Soulfinger

Junior Walker gets a mention in Baby That's a Groove - Roy Handy

Bobby Womack - The Poet II Club Soul - Kent Compilation

You Better Move On - Arthur Alexander It's Not the Spotlight - Bobby Bland Make Me Feel - Chris Walker Woman's Got Soul - The Impressions Give it Everything - Al Green Hercules - Aaron Neville Bring the Boys Home - Freda Payne Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) - Little Walter A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - The Staple Singers Johannesburg - Gil Scott Heron Dirty Laundry - Curtis Mayfield Cry to Me - Solomon Burke Trouble With My Lover - Betty Harris

I dunno why but I have always clapped. Right from my introduction to Northern it just seemed like the right thing to do. Fife Piper was indeed a cracker and classics like I Get the Sweetest Feeling, Double Cookin' and Wade in the Water just aren't the same without the pistol sharp crack of the unison clap. Given the choice between Tainted Love and Come Go With Me....... No doubt which is the better soul tune, but you have a chance to clap with Tainted Love.

You Keep Me Holding on - Tyrone Davis (Dakar) Wear it on Our Face - The Dells (Cadet) Sexy, Sexy, Sexy - James Brown (Polydor) Change from a tenner if you are lucky

Too Late to Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

I'm there on Tuesday. It's a fabulous week for live music in Manchester. Candi Staton, James Hunter and Gil Scott Heron.

This is a great tune. He's fantastic live. Touring again in May. Anyone else at the Academy Manchester on 12th?

Dunno about self serving but I guess some might say he's hypocritical having done stuff like Angel Dust and The Bottle before descending into the drug induced oblivion that hit him in the 90's. I wouldn't want to be so judgemental. I don't know how complicated his life was or what pressures he was under. Irrespective, he's one of my favourite artists, he was always great live and I'm really looking forward to seeing him at Manchester Opera House on 24th April.

I keep no faith and would never claim to. I just like good music and a dance. Have done for 37 years. Didn't like the backstabbing back in the 70's, don't like the modern cyber-bullying equivalent. I neither like nor dislike Russ Winstanley, I don't know him well enough to have an opinion. Oh yeah. That's me, first to mention him in the thread.

Thanks for taking the time to type that. So he asked for cash and blagged free tickets. I have to say I'm relieved. I thought he must've stabbed your granny or something.

Did you call him Wankstanley when he DJ'd at the first night of Once Upon a Time in Wigan at the Contact Theatre....or was that bit of dining out on his Wigan Casino connection OK because you were involved in it too? Your constant aiming of vitriol at him is bordering on the obsessive. I have this vision of you burning your toast and screaming "Damn your evil heart Wankstanley you useless, regressive bastard; this is all your fault." What does what he does for a job have to do with anything? Is trying to make a living out of soul music verboten for everyone or just for him? The way this thread has drawn out the True Keepers of the Faith is seriously depressing. Why does soul music attract so many people who just know best?

Yep. The first one.

Thanks for posting that link Mike. Utterly brilliant. I saw Eli & the True Loves at the Academy in Manchester last year and it was one of the best live performances I have seen in a long time.

It was and he was. Thank you John; my brain cells are clearly not what they were. Off the top of my head - Other concerts worth more than a mention. Eddie Floyd at the International Albert King at the International Curtis Mayfield -"- and at the Hacienda Bobby Womack at the Apollo Bobby Womack at the International 2 (Carousel) Dr John at the band on the wall Rockin' Dopsie at Rafters Gil Scott Heron at the International 2 The Drifters at the Golden Garter Temptations somewhere in Warrington? Edwin Starr at the Willows (multiple times) Al Green at the Apollo Anita Baker at the Apollo Luther at G-Mex Marvin at the Liverpool Empire Smokey at Southport (Floral Pavillion?) Stevie Wonder at the NEC (1980-81-ish) Four Tops at the Odeon (72 ish) Four Tops at the Apollo (83/84?) The Funk Brothers at the Apollo & the Bridgewater Hall Mavis Staples the Bridgewater Hall The Winans at the Apollo and more recently James Hunter at the Academy Eli "Paperboy" Reed at the Academy Neither of which are really Soul Source material but great soulful nights out:thumbup:

Bobby wasn't that good! In his shell suit and with his trademark vocal trick disintigrating into sounding like my grandad hawking up phlegm. I hope he was just having a bad night. Irma was awesome. There was somone else on too but I just can't remember who it was.

Digging through old B&S tonight...I spotted this: Torch Ad.pdf Torch Ad.pdf

I remember these as being grim too - it really was the wrong kind of venue; it was a shame as the Village / Hardrock was a 5 minute walk from my house. There was also a very short run of Wednesday night "Northern Soul" nights at about the same time. I went because it was handy but the atmosphere was all wrong.

I vaguely remember Andy Peebles doing some Northern Soul Wednesday nights at the Village in Stretford in 74ish:tumbleweed3:

If Richard wants to carry on doing a radio show, I wouldn't have thought he would struggle to get a gig. As for his contribution to soul music, what do you have to do to get some people on here to acknowledge you might have had a part to play? I've heard him DJ from the early seventies at the Blue Rooms in Sale and the Casino onwards, through the wide open dance floors of the early eighties, the fantastic nights at the Halfway House, the Trafalgar and Parkers and wherever he's been on, he always had tunes I wanted to dance to. I remember him guesting on Soul Train in the 70's and livening Andy Peebles up. I stumbled across his show on Red Rose in about 1985; I've listened to his shows ever since. He's introduced me to many more great records than anyone else and I thank him for it. I've spoken to him about half a dozen times in 30 odd years - usually to ask him to play something. Sure, he's made some money but it only seems to be with the True Believers in rare soul circles that this is a crime. I hero worship no man save Denis Law, Eric Cantona and Curtis Mayfield but Richard? He seems like a good bloke...and if it wasn't for him I would never have seen the Dells.

Smokey Robinson Sam Dees Bobby Womack Gil Scott Heron

My Mechanical Man - Leah Dawson and Choker Campbell Probably not technically a duet as Choker doesn't sing...

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - The Pogues

Edwin Starr - The Willows about five times - every one a knockout show Marvin Gaye - M/cr Apollo Eddie Floyd - M/cr International 1 Bobby Womack - M/cr International 2 Curtis Mayfield - The Hacienda Gil Scott-Heron - M/cr International 2 Irma Thomas - Burnley Mechanics (Bobby Bland was a terrible disappointment on the same bill) Four Tops - M/cr Odeon Albert King - M/cr International 1 Anita Baker - Mcr Apollo And on a non-soul front: when Roger Eagle put on Rockin' Dopsie and his Cajun Twisters at Rafters, I went on the basis that if Roger said they were brilliant, he'd be right. Dave Evison is the only person, other than the mate I went with, that I know was there and we both agree; completely awesome. What a showman!

You're Ready Now at the age of 13 at Carlton Club in Whalley Range in 1971. I had never seen dancing like that before. I have this vision of me standing, slack-jawed with astonishment at the edge of the dancefloor. No change to nowadays really except I'm now usually gasping for breath instead.