Back Street Blue

Fair do's on the organised crime aspect. I can only spek from my personal experience and I had the horrors a lot more on the soul scene than I did anywhere else and saw a lot more bother there than I ever saw amongst the loved up masses on the rave scene

Not saying they were alike musically other than in tempo. They were alike from the average end-user's perspective. All drug scenes are sinister......Wigan could be very f&cking sinister.

Everyone I knew at Wigan/Mecca/Ritz took gear. We wore parallels mostly when the mainstream were wearing flares, then we wore the bags first and they came in the mainstream after us....only they wore big f*ck off platforms whereas we wore flat leather soles....don't remember seeing solatios til late 76/77? Straight legs came in after the new wave, 77/78 and the Mecca lot were the first to wear them. The martial arts was only done by....erm....martial artists and was deffo not the source of the dance style.....which has never been surpassed. The Rave scene of the late 80's early 90's was like the soul scene of the mid-seventies without the b*llox and with better drugs.

People commemorate the anniversary of peoples' deaths so not sure the promoters need to adopt another name for celebrating a passed event. As to the motive for advertising any event, cash has got to be a factor surely? Not saying there aren't bullsh*tters in attendance.......but that's not exclusive to the oldies circuit is it? I suspect that there are also a fair number of people at the WC Celebrations who were around first time around but they just get lumped in with the other unworthies and that's what I object to.....more fool me.

Take your point mate....also on the cashing in on the commercial scale.....but still think that people should be able to celebrate one club as much as any other.

Ouch!!!

Not sure that people who attend events aimed at celebrating music from a soul club from the past are under the illusion that the club is still open or that people with an interest in records synonymous with such clubs are actually preventing the emergence of previously undiscovered records or the exposure of underplayed records. Do you apply that logic to focusing on other soul clubs.....e.g. celebrating 50 years since the twisted wheel opened or the spirit of Albrighton? I totally appreciate and respect the fact that people feel passionate about the ethos of discovering "new" stuff but wouldn't the mission to educate the masses be better served by encouraging and welcoming people with an open mind rather than prejudice and ridicule? I sincerely hope that the "underground" aspect of the scene grows from strength to strength and that the upholding of values like "OVO" and the better recognition of the discoveries and personalities from the post 70's is achieved........but do something about it......go to the existing events.....Lifeline, Kestrel Suite, S.O.A....make them the nights that others get to hear about and want to attend and don't make then feel that they will be alienated there. Everyboy's got to start somewhere so they tend to go for the most accessible and better known places, that means you got to get their attention if you want them, if you don't want them then just bat on.

anything played out before 1977/8.......apparently........

enjoyed that thanks

enjoyed that thanks

In answer to the post.......I found it interesting thanks. Any potted history of NS, written in 1000 words and presumably with a prescribed emphasis on one particular club, and then compounded by the broadcaster's copy writers, is bound to have limitations in the amount of detail it can deliver.....and to be worded so as to rekindle memories of reports that Joe Public will recall from the past. Reading it in that context and as a pre-curser for the forthcoming telly program, seems honest enough to me as a generic account.

Not seen any for four weeks or so............winter league next month........get them thermals out

Yes......but when they go out of fashion......hey presto.....back to the skinny-rib polo neck sweater

..............if you say so

fantastic post

....yes realised on reading back today....sorry about that.....inadvertent mental merging of threads due to senility I'm afraid.....hence the urge to defend the elder statesmen of "their" scene. ....If the culprits weren't old wheelers, please feel free to rip the p*ss out of them!! ....don't wear the uniform personally and save my dancing for the appropriate setting and would also have been embarrassed by the display you witnessed

Nothing cooler than watching old wheelers dancing, (nowt wrong with Ike & Tina either come to think about it), the fact that they've been doing it since before some of us had been born makes it totally legitimate from my point of view. Same with Wigan and the anecdotes totally legit and likely to be encompassed in the program as joe public will be able to relate to it more readily. The price of being part of an elitist, underground scene, with a beige fashion sense, largely unremarkable dance style and preoccupation with rarity over quality, is that it is likely to be overshadowed by the more flamboyant and more accessible variation from the previous era. Not wishing to cause offence....point is that the cliched version will make better telly for the majority of the BBC audience.

keep coming back to hear my download of this........keep listening to other stuff......but keep coming back to this.

I have only ever clapped when I see a dancer fall on their arse after a failed attempt to spin

...............................Fin

ignorance takes many shapes and forms

Not well up on intellectual property law.......but there' a difference between a copy made without the owners consent and a deliberate imitation designed to be "passed off" as an original, the latter being a counterfeit , the former is not a counterfeit.........so there is a significant difference "legally" speaking actually. Can understand people paying full whack for original sounds being p*issed off with people dj'ing with pressings.......but as a kid with no money, I could only afford pressings and treasure the ones I've still got for sentimental reasons......and will play them at home with a clear conscience.

yeah.....that's how I read the question raised in this thread....."greatest" meaning biggest and best in my personal view, too many great vocals on individual tracks so too difficult to narrow it down otherwise.