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Is it a valid term these days? Or maybe in reality is it just a term that is a lazy explanation for and to outsiders of a scene that once was, that is similar in it's ideals to what is happening today at all nighters. I guess what I mean is - wasn't the term 'Northern Soul' coined for a movement that was happening at that time? American bands make 'punk' sounding music today but it isn't termed 'punk' anymore is it - as it has 'moved on'. Am I making myself clear here?

Mine has an almost wine coloured label - crimson almost. I think the £400+ valuation is a bit steep. Am I wrong?

If you can pick it up for £25 - then it'll be the best 90 fags you never smoked.

Must give a shout to Brians ex-missus, Madeleine - who used to sit on Bri's three for a quid box in the bar a Wigan. Got me Freddie Butler boot (That's When I Need You) of ov Madeliene and Bri as a kid in the bar for 33 and a third 'p'.

I'll have that.

They gave away two with the same design, the green and blue ones, the second g&b one (obviously) didn't have '1st Anniversary' on it The second g&b one may not have been the '2nd Anniversary badge, was it given away on a BH or artsist night?) as I'm sure the ones I have attached to an owd Wrangler upstairs were Yellow (2nd Annie), with a more traditional patch format and Red (3rd Annie) - am I right or wrong?

Bloody awful 1st and 2nd year Anniversary patches though Malc ay? Yeah, I loved the night.

I plumped for Stafford, as I never got to some of the other earlier venues, Mecca, Wheel etc. My reasoning being that I think that Stafford and it's music compacted the NS scene and its devotees into a force again, it seemed to start afresh. Although I attended fairly regularly I must say that I never truly felt as much a part of the scene in the Stafford days, it became quite high brow with the regulars at the time as regards some of the 'new' stuff that got played, it was almost as if all the knowledge you'd accrued over the years stood for very little if you weren't bang on it with the latest c/u's etc....but then again that was probably just me being a clueless kid ay? I'm pleased to see Rotherham doing well, I think as it was the main night to which the the majority of the 'homeless' Wigan ex pats gravitated to following the Casino's closure.

As a point of interest, Bernie Hamilton (Captain Dobie in Starsky and Hutch) owned Inculculation Records, and if my memory serves me correctly he co wrote 'You Got The Floor'. The RCA pressing doesn't do the production justice btw, more bollocks on the US issue. Also released with two differing B sides.

I'll put mine up although possibly completely irrelevant to most on here, only a small base of people/friends actually use it and much to the sites detriment they all get on with each other, which is always a bit of a death-knell as regards interest in your site. No arguments, no difference of views, no members, seems to be how it pans out. Anyway it may pass a minute for someone, so here's the link www.onhubertstreet.co.uk/mb

Crock of shite, , please fill me in on how you came to that conclusion. 'Furious' sums the bugger up well.

Stop bragging off, think Peter Kay!

I don't but no doubt the Gamble-Huff heroes will - love the artwork btw. I'm wondering, by the title, if the hook is where the 'We Don't Need No Music' chant that appeared toward the back end of the 70's was sampled from? I'm as interested as you on this. Do you have a sound file?

An obvious Stone Cold Killer of a track. Yes!? (a Brian Rae play for me and my time, and I loved him all the more for it). A standard, expensive, accepted NS, flick past it in someones box and think 'Ooh! - yeah' acquisition - true? Answer me this - why is this whopper not derided alongside other slabs of funk that get the treatment?

Just received sample CD 27 from these lads and I must say there is a certain beauty to seeing tracks on the typed list that are unfamiliar to my noiw-addled head...and then popping the sample cd you receive with the list in the tray and finding tracks that I danced to 10/15 years back but never knew the title of. Is it bad form saying that I don't know everything?? Great spread of Oldies/Standards/70's/Newies/Modern and current in demanders on their list too. ...and most importantly they don't take the p*ss on price either. Proper good lads...so...please check them, their passion and their lists out.

The only time NY's West End Records long and illustrious career has indelibly been linked to our beloved Connie Club/Labour Club game of ....snooker. KY's - 'Hotshot' used to be used as the backing track to the 'Shot Of The Month' on 'Pot Black'....'HOO-HOO-YAY!!'...and just to set the record straight, old 'Interesting Steve' wasn't the only tip chalker that bought Soul....John Parrot was a player at one point too (And no doubt still is).

A truly amazing sounding production, if you have the original Valise release, is Frank Dell's - 'He Broke Your Game Wide Open' - possibly one of the finest, loudest, crisp sounding cuts I've heard on a 7".

Thanks to the fella's who can see where my views lie and replied in the positive, I'm grateful. I think I need to re-itterate the fact that there was a period in All Nighter history, Bradford Queens Hall (Modern Room may I add) in 90/91, that myself and a lad I went to school with, Dave Hawkins, were given a small but timely window within which we were allowed to play our view of danceable, mainly black, music to All Nighter devotee's. I'll not post the playlists again as I'm sure you've seen them - but our ethic at the time was to bring newly released black music (UK/US/European) that we deemed worthy of attention to the NS scene. A large proportion of the stuff we played was House Music, yes, but we also played an amount of what was termed 'Street Soul' at the time, alongside tracks from our more traditional 70's/80's 7" & 12" Modern collections. Obviously we received flak from certain sections within the NS scene, again - each to their own. What did come of our small contribution to this scene, wether you agree with it or not, was we at the very least opened some peoples ears to black musics eternal progression - a lot of standard accepted tracks that you'll hear on floors today were broke during that period. Just to balance that last statement there was a lot of stuff that would probably make yer hair curl if you listened to them now....but Bradford and the majority of tracks that got aired at that time, like every other venue that played turning point music, was simply - a time and a place. Certain tracks were sooo realevant at the time but I wouldn't say that they, in retrospect, would be worthy of inclusion at Nighters nowadays - ironically, the old 'bad joke' term fits that time perfectly....'you had to be there!' I hope this clears up the misconception that 'Soulful House' is a form of music that has crept into the scene of late - it's been there for nigh on 18 years - hardly a 'Johnny Come Lately'!? Also may I be so bold as to add that neither of us, I don't think anyway , were worthy of the 'DJ Dickhead' mantle, a term that I read in another post relating to people who play 'House' music. Not everyone who plays what you see to be 'House' music is a dickhead, far from it, trust me! A deal of 'dickheads' live and breathe the same Soul music as you, gave up and continue to give up the same time in their lives as you do and have done for for music. The difference is that they also manage to see the bigger picture, without being foolish enough to expound that their opinion is the only true and correct one. The post regarding 'space invaders' or whatever also has little relevance to me. Why? As, the day the instrumentation takes presedence over a (yellow/white/black) man or woman singing in a manner that I see as Soulful is the day that I realise I need to take a bit more notice about my understanding of 'Soul'. Here's a little anology: you can sit in your car, floor it, and hit the wall at 100mph with Lorraine Chandler, full welly on your cd player - and die ther being eternally 'true' (in your mind anyhow) to the Northern scene....or you can change the cd, open your mind to the reality of what has happened to this music in your own enforced abscence and live to learn. Soul suicide? Maybe!?

Tony, there's an 'h' in 'thing mate. Should I give you a ring now??? Mmmmm, maybe I will....

Me and the missus have just read through this whole thread again and I must say that we have found it to be a truly informative and enlightening read. Yet another cracking example of a 'Stealth Post'! Meaning it was a belting avenue for certain 'soul lovers' to turn their apparent negative excursions into a positive - if only for the fact that they were able to show the board and its readers their 'soulfulness' by being able to quote the fact that they supported their soul 'heroes' at the time (every cloud ...ay? ) What we did find funny was how easy certain posters found it to (ruthlessly) demean major players in this World...at the same time exposing how little respect they obviously have for them and their work. This thread got me in a mentally similar mode as when our Rex got Distempa!

I suppose we all have attended artiste performances that could be read as 'not exactly outstanding' but don't you think that the main reason you attend any live gig is to actually be in the presence of whoever it may be. The buzz is in actually being with them, in the main. It'll be a rare night that any artist/band can create a performance live that could stand up to the nights and moments you have spent playing or dancing to, their stand out tracks. I'd agree with this thread, as negative as it is, in one respect. And that one respect is - I can honestly say that every night/venue/theatre that I have attended to see an artist live, has not lived up to the world that their productions created in my mind but I still see the fact that I spent time in their presence as a positive. Artists on tour have a wide spectrum of people to please and they tend to be rigorous affairs. They have agents, managers, long-standing fans as well as new members to their cause to accomodate. Just be happy you got to spend a moment, as poor as that moment may be for you, with them.

The over tight two-tone suit wearing, dodgy shade sporting, pork pie hat donning, Nutty Boy prancing, parka buried, over elaborate scooter riding, target-stickered, foxtail flying variety, obviously! I'll take it you've never seen the moderators of this board in the flesh then?

Sold as seen Ste! Not your fault at all - you stated what you had, he read that, wanted it, you mailed it and he paid you. End of. You also have to take into consideration your time and effort advertising the record and also your time involved dealing with the buyer....and we all know time's money. It isn't very Northern Soul I suppose, but then again it's not as if you had it in your box at a Nighter and he nipped back with it ten minutes later is it? It's a case of tough love for me. Apologise, empathise, by all means but don't recompense mate, again, not your fault.

Just another grateful nudge for the Soul Mine lads. Record received in perfect order the very next day, great service seeing as I put the call in after 4pm. Looking forward to my next sample cd and list fella's, you're teaching a (young looking ) old dog, new tracks by the way. And for that you will always have my gratitude.

I have a 12" of it - can't remember the label now, sky blue paper label is all I can pull out. I used to play it at Bradford occassionally.