Zoomsoulblue
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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
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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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VG++ first £210 gets it
price incs post and insurance
name scratched in dead wax (no it aint mine )
Brought 1976
PM me
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Gene Woodbury - EVER AGAIN - VG++ first £300 gets it
price incs post and insurance
Numpty stamp on label - again not my fault
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Jelly Beans - Rare DJ - ESKEE - PM offers VG++
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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)
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This is an old skool chopper bike and a chipper or tommahawk not to sure had them since the early 70t's both in fair condition even have the period lights, no welding on the back strut on the chopper this was due to giving people a double up - they snapped - buy the real deal.
Looking for £225 both you pick up - live the dream
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Toni Basil
Breakaway
DEMO
1978 brought it at the Casino for £20
After 4 years of getting my ear bent, I was hounded and pleaded with by a mate of mine from Aldershot, please please please can I buy it off you, eventually I gave in — OK I said on one condition “What says the guy” if ever you sell it you sell it back to me for the same amount I charged you, and give me first offer “Yes says the guy”
So I kind of sold it lent it for what I paid for it £20 ?? - years go past as they do, and I bump into another guy from the same area about 6 years ago — tenderly making enquires, about hows everyone doing, etc his name crops up, “O has he still got his record collection” “No” comes the reply he sold that years ago.
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh friends who needs them
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People laugh at me sometimes, but my DJ box has a motorcycle chain on it, and it is chained to a non removeable object when ever I am out with.it.
Saw Kenny Burrell chain his box to the stage speaker (Peterborough) and then stand at the side of the hall looking at his box all night never left his sight - but saying that he must have gone for a pi$$, unless he had one of those tubes down the pants
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Just checked in the run out is
GEOFF STEVE , I use to know some guys from Aldershot in the 70t's called Steve, Mark and Gary Geoffreys but they always wrote on the label I have a few of them - I put KSW that’s my initials in there in 1976 when I brought the single - cant remember where I got the sound from it would have been either Casino or St Ives
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Play the clip and feel the hairs on the back of your neck raise - you had to be there
Plays clear Very good 1st £310 gets the record price inc's post and insurance
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Got 2 x tickets for the Millwall end (behind the goal) - these sold out some days ago I paid £72.25 (inc post and sign for) - will take £70 for the pair rather than have the hassle and punt them out in a pub - can arrange meet either at Wembley around 14.00 hrs ish or at Kings Cross around 12 noon or in a pub close buy
GONE
Cheers
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TERRIBLE TOM We Were Made For Each OtherMaverick 1001 (dj) Very good / mint minus
100 MPH stomper they don’t get much faster than this
£170 - Inc the postage & insurance
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Portable Record Players
in All About the SOUL
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