Sooty

Sorry to have caused you any grief Mike! Shifting the posts about and stuff i'm sure you can do without!x I have and had no intention of being a 'problem' and let's put it down to me getting used to 'how things are' in the 'house' ok!x Now...I don't understand your reference to 'Mods' Mike?! Do you mean 'moderators'...or Mods as in scooter types???! If it's the moderators....this post was a direct response to comment I made to either you....Chalky or Dave via E-mail when I joined a couple of weeks ago to come up with something 'structured'! That's why I addressed it to you all...out of courtesy!x If it's 'Mods'....scooter type...........then.....I wasn't aware that I was!!! All me mod friends would be surprised!! They love me Northern...or did!! Can you tell me which it is you mean?! Then I can do as requested with pleasure...X LUV SOOTY X This tune was probably the most successful spin that both 'scenes' loved equally from me...Mods and Soulies...!x Me mam liked it too and she wos a hippy in the 60's!x

...u got it Pete! Ain't looked at the record for ages...but yup....Downliners Sect on Columbia and the intro comes off the B side of Wreck of the Old '97....called Leader of the Sect! Manic stuff once kicking off! Ain't heard anything else of theirs but have just seen some other tracks on Utube so i'll check em out...thanx for the tip! Never seen their stuff at a boot sale that's for sure....except this one!x LUV SOOTY X ...Pete my producer mate was also inspired by this 1 track to make this too!!x I'm sure they is saying 'Here's Chalkyyyyy as the tune kicks off.....!!!hehe!x @@ ~ https://www.skooters.cc/zoots/hansup.mp3 ...those crackles on the intro...are the real thing...we left em in to pay respects to this nearly dead piece of vinyl!! I;m glad I saved it from the so called sh*t heap!x

Found it!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

Morning guys!x Just got back from a long meeting with friends and having a cuppa before bed. Some of them started talking about Car Boot Sale finds....from an antiques perspective! I shared my vinyl experience at boot sales with them. When driving home...I thought of all those folk i've met....barged me out of the way on occasion too!hehe! Quite often they are waiting with increasingly sweating brow dripping over your shoulder hoping u ain;t found that 'nuggett'! All in all...super people and i've enjoyed meeting them all! That experience has been UK wide....wherever I go....they are there! Fortunately I aint got a clue what i'm looking for....so give way happily!! In fact....a Soulie/DJ and dealer whom i;ve respected for 20 years said....as we happened to be shoulder to shoulder flipping thru some tunes a couple of years ago at a boot sale...."...that's a shame...it'd be worth £40 if it weren't broken!". I went...;yeah shame init...do you like it?!"....sez I...."naaaa....heap of shit."...he judges! He got up confidently and went his merry way. I jumped into his box he left and whizzed to the record! Lifted it up...cracked edge.....but din't have a clue what was on it!! So I bought it for £1! It ended up being 'The Sect'...Leader of the sect! A mid 60's moddy tune which jogs along nicely....then maniclly!!! The copy was just...and I mean juuuuust....playable! It was good enuff to make me collection anyway! A couple of months later...me Producer mate Pete...A.K.A ZombieBoy....pops round to hear me tunes! I thought he'd like the funny intro...so played it among me 'unusual' bits during our session! He when returning 3 nights later...asked to record it along with 30 others! 18 months later....or 6 months ago......he had sampled it into one of our tunes for the forthcoming album! That re worked tune....has just been bought by an ad agency......for 40,000 times what it cost me! It's in the grooove...init? Here's that sampled intro worked into 2 Northern tunes.....and there is more....but not here and now...soz!!x The advertisers are happy with just this.....alreeeeeadyyy!!hehe!x https://www.skooters.cc/zoots/sectshine.mp3 I haven't said the Soulies name....because whilst I have respected him and his music....he's never paid me that compliment...ever. He'd only see it as me 'givin it large' if I told him. There's folk who have the music in them and flaunt it....and those that flog it....X I buy!x So Mike/Dave... I thought of contributing to the forum in some 'unique' way! I read threads and want to add bits everywhere....cos I have things to share!!! but not the time to do so! So as said in an early e-mail....i'll do summink 'structured'....and commit to it! Then I can read all over a coffee and get plugged back in to whats 'happening'!x This 'feature' BEST BOOT BUYS ...can be it...if it's ok?! Many Soul mates will tell u it fits too!!hehe!x Shifty and Fudge used to cry with laffter at how 'brave' I was to play 'boots' on occasion at Soul Nights! To me....I was a DJ and there for the people! I never played a tune if someone had it in their box and sharing the stage....never....that would be dis-respectful..I felt. But...at my Soul Nights and at those I DJ'd at....if you came up and asked for a tune...and nobody had it except me.....then I played it! Why not?! It made folk happy.....pure innocence honest!x Anyway...those that slated me for it never give u praise where it counted either! Ady Croasdell gave me the first copy of Carla Thomas's 'I'll Never Stop Loving You'....a few weeks before the Anniversary doo when the tune was due to be given away freely as he did! I played it at every A.N and gig over the next few weeks...Blackburn...Nottingham....Manchester....Bristol and Grimsby I recall....and used it to promote the 100club for Ady....my choice...or my excuse to play it!!!hehe!x. So...I was the first....but those who know about me boots...din;t know that to go wiv it...did they?! Good job I know me own truth init!x That last bit is for Tony and crew in Bromley...X He emailed me to catch up and say that some of the 'chat' his way from 'the youth' had been that I played boots!!!....hehe!x Me and Tony were chilled 15 years ago....we is still 'chilled'!x Nice to hear from u mate...X.......and you tell em.....never...at the 100Club....X I found Fats Domino- If You Don;t Know What Love Is...on a Friday afternoon in a Sally Army shop in Aldershot! Heard it on a tape from Norwich's finest Kev Fev Featherstone just a week earlier...X Went to 100Club next night....kicked off with it......LAUNCHED the place...everyone wanting to know wtf it was!!!.....din't need a boot...or boot sale that time!!!hehe...x As I go to boot sales regular....then i'll share my favourite find that week! The most exciting Soul find I have had since actively collecting rare Soul for the past 20 years....was at a Car Boot in Doncaster 17 years ago....I remember it well!! Driving past one Sunday morning on me way home from somewhere...and I saw this big field full of em.....so I stopped! I walked to the first stall.....5 records all scruffy....loose....in a tray of matchbox cars and stuff. Pick em up...Ken Dodd...Tears......The Monkeys...I'm A Believer...Clive Dunn Grandad....Mud...Tiger Feet.......and this tune.......my copy with the label all worn......but plays LOUUUUUD...and whilst it was found at a boot.....it ain;t a boot.....honest!!!!!x ....do you think my Soul DJ/Dealer mate would have got past Ken Dodd?hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X .........that's neat that's neat....i reallly lurrrve ure tiger feeet.....I remember dancing to that xmas party at me nans! Happy days! Time and place for every tune methinks! Yeah....good therapy for me this Forum....thank u guys!x...nite nite!x

...as there is no 'genre' stated in the asking...if it's no problem...I will post me two favs from last week ends car boot sale finds! I have learnt about music for over 30 years by collecting tunes from boot sales.....'randomly'! It is also my 'chill out' time most Sundays having a wander! 99 times out of a 100 i haven't a clue what i'm taking home each week....but that's the fun! On average...I pay 50p.....£1....for a 45....and occasionally find em at 10p each!! Generally I take home about 8-10 a week and 2/3 out of them will make my collection! That collection incorporates soul/Motown/Northern stuff...but....then i have a 'quiz' box...which has themes and quirky stuff from tv/films in it...then instrumentals that 'hit me' that go from the late 40's...to date.....all found at a boot sale! All the 633 Squadron...John Barry...Duane Eddy etc go in there! Then there is me 50's/ 60'/70's and best of the rest section! Me general 50's include rock n roll/rockabilly and Doo Wop along with the classics! 60's is full of stuff like the below! The 70's section is filled with the obvious classics and not many obscure stuff added as it is a lot of shuffling thru records to get to find them....and can't be ars*ed with em all really! I did dance to Funk in '76/7/8 when things like Olympic Runners Keep It Up and Jam Jam Jam were being stomped played in dark rooms in village hall disco's an odd time or two i made them...uptempo stuff...but never got excited by the 'disco' sound that overtook these into the 80's! Then there is an odds and sods section.....all YMCA/Time Warp party stuff! In there are loooads of obscure tunes for occasions such as 7 'Happy birthday' tunes some done by obscure singers on US Soul labels....1 of which i will upload as it does near verge on a 100 club definate....I reckon!!!x The 80's/90's/2000 are covered by about 150 records....Love Shack....If Only I could/Sid Youngblood...M People..and probably on 10-15 tunes represent the 2000's!! For me...after the 70's...it's all been regurgitated! I can 'predict' a tune within 5 seconds....and haven't listened to the radio for music since 1995! I listen to 5 Live....ritually! I was known for playing I'm So Happy-Philip Mitchell UK wide and Brainstorm- Loving is Really My Game at Blackburn @ 7.45/50amish...in particular! So I do like me 70's...but they gotta be that good!x After Donna Summers 'I Feel Love'....I think it took years before anybody came up wiv anyfink new on the pop scene! I have found some absolute nuggets from across the era's that are tunes in their own right that never made it in the charts or owt....or...in my wide scope...could verge on being considered 'Northern' from all genres! To start then...last week I found this by Paul and Barry Ryan. I have Barry Ryans classic hit from the late 60's 'Eloise' but never knew any of him or his bro's tunes from the early/mid 60's! This one....'Baby I'm Sorry'....makes me hairs stand up on me arms like Fred Hughes Oooo Baby I luv U does after 35 years....and that bell/gong.....haunts you all the way thru the tune......50p!....on Decca...!x The second is perhaps an all time 'classic'...BUT...in 7 years I never heard it played once or had the chance to dance to it...and i;m dis-appointed with that after hearing it several times this week!! On US ABC Paramount...Lloyd Price B side...Have You Ever Had the Blues.....10p....and the Personality on the A side plays perfick too! I'd have paid £5-10 for it...but....the pleasure of 'finding'...is priceless to me anyway!x Last year I did a 50th Birthday party for a group of Soulies who piled over to ours regular in the 90's. After i'd give the girls a lift to the venue....then the fellas...I was left with a home made CD in the back of the limo....which i discovered on the way home...! SUPER Northern with an R&B flavour that I have never heard...! On there is this Lloyd Price track...sung by a woman....r&b style....dunno who it is? But...I still prefer Lloyds version....and have done a twirl in me music shack quite happily this week to it!!x 10p...or £10....worth having methinks....enjoy!x LUV SOOTY X Thanx to all the PM's...E-mails and texts piling in still!!!x Special hi to Shaun from Boro's 3 Sad Men...Russ from Portsmouths crew and Donna in the Welsh mountains....who has been bellowing northern out across them valleys since 1988.....when I had a house and business there!XXXX Great to hear from you all and that your all well....and....that your glad to hear from me too!x It's a cult!!!hehe!x 'Underground'....hard core!!!x @@ ~

....ah! Erm....the latest...newest tune on vinyl I have managed to find is Eels...Mr E's Beautiful day....after watching the road trip film....tune!x I have got a studio demo/acetate whatever u call em of Mercy Duffy and Plan Bs 'She Said!...dunno which is the newest...no date on em!! I was given them and didn't look to go to a shop and get them as such....although i would have if needed! Other than that I haven't bought a tune on vinyl from the charts or owt since Propellerheads made the tune with Shirley Bassey....history repeating itself....Candi Staton 'You Got the Love'....and Blueboys Remember Me with the luvly Marlena Shaw! Unfortunately Shirley and Marlena are on 12"....and they have stayed in me LP box which has about 10 LPs in there from me childhood!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....I bought a 'new' copy of that uptempo Contours tune on a supposing tamla demo last year?....but probably a new boot?! Forget what its called! That had little grooves like a 'new' Dells EP I got some years back.....no run in groove on em....instant tune,.....nightmare!!!hehe!x @@ ~

...only buy/collect vinyl...for 38 years. End of...,X LUV SOOTY X

Hi 123 Motown!x It is a bit out of context I suppose! This post was a thank you to Dave for moving the original thread I started to the 'saeles' forum which was considered mpre appropriate! You can see the 'original' here! Returning friend???....I heard Northern Soul in 1974 for the first time in me life. I was 14. I then went into kids homes...borstal prison and at age 18 set up home wiv me then Mrs to make a life. We did for the next 10 years. At 28...I retired! After a couple of years of messing about in the early 90's...I decided to put a do on with my mate who played me Northern back in 1974 first day arriving at a Cambridge school! We bunked the afternoon off...and played his 100 tunes!! In 1993...after nearly 20 years of listening to these tunes on 4 tapes as me only music i had in any car....I played them for the first time on a deck....and danced to em in a venue...for the first time...aged 32! The same records as i borrowed Waynes from '74!I knew nowt about the scene....pure innocent tunes played...due to the previous circumstances!! Business or HMP pleasure....was certainly summink to do wiv me missing out!!hehe!x On the occasions I came home from the kids homes...I would go to a football match....get 'noticed'...it was the 70's......and be returned! Never did disco's or owt.....weren't free as a kid!x I left being 'active' on the scene after 7 years catching up! I think I crammed more in that 7 years than perhaps my youth would have had anyway!! However....'returned'???!! The music....has never left me....since 1974....and never will....gigs or not!x Dance Dance Dance made me dance back in me kids home in '74...as did Catch the Teardrop did in me conservatory when I heard that 35 years later! That's why I pursued these peedos as described above. I lived with these lads in a kids home for nearly 2 years. I took my mates 100 records back with me once. I remember as if it was yesterday in the echoing gym 'Pain In My Heart'...Tainted Love'...'Seven Day Lover'...the Right Track...A Little Togetherness...ricocheting around the walls!. It was my first ever Northern spot...on a record player to me mates! It took 19 years for me next spot! Unfortunately...it took 27 years for me to find out these mates...brothers...had been abused....in '74. I had to do something. End of. I felt guilty I suppose. I was 'there'...and knew nowt....they never said. So...for me...I went back to my roots that some of you may have been planting at Wigan and A/Ns all round the UK! I had 'brotherhood'....without music....but shared it with them all!x I quit the scene in 2000...to go back to that gym we all shared....and make them happy again. I've done so....or done what I can...X Perhaps it is time for some rejoicing and a return?! What do you think 123 motown?!x R u a Psychiatrist then Soulmusicforever???!!!x Having had 27 different schools/kids homes before aged 16 from Middlesboro to Hull to Grimsby and Cambridge.....and in between hamlets........5 'official' dads not 1 being me own....being brown among whites as me mam and siss are.....and being educated in this Country's finest establishments akin to Cambridge/Oxford Unis but more tailored towards people as opposed to products.....then....I consider meself 'different' to the norm....and try to share such where i can!!!x I hope you ain;t a psychiatrist.....cos my consultancy fees to cream my lifes experience for your future careers application are as they are mate......can't do discount even if u is a soulie...leeeeave it out Guv.....business is business init!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X We are all the centre of our universe from our eyes. My 'soul scene'...I became conscious of....aged 5. Some have it in their boxes....some have it in their hearts. I ain't a carpenter....so never got round to making a box. But I have shared what i have got....wherever i've gone. Vinyl has certainly assisted with that. But plastic...i ain;t.. Nice meeting you two and thanx for saying hi!xx Edit....here it is...the very first doo after 19 years of listening and never dancing to it! I put meself on at 7-8pm.....I was scared!!!hehe!x A year later....after stomping around the nation.....I ended up at the 100club. I played Seven Day lover...James Fountain. I always put a bit of each in me set! Instrumental...70's...mid tempo...still don;t know wot that is??!! Always think of len when I hear that word!!!hehe!x 60's/R*B...and STOMPERS....if one can hack it!! Why should i have changed that at the 100 club?! The place went mad....with enthusiasm....and i remember Ady smiling leaning against the back wall! All I saw was a packed room of happy folk.....and me??....I was in that gym....X I was told by a dealer that the consensus among some of them folk was that it wos a 60's club! I said...bu**er if i'd have known that I would have brought me Searchers and Beatles.....I thought it was a Norvern venue like everywhere else i go!! We were both then drowned out by Soulies wanting to congratulate me for the set........and nobody to date ever finished that chat.......and I DJ'd a further dozen times at least for them to do so!!!X Besides....I had Mod types rushing me asking wot the hell that uptempo dancer wos.....I said it wos a 60's.....Dance Dance Dance. I fink it wos a 60's anyway! It got the biggest cheer of the night.....I was in me bedroom at the time dancing.....so din;t really notice!x Here Soulmusicforever.....I got a stock of couches my removal firms collected from Psychos who quit practising......going cheap...as ure a Soulie!!x @@ ~

...Ady deserves the cred Len...X He came to our does...and 'supported' our ethos...and knew a Soulie when he heard one...and listened to a Soulie who knew Soulies...and I will always respect him for that...X I think 5 'newbies' ended up sharing their stuff at the 100Club via The City Stop on merit! A 6th...Shifty.....bought it....hehe!x It's all I needed to hear Len...ure up for it....consider it done mate!x That's 2 spaces filled for the bill then! Ain't worried about packing it Len....! Do that with a call the night before...! I have had dooe's at my places over recent years.....and limit it to 300...by invitation!!!x None of them are invited.......unless....we can't find 100 ex city Stop folk or chilled Soulies out there! 1 days notice if we can't,,,whatever happens....we'll be there....and i look forward to just that anyway mate!x LUV SOOTY X ...the last Northern doo I had 'local'....was when a handful from Boston whilst attending some 3rd anniversay gig in Cambridge popped out to see me a couple of years back! They stayed...and we danced in the conservatory!!! They left to get back in time for the doo's finish in Cambridge!!! I went to Boston FC last year to do a group of theirs 50th....loads of faces and friends and a super night had by all! They'd all pile down i'm sure!x If i'd have had this place in the 90's Len............how many????......and the nearest neighbours are a mile each side???......how looong would it have gone on for??? Good job I didn't.....Fudge would have pitched a caravan somewhere....!x @@ ~ ....when you ask am I back.....I have never stopped 'promoting' really! If you look in the pic at the decks/conservatory....you will find the walls covered in Northern Soul and music memorobilia! Those fluorescent posters are of St Ives/Maltings and stuff!. For a few years it has been a safe house for celebs/profiled folk and the like when it suited me. Private doo's. I take care of everything for them...including music...transport and clearing up their scandles! Point is....nobody left without knowing about Northern Soul....whoever...! My decks...do as I please init. No complaints to date!....if anything....lots of inspiration where it counted!!! I'll tell you and all more in the article i'm gonna do for the site!x But....like Fudge....i'm easily pleased!x @@ ~ X Send me a text mate....and I will call you with some dates...X Job done!x 07521042699 ...shall we ban him?....I ,mean proper....!x This is what he did to me....me first night I got a spot at Blackburn! He came round about 5. Mrs was gonna trim me hair for the occasion...as u do! He said he'll do it so she can get ready. I looked him square in the eye and said DON'T F*** ABOUT...PLEEEASE! He looked at me straight back.....and said 'naaaaa....only jesting.'. I sat down.....and his first strike was with a number 1......straight down the middle of me head back to front. I had to have it all shaved off. I was in a mess driving that bus all the way to Blackburn....TW*****T....in between laffs...embarresent...and ...and...just a mess really! About 10 minutes before I was due on....7am.....me and Neil here were chatting....and this loud shout came from our left of "WAAAAN****EEEERRR.....!"....as he....it....took the pic! My worse ever ever pic from the scene....! Never had me hair like that in me life....1st time at Blackburn.........wtf......??!!!!!x It was my 'dream' spot....hard core heart....7-8am...8.03am! It shoulda been a reeeeal happy night!!! TWAAAAAAAAAAA**********TTTTTT. Mind you....we wouldn;t be talking about our first nights with such reverance without him....would we?!x Ban him.......burn him.......flippin.......I was doing so well wiv me recovery in recent years too..............can somebody find me pills.....!x

PAAAAULLL!!!x Paul Donnellys name has come up as a visitor to the forum! We is old enemies and good friends!x We were scrapping each uver in the 70's through football kinda...him 'Boro...me Cambridge!! The Soul scene United us and indeed many Boro/Cambridge folk that was good for all in Cambridgeshire during the 90's!x If it is you Paul...then are you up for the City Stop?!x You came as we came to the local gigs and DJ'd at them via the 9 Clubs and Cambridge Stompers too. Loads of lads/ladies from 'Boro piled in.....proper it was!x As I said above...it's City's last season....possibly...probably....maybe....likely going to Histon for a while until they have a new facility sorted . We could donate the proceeds to Citys Fans Trust...as I have done the Fred's Rap tune! I remember many happy 2ams playing footy on the pitch by moonlight as we left the City Stop!!....so nostalgia....and doing our bit for Community clubs in Cambridgeshire?!x I'd call it Peterboroughshre....but it ain't....hehe!x Hope all yours are well...X The lads on the trailer for the DVD are from Boro...where i say there's plenty of banter bit...they all knew you...I asked em!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

...you always smelt like the 80's....hehe!x Good clean guy u is Lenny....!x That microphone trick I showed u??!! It served me well all over the place right up until the V festival a couple of years back!!! I walked into Blackburn about 3am one morning.....saw Little Scotty and folk running around asking for headphones......I calmly walked into the room....put me bag/box down....walked over to the stage....several 'names' all rifling through boxes/bags looking for some.....walked up to the decks.....good friend Bob Hindsley was just going through his 'going blanc' routine which dogged him minutes before his set everytime....hehe....and pulled the faulty headphones out...and plugged the microphone in it.....init!x Everyone 'froze'...shock....looked....I smiled at them all....no words said....and went to get a drink.....! The party carried on....hehe!x Never used headphones in me life Len if you recall! I 'see' the music....wiv the lights! When you know every sound in that grooooove....it's easy!...I find!x If no lights...I can hear it when I 'scratch the record'...wiv me head close! 1 word of warning for those reading.......don't plug the mic into an output socket.....in ure panic! The ball blew off and drew blood on me ear once as a begiiner wiv headphones.....that's why I binned using em!x Hence my calmness....with experience!hehe!x @@ ~ Coming back Len???......erm....never left really! Done charity does over the years n stuff! DJ wise I have a few functions I get to play in the centre of Cambridge or other open air stuff around the UK and play vinyl from across me collection....including Northern of course! Do a gig in Amsterdam when it's Queens Day/Week end.....one looong week-end of music for me...enuff for a year! 10-20,000 get to hear me latest boot sale acquisitions!! Happy times!x I did a do at last New Year....or was it the year before! At a friends restaurant ...food included....and it finished at 6am in the morning when billed for 12.30am!!! Nobody in the room had been to an A/N in their lives....or had such an experience!!! All were 30-60 year old folk!! It's the nearest i've been to 'it' in 10 years!x It's the nearest the Indian waiters had been 'near' it too.....haha! I told them that a bunch of girls....30'-50 year olds were prostitutes......! The Boss...my mate....said he couldn't get the staff to work beyond 1am when organising it.........they were dancing to the Macerena and smooching to Ray Pollards The Drifter at 3am!! It was me Sister and her friends who 'entertained' them! I din't tell me Sister about why they were so 'accomodating' that night until 3 weeks later when it was her Birthday! I announced it at the family meal she'd organised......and her dinner went all down her dress.....hehehe!!!x I said i'd do a couple a year....they have Elvis...an Asian!!...who does a great job a couple of times each year too! Unfortunately...i've been too busy to book a date! The Gaffas call me each month since to see if I can do another.......and ask are those girls coming again..........! However...as for todays Northern scene...I have had many pms/E-mails....!Thank you all!!!x I don;t have 'time out' much these days....and perhaps I will take up some of the kind offers up.....for the craic!x If i'm doing some 'talking'...I better be seen to be doing the walking! If you remember mate.....nobody did more 'walking' than me to ensure we had the success we all did at the Maltings/St Ives! First to arrive....last to leave at every gig nationally!! Job done!x So...if there is a grand occasion to raise money for charity...then I would gladly giv up Time Team for it...yeah.....why not?!x But....no chance of promoting n stuff.....apart from when The Zoots Collective get a spot at the V....or the next Olympics or summink!!!hehe!x There is this 1 last opportunity beckoning tho' Len! The City Stop! Cambridge City FC are moving...ground being demolished after this season! The venue is open until June! I have spoken with the manager of the venue now...and he only has a few Fridays available until June! You were a part of that 5 year success story....sold out rammed every month. Looads of DJ's went through it and many got their first chances there too as an 'away' gig. It attracted over 700 members at it's peak...Cambridge Stompers! Considering all of that 'happening'....I was thinking....should we do 1 last 1??? We'd pack it no probs....Cambridge still has an active scene with doo's regular since i quit! Many are Soulies who were hard core at The City Stop through the 90's! What do you think? U up for it? I could call Shifty if his Lordship is still giving me his pleasure!!hehe!x Only need 100 to make it happen....that's no problem....but....I would love to fill it with 100+ ex City Stoppers....if at all poss...if I...we...did it! We wouldn't have a time restriction as such either......they is pulling the place down afterwards......!!!x What do you reckon?!x You up for it John...Kings Lynn John?!x...I got kit sitting around still!!!x Let me know Len...or any other reading this who was part of that venue! It would be a shame if we didn;t do 1 last one....like a school re-union....I learnt much there as did u obviously!!hehe!x My Northern had consisted of my mates 100 tunes going back to 1974 on 4 tapes! That was it until 1993...and the City Stops DJ's...you included....teached me loads!!!Thanx...X Bud Harper....never heard it until u played it! Rob...That's My Girl.....which I knicked and took natiownide and had success with it everywhere! DJ's from over 30 Soul Clubs from around the nation came there as 'guests'! Super stuff! A school of learning it was....fancy going back to see how ugly we all is 15 years later???!!!??!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X .....u ain;t seen this mong have yer???....!hehe!x ...I felt safe at the City Stop. Fudge never used to get in me face until after we left there. We'd jump in the bus.....17 of us...and go to the 100 Club....he;'d flick paper and matchsticks at me all the way down the M11. I'd avoid him before me spot by mingling and dancing.....and then as I go on stage....a tap on the shoulder...i'd turn around...and 'Soots....YOUR SHI*E' would bellow in me lug hole....for inspiration. 7 years he did that. It dented me confidence i assure you!x @@ ~ Here's the promo for the Togetherness DVD Len...i've put it in the other thread in 'sales' Forum....but as this is being read too...i'll put t here!x Nice 1 Len...let me know if ure up for it ok!x

No apologies folks...the tunes have had to come down as i'm sure you can understand from a Commercial aspect! I understand perfectly....but....as said....wanted to pay me respects to the 'hard core' before the masses got it all!!x I've whacked together a 'trailer' to give you an idea of sorts as to what's on the DVD! All done on Movie maker as i'm not at me production office for a few days to do it 'proper'! However....this ain't about glamour and gloss or image for me.....it's personal. it's about trying to carry the music on and appealing to new audiences who take music serious enough to want to know the background.....and end up at a gig.....as a newbie. Simple as. ZombieBoy(Pete) and I also know that any of these tunes playing in a car will entertain Mam...Dad...son...daughter....and possibly get Grandchildren dancing and tapping....all at the same time. My first words to Pete when i heard the tunes he'd done was....'they unite generations'. Job done. Indeed the 2nd album is being done! As for the Togetherness vid...I've watched it for the first time in about 5 years....and it's timeless! The comment said by everyday names of DJ's and Soulies....is still valid today...and always will be....I reckon!x My production Company has made over 100 films in 13 years. Mainly in the entertainment/sport industry. It is tho' in essence just a front for us to use covertly to expose...pursue....capture....and imprison peedo's and protectorets of peedo's within Local Authorities/Social Services Nationwide. No different to the recent BBC/Savile story. Difference is....we would have nailed the modern Execs who continued the cover up! We've been 'at it' for 10 years.....or I have....since partnering a Solicitors practice here in Cambridge. In that 10 years....since making this vid....we've ensured over £4 million compensation has been awarded to over 400 victims.....in 3 seperate cases....in Cambridgeshire alone. Since the BBC outing.......the phones have gone maaaaad. You can read more about it all at www.matso.tv/equal.html Click Keith Laverack icon. Like with music....I have an independent approach and it has been effective. Point is.....whatever footage...film....or event i've been involved in.....none of the productions came anywhere near as enjoyable as making this 'off the cuff' one as we did this night in 2003! It was a night off!!!!x I asked questions that I never got the chance to ask throughout my 7 years of activeness around the UK. I got answers....and feelings expressed....that you won't hear anywhere else! Chris King and I arrived on the scene 'together' in the early 90's. Him as a kind of come back after his Commercial successes....and me as a 'newbie'. For 7 years....he never spoke to me on the occasions we shared decks/venues. I even DJ'd at Bretby which he and others kicked off again....and loved every moment of it! 2 HUGE personalities.....I understood...so did he...and we never crossed words or attitude. This interview was the first time we'd ever spoken....and it was natural...and we've been friends ever since. It's good to talk!x I will pop back before the final DVD is available to update you all. There is some discussions to be had and friends to talk too before it's all finalised....but whatever we end up with for you.....it'll be worth it...I reckon!x Thanx for reading....and for keeping 'The Faith'....X LUV SOOTY X https://youtu.be/leJzCNWSyTo I looked thru me tunes......and the ender for the credits on this trailer....epitomises my experience in here with YOU all....THANK YOU...X I will be in touch Dave/Chalky....thanx again......XX....ooops...and if u see Fudge...or anyone does.....tell him u've never heard of me....and he's a tw********t.......hehe!x......now where's me pills.......... @@

...and we have a winner for the fun quiz above!! 19 entry's wrong to date....but the first one right is Deb & Storky from Daventry!x Well done and as soon as the DVD is done we will send you 5 copys with pleasure!x Thanks to the 20 who took part for the craic!x LUV SOOTY X ....ooops....there are 53 Northern titles featured in the flyer!!x I had to count it 5 times to make sure...and i made the flippin thing!!!hehe!x Have a great week-end all..X @@ ~

...double post....I better take me pills....!x @@ ~ X

...it's called endorphine Pumkinseed!x I had an overactive thyroid removed in 2004. I take 2 pills a day as a replacement....but.....if i don;t take them...after 2 days....i'm launched! In essence...I stop taking a drug to get a natural high!!!! Bottle that bu**er and we'd be Billionaires Rodders!!!hehe!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...i've caught Bass in the Florida glades in me time....but never knew about the Pumpkinseed.....nice 1!x Here's a ditty we've done for an advert due to be broadcast in May/June...but can't say which...or what.....contractual bo**ox.... ....for when u get ure rod and line out.....Captain....hehe!x

Still a midtempo mogul then Len!!x Brilliant to hear from you...X I speak with a great DJ...Bernie King...based on BBC Northampton but has a networked show on the Beeb saturday night...Rock n Roll...Soul...Doo Wop....learnt looooads!! He told me that The Thunderbird Club has finished?! Has the venue gone in Wellinboro'?x U still at it?!x I've said it as simple as it was I believe Lenny! Happy times we all had...!x Is Ciro...Dave V...Rob...all about still? Come over anytime...I have a music 'shack' at one of me houses dedicated to the Soul scene...decks and everything!! £1000 pounders cover the ceiling that i've broke over the years...hehe!x All the posters n stuff from those days covering the walls....your on loooads! Come over...X @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X 07521042699 ...I think this was the City Stop Len....u figured the techno's out yet??!x

Hi Brett!x I fool around for definite....but....you've contributed to the largest accessed thread this year in this particular forum!x On that basis mate....it's happenin'...for real!x Before I go...I will thank once more the folks supporting/providing this website....being 'on line' with databases/websites since 1985 means I know what it takes and you are appreciated my end...X A genuine thanx to you Soulies for a welcoming return as such....and to Pete above who gave me some great advice and opinion which is useful...X Sean Chapman I contacted some weeks ago...and has been as good a friend as when we left off our gatherings 10 years ago....thanx mate...X You can add Ady Croasdell and Kev Roberts to that genuine welcome I received 10 years after our last 'chats' too ....thank you both for your opinions and experience helping us get to this point...X A final thanx to John Manship for taking my call to this developing opportunity too...as recent as today!x Like me Brett...he's no fool either....do u know any fat centre halves???...we is both looking out for one!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X I only know 1 other Brett in the Soul scene as such....Bert Berns/Rusells son! Brett pushes out his Dads catalogue via Sloopy music! He married a good old English girl from Windsor...and comes over regular...been friends for 15 years now! I introduced him to folk over here about 12/13 years ago and he has done brilliant in the UK with his Dad's stuff ever since. His Dads catalogue has just been taken on by Paul Mcartneys firm MPL in the USA...as Brett sez...it's the most prestigous independent publishing Company in the world! He ain't fooling....he likes our stuff too...u wanna hear what unfinished bits he's got in vaults waiting for 'genius'...since the 60's!!!!!x Do u fink I need sectshining Brett???!..Just for u......half done.....for the next album....and u wanna hear who this John is gonna meet........she's coming to the studio to sing to him next week.....WOOOOOHOOOOO............!!!x

Pete....THANK YOU...X For someone in your position and 'cred'...it means much...X Pete my Producer mate is like me....it flows through him...and he can work a machine to help get it out of his head!! Before he came around mine...'The Snake' and Out on The Floor was his only 'northern' he knew of or had heard! Natural stuff he came up with....which most Northern is.....'soul' stirring....simples!x We are so pleased with our result that we ain't even figured out how much to sell the DVD for!!! Honest! Given your experience on such matters....what do you think? £15-20? They cost about £3 to produce. We want the folk who put the hours in selling/sharing the music to be rewarded too. All the money raised on these DVDs are going to 'soulful' causes. Me and Pete will make our dosh with the Commercial Music industry....they can afford it. So...what's a 'fair' price'...for Soulies....'the people'?! How much do 'traders' work on these days? 30%? We have an intiial 500 run in mind...although 1,000 is probably nearer the demand....when we get 'on it'! Williing to be guided mate....X Thanx again for your sincere comment...X LUV SOOTY X ....here's another off the album....based on a Searchers unsuccesful 60's commercial tune I have on a demo! It is done at their original pace too.....and we believe....it will be in every resort around Europe for this Summer for folk to party too!x We have to believe that....the record Company behind it now....are insisting!x the 3 remaining Searchers and their fan base....are excited and will appear in the vid I am told!x I'm glad we're in this little corner out of the way......the company will batter me if they knew I was 'outing' it!!!hehe!x It's Pete's 'come back' announcement....he had the lyric in his head for the past 10 years.....and found what to do with it after our first night together! Inspired he was.....and he's back!!x....and the Police siren at the beginning...is real.....it was his Mrs car....she popped home for a cuppa whilst on duty....and pushed the button for us!!!hehe!!!x @@ ~ THEY WILL BURN ME AT THE STAKE FOR PUTTING THAT TUNE UP!!!...it had to go....soz!! Phone a friend or get the album!!!x

For the craic......whoever wants to guess the right number of 'tunes' featured on the flyer....they can have 5 free copys of the DVD to give to friends and stuff!x Post here or email sooty@matso.tv The first I come across to get it right wins!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X I did the same if u remember before the gig when giving the flyers out John!!! 10 free tickets to the winner by post!!! No email or owt then init! I think we got over 60 entrys and only 2 got it right...so we gave them both 10 tickets!!! ....and look at Southend Soul Providers signature!!! Alan Neil!....Shifty!! He was soooo shy and nervous for his first ever set at an all/nighter!!!hahaha!! I got it captured on vid for posterity! He says on the DVD 10 years ago it was the best a/n he'd ever done.........!....the likkle sausage...hehe...wot happened to him afterwards?????!!!.......your welcome!x As I said...it was about 'the people'...he was one of them....and the scene benefited from him...and Shaun Chapman?...from me old home town...Town!x He rediscovered his passion for the scene and music at our doos as he'd just left the RAF and been out of touch for years....he sez so on the DVD too.....job done....and worth every mile i drove!x As said....still keeping it....and doing me bit along with Pete me producer mate...where it counts.......among the youth...and time served......and simply joining the two with music!x I'm gone.......!X

I know we've spoken via PM but I want to publicly thank you for your kind offer and 'support' mate...X I do deserve such as does the music!x I never used or abused anyone in those 10 years....friend to all North...Souff...and even Richard Domar in Brum used to stop watching footy for 5 minutes when i popped round!x Deep stuff!x The scene for me...was ;'chill out'...not business...and i enjoyed every minute! Yeah....promoters wondered if I was out to take over the drugs....or just 'givin it large' and stuff....and some are still scratching their heads wondering what I was all about 13 years later!!!hehe!x But nope.....I was just like they was....20 years earlier....but I was in me 30's...and had some carching up to do!!!hehe!x So...I made no enemys or had a problem with anyone....and to date....nobody has come to me and said different from their end! So...on that basis.....yup....I thank you for being respectful to me 'launching; into your forum....after so long!!!!x I have been overwhelmed by the E-mails from folk who were part of that wave of enthusiasm and innocence that swept the UK...THANK YOU ALL>>>X We were the largest 'crowd' on tour for 7 years! Never took less than 20 wherever we went..and 50-100 for an all-nighter was 'standard'. It was a 'night out' with 'the people' for me....simple as....and we enjoyed it! We got 800 minimum coming to 'A Little Togetherness' at the Maltings/St Ives A/Nighters near Cambridge in the 90's. However.....the stats were....only 30/40 came from within 20 miles! Soulies came from Portsmouth...Scotland....North Wales...Blackburn Brum...and Belgium! We...as a collective....The 9 Clubs....(4 Mr South???...! U wos there!hehe!x)....deserved the support of 'the people'...because we were just people! No saddo zone....and it brought many back to the scene for a 'party'....end of!x The music...was easy.....it's in me blood and makes me move...since 1973....can't help it. But....all music does that to me...runs thru me blood...and is easy....but Northern gets me feet moving....nowt else!...Perhaps me dad was an Aborigine??? Me mam can't say he weren't...it wos dark at the time!x @@ ~ ....read the flyer Mr South...ir said all!!!x.......it took me seven hours to put it together wiv pritt stick and Richard Domar's/John Manships lists/books!!!hehe!x.....the 1st '9Clubs' doo!x ,,,,there's your signature on the only copy!!!hehe!x I luv me originals....X Sorry Dave....just jogging an old friends memory!x Dave...because of those other commitments to me music....and 3 local football clubs i'm trying to save for our future Kings pleasure.....looong story!....and me businesses needs...along with 40 websites I have commitments too...then....I have to go...for now!x I popped in here out of courtesy as i said....to pay MY respects to 'the people'. I would hate to have a Soulie...old friend....come and say.....'ere Soot....why didn't you share those tunes wiv me before it went to No 1....or was on the telly every day a la 'Here Come The Girls'! It would be against all what I stood for when full on with DJing/Promoting nationwide. It was about YOU all then....and by sharing...I felt a bit happier about life. Robbie Williams is the same.....he looks out on thousands....he is happy.......he turns to go off stage....and is alone again. Thanks for making me feel a 'part'....when to be honest.....I was alone after each week end. We all have our reasons for being 'there'. I'm happy to have shared mine...X It was sorted to my satisfaction tho'! Me good friend pulled a sicky....I went to Nantwich as I was DJing....I phoned her up at a service station to aplogise for another row before i left......he was there....I said....enjoy! She was a virgin....we'd met at 16, I should have left her at 18 when i had the chance and felt it right. But...I couldn't hurt her....or be on me own at the time. 28 years later....he did us the favour....and to be honest....I couldn;'t be there for her anymore. I did the best set I ever did that night....and nobody knew why!.....and genuinly was happy. Mad eh? I left her everything as well as my friendship. She is in a happy relationship today with a long termer not a short termer which she deserves...and so am I. We divorced because we should have never been together. Nobody elses doing....just our truth! We have 2 kids to show for our 'togetherness' who are both doing better than we did at their age. I ain;t gonna tell you the suffering was worth it for us all.....but....we is all happy today...and all moved on!x Simple as....so no skeletons over our way folks....we is cool!x On that note of sincerity...I will take up your very kind offer Dave!x I will put an article together for folks to read at their will!x I'll put a few 'bonus' tracks in there too which are for the 2nd album....or the bits we've done anyway!hehe!x The article is for sharing the music and info. I don't need to 'sell' any DVDs to anyone. 1,000 copies of those 'Togetherness' videos went out there somewhere! I gave them to Kev Roberts/Richard Serling as a thank you for letting me do what made me happy! They had the 'network'...it was the smartest way to get the 'happening' shared with 'the masses'!......and the costs money they gave me for production went into buying some TV's for a charity do I did in Kings Lynn for some Soulies. Like then....I don;t need your moneys Dave...or Soulies! I'm asking your opinions...and 'coming home'.....to be respectful!x Any royalties my 50% earns on the Northern sampled tracks will be going to Histon/Cambridge United and Cambridge City's Fans Trusts! Pure pleasure for me.....like it was on the decks or meeting a new Soulie! We'll sell millions pf the tunes...job done...and I knew that before popping in...as said....musics easy....when one dances....I find!x That....is what i've been about....and I will sort summink out in a week or so for the site!x Thank you and all again for your warm welcome and happy memorys...X LUV SOOTY X In the interests of transparency and openess!x www.matso.tv/equal.html www.skooters.cc/unstretched.html Now...one last spin from the album.....everybody HANSUP...!!!!!!!! Dunno wot else is being said....it wos a foreign track from the 70's I found at a boot sale...that's all we know!...COOOOME ONNN....HANSUP!!!x @@ ~ https://www.skooters.cc/zoots/hansup.mp3 I will be in touch Chalky....X

Happy Easter all............if it ain;t to late!x Gonna have a chucky egg now i;ve finished the last vid for the DVD! Just dedicated it to the Manchester crew in the Members Shout forum...so put it in here for your pleasure too!x LUV SOOTY X VID REMOVED...NEXT APPEARING ON THE DVD!X

chalky Posted YDay, 09:39 PM How do Sooty, long time no see. How you doing and welcome to SS. Like Chalky My Website, The Stafford Story, Lifeline & Podcasts SOOTY Second Issue Boot 1 posts Posted A minute ago ........still kicking as are you I read!x Nice 1 Chalky!x I have popped into the forum on occasion for births/deaths/divorces...hehe!x...to read over the years....but.....after a 10 year whirlwind tour of the UK....often DJing 3 times in a night....and driving a 17 seater around with Fudge as shotgun.....then where do u start to 'share'????!!!!x I'm still figuring it all out 10 years later!!x I read yours and others comments about Bub too...and indeed....he was always a refreshing and welcoming sight whenever we arrived at an unearthly hour to share the decks. Always friendly and certainly direct....a proper Norvernor...and one of the few DJ's....and I mean DJ's...that was on the 'circuit' whilst I was in the 90's. A peoples DJ and am glad to have had my happy thoughts about him rekindled.....nice 1 folks...X I will copy this post into the main forum and post i've duplicated to keep it all together!x A 'Lady' awaits my attention....and as a Gentleman....I cannot keep her waiting any longer!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...say hi to all the crew your end....happy days and times we had....and they are all special memorys for me which I thank you all for mate...X Now........I said 10 years ago u get about......and here u are!!!hehe!x I hope you and yours are well Wendy...X The interview/chat we had on the above vid is still as relevant....and funny...as it was 10 years ago.....timeless in fact!x I used your pic on the cover as a 'have u seen this Lady' kinda wanted poster......deal with it!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....well travelled.......respects poppet...X @@ ~ ...in fact....out of respect for you Wendy....I will dedicate this tune to you....as it was a mutual friend who introduced it to me back in '93...Andy Orvis! I played it amongst me set for the next 7 years!x Here it is made ready for an 'advert'...on the telly!!! Your the first to hear it...or have it dedicated to you! I put a few simple pics to it for watching purposes on the above DVD and uploaded it yesterday...!x Enjoy!!!...x TOO SLOW...TUNE REMOVED IN CASE HAND BAG CROWD GET IT!....was for hard core only!x

Hi folks! I put this post in here as well as the members shout area as it may appeal to the masses as opposed to the few who are interested in new members etc!x Sooty 'ere from Cambridge! It was me nickname back in the day but I changed it by deed poll a few years back and its on me passport and stretched limo so your welcome!x I was promoter of St Ives/The Maltings and City Stop around Cambridge in the 90's! I DJ'd Nationally from 100 Club too Blackburn....taking in Micks 'Temple of Doom' in on the way back wiv a 17 seater minibus usually!x I was the only one allowed to call it that....hehe!x Shifty...Lenny Dobson....and many other 'names' came thru with me...we was 'the new wave' of that decade really! I quit promoting DJing in 2000...but went back to the scene via Kings Hall in 2003 to make an independent documentary at Kings Hall! Kev and Richard liked it so much they asked me to follow it up with the Wigan Anniversary vid a year later! That was 10 years ago! I've had a good read and see many familiar names still 'active'! I also read with sadness many good folk have departed....rest in Soul heaven all...X I still have me records...about 1400 and collect the odd tune I hear which makes them tingles happen just as they did back in my mate Wayne Astrans bedroom aged 14 when he spun me some Northern for the first time as we bunked school!! Now...I have recently spoken with Kev Roberts...Ady Croasdell...Sean Chapman and a few others to 'sound; them out! So....there may have been some 'chat' that i may be popping up somewhere soon....well...i'm here!!hehe!x This is why.... A good friend and record producer came round mine and heard some of my rare tunes from across the board! He was 'inspired'! That was 18 months ago. I went to see him about 6 months ago....and he'd made 16 'new' tracks from them all......PURE BRILLIANCE....my tingles said as i listened to them! 4 of the tracks came straight out of me Northern stuff.....and.....and....I have to say.....I feel they have added or paid respects to the 'originals'! There is no financial gain personally for me in saying that! The Northern tracks have already been donated to 3 local football clubs Fans Trusts.....or my royalties on them! So...as when i was 'active' on the scene....my interest is....the music...still! The 'Togetherness' video from 10 years ago....was never released 'officially' on DVD! It was video only and 1,000 copies were sold!! Bootlegs went off at gigs for a £10er....but never done 'proper'! Therefore...as it is an 'anniversary'....then i thought we'd re-release it....AND...put the 4 Northern based tracks on there with basic vids.....as a gesture to pay respects to the 'underground' scene that i came from....before they go commercial.....GLOBALLY!!! 2 of the tracks will......as they've been bought up already by major record Companys as part of the album deal! 1 Northern trck is ear marked for an advert too! They have allowed me to do this pre release promo.....as said...to be respectful to 'the scene' and its supporters!x There will be a limited number of vinyls done as double A sides for those really keen!x The full album including 13 tracks is due for release in May! The 'Togetherness' DVD will be available by end of April! I said in the title of the thread that i'm still keeping it....and I believe....with this album and tracks....I've done me bit to generate further interest from new generations! Thanx for reading!x Instead of my usual handshake/hug....i'll leave you with this.....1 of the other tracks....which epitomises mine and Petes philosophy/approach to music and feelings about it!x It's a bluesy instrumental backing from Johnny & The Hurricanes from 1959 and will be on the DVD as a bonus track! Simon Cowell loved it.....and I hope you like them all at least.........!!x Thanx for reading....and i look forward to making a gig soon!x TUNE REMOVED BY SOOTY...or he'll get battered by record Company! U Shudda downloaded it already init!x LUV SOOTY X sooty@matso.tv www.skooters.cc/limousines11.html 07521042699 .....and i can't leave without 1 more tune....just like I did as the lights came up at 8.03 am at Blackburn A/N! I used to get the old dear a bunch of flowers each time who cleared up....and I was the only 1 allowed to play 1 after 8!!! Happy days indeed....! Here's a trip down memory lane from the 90's...! It's a compilation of memorabilia gathered....and faces you'll recognise! The tune......erm.....being re sung by a new singer.....but I cant say who....contractually! It's not plan a..........! 1 of the tunes which will be on the DVD and album and as a single...It's called Competition Liquidated..............................and they have been.....!x DITTO...GONE!x