Theresa

Fits into several categories, but in northern dancing sub-genres it's an out and out awesome shuffler throughout. I used to love seeing the brilliant shufflers all pounding in unison to this on the dancefloor. Now they mostly get puffed out, by the time Gil says... quatro

So Very Hard To Go - Tower of Power Next Lifetime - Erykah Badu

My faves are from the 90s: 3. Optimistic - Sounds of Blackness 2. Somewhere, Somehow There's A Soul Heaven - Deep Sensation 1. What The Child Needs - Terry Ronald But if I was going for 70s, it'd have to be: 3. Spread Love - Al Hudson 2. What's Your Name - Leon Ware 1. Charade - Four Tracks I've got a million in the constantly changing lists in my head, but these 6 have all been consistently top ten for a very long time. Thanks to Adam for playing a couple of them last night without me even asking - you call it synchronicity, I call it a psychic link to the record shop in my head. For the last 20 years, whenever a tune I'd like to dance to pops into my head, you magically slap it on the decks, brilliant. Hope you can't read the rest of what's in my mind! T x

You're IT! No returns. Coming ready or not...

There was an old thread about this a few years back, and it was hysterical. Does anyone remember what it was called? Some corkers as I recall. Theresa x

Aww Kev, who can I be naughty with if I'm at Rugby and you're up the road at Keele? Shame they clash, but thems the breaks sometimes. More room to dance, that's what I say. Have a blinder mate and hope to see you soon. T x

"The Love I Lost" has got to be the all-time Philly corker, but the Intruders' "(Win, Place or Show) She's A Winner" always makes me smile, and I love all the Jean Carns mentioned above, plus "I Bet She Won't Love You Like I Do". And Webby, my favourite pasta shape is penne. You've got to give a passing nod to the classic spaghetti, but it just hasn't got the sauce-holding qualities of those lovely little tubes

That's a toughie. For me, it'd have to be... That's Entertainment "Days of speed and slowtime Mondays..." feels like it was written for me or depending on my mood of the day, maybe... Won't Get Fooled Again "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" Oh so true still

I go to dance in ridiculous high heels until my feet look like plates of chopped liver in the morning, gossip, snog, watch other people dancing, and spot any handsome totty that Kirsty might have missed. Oh, and I do a lot of market research

I know we covered all this ground when Levi Stubbs died, but I love the ones we can dance to and my favourite is I Just Can't Get You Out Of My Mind as it still packs a floor even now. Lovely Southport Saturday afternoon tune, everyone singing along. There was a nice little film clip a few minutes long about the making of Bernadette amongst the list of Motown 50 stuff that Jo Wallace posted up recently. They were seriously worried that calling a song by a specific girl's name would limit its appeal...

All the dancers are Chris Harvey as far as I can see. One of the tracks is definitely Mel Britt - She'll Come Russian Back, and I think one of the later ones is Roy Hamilton - Crackin Up Over Urals? Can anyone confirm? For God's sake, don't get Webby started though

I'm Under Your Spell - Mind & Matter, c/u as Merlin & the Magicians. I know I'm a disco dolly at heart, but hadn't heard this for years until heard it played out at a nighter recently and it sounded brilliant.

If you print your own postage via Paypal Pete, then the buyer gets an immediate email saying you've bought postage. You have to use the postage label that day or the next day, so the buyer knows it's going out within 24 hours. I like it because it prints an address label for the parcel, plus a proof of postage for you that you just get stamped at the post office. No need to even write if you're a lazy bastard like me

Agree with you completely Steve. Love having the choice, love going to different places, and also love coming 'home' to a big, perfect, sprung, (dry!) polished wooden dancefloor where everybody knows the score . The dancefloor etiquette thing can rankle at times in places like TWT (not sure that's an acronym that Ion's gonna like!) but you wouldn't get that combination of tunes played anywhere else, it's kind of exciting, and you also wouldn't have the chance to meet so many genuinely friendly 'off the scene' people. The majority on Sunday were normal London clubbers, so how can they know what constitutes good manners on a northern dancefloor? Promoters can hardly give everyone a lesson on the way in That could be a whole new thread - has anyone ever written the definitive dancefloor rules? Another issue pointed out by my single friends is that these soul nights with an overall slightly younger, more eclectic clubbing crowd, offer a bit more of a pulling environment than your traditional northern venues T x

Yeah thanks Jo (& Grapes), what a great resource. Lots of lovely little snapshots in time. I'm never going to get any work done today now!

Lol, even more funny when they sing the classic line 'walking out the door with a bagful of blues'. That always made me sn***** anyway...

Of course they shouldn't Mr (or Ms) Pachino, it was an ill-judged and probably desperate move, we all know that. And we haven't a clue about the circumstances, because nothing's been communicated. Maybe they were hoping for a loan or overdraft that wasn't granted. However, it just doesn't sit well with me to destroy some fellow soulie's life for the sake of my 30 quid. The whole thread was starting to remind me of the stoning scene in Life of Brian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm2BsjACkuI I'll take two pointed stones, two flat ones, and a bag of gravel please Oh and I'd better take a beard too. Don't get me wrong Davie et al, if I was sure someone had maliciously set out to defraud me of even 30 pence, I wouldn't rest until I'd annihilated them, and I'm a complete bastard of an enemy to have. But these people are not our enemies for God's sake. Could we not have a think about what we might be able to do to help them? Giving them a nervous breakdown is hardly likely to assist in getting our money back. If we continue with a measured approach we'll be much more likely to get a successful resolution. Right then, my first suggestion is, if they're finding it difficult to face anyone, would they be willing to speak to a third party who could maybe fill us in on what's happening? An accountant or other professional if they've got one? Seems to me first priority is to get the communication channels open again. T x