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Eddie, if you've had any of these through your hands that's good enough for me! Order placed. Looking forward to the sound clips Ian.

Great reading through everyone's reviews. I've got to wait for the screening in Oxford's Phoenix this Sunday, and have put the Blu-Ray that arrived at the weekend out of temptation's way (hopefully). Inevitably a few key details have leaked out via reviews here and elsewhere, but I'm hoping the atmosphere of seeing it in the cinema will be worth the wait - and then we can all head back and watch the Blu-Ray as well!

Hope the release goes well tomorrow; I won't get to see it in the cinema til next Sunday in Oxford. Obviously therefore I can't comment on the quality or overall film, but surely there can't be any question that it's a fantastic achievement to have got here and big kudos to Elaine and all concerned.

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Just caught the end of a piece about Northern Soul on Radio 4's Saturday Live, just after quarter to ten this morning. Anybody hear it? It was pretty much the last moments when I turned the radio on.

Oxford's Phoenix cinema showing of the film on Sunday 26th October has now sold out!

Oxford Phoenix was listed on the OurScreen cinemas which will show the film if enough people sign up. Hopefully it'll hit the necessary number over the next few days.

It's a great double header - 'Baby can't you see' is the B side, a great dancer, and the A side is 'I'm still hurt'. The label is Sound of Soul, though obviously that's taking into consideration it's a Secret Stash issue. It was available along with the other two when I ordered them, not sure if it's still there.

Mine too, and very happy with the top sides now after a few listens although it was the b sides that really attracted me. Great stuff, and thanks Mike for the original posting.

There was a YouTube clip, I think posted somewhere here on Soul Source maybe a year ago, showing how you can paste wood glue, PVA, onto the surface, lay a small piece of plastic or similar into the edge so that when it dries (leave for at least one day) you have an edge to begin to peel it away. Worked a treat on a battered old Temptations single I had.

I've asked Banbury's Odeon (odeon.banbury@odeonuk.com) if they'll show it. No idea if they have the flexibility to do this but anyone from Banbury Soul Club and the general area may want to get it touch with them too.

It's got that secret quality that ticks the boxes for us, but I agree about the messy middle which makes me know that if it was on in the car and I was giving a work friend a lift or something, I'd just know they'd be listening and thinking "WTF??"! Northern Soul. The Marmite of the music world.

Finally downloaded the tracks yesterday evening despite getting email to confirm order and with links a few days earlier. Still definitely prefer the B sides on all of them, but all 6 tracks are great.

Nice link Mike

I didn't realise but I think this is the edited version of a longer show to be shown maybe Friday. They're doing Love Train right now.

They're going to perform Love Train towards the end of the show, and for some reason they've just done a short take on People Get Ready, with Jools on piano.

Yep, Jools has just announced them, but not playing just yet.

Thanks for that, just had a text from a mate about it too.

Just got my copy of the double CD from Amazon in today's post. Straight to Mel Britt to get going and now listening through to the rest of CD2. Package is good, 28 page booklet with a nice balance of text and stills. Must admit that I'm a sucker for the Kent style of interspersed record scans and artist photos, coupled with posters etc, but this package works well in this style with the focus being the film. Looking forward to watching the bonus DVD and reading the booklet.

Think I was lucky with going to Northside Records when over there in August. Found it via the Diggin Melbourne guide on the Record Store Day website. https://digginmelbourne.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/digginmelbourne-2014-web.pdf Got a couple of singles but nothing great, but while I was browsing my wife picked up a CD 'The Soul of Melbourne' from 2012, which has a very varied selection some of which grab you early on and others grow on you. Fitzroy area itself seems pretty cool, bit like Williamsburg in Brooklyn, but we didn't get much time there.

Fantastic Ian. Despite us ordering the DVD, I'd bet most of us want to see it at a cinema as well - we really need the list of where and when it's going to be screened ASAP!

Love all the 2nd sides, and it's not as if the top sides are dodgy. On order.

Great thread. It's a really interesting fine line between the examples here, and the finest productions, with superb vocals and backing, great lyrics etc. I suspect we all know the latter when we hear them, and many of them are stand-out top 500 type tracks, but at the same time, surely we all adore the straight-up honesty of some absolutely brilliant recordings that veer towards the ones posted here? I think the soul records we listen to have, at least mostly, the virtue of being the best the performers were able to provide, whereas I often despair at some of the current indie/pop singer/songwriters who may be appalling in both capacities yet reach the masses simply because they have the right 'look and feel'. I often find myself listening to stuff in the car that I'm loving and can't help thinking that there's barely 10% of it which I'd feel comfortable having non-soulie friends hearing, as I know they'd just think it was rubbish, and wouldn't perceive the soulful quality and content. But that's part of the attraction too, sharing that sense of 'getting something' that passes a lot of other people by. Not elitism for the sake of it, just that feeling that you and a bunch of like minded people get the point.