Coops

notts palais, about 77 or 78, the place is packed, me and big frank from p'boro ask rob smith st play sam williams (fingers), it was like the parting of the red fuckin' sea. ALL sat down but me and frank. record finished, mr.smith said something like "at least there's two soul fans here today" proceeded to play james coit.... packed the floor? i have no answer and you can make your own questions up but.... all those coiters at the palais... hang your heads in pop-music shame.

and we ALL love you paul

this month's "sneaked-in-under-the-fence-event-advert-award" goes to mr, PD nice one paul

people were getting worried as young Rt. Hon Martin Barnfather starting to leave his socialist ideals behind and started leaning to the right! (i guess they only clamped one side of the decks)

that's a bit judgemental Mr.T, a man once said something like that in the 1930s and 12 million people that didn't fit in with his ideals were actually culled! .... just saying

i agree totally bazza, get ALL the northern genre played in a venue, something for all even if only one room available then others can hear something different and maybe grow to appreciate it more.

the scene will die soon anyhow, we ain't getting any younger, and perhaps that's how it should be. as to there only being a handful of upfront venues then that's the natural selection i and dawin are on about. the populus is chosing alternate to upfront and deciding they want their 'classic'. although i may or may not agree with 'them', 'they' should not be judged as a lower form of northern life.

i guess that's just one opinion, the opinion that really counts is that of the paying punter, about where he or she wants to spend his or her pound note. we often have such a fondness for our music and our scene that it can sometimes be bordering on obsession, but...... it ain't about 'us' it's about US..... it's about letting people decide whether this places equipment is worth them paying their quid or the other places dee jays' rare or not rare records is worth the quid. Frustration oft occurs when we feel that WE are right and THEY must believe our side of an argument. Live and let live, cream will always rise to the top, unless a venue is funded by a KR type person with loads of dosh (most ain't) then they will close when the numbers drop. Darwin had a phrase for it... Natural Selection?

usually on the bottom! housing, social care, roads, trancport... etc, etc... but we got laods of fields!

thanks brav, always wished for a label

dunno about that bazza, some black lace tracks would go down a storm at a few venues i've been to!

hi brav, nice idea mate but... what's a 'soulies'?