Kevinkent

Thanks guys! That's the first one pinpointed on the map then.... * The Sandwich Bar, Alcudia, Mallorca

Nice one Paul and you're forgiven for the laptop set - needs must eh? This is just the sort of thing that I'm talking about and that I'm sure so many of us have experienced. Considering that you were asked to go back anytime I'm presuming that the guy does the venue regularly so if you remember any more exact details of where it was, pass them on. Be nice to get a list of such places put together. - Kev Quick edit - Sorry, didn't see you'd said Calla de Mallorca. Don't recall which bar do ya?

How often have you been on holiday and found yourself missing your soul fix? If you've longed to escape the fake flamenco and Europop shite that your hotel dishes out, then like myself you might resort to the comfort of your air-conditioned hire car and the stack of CD's that you took with you. Spain is my destination of choice, and I've never failed to bump into others who were yearning for some decent sounds. There are often posts on here asking "any soul in ..........? So ....where are these places? Anywhere in the world where you've stumbled across that venue (I wish!),? Club, bar, anywhere with even a decent jukebox really. I don't mean the well known events - Soul In The Sun, Costa del Soul, etc. I mean the sort of places that would never normally get mentioned on here, but which did that little bit to make your holiday special. Over to you good people.... Where was your soul oasis?

Booted on ATLAS (there's one on Ebay now for 9.99). On a VINTAGE SOUL E.P. , and I'm pretty sure there's a looky-likey boot too. Oh, and this description found on popsike. The pic is a stock copy MB: BOBBY KLINE - (a) SAY SOMETHING NICE TO ME, (b) SAME, GRADES EX, TOP QUALITY NORTHERN SOUL, SELDOM COMES UP FOR SALE, THIS LOOKS LIKE IT IS A ONE OFF DOUBLE SIDED RECORDING WITH PRINTED LABELS TAKEN OFF THE ORIGINAL, ALSO AS THE (TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS) LABEL ON THE OTHER SIDE, REALLY DOES LOOK GOOD, (SEE PHOTO). PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT AN ORIGINAL, GOOD LUCK IN BIDDING :Kev

Nice informative article Dell. Interesting magazine too and I'll read the rest of it later. - Kev.

Don't know...if I could...bear... to read it...but...I'll have...a go. - Kev.

Yeah - turned up with 2 young girls on one of those rickshaw bike-taxi things. Got told to put his ciggie out, and later mistook me for staff.when he told me he was nipping out the back for a smoke.

Oops - double post! - Kev

John Lydon at the 100 Club a couple of years ago. - Kev

I did the same identical thing with my Gillettes!

Other side (A side and my preference) is THE QUOTATIONS - I WANNA THANK YOU - Kev.

Bessie was surely just being polite. She certainly didn't seem too impressed to me. I reckon she secretly twiddled her hearing aid off after the first few bars. Anyway, I just listened to it without viewing the video and I have to say that his voice wasn't as good as I first thought. The audio on it's own reinforces the fact that all sentiment and feeling (let's call it "soul") in the original version seems to have been abandoned in favour of discotrickery. The lyrics don't suit the arrangement. With a name like Kevin, what do you expect? - Kev

Ruined a good song for me - and for Bessie Banks too I reckon

Haven't been to a "Northern" do have you.

If you're on your own don't forget a couple of EP/LP's with consecutive playworthy tracks - for when you need a p!ss. - Kev

One here ... https://www.ebay.co.u...=item5ae150e832 - Kev edit.... It's gone now though. I just wondered why you bothered posting if you're not gonna check for responses. I also wonder why I bothered searching for it on your behalf.

Same for me. The girlie backing just gives it that extra dimension. - Kev

A big fat greasy bloke with loose fitting clothes was dj'ing at a small do in Spain. He was playing some right sh!te. I thought requesting Northern might be pushing it so I asked if he had any Motown. "Do I look like the sort of bloke who'd play Motown?" he said. So I looked him up and down and said "You got any Demis Roussos then?". - Kev.

Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) .....I'll get my coat. Congratulations BTW.

This doesn't really answer your query but she wasn't supposed to send payment as a gift, nor was the seller supposed to ask for that. It's against paypal rules and apparently they are clamping down on it. Here's part of an email sent by paypal to a regular seller.... "........................We're not sure if you are aware of this, but we noticed that some of your customers are sending you personal payments for purchases. Unfortunately, this violates our rules, and we need your help correcting this. Please don't ask or allow your customers to use personal payments to pay for their purchases. If we continue to see such activity after March 9, 2010, we may have to disable your ability to receive personal payments, and then you will pay fees for all money received through PayPal.......... " I'm amazed that a lot more regular sellers haven't been warned, particularly ones like your sister has encountered that refuse to honour the deals if they haven't fully avoided all fees. Like a lot of people I have gifted payments - but when it suits me on a personal level. I'd rather the price took the fees into account. - Kev

I shudder at the thought!

What was the line up for the 70's gig Paul? The Northampton line up was Fred Cash, Sam Gooden, and Reggie Torrian. They reckoned it to be their first ever UK gig ("because no-one has asked us before"). Wish I was going now - you're all in for a real treat! - Kev.

Wear what you want FFS. This isn't Fred Perry's first foray into Northern Soul branding. Perhaps 6 or 7 years ago they had a range of T shirts emblazoned with either "KING MOJO", "VaVa's" (I think), and "Northern soul Allnighter". The logo from the "Northern Soul Allnighter" (Wow - not a fist or a heart!) was used recently, and perhaps still is, as part of the window display at their 7 Dials shop in Covent Garden. What I object to is, as already said, is their poor and inaccurate research - "The 1963 Northern soul shirt has been recreated with authentic patches using unique artwork from that era." 1963!!!!? ...I don't think so. But that's what you get from a company that tells me they put on a Northern night at the 100 Club with Paul Weller guesting. Do they use the same researchers as the Soul Boy movie? Far more interesting is the (alleged) story linking West Ham to the "1957 Fred Perry". If Dave "dthedrug" gets wind of it we could be in for a whole new thread of epic proportions!!

Russ, if I drive any great distance to a niter I like to get there early and have just a couple of beers - which should leave me ok to drive at the end of the niter, but not at 1.30 - 2.00 when I would be changing venues (if there is a soul night coinciding). OR.....I book a hotel and get a couple of hours kip after the niter and most hotels want a 1100 or 1200 check-out. Either of those reasons would probably knock it on the head for me personally. Further to that I prefer to be esconced well before midnight and don't like changing venues - precisely the reason why I get to the 100 Club at the start, and avoid travelling on from a "warm-up" elsewhere. Maybe also to be considered is the fact that a fair few people drift away from a niter at 3 or 4 in the morning, so they probably wouldn't attend in the first place. Sorry to be so negative - if I was 18 ............ I'd probably think differently. - Kev.