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Great to see you all at Burnley, hope you all got home ok. Mega that you came all that way!!!!! See you soon............................. FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOMMMMMMMMMM

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There is only one way to sort this Mike..........................

Maybe I do need to “wise up” Maybe I am out of step?

How dare you Sir!

Mike you are unhealthily quick to champion this sort of thing leaving me completely and utterly confused at your motives and view point considering that Soul Source is such a bastion of our beloved genre? Surely you must take the sharpest of intakes of breath as I do when yet another camera lens is thrust our way with scant regard to the impact it has, surely it’s not all about freedom of expression because I know that posts on here have been deleted for expressing opinions and viewpoints that are moderated to be “out of step”? Your comment on my involvement with a camera crew is hardly the same and the comment is a little cheap? Vicky approached you (Soul Source) and a request was made to the Soul Sourcers for input for her dancing, I made no social comment and I certainly did not have any of my opinions plat formed, the clip of some of us showing her how to dance was not the main focus as you well know. Back to the Northern Soul Film "keep The Faith", the clip of the chap wearing the Steve Cradock hat is as embarrassing as it gets for Scooterists full stop and has little to nothing to do with Northernsoul less than show how it wasn’t and you DO NOT need to be from Dundee to know this! I care passionately about Northernsoul, I know that the history of our wonderful scene is being rewritten by those who are running rough shod over our fantastic memories distorting, diluting and becoming an embarrassing pastiche, and it’s like a clown troop doing Shakespeare! I think there will be some who just do not get what I am alluring to, Mike this is your train set mate and you will be remembered for this a long time after you have gone, If I was Mike and if Soul Source was mine I would love to be the man remembered for saying STOP! This is enough; The Northernsoul scene is too precious and I will have no part in allowing this dross to continue. But I am not Mike; I am just a little fat bloke who weeps while I watch something fantastic be destroyed.

Of course Mike, that’s exactly what I am saying.

I am not blaming Soul Source, I am not blaming anyone other than the Soul Sourcers but it is we who have trivialised both the Northernsoul Scene and it now looks as if The Scootering Scene is next on the chopping block of cyber assassination. My posts have been tongue in cheek when I thought we have been taking things too seriously but I now feel that our mantra is one of sell out, sell everything, dilute it all and water it down for commercial and easy consumption. As soon as I saw this I thought, here we go again! Our over eagerness to give a platform to the uninitiated has resulted in such a cringe factor it defies belief, the last bastion of Northernsoul is The Allnightrers, the weekenders have fallen into a glorified Soul Night where the dance floor all but disappears at three giving the hand baggers the bragging rights that they are hard corps. Soulboy was dissected and discussed but bludgeoned to death by sheer numbers on here who just crash over topics like a wave diluting and eroding the foundation stones of our fantastic scene. Yup I am a kill joy but, hey it’s only a film. P.S At least Vicky had the respect to go to the Allnightrers and ask those who live it.

Yup

Whoops, soz Mace. Ddidn't see that one LOL

https://vimeo.com/28477246 Googled this

Whoops, sorry, I’m a little mixed up…………… I was looking for the “Do you serve OXO at your venue?”

I don’t think there is much wrong with the Allnighter scene, you always did have each venue presenting their own flavours and for me that is one of the joys. One of the problems is forums such as Soul Source and facebook that suggests by default that we are some big Happy family who share the love of soul, we may be happy but this is a blurred and far too easily packaged view that really doesn’t represent a scene as complex as ours. We have many layers within the scene and we are not all joined by our love of soul music like it or not. I have nothing in common with those who are happy enough to dance to Moses Smith - Girl Across The Street every Friday night yet I find myself rubbing shoulders with those who have little to no understanding or appreciation of what I enjoy each time I log on. I am not suggesting that people shouldn’t have a voice but you have to take a large pinch of salt when reading views and opinions written by people who either don’t do what I do or that they live so far in the past their views are rose tinted to the extent they are almost blind. What is the answer? Personally I love the Northernsoul Scene, I love my allnightrers and I thank the DJ’s, Dancers and promoters who allow me to worship in our church.

you said tit

Any one fancy a pint?

I think we can live with the error. Great idea and we should embrace commemorating places of interest and importance less we forget. I never visited the Torch, Cats Whiskers or Va Vaas but I know their importance and how they helped shape the music we all love.

I'm a big fan of cross-dressin

Firstly there are so many Soul Nights on offer throughout the nation that I cannot see how anybody could even begin to gage what is happening as there is just zillions! If the same question was posed for Allnightrers then it would be far easier to compare and to make an informed observation. If there is indeed change then I think that change is only driven by evolution of what the punter wants to hear and thus voting with their feet, I am convinced that Mr Winstanley was more concerned with keeping his venue full rather that to serve up rarer and rarer soul music? "I may be doing him a great injustice here?" answers please. Like it or not the Soul Night phenomenon has none of the dynamics that an Allnighter has, there is no "Movement" where an Allnighter can and indeed must offer different and tangible flavours in order to temp the punter to travel and invest time and money. This may of course sounds rather unfair and unflattering to a Soul Night but the nature of the beast and the sheer geography doesn't lend its self to experiment or push any real boundaries except those imagined.

Not sure what you want here? If you have a co-promoter then surely you are joined at the hip with all things to do with the venue? £1000 pound raised for charity has got to be your prime objective less you are big timing it airing on the side of caution with the charity tag? Your friend who was insulted is morally bankrupt as far as I am concerned to allow his ego to overshadow a charity event. If on the other hand he was misled in any way then you have to man up and take it on the chin because you are surely responsible, you are a co-promoter are you not? One of the things you say that makes me a little suspicious is "Soul Night", is there anything other than cheese to be heard at these? Why not get yer sen off to an Allnighter and hear and dance to some quality stuff, leave the cheese to the crackers.

Brilliant!

If the music s good then I'd be up for it