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This blurb is probably what put light to the candle:

I'll quote Perry himself on the character Megg Kenneth: I should have said he looks like a bit of a paedo then. Apologies, my bad.

You should post more often mate.

Nice story.

Christ, the nearest to stardom us Warrington lot get is when Ste Arnold (Ashley out of Corrie) pops in the bar for a pint or Kerry Katona falls out of it.

Other possible TV Soul Boys/Girls: Rodders - (Only Fools) - Likes proper Norvern. Has loads of boots but does own an issue of Dean Parrish that he coverts. Del gave it him one Xmas Godber - (Porridge) - 6T's lover. Grouty feeds his addiction smuggling 7s in, in the wash baskets and swapping 'em up for snout that Fletch wangles for him. Gavin - (The Cuckoo Waltz) - loves to smooth women over his Spag Bol whilst playing them some bouncy Seventies soul. Fave track 'Love Is Serious Business'. TC - (Magnum P.I.) - serious collector, loves his Shrine. Baldrick - (Blackadder) - loves his 12th century Moderneth Souleth. Had a Hotbox but Edmund swapped it to Missus Miggins (Sam in a wig) for a pie. Emma Peel - (The Avengers) - Invented the talc on the floor at all nighters. She used it to squeeze into her leather cat suit before hitting the floor. Yosser Hughes - (Boys From The Blackstuff) - strangely, no one ever argued over vinyl prices with Yosser. Any more?

Ray Burdis who gets a mention in the paper clipping has a little (vague ) soul/mod connection by the fact that he played in another thing that I used to watch after school in the mid 70's called 'Four Idle Hands' with Phil Daniels. Same old story, two lads just finished school and looking for work - the script writers were a bit narrow back then wern't they?

Errrr....

A belting read that, well found.

Cheers Peter.

Thanks Rachel. Here he was in Going Out: And here he is in This Is England. He's still got that Soulie-Chic hasn't he?

I remember a kind of teen drama from the 80's named 'Going Out' about a group of school leavers, possibly in the London area. It was quite gritty I suppose for the time, so went out late, 11.30pm-ish. There was a Scottish punk/thug in the series who has just turned up on something on telly at the minute, who used to make their lives a misery, generally legging one or the other of the lads down the street or forcing himself on one of the girls, another of the young lad actors ended up in The Bill. The character I want to talk about though was called Sammy; fat kid, milk bottle bottom specs, Pringle jumper, nice lad. Looks-wise definately a lower member of the group shall we say - but - whenever anyone asked where Sammy was, Sammy was in the record shop flicking through his beloved Northern section or in his room listening to his Soul sounds. Sammy was a Soulie. The first time TV kids drama had actually admitted that people like us existed...and it was so exciting waiting for Sammy's next (sh*t) Northern reference, that it became unmissable. They didn't give us much but the occassional whiff of our scene via Sammy on telly was enough. You'd know the kid that played him, he always had them big bins on and got quite a bit of work throughout the 70's & 80's. I'm sure he turns up in 'This Is England' but he just looks like a paedo these days. Anymore errant Soulies that you know of?

Cracking clip mate, cheers. I've seen David Dickensons missus singing 'To The Ends Of The Earth' on one of the re-runs. Peas on a plate - 9p Watching this there's no wonder us little Brits got turned on to black America - the girls look and sound like a dream. (My 21st birthday at The Carlton in Warrington luckily coincided with the booking of The Three Degrees - they got changed on the barrels behind the bar, stayed for drinks and never moaned all night)

Apologies, I should have typed 'now dead dj'. I stand corrected.

I just knew this thread would end up with a dead DJ sitting on a Top Of The Pops stage pretending to play a mandolin. I bloody knew it.

You know nowt Jihad.

Well stop inciting 'em to have a go back with incendiary devices like the one above Jocko. Love ya.

So pedantic of me C: Caron Wheeler

Well, if we can't jump!?

What is it with Germany and you Tony? You're blatant love for the Kettenkrad and now this.

There's a website for people like you. www.freakyplasterers.org

I know you didn't Steve, I was just mis-quoting you to gain a response.

The shipping forecast is a Thursday night must in our car when we're on the way home from the bar: "Dogger - 5" *In Alan Partridge voice* - "Ahhh! "