MrsWoodsrules

Don't care what anyone says, even with that pop music, WC still the number one soul venue in my book. Wasn't all bad, no one took RW seriously at that stage anyway, he was a sellout joke, everyone knew it, you never had to wait very long to hear some class soul if you were there for the night.

Agree Jocko lots of historical gaps as the scenes fragmented. Would be really interesting to read a chronological guide through 80s soul. After Wigan, l drifted, frequented Casanellis in Standish, the music was great there. Remember a Jazz funk venue called The Studio, in Nantwich? great little place that, Toni Rallo Holdon On was big before it broke out. also Chantel Curtis Get Another Love, don't think it was open for v long though. I went to Berlin a lot (the club) as Colin C had a regular spot, but other than that, drifted into other things like The Hacienda opened in 82/83, lots of jazz stuff happening too & got into other stuff like weed, I'm a grown up now though, sometimes.

I can live with a sensible amount of RnB in a set. Some great stuff, Hayes Cotton, Albert Washington, lots of good stuff. What turns me off personally is doo-wop! Cant be doing with it, but each to their own I always say, life would be boring if we all liked the same things (I'm usually refering to 'types' of women or music when I do :-))

Don't think it's been mentioned yet? but this is a belter. Still gets played too. RANCE ALLEN GROUP, SHOWDOWN.

It always reminded me of The Exits Street Lamp, but that one I do like, must be the tempo or something. Re; Jo Boxers, great band, still got all their singles from the early 80's, loved them, also like band called Buzz from that time, they were similar and soulful. He should have named Four Vandals..... Four Candles I reckon. Isn't Exciters Reaching For The Best another of this Levine ilk?

Doubt very much gets plays these days, but the instrumental by HAROLD BETTS, FANTASTIC PLASTIC FLYING MACHINE, was c/u as Jealousy at Wigan, mentally fast, one for the Riker Likers I think. Another One at Wigan, RAL DONNER, DON'T LET IT SLIP AWAY was very very fast too, personally hated it, sounded like Elvis to these ears.

This sounds right to me. No way was it a regular spin anywhere else before this, then got reg spins at WC thereafter.

Mostly same here Pete. Me and two mates had a competition going with each other, who would be the first to miss a Saturday night, I went 21 consecutive Saturdays without missing one, had to go on a family holiday in the end, so I missed one, was gutted about that I can tell you. Always followed the playlists in the 'East' when I could though fanzines and Black Echoes, especially SS.

Be interested to know mate, but I do remember when it first got 'regular' spins at Wigan, and it had been around a fair while on the east coast by then I'm fairly sure of that. Also heard Sam play it at Llandudno Pier niter before it was regular at Wigan too, although my memory is shot, so might not be an accurate statement, but don't think so.

Don't dispute any of that Pete, as I bow to your knowledge, however, I know I had this on a mail order Manship tape and was familiar with it before it was ever got played at Wigan (regularly at least) and Sam was spinning on the East Coast at that very time according current playlists in the back of Black Echoes. Although it may have got a one off spin or something before that at Wigan but not by Dickie.

Just watching another Ramona Collins going in ebay just now. Looks like it's only a vg. Not too many of these about, great tune. https://www.ebay.com/itm/161207356552

Soul Sam was spinning it on the east coast before it got regular spins at Wigan.

There is a place for rightful legit re-issues, they provide a perfectly good function for some people. But the Northern scene has always had parasites bootlegging too, dogs bark, cats meow, and Northern Soul will always have bootleggers, thats the way it is. Thing is, in the old days, I was greatful for them, pre digital era, was the only way you could actually hear & play the record at home dont forget. I wont touch them now, cleared mine out, they feel dirty. Own the original on vinyl or otherwise digitise it, no halfway house is there?

Bobby Copney, Aint No Good, just seems to stop mid song.

No rules Sceneman, just post em up.

Technically Ventura's starts a T Good question though poly

Jocko, me sensitive, never, I love the sparing. I'll buy you a drink one day to prove I'm always happy to agree to disagree. Nice choice of sounds BTW.

Okay, little light hearted thread, these threads get a bit heavy at times. So, which three tracks really float your boat at the moment? What three would you open a set with? I'll start with what gets hammers on my headphones at work. Vernon Greene, Look At Me, Look At Me. Versatones, Rolin, Rolin. The Venturas, Heart Of Love. If I was a DJ, I'd open with these great tunes. What are your three 'openers' then?

This record is quality and a nice keeper. Was in Cheshire Oaks some shop the other week, Diesel I think, and it Marvin's LSH was playing, asked one of the guys if it was his own music? He didn't have a clue what it was, I suppose they get tapes sent to them or something. What does Marvin's Past Time Lover Acetate go for then (if it ever surfaces)?

Seller of this one got his Artists mixed up I see. Eddie's His Name........Holman or Holland? I'd take the Motown disk before the Parkway one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/NORTHERN-SOUL-45-RPM-EDDIE-HOLMAN-on-PARKWAY-RECORDS-/261361819718?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3cda60e046

Don't know about a fiver, but a great great tune to be had for a snip, maybe £15 or so at a guess, THE ESQUIRES, HOW COULD IT BE. Lovely tune, cheap as chips for the quality. What a mega mega toon, this should be an absolute monster me thinks.

Yeah, they used to wear v neck mohair jumpers, small collars, top button fastened, drainpipes, winkle pickers. I always thought they were a really cool crowd, some of my mates on on the Northern scene thought they were from Mars! They were deffo years ahead of the game, think they were Brummies or Wolves, deffo midlands.

Yeah, yer probably right, they were around at the Ritz dayers 76/77 too, but as I remember, it's was crowds coming up on coaches from the West Mids, the funk brigade, Levine/Curtis mob, not many in the Northern crowd at that time. Except for a few trendy ones on the Northern scene, (I know of one, Rob Taylor R.I.P) from Warrington, he always had a Brian Ferry job, but they seem to hit mass market 81ish, mainly from the football terrace too, not the nightclubs I'd say at that time.

Great pics those, I"m thinking deffo 80's maybe 81 with those wedge hairstyles is a give-away. I'd mainly stopped by then, but looks a choker block night. Get the rest off your mate Baz, superb.

A thief is a thief and nothing else. Anyone that would do such a thing to a friend should be forever out in the cold, nobody can make amends for such an act, no second chances, no forgiveness. Know them for what that are......a thief, pure and simple scum. I was set-up and robbed at gunpoint (not for records, but for cash), I believe in Karma, what goes around comes around, this thief will not have a good life as you cannot live though life that way, it will find them out in the end and that person will end up getting what they deserve out of life, one way or another. It may seem like a small act to a thief without a conscience, but lots of small acts cumulatively turn a big problem in life for that person. Hope you get your sounds back mate, but that's immaterial really, the damage is already done here.