James Adams Jr - Im not the same (Divine delegation) Lilan Kane - Separate lives (remix) (Lilan EP) Robin Moet feat Katerina Jefferson - What a girl needs Miss Mini - Can't stop me Part 2 Oldies 70s & 60s The Rhythm Machine - Whatcha gonna do The Gaslight - Just because of you Charisma - Let love in your life Mel Davis - Double or nothing Church - How long Onyx - Break it loose WDJ The Prince of Soul - Funky loving Geraldine Hunt - Never never leave me Wendy Woods - Do it now The Performers-Little Angel Barbara Mercer - Call on me David Peoples - Got to get my broom out Sam E Solo - Tears keep falling Vic Marcel - Won't you come & fly with me Little Dooley - Its got to be now or never The Presidents - Love pain Northern Soul 3 Ila Van - You made me this way The Spellbrinders - Help me Honey Bees - Lets get back together

Good article

No worries, I did go for an interview with Lloyds Bank when I was 18, but failed the interview

I have never worked in banking Dave….You must have confused me with someone else….

as you say Dave….each to their own. And yes you are right I avoid all of the brits abroad events (and local oldies nights which also exist in parts of Europe) - thing is you can normally work out what the music will be like by looking at the DJ line-up. Going abroad isn't cheap for those of us not in full time employment.

OK someone has to say this…. There is more than one scene in Europe Some upfront and refreshingly new, others Brits abroad playing oldies.

Forced me to look Kev in case I was going mad…. https://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Moore-The-Rhythm-Aces-Dedication-Of-Love/master/821107

That Bobby Moore was an album track….think we're talking about stuff from the vaults Kev. Natural Resources by contrast was unissued until last year.

What about download Dave?

Its an interesting view….but surely the big promotors are just pandering to what the public want? Nothing more nothing less. The fact that they can get 1,500 people to turn up and pay at an oldies event says more about the public and what they want to spend their hard earned money on than it says about the promotors. People go out for what they think will be a good night / weekend out….that is what it is about isn't it? The vast majority seem to be more interested in dancing to the (very) familiar than they are about hearing something new / exciting, record collecting etc. In that regard the NS oldies scene is no different to wider society. Amongst my "civilian" friends aged 50+ very few of them have any interest in anything new musically. If Genesis or Status Quo are doing a revival bore, they're creaming their pants trying to get tickets. Maybe we have to admit that for most people, they only want to hear the soundtrack of their youth. Interesting you mention the 100 Club. I can remember in the early days of its popularity London was awash with cash ins - 2nd and 3rd division DJs / mod renegades etc. putting on northern soul nights everywhere in town. But all of the cash in nights soon died out. We had fire in our bellies and people voted with their (discerning) feet, and supported the club that was authentic and the 100 Club won out. The battle for a forward thinking progressive soul scene in this country was lost many years ago and is now limited to a few pockets as you say. It's not worth getting upset about. Honest.

That is exactly my point. You could probably count the number of DJs on the northern scene playing the previously unissued stuff on a couple of hands, while the other 12,864 DJs on the northern scene don't and will never. Yet they'll sell their grandchildren to get their hits on a copy of The Tomangoes.

It is a good modern tune. However it is totally UNSUITABLE for a northern night.

Pretty clear to me that this thread is about the northern scene Kegsy. The modern scene is entirely separate in my opinion. I couldn't resist altering your post above since apart from a few who genuinely champion new music "modern" is the most mis-used term out there. I've been in plenty of modern rooms which turn out just to be anthem-fests….same old tunes every time. Modern oldies if you like. In my view, the northern scenes haven't accepted new / recent releases and why on earth would they? It is a music form based on the rhythms and sounds of the 60s and early 70s, not todays music. Even "previously unissued" 60s recordings struggle for acceptance as in the recent One-Der-Ful / M-Pac releases. How many northern DJs have fitted any of them into their sets? Surely the reality is that there is no longer a northern scene as such….Instead we inhabit a world where there are a multitude of scenes, loosely playing similar sounding 60s / 70s music. The public pays their money and takes their choice as to which venues they support. Whether that be a "Mecca reunion" or "Lifeline". Today `I can go to venues in London where I don't know a single person, and equally ones where I know just about everyone. It is totally fragmented and thats the way it will stay.

Do you honestly think that the northern scene today would accept the playing of new / recent releases. I don't. Sounds like Archie Bell were contemporary for the time, and records like Lou Pride were played on the scene within 3 years of their initial release. So they still sounded contemporary in a world where Radio 1 was still playing "Knock on wood" and "Sitting on the dock of the bay" every day of the week. Music today is totally different and the odd new release that did eventually go on to make it on the northern scene (e.g. "Bamboos" Tighten up, "Who's the King") a) were made to sound like old records, and B) took years to get accepted on the northern scene. Of course I am dismissing that piece of cr*p "Tribute" which was just too awful to mention in a discussion about soul music.

Oh dear, not the "there's no good music anymore" thread Len? Ya gotta look man, it is out there. Thing is, if it ain't got that northern beat, then northern fans aren't likely to go a bundle on it. But as you are into your mid tempo (the Midtempo activist) how about the recent (month ago) Nicole Willis "One in a million", Strange Faith "Walking over", Grace Love & The Love Tones or the new Lenny Williams album from the last ten days? I'll warn ya now they are hardly likely to get played at your local northern night though because they ain't northern. And this thread is about the northern scene.

Back after a week's break: https://www.mixcloud.com/steve-guarnori/soul-tim-12th-september-2015/ Part 1 2015 Soul. JaeB The Soulman - Love ride (Soulfolicious) Kejam feat Chanel - This love is magic (Soul Rockers remix) Byron Holton -Something about that Jesus (A wretch undone) Joyce Sims - Running back to you (Love song) Earl Young & Darrell Grant - Power of love (Connerseurs mix) Nia Simmons - Holding on (A songbirds journey) Andre Lee - My girl (The Truth) Groove Ltd - You've got it (First Class) Babyface - We've got love Andre Murrill - I think I'm gonna marry you (Relationship issues) TempestB - Sincerely you fool (Memoirs) Q Harper - Why don't you know (The romantic) Kim Burrell - Praise groove (A different place) Strange Faith - Walking over (Love & Poverty) Lenny Williams - Torn between two lovers (Blues Grooves and other Moods) R'Mone Entonio - Without you Anthony AK King - Get to know me (In time) Tonya Leeks - Clean up woman (Groovin') 68 Blackhouse Nation - More love Cathy Banks - My soul's desire (Relationship) Grace Love & The True Tones - At times like these (Grace Love & The True Tones) Part 2 - Oldies Jerry Warren - I really love you Teddy Pendregrass - Somebody told me Fletcher Walker III - I guess I'll never understand Jackie Moore - Clean up your own yard Rhetta Hughes - You're doing it with her Stevens & Foster - I want to be love Danny Williams - All those lies Sensations - Gonna step aside Unique Blend - Yes I'm in love Melvin Carter - Love sacrifice Northern Soul 3 Yvonne & Violets - Cross my heart Ronnie & Robyn - As long as you love me I'll stay The Incredibles - There's nothing else to say

Fabulous achievement Mike.