Roburt

Yep, wasn't the Viking in Goole the venue that booked all the fake soul groups / soul singers back then (late 60's / early 70's) ... It would be interesting to get eyes on the old local newspaper from that era to see the gig ads for the place.

The above map is off google ... unfortunately their STREET VIEW facility only works for roads one of their cars has driven down, so with the Broken Wheel fronting onto the canal, you can't get a piccy of the old building off there (& Bing Maps have given up on their Birds Eye facility). Albert Rd as it looked recently ...

Obviously, being from Donny, my post is specifically about that region (all parts of Yorks, Nth Notts, Nth Lincs, etc) .... BUT ... exactly the same 'loss of info' is happening in most other areas; around Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, even London. There does seem to be some info being compiled on the Lancs & Portsmouth areas but it's by no means comprehensive (for instance, is there much out there on 60's Liverpool soul venues ?).

Attic related stuff (bet our kid doesn't have any such stuff even though he went more than me in the later days of the venue (as it morphed into a skinhead hang-out) .. 3rd piccy is my main claim to 'soul fame' ....

This might prove difficult to play ...

Playing these would cause a few headaches these days ... 16 rpm rekkids ...

Not rare but definitely soul ... Gwen Owens & the girls cut this right in the middle of the disco era (original demo version done by Rudy Love) ... .... not a dancer but a fine track ...

I left the Spinning Disc (Leeds) off my list & we even used to go there sometimes early on a Saturday (after an afternoon of clothes shopping in the city) ... think that was where Jimmy Saville made his club DJing start early in the 60's. A few venues Geno Washington played in summer 67 ...

We seem to be losing a lot of the facts surrounding the mod / soul scene venues back in the 60's / 70's. It's OK if you want to know all about places like the Mojo, Twisted Wheel, Junction, Torch, Mecca, Casino but info on other soul haunts just isn't out there on the net. I was on the Yorkshire soul scene in the 60's, to a lesser extent in the 70's before getting back into things in the 80's. These days, it's almost impossble to find out much about places likes the Gondola (Hull), Jungle (Brid), Excel Bowl Disco (Donny), Bee Gee (Leeds), Boulevard (Tadcaster), Paradise (Goole), Skyline (Hull), Locarno (Wakefield), Tin Chicken, Bin Lid, Broken Wheel (Retford), Attic (Donny), Unity Hall (Wakefield), Place, Hole In The Wall (Dewsbury), La Ambassador, Crystal Bowl (Casleford), various Intercon Clubs, New Marquee (Leeds), Rudies (Scarboro), etc. etc. Also spent most of summer 66 in Grimsby / Cleethorpes & there was a soul club I went to 3/4 nights a week for around 5 weeks but I can't even recall the name at present. Another place was soulies hung out was down by the river in Stamford Bridge, I think that was in the 70's though. There were many other soul holes in towns such as Barnsley, Bradford, York, Halifax, etc but my travels never took me to those back then. The Dungeon (Nottingham) has a thriving Facebook page & the folks involved organise reunion nites, this coming weekend there's a get together in Hull to celebrate the Gondola, but little else of that part of our history seems to be preserved.

A map of Retford ... I worked for Basketdraws Dist Council from the late 70's thru till 88 ... when did the alldayers finish & when did the club close ?? I was always in Retford during those times (79-88), just up the road usually (around the Market Place area).

The formal announcement about the London Film Festival showing was made today ... coming up on the early evening of Sat 29th September ..

Youth club soul in my day was Ikettes - I'm Blue, Drifters - When My Little Girl Is Smiling, Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now, Ben E King - Don't Play That Song, Tams - Untie Me, Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over & the like ... but then .. I moved on from my youth club era in 63 ...

I've got a few bits on HEAVEN SENT and from memory, they're all decent tracks. Probably got their 12" on the label (will have to check). Did the album appear on vinyl or just as a CD ??

Everything seems to be progressing well in relation to Rudy's upcoming UK visit. The film festival announcement is made in the coming week & the promotion for his live show @ the 100 Club will follow soon after ... seems everything will come together OK for a big day on Saturday 29th September ...

A few more (cheating a bit here as some of these scans are of foreign rekkids) ... but still interesting items .. I've included the Moments French 45 as they sing their hit in French on this version.

The best female singer of all time, a true icon has left us ... 😥

Derek, After I moved south (1988 -- 1st to Northampton & then Abingdon), I used to make very regular visits to the various Rec & Tape Exchange shops in London. I'd always head to the cellars where they'd have box after box of old 7" & 12" singles. Lots was absolute junk (from our point of view) but white label 12"ers (luckily many still with the record labels promo info inserted into the sleeve on an A4 sheet. These 12's would be reduced in price till they reached 25p (originally 10p) each. I'd always come away with a big bag full of likely looking items. Get them home & spun em all ... lots would immediately go in the rubbish bin (rap tracks, electro cuts, etc) but many were good street soul items. Kept all those... only trouble is, 12" singles take up so much space & weigh a ton, so even some of the decent ones were eventually relegated to cardboard boxes in the garage ... have to sort thru em some time soon. . . . . ALSO ... re: Bristol music scene ... my daughter moved to the city in 1993 & was soon involved with local funksters. Her then boyfriend ran club nights on an old ship in the harbour (The Dug Out was the nite's name I think). So she got to now lots of the folk on the Bristol black music scene (including Banksy & many more of his ilk). That scene seemed to run on a totally separate path to the NS / MS / mainstream funk scene down there back then.

Seems that everything is happening on Saturday 29th September .... the Raindance Film Festival folk (London) will be making their big announcement on the 22nd August.

A few more of my bits; UK 7" promo remix, US Atlantic acetate, UK CBS Spec Prods 7", Canadian 45's in DJU sleeves, BGP 45 from BBC Gramophone Library.

A few more of my bits; some of my High Energy (the group) 45's, 2 x picture cover foreign 45's, 4 x Italian jukebox promo 45's, 2 x 7" album samplers, a rare Caribbean Hi 45 (put out as Hi was going under in the US).

A few more of my bits; some US jukebox 7" albums, Billy Preston UK A&M promo 45 sleeve, London Rec Studio acetate (UK remix of US track), EW&F party invite 45, BBC Gramophone Library 45 & plastic sleeve (more to follow) ...

No trip up north I'm afraid. There was mention made of a live performance to tie in with the film screening but that would be in London too. BUT the team are over in the UK for a few days at the end of September, so if any enterprising promoter wanted to put him on, they should get in touch asap (no air fares to fund, live backing band for him here, full show being rehearsed as we speak; SUFFERING WRATH, GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOL GIRL and more).

That's because it hasn't been announced publicly yet ... I'm part of the team that has helped organise the event ... it is 99% certain to happen ... Rudy Love, his family & friends are already booked onto UK flights, their film festival screening is organised ... .... . . . . . even the after-show party is just about fully sorted ... ....... so just accept it is happening & wait for the official announcement (& for tickets to go on sale) . I was given permission to post about the show ahead of the official news (by the organisers). I thought people would be pleased to get an advance heads-up. Below is another scene from the film; Rudy on stage with Funkadelic George (Rudy worked a lot with Sly Stone in the mid 70's, but I think Sly was indisposed when the film was being made).

A few of the people featured in the documentary film about Rudy's career ...

Seems that it is true .... Hope he recovers really quickly ...