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Karl Boddington posted on Facebook :_ 12h · Hi to all our soul family. Many of you are aware that Trudy had a slip on the dance floor at the Midland Band Social Club last April ( on slipperine) she fell so badly and has struggled since then and had to go private to try and sort her problem out. We went to see a consultant who told us the results today. Due to the bad fall it damaged her motor neurone nerves and its early stages of motor neurone disease. We are both devastated by this news. PLEASE don't put talc or slipperine on the dance floor it has ruined our lives. We have to go to Addenbrooks hospital Cambridge to a specialist motor neurone clinic for further treatment P.S think before you put this stuff on any dance floor at any soul event up and down the country on the Northern Soul scene. I'm a very angry person

Another of the originals gone, will be sorely missed .

I'll have to dig it out, but I have the issue in which Tim Brown reviewed Take a chance on me - Jack Montgomerey and valued it at £20, think it may be first issue, anyway I'll dig it out, (its been abeen a long time but there may be 3/4 others) , however the copy I do have somewhere is yours if you want it :).

Living room, last night Supremes/Temptations - Uptight - TMG UK Vernon Garrett - Shine it on - Kent US Yvonne Vernee - Just like you did me - Sonbert US Jackie Wilson - The Fountain - Brunswick US Denise LaSalle - Love Reputation - Tarpon US Veniece - Stepchild - London UK Edwin Starr - Double 00 Soul - Ric Tic US Marvin Gaye - Need Somebody - TMG UK Artistics - This Heart of Mine - OK US Platters - Washed Ashore - StateSide UK Gene pitney - Heart breaker - StateSide UK Honey bee - Johny Johnson & Bandwagon - StateSide UK Arthur Conley - Keep on talking - French ATCO Johnny Taylor - Blues in the night - French Atlantic Curtis Lee - Is she in your town - Kent UK Len jewell - Betting on love - Soul City UK The Packers - Hole in the Wall - Soul City UK Platters - Love you 1000 times - Stateside UK Tony Clark - Landslide - Chess UK Billy Stewart - Old man river - Chess UK Bobby Womack - What is this - Jay Boy UK Fidels - Try a little harder - Jay Boy UK Phillip Mitchell - World needs more people like you/ Build Calfornia Jay Boy UK Val Palmer - Back in my arms - Twin Hits US Nolan Chance - Just like the weather - Constellation US

Sad news indeed, but what a legacy he's left us

Oi geezer, u have been out with ur Grandad, AND had me round ur drum, its Mr B from Luton..........67 and still shuffling , and more to the point, NOT out an old peeps home !!!!!.

Any chance of an address and post code on the flyer in the events page please ?, Im travelling up from Luton, long journey n then to have to search for the place :), if I've missed some thing I apologise but I've looked twice onm the flyer and no 'precise' location info :).

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A very sweeping statment, I would'nt disagree, perhaps this qualifies it . I've been at venues where blinding 'uptempo' tunes, (not out and out NS by a along chalk but certainly a slower beat), have been mixed into a set and thourghly enjoyed it, BUT a full set of real 'smoochy' modern...no thanks. But then back in the day things like Fife Piper, Make me yours, Amen and even Ramseys Wade in the water were/are not exactly uptempo compared to alot tunes being played at the time.

Read most of replys, me, a very new spinner, but play tunes I like n dance round living room to BUT I've not heard played at venues weve been to. Dislike modern, personally think its crap ( Mods IMHO). I've had an empty floor (BUT even so tunes have been acknowleged with a applause), I think if you play crap you'll get an empty floor, peeps do not need to know tunes to dance to them, if they are any good they'll dance. end of.

Were a good night and that certainly does it justice Winnie, any chance can you post the last pictures up, you know the ones of the last people to leave , is 'redevelopment' a euphemism for demolishing the barn ?.

Typical Gaurdianista crap !!!!!!. The rag is always publishing contentious articles......not read all the comments above BUT in 50 years on and off attending Northern, scratch that, and call it attending Soul venues, vinyl only and live shows by artists personally have never ever heard racist remarks directed at the minortiy groups also attending and enjoying their/our scene, what is Craig Charles's pedigree anyway, other than being a repoter for the Gaurdian?. Personally would'nt want my fish 'n chips served up in a page from the paper

Brutes........probably