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Being in a room with lots of bald blokes and not looking out of place.... Being able to have above "hair" style, pink shirt and matching earring studs, dancing on your own, along with a load of other blokes, having not turned up with a girl on your arm for at least 3 months and people STILL don't assume that you are gay...... Being able to come home and dance in the kitchen for another hour or so and then coming on to soul source to share your drunken sh*t with everyone else. Having the feeling that you may regret above post but knowing no one will really hold it against you. Great weekend!!

I don't want to be negative but isn't that two words? Like you Bearsy I've made more friends in my five short years on the scene than I did in the previous twenty. And I'm making friends with people I havn't even met yet, like when you come up to Northampton for the Gills game and get me that pint...

I like that I can have a disagreement on here with, say Baz, and a couple of days later have a beer at a soul do discussing sounds we like. I'm struggling to think about anything about the scene I don't like to be honest. Most of what has bothered me is either in my own hands to change or out of the hands of the organisers of the function I'm attending. It's what you make it. Yer kenk get more positisve than that!

Thanks Lindsay and I know it's not for me to say but I think your comments bring the end to this thread quite nicely.

Thanks Bogue. Blame the Smilies! Bl**dy things can sometimes but a slant on a post that one perhaps didn't intend. Great avavtar btw.

I read the flyer as "all welcome, but please respect those that are here to dance and for safety purposes don't take your drinks on the dance floor" in a "not taking ourselves too seriously" kind of way. The reason I posted this flyer was because it seemed like a good answer to the comment about flyers in the opening post. Personally, I think it's a good flyer, but then I've only got a degree in Graphic design.

Blimey! I obviously have a sense of humour because I LAUGHED OUT LOUD at the "flat on the back" line, esp as that's always my fear. I obviously don't take my self as serious as others then. The flyer is great and shows originality and wit. I deeply and humbly apologise for not making that abundantly clear in my post and my choice of smiley, was obviously, with hindsight, totally over the top. F*ck me!

Ady, is it also true that Northants had the first police drug squad in the country due to the amount of chemist raids by the local soul fraternity on their way to nighters?

Talk about killing two birds with one stone!

Maybe this flyer for Bournemoth is the way forward!

In central Northants, the bigger towns were Soul havens, Wellingborough, Kettering, Rushden/Higham, and the smaller nearby places, Irthlingborough, Raunds etc were grebo places. Irthlingborough and Higham Ferrers are but a mile apart and of a similar size (5,000 pop in the 70's) Higham is full of "soulies" while Irthlingborough has few. The Newton Aycliffe example is really interesting and I often wonder why a large town like say Peterborough has a long history of Northern Soul while Coventry, twice the size of Peterborough and smack in the middle of the London to Lancashire soul belt has, apparently, very little soul activity. :search:

[ ============ Definitely agree that this is happening more and more. I tend to think that via motown revival nights, and motown weekenders, other people our age have been alerted (via flyers for full on northern nights) that there is a scene where they won't feel out of place age wise, and they'll be able to get a late drink and leer at women to their hearts content..... I'm sure someone will say we're playing 'pass the paranoia', but it is definitely happening as far as I can see.

"I'm Hurt" by Little Tommy. If I'd have heard this 5 years ago when my marraige ended, I probably would have topped myself! "I'm huuuuurt, much more much more much more than you'll ever ever knooooooowwww!" and sung with such conviction! Great stuff.

Lot of the places being touted on this thread are saying this town or that town USED to be a big soul place. Kettering still is! Wicksteed Park (I'll be there tommorrow for the Velvelettes) Central Hall, KLV, Cornmarket, Three Cocks inn, are just a few venues off the top of my head I've been to on a regular basis in Kettering in the past 3-4 years. There is, and always has been a strong Northern soul base in Kettering. If you add Desborough and Rothwell into the equasion (both in Kettering Borough) then the case for 10th place is even stronger. Northants is 7th in the city/area table. Allthough there are no big name venues here, there is always something on on the A6 in Northants or Wellingborough and latterly, Corby. Northampton for the size of the place let's the county down imho. And as for soulies per head of population, I'd put a shout in for Higham Ferrers. Population 6,500 and every single one of them is a soulie! Well nearly.

Sorry to go off topic but this is medical emergency.........Sean, cut a garlic clove in half and press it into the gum area around the affected tooth. This should give you relief from pain for a few hours.....

Well have a good ttrip and I'd be interested in a write up of your Subway experience.

I think of Northern Soul as a passport to eternal youth. My mate who I took to a (albeit, bad) soul do likened it more to Pheonix Nights!

[ . As for dress, I think bags etc are naff, but if otherpeople want to wear them thats up to them. Doen't fill me with dread, but can understand why younger people who want to get into the scene my find it odd. (Ithought Teddy Boys were odd when I was at junior school) I would like to see the three before eight dispensed with and replaced with some of the great soul smootchies out there that you never hear played, probably cos they are too slow. I'm thinking of "I really Love you-Dee Dee Sharp, I'm hurt-Little Tommy, I'll be gone- Tommy Turner and the like.

How about this place? https://subwaysoul.com/html/nextevent.htm

not sure where you banged your head but a lot of interbreeding in these ere parts so stunted growth and web feet meant for low ceilings

Never learned to dance- The Harvey Averne Dozen. Class track!! But the rest of it, as Baz put it.....B.......cks

Or maybe he isn't "fit" enough, eh Karen?

I'm sure I saw this person dancing at a bank holiday do at the WOW club in Sheffield, about three years ago so he could be from Yorkshire/the north.