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Peterborough really was a top spot in the 80's I think. Fleet Centre Fletton. Dave Evison, Danny Everard (amongst others) behind the decks. Rob smith selling pressings for £1.50 worn! Lots of hand clapping. Fantastic atmos and apart from beloved 100 Club, can't think of too many better places to cut one's soul teeth. NB, Ken, 1st one to 800 posts gets to log off and go to bed!

Ah mate, it ain't any kinda fun. And Michael Jackson, what did he say? Keep it 8t's - think man, think.

Can't be considered a traitor for raising a family. Just good to be on the scene when you are able. Monies and family permitting. PS. I am just about over my cold now, you'll be pleased to hear

Go right ahead. Venue's is the name of the game old son. Goings on and such Bubbles(leicester) - ? They have to be real though

Some of these northern gaffs seem bloody charming. Was all the violence a eighties thing or a north thing I wonder. Saying that as I don't remember such ag in the prim South so much. At northern do's that is. Sure there was trouble everywhere I guess not just on our scene. But from the venues I mentioned on page one, I don't remember any bovver at any of them. I was reading the other week where someone said about running from the train station to Wigan to avoid getting chinned. Leicester and Loughborough were the only places we felt threatened and that was really just because of our accents, would want to make the locals give us a good kicking. never happened though thank god. Glad we don't have so much of that bullshit these days eh?

Go on then. Nothing like proving a point And the fact that that people would leave en masse something this good is nice to disprove it never really happened

Wirrina? Stone me! There were more bloody venues then than there are now. LOL Eighties low point me arse

Wow, never a dull moment at Rock City by the sounds of things. Perhaps the name has something to do with the violence? Seriously though there were other places in Nottingham that Gary told me about. He was from Mansfield (Forrest Town). Be buggered if I can remember the names though.

Where was that then? Do tell. How so strange?

Not sure there were that many do's there. Think Max Rees unsurprisingly had a hand in them, did you ever go?

With no shortage of venues, most reasonably well attended. Why would the popularity be down? lots of mods crossing over NS popularity was on the up. Where was Droylesden btw?

That's Imber bruv - KK's in Cambridge.

We went to an allnighter there on one occasion. I took 'All your lovin's gone to my head' by The Magnificent Men, That I had purchased from Dave Evison. It was massive at the time they played it. Danny Everard dj'd there that night and to my horror, I saw him in a sleeping bag at the end of the hall after his spot.

Whoa did the site crash? Or just me?

Remember the black patent leather shoes phase? Part of the uniform at one point they were. I know what you mean though we did look like a bunch of mincers back then See Jon Bucks group shot from the stage at Buzzard, ah man, my hair! I just don't wanna say

They hadn't cottoned on back then how to bum rape our music with a view to making thier sworded pennies I guess.

I see what you mean, understood

This confirms to me that there was 'action' all over at that time. If I were a civillian lurker on here I would have thought that there couldn't have been more than a dozen venues tops in the 80's. Going by previous comments that is.

Me and my mates were ex mods embarking on the Northern scene and at Peterborough to name one venue of the eighties, the numbers there were more than just ticking over, the place was packed! This is the essence of the thread, the nineteen eighties was not a poor relation decade for northern, a lot of people like you and me and others above got into it in the eighties. If it really was as dire as some have said, perhaps we wouldn't be on here today discussing what we are discussing. Enjoy your lunch, chew your food. ps, Kelsey Kerridge - Cambridge. Another eighties all nighter venue.

Stafford was key in terms of introducing mid tempo sounds. So again this was an advancement of the scene rather than the death throes some have talked of. Here & now is where it's at deffo. However, 'creeping nostalgia'? Surely apart from the up to the minute modern heads, we are all guilty of nostalgia?

Well said Steve

Keele! Of course, went to a nighter there - top notch. Never made it to Central Pier, or Blackburn. Venues listed above, and your comment kinda goes towards proving my point though.

Been a lot of talk about the 80's being a low point on the northern scene and last week a comment of "during the eighties when the scene was on it's knees" was posted and I thought that was a bit OTT. I got into Northern 1982/83 and there seemed to be a fair choice of venues that were reasonably well attended. During the early/mid and late eighties we went to, 100 Club, Leighton Buzzard, St Ives, Peterborough, Loughborough, Leicester and Stafford amongst others. I appreciate although the eighties were by no means a high point of the scene's history compared with the seventies heyday or the early ninetees resurgence. However all the talk that northern soul all but died out during the eighties, is I think an inaccurate overstatement and is unfair on the promoters of the venues of that time. I'm sure there are other eighties venue's I have missed that we didn't go to. Not sure whether this 'eighties was dead' feeling is a general consensus, or were there folk that went out, danced and like me had a good time back then?