Paul Shirley

hi pat the corect spelling is billy davis -stanky get funky , i got it not to long ago what do you think its worth ???

i like many other people started going in74 but stoped in 76 77 why? because it became comercial a victim of its own sucses ,at the begining it was a top venue for soul music and people that was already on the scene also a lot of people went to see what it was all about and got in to it nothing wrong with that` but then it also started to atract non soulies it started to become a trendy place to go it became comerciel the music went down hill , i started to notice dick heads who never heard a soul record in there lives and the theving was geting worse am sorry to have to say it but for me the proper soulies stoped going a long time before it closed , but thats my own personel opinion yes it became crapp but it looks to me there aint never going to be another place that can come close , its very simple there was so many of us in those days and we was all young and most of the scene now is stil mostly made up of us lot , there simply isant the amount of young people on this scene to ever come clost to re creating that terific atmosphere we had back then , i wish people would stop using this term "move on" i know loads of other people my age and over who was around years ago and are well up to date i like underplayed stuff r&b crosover modern and more select nighters that cater for ether one but i also go back to other clubs that are basicly full of people i knew from mr ms years ago that are happy enjoying the music from back then they are happy er? not moving on its what they want to hear so whats wrong with that ? i never ever go on about the casino to younger people that never got to go because they dont want to here it do they ? but its nice now and again when asked to tel um , am a wigan lad and am proud of the casino and also most of the people that went will tel you the same thing nothing will ever come close to it and its fantastic to go to any venue in the uk and nine time out of ten you can bet there will be some bugger there who you know , ps before any body says it yer i know i canot spell

am after it look on the bright side - top tune like feeding strawberys to swines lol

yes i can agree with that also remember fat kenny spence who brian put me in mind ` kenny died a long long time ago he was a wigan lad who was also extremley likeable ste whittle was telling me about the time the curtain went back on the big stage at the casino and there was kenny in a very comprising position with a girl over the grand piano , wasant there that night, the one night i dont go and i miss all this , was wandering if any body rimembers that ????

joyce taylor mean mis treater ?? this is it?? esther williams you got to let me show you ??? some of these i already tracked down but if the price is right ?? also.... ring leaders baby what has hapand , am now sorted thank you apart from the joyce taylor thanks

what do yer do if yer want to see them dig um up ?? the other guy was around in the 60s and so was i mate , i seen james brown in 74 he was never out of the charts back then suppose he aint er? real soul in your book? soul music covers hell of a lot of music a lot of it charted as it dose now, tons of it didant but people started to like it twenty years later, your mising the point mate, i also seen jackie wilson j walker edwin star and about twenty others who all charted back then so what are they then pop singers or soul singers ? give me a brake i would bet you a box of records that if that duffy track had been made back in 1975 ther is a good chance it would be being played at more well known venues now , all i got to say is( spencer davis) do i need to say more ,ther is tons of music played at northern soul venues that aint but fits in

and just for the record am not that keen on it ` lol

hi thanks but strangly some other bugger must have seen it ` its gone , thanks aniway regards paul

thanks cheers and all the rest

any body got love look in her eyes ? idiot me could have had it a month ago for just over 130 ah well if only i knew then what i know now as they say

only came across this tune on here lastnight but canot find any information , i want it - neal brown if by chance , think thats what it is

hi yeah tonys do is a bit diferant from the barons as that was a bit to extreme for us lot at times but dave is on here again soon not sure of a date for you but if i find out i will put it on here regards paul

yeah i thort the same thing

true soulies ? "dont want them around " ?

i understand yer mate ,dont take it to heart !!

BEEN GOING FOR PAST 9YEARS MATE AND HAVE NOTHING BUT PRAISE , AND YOUR TAKE ON THE MUSIC AND DJ.S IS ONE OF THE REASONS I GO , WHEN AM I ON ?? LOL NAH ITS THE BEST PLACE FOR MILES

NAH NOT TODAY BUT I THINK THERE IS A BIT TOO MUCH SLAGING OTHER PEOPLE OFF JUST BECAUSE THERE TASTE IN MUSIC DIFERS ITS GETING A BIT SAD TO SAY THE LEAST IF PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR OLD STUFF THEN THATS THERE CHOICE I DONT HAVE ANY BOUNDRY'S BUT I DONT GO HAVING A GO AT PEOPLE THAT DO ! I GO TO DIFERANT CLUBS ALL OVER THE PLACE DIFERANT MUSIC THE LOT, ITS SIMPLE TO ME YOU JUST DONT GO TO THE FANCY DRESS CLUBS , BUT THEN ROUND HERE WE HAVE A CHOICE MAY BE IN OTHER PLACES YOU DONT AM NOT SURE BUT ANIWAY LIVE AND LET LIVE ,

huh huh

there is lowton are in there 12th year or somthing like that , having mentiond that even lowton hasant got the numbers it used to pull in or may be am wrong not sure but one reason for this is the amount of clubs springing up all over the place and this is also part of the reason why a lot of clubs are not doing to good

hi pat , when are you back on at tonys do`? am told your at orell this saturday ? have you seen tonys pic lol haha best one on here look kids dont take amphetamins this is what you will end up looking like aahhhh

you took the words out of my gob exactly ged , or you explaind it beter than i did ,i went to bed last night thinking there is a bit more to this its begining to sound very one sided i agree it is refreshing to hear stuff that sounds good you dont hear these days but for me its down to who is playing on the night whats on the flyer because i got to admit some dj's i know play extreme stuff that bore me but the point am making is in that case i wouldent dream of going and asking for stuff i know they dont want to play so i give it a mis , for me its all in the mix thats why i like tonys place the mix there dose it for me ,i also like modern tunes tony advertises with a bit of modern but its only a bit` so because i like all the other tunes played there it works for me fine, also what people call modern is another big dibate what across the board clubs that play the old stuff advertise as modern is the same old so called modern tunes that the oldies gang play month after month lol the modern music is vast and for that i traval to the orwell but not as offten as i would like , dose this sound confusing ??

not exactly sure about that one joan go to a club in preston as you mentiond before the place is full of people who know exactly what they want same old tunes of the casino days same for the club in wigan same for the club in st helens, all are full of people who know exactly what they want and all 3 do very very well , and we all dont go there because we want somthing diferant at tonys place he is talking about 2 or 3 people at the most , like the other guy says we also have loads of clubs around and most of us in lancashire have been around on this scene for a long time well again some of us given our history with some well known clubs ,its not always the punters fault some clubs i have been to also around lancashire have stated not the old stuff then play exactly that , on the other hand i have been to endles clubs that are well known for playing the old tunes with good atendance and its been the likes of us moaning and trying to change them but i would say in lancashire at the moment its not the punters its the clubs most make out across the board and rare and this and that but bottle it when no bugger dances or turns up i would say its us being the minoraty rather than the majoraty there is more of them than us lol and to be fair to tony he is one of the few that has stuck to his guns and like others have mentiond most punters now know exactly what to expect for us its only one or two die hards that have been coming for a long time that stil turn up and moan

well, i the same as a couple of others on here am friends with tony &lisa and have posted one or two plugs stating how refreshing it is to go to an underplayed do that sticks to their guns without drifting back to the same old tunes , the amount of times i have mentiond buying a tune that may be a bit risky where ? would i play it i told him . always same answer play it here mate if its that good you got nothing to worry about and i have done , tony has some cracking tunes of his own he realy dose try his best the dj's that have played there have been superb from big names to to les well known dj's same as my self but with a similar mind set, regarding the gang that keep asking for the casino dancers of yester year every month time after time, like tony says there are a good few clubs that play those sounds all the time within a taxi ride so i understand tonys frustration, the club is realy geting there now with people travelling a fair distance , i was there saturday as usual and the atmosphere and the music was building up nice then all of a sudden bob ralf comes on ? with more of the same i knew instantly that the afore mentioned had got the dj's to give in , and compared to what we had been listening to and dancing to before hand all night it just didant fit in to say the least , so i can see why tony was so angry and decided to tel it like it is , so if yer sick of the same old stuff that a lot of clubs tend to play try this club you wont be disapointed

birth of a play boy anybody??