Zoomsoulblue

If you look in Petes picture #5 your see a rubber tube this comes from the buttons and was used when people spill there drinks it takes it to the floor now thats old school - now got 7 days too long on - going to 100 club tommorow there playing 100% oldies / casino classics - getting the 18:21 from peterboro taxi to Carnaby st few beers then 100 club till midnight then getting the 00:01 back home - St Ives sat night full in weeked - now got Stev W on signed sealed deliverd am yours -  its all about the soulllllllllllllllllllll

Who ever gets it , it will be a steal, might be worth e bay or Gumtree best of luck

just played benny troy, now got flirtations little darling - the nuts

Who ever gets it , it will be a steal, might be worth e bay or Gumtree best of luck

Pete I've got the same juke box, paid £1700 for it 5 years ago just had it serviced and had it valued retail price £2,000 these juke boxes are bullit proof

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You're spot on about personal perspective, we all have our own truths about the past, particularly around this past! I think most would give more energetic dancers some space out of dance floor etiquette, or perhaps as much not wanting to be too close for comparison, but I don't recognise any description that gives an image of a no-go area of the dance floor. I didn't go the night Granada went, I think quite a few stayed away that night, wanting to turn our back on the media attention. There had been a stage 'vote' previously that clearly rejected allowing cameras in. To be honest I regret that now, wishing I was on some video footage, although given my dancing the cameras would've probably avoided that shot.

I was at the casino when they filmed, I understood that the film crew turned up on a sat night and the crowd was crap so they came back on a Fri oldies night, the first shot of the inside of the casino which you would think was the start of the night in in fact the end of the night - it shows Derick Mead (bisley) and the Aldershot coach lot getting ready to leave and head off south.

Every time the lights went on its true some people left the floor at least _30% or ran for cover up (this use to be called cracking up) to Mr ms - I was unaware that it was knowledge that they were filming that night , we just turned up, first thing I knew was coming in the door and a blinding light in my face - I can also be spotted in the outtakes in the record bar with the cap sleeve t shirt and flat cap on looking over someone's shoulder's at records, I was also right off my face, but look how controlled I was chewing gum - love it

Got a demo if thats any good 1k takes it found this in Long Beach - use to have 2 black copys back in 79 found in LA - must be a west coast thing

Oct 30th 1983

1-30 - 09-00

£2.50 to get in

Richard Searling

Dave Evison

Rob Smith

Chris Plant

Keith Willcox

Marco

Fuel suppled by Chris & Harry

St Ives - 1975 - 1977

In 1982 Peterborough Soul Club did an all nighter at the palais - it was on a sat after the normal disco night finished - will try and dig the flyer out and post

First 2 sec - Mayfield move on up

First 3 sec - love is wonderful

First 4 sec - chubby checker just don't know

I first met Keith back in 81 after the Casino shut - He was instrumental in helping along with Brian Rae of supporting the Peterborough Soul Club when we re opened the Wirrina back in 82 and later when st Ives alldayers were re opened and the Fleet 82 to when the all nighters shut in 87. Last time I saw Keith was when he DJ'ed at the Rugby Club all nighter approx 5 years ago - all of us have lost a good guy - will spin chubby checker you just don't know for him next time - top man was a real part of my memories -catch you later Keith - glad to have know you mate x

Went to a car show the other day two cars sat beside each other with record players in them  - the old girl in one played Telstar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE

Hi

 

Got a copy of Robin Wilson Here in Ex condition

 

Price £25 inc First class recorded post

 

Cheques or conceled recorded delivery cash only NO PAYPAL please Let me know if you want it Regards

 

PATTO

I paid a £5 for mine back in the day - goooooooooooooooood price

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdniGWQzK0

If you get one this is one

M's entrance was situated up on the balcony to the left of where you see the stage in the main room - the room actually would have run above and behind the stage area in the Main Room.

 

Walk up the (gents bog) staircase and turn back on yourself the double doors into M's 'foyer', a carpetted area about 30 foot by 15 (which would have been above the Gents bog) were on the left.

 

The foyer walls were covered in faux wood veneer panels - big one, small one, medium one kinda thing - people usually sat about on the floor chatting.

 

On the right hand foyer wall were two sets of doors (one either side of the small stage that housed the dj area on the othe side of the wall) that led to M's dancefloor - and facing you on the back wall to the left was the small staircase to the balcony that ran up and right.

 

On M's ground/dancefloor we used to try and get one of the booths through the left hand door (dj's to your right) and generally facing where Wayne Hackett from Leigh would dance - you could get about four or five in a booth seat.

 

If you managed to get through the generally locked doors at the back of M's it brought you out at ground level, which was a bit of a headf*ck - we nicked in that way on occassion and hid in the bogs til we heard the music come on.

 

The balcony was quite a tight area at the sides (people would crash there making it more difficult to get by), prob five foot from balcony to the wall but there was a fairly decent spacious area at the back which would house carpet dancers.

 

It was a real sweat-box when at it's height.

Bang on 100% $hit I thought I was there - normally an older crowd played oldies on oldies and on a Friday night guess what more oldies - turned up at the casino one night about 10 O clock it was freezing we went round the back entrance which was the entrance to Mr M's which I believe was called Jenny's — the bouncers let us in, there were rockers in there playing heavy rock and shacking there heads in the middle of Mr M's dance floor, we quietly sat in the reception area - chewing our nuts off - like you do — till midnight

Stevie when ever Ive e mailed Tim at Anglo he gets back within a day 

Gene & Rita went together now sold, on there way to sunny Scotland  

Never been in a venue that was so full of nutters,what great times Dave

Remember the night it kick off with some funk boys out side - with Chris & Harry and the south wales lot , always good for the red bull !!!!!!! 

When they had renovated the Stars and Stripes venue, that lovely big floor had been replaced with a sunken floor less than the size of the six yard box on a football pitch.

There was even a ladder down to it at the end that was farthest away from the old stage.

 

Snooky the Baths were still there last time I drove through Yate. But there is a new (opened in the last 18 months i think) Sports venue that has a swimming pool. So maybe the building is still there but it has a differnt use nowadays? Vince Ayres (Member on here) ran alldayers and the occasional soul night at the old baths venue in the 90s. But I was told that the room had been made smaller than when the niters were held there. That was before my time, I went from 1978/79 to the Stars and Stripes venue only. For anyone good with dates. Soul Sam was the guest at my first niter. And for me the best received tune of the night was Ben Zine - Village of tears.

Just as an add on Soul Sam gave me and my missus a lift to Leicester after Yate ,( he was driving an White MGB GT) - which was the closest he could get to Peterborough , was doing a dayer somewhere - nice guy -

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Brought 1976

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I'm asking this with a bit of trepidation after my previous question which, contrary to my expectations, suggested that no-one on the site knows the first thing about New Orleans...

 

However, I'm an eternal optimist and I prefer recommendations from real people as opposed to anonymous Tripadvisor types so here goes: we've decided to break the journey by having a four night stop-over in Chicago. Just me and Mrs G on this trip so I'm not asking for advice on record digging, just decent (but affordable ) hotels, great places to eat, sights not to miss etc.

 

Come on now Soul Source - don't let me down!

Recommend the red trolley ride, also the boat trip that takes you out into the main lake, that looks back on Chicago — we did the sears building one year and then the next year did the John Hancock, would recommend the John Hancock ask for the bar floor — it costs nothing and it over looks the pier while you get drunk — we went up at lunch time and you look out onto the other building you can see office workers taking a sly fag on the roofs — visit the pier good views looking back and take a train ride through the city — you have to go to the two The Corn Cob towers (Marina City) and just walk the streets. (just be careful)

If its what I think it is, the Sam and Dave footage is incredible

 

Kev

This was taken in 1967 - look at either sam or dave halway through the dancing - the guy does a back drop forget the wheel , torch and casino these guys were years ahead of there time  - top marks -