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Current bid: £ 1,017.00 Time remaining: Approx. 3 hours 33 minutes Times change eh? I don't think it was ever that cheap then, but yeah ..

.. and styrene!

lol, I remember a Mod of that section with 'moderator look in your box' under his avatar.. Our own people couldn't get it right. I dunno, maybe 'Look At Your Box' may not be the best title, but 'Collectors Corner' or sim and you'd get people waffling on about song sheets and shit like that. At least with the 'Box' it's a forum about what's in that box - namely vinyl, you dig?

There are some good and interesting affiliated groups on facebook amidst the cats that look like Hitler. There are general/freebasing sections here on Soul Source, but by and large it's 'all about the soul' to name check the main discussion forum on this fine site. That forum, the fantastic 'Look at Your Box' and the exciting Sales related forums are unique and there is nothing else quite like them on the internet. This site, it's Admin's, Moderators and of course members are special and that is the key reason for our success and long may it continue.

Show off!

Looking at that list I did, there are so many places I wish we'd gone to in the 80's. Yate & Stafford top of that list.

Know exactly what you mean Stu. Mates I'd been going to nighters with, suddenly offering to do me shitty indie tapes with Inspiral Carpets and Charlattans and whiny white dross like that. Shove it, I'd rather hear Eddie Parker for the billionth time!

in places ....

Certainly lower than the 80's, which we've proved were banging! Proud of this thread. More than any other, esp as it features an A to Z listing of all those great 80's venues. Took me feckin ages I can tell thee!

Just listening to IL Feb podcast, some great stuff on here too ... https://www.mixcloud.com/ianlevine35/solid-soul-sensations-ian-levines-sixteenth-northern-soul-podcast/

Yep spot on mate and so on the money with the plays. Many a time I've stepped on the stage for a "can you spin such & such" - only to find it's the next record!

He once told a joke in the 1980's!

Sorted thanks.

Steady! Who knows how it will be received, I don't think the film makers are anticipating a world wide smash, lets just wait and see shall we?

Smiling here. Your user name is 'sunnysoul' yet your posting is incredibly downbeat and not sunny at all.. However it is received, it will still be a very well put together piece of art that will remain throughout time. Glass half full!

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Well said Jordan. I've always thought it's not as special if it's spoon fed to you. To discover things is exciting. Anyone who has the gumption to realise that soul music is good, can't be all bad, the rest of it's just detail. I'd love to say I was at the Wheel, Torch, the Mecca, Catts and Wigan, but I wasn't. Peterborough, Buzzard, Leicester, St Ives and the 100 Club were the options open to me at the start and I made the best of it. I think that's the thing learned on this thread is that you just make the best of it when it comes along. to the young Bears still and it's still not wrong to revere the likes of Soul Sam.

Edward Bear - Close Your Eyes/Walking On Back - CAPITOL Ex - or better.

Personally I don't give a d**n whether you're young, old or somewhere in between. I did the 7 year apprenticeship, was corrected on my mistakes and doffed my cap to my elders and betters. That was how it was then, all part of it, but it was authentic and real. Hats off to newbs if they have found soul music on the internet or wherever and who cares how you got into it. Don't really feel the need to be falling over myself, doffing my cap to the younguns though, good show n'all and it matters not a fig if it's arse about face, who cares!.

I like that mate, well said. Nothing changes, the scene goes on, the music goes on and evolves, dancers come and go. Few people I have heard say they hate soul music, though granted I wouldn't be the best person to say that to, but generally speaking a good soulful vocal and beat is difficult to keep your feet still. Ergo dancing - and the show goes on.. Keeps on burning ting well I hope so and can I still get at least a hundred and fifty quid a pop for my RCA Victor demo's before I pop off?

Befuddled Guilt Dave! Still whiny old soul b@stards though -

This made me smile this morning when I saw your post telling us we're 'whiney soul snob bastards' - yet this/we is the scene you claim to love? I get your point, I understand and agree in essence, but I think Kev got it right when he said something to the effect of it's not representative of NS, just a snappy tune with well choreographed dancers in fancy dress, before we get carried away. I saw the performance, liked it. Like the song also. At 47 I'm a spring chicken. I won't say I've got shoes older than you, but what I would say is these old timers pushing sixty are the originators, the creators and I have and have always had a tremendous amount of respect for their knowledge and experience. Pay me no mind, I'm just a moany old bastard and I do appreciate your passion, but your original posting just defecates a smidge on those that have been there and done it (for real). Keep doing what you're doing, I won't say keep on keeping cods. Hey and no badges! We don't need no stinking badges!

Really though? I mean really Mark...? Had Ginger foxed and he's no slouch. Well he's a tremendous slouch, but look that's beside the point. You know the point old stick - polygraph for mark!

I need to have a look at the 100 set IL did, rave reviews on some of those tracks. Thanks for posting.