For all the old Soulboys/girls

[Salsaboy]

Banging!

[uncleglen]

Another subculture that needs GMP protection?- having said that though the Sophie Lancaster murder was monstrous and unfortunately around that time there was another subculture of local thugs who were targetting Manchester Uni students to beat up but it did not seem to get into the National Press.

[????]

Er, no. Soulboys were majority working class lads, they needed protection about as much as Skinheads.

[uncleglen]

This is what they/we get up to now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOPPjt5ZoSs

And it's in the open air!

[????]

Smelly Students doing that devil goat thing......no mate, this is open air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6utdlMvuD74

[????]

Otis Redding documentary on BBC4 NOW, already very promising

[tfwsoll]

Otis documentary was great - the soundtrack featured a lot of lesser known songs and there was some excellent live footage. BBC4 really excels at music documentaries - the one on British trad was worth a watch as well.

[????]

just has to be done wot with this weather....

[????]

..and on a very similar vibe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7S5GmBM6_g

[StraferJack]

Sure.. Friday evenings all begin with a dance and a smile ..0

[Jeremy]

???? Wrote:

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> just has to be done wot with this weather....

It's a pretty cool song, but struggle to get past that AWFUL synth sound. It's like something's boring into my brain...

[HonaloochieB]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> ???? Wrote:

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> > just has to be done wot with this weather....

>

> It's a pretty cool song, but struggle to get past

> that AWFUL synth sound. It's like something's

> boring into my brain...

Jez - pretty cool song - NO

AWFUL synth - CORRECT

QUIDS -WHA'PEN?

Let's never mention this again.

[HonaloochieB]

???? Wrote:

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> ..and on a very similar vibe

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7S5GmBM6_g

This one's bazzin' and no mistake.

[????]

...and why not

[Salsaboy]

I call for Mr Quids to be knighted for services to banging choons.

[Parkdrive]

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> Southern Soul scene > than northern soul scene

>

>the problem with the obscurity

> thang and northern soul was the obscurity became

> more important that the music.Plus retrospection

> is ultimately very backward looking.

As a record dealer for the last 22 years I can vouch for this. There are many collectors of northern tunes that want that holy grail which costs a fortune but is actually a real cack tune. And the only reason they want it is for the bragging rights, not to heaven forbid play the thing!! And the northern scene has changed hugely over the yeras, tunes that were once frowned upon when played at a northern night are positively raved over, and a whole new "modern" soul scene emerged, with tunes from the 70's such as "Where will go when the party is over" by Archie Bell and the Drells, and the Ace Spectrum tune "(if you can't come yourself) don't send nobody else" getting lots of plays.

[????]

And another influential soulboy I forgot to mention - Giles Peterson in today's Metro

"How would you describe your musical approach?

I?ve never been able to do that. What I?d say is it hasn?t varied much since I was 15 ? I grew up at a time when you made a decision about what tribe you were going to follow. I became a soulboy casual and went to the soul all-dayers and weekenders and was going to clubs and buying white labels when I was 16.

What were your influences when you were growing up?

At a very young age I got to meet some very important people such as Wayne Shorter, Mark Murphy and The Last Poets. They gave me a really important lesson in the foundations of black music and, on top of that, I grew up in the era of punk and jazz-funk in London. I?ve always been obsessed by music that falls between the cracks."

[hibbs]

Love Giles Peterson!

[Parkdrive]

For me Giles Peterson is overrated, he gets plaudits and the likes of Robbie Vincent are over looked more often than not, despite bringing an awul lot of stuff to the attention of the listening public which would otherwise have gone under the radar.

[dbboy]

Walking into sunshine - Central line

[????]

PD i sort of agree - I think Peterson just does something a bit different, I like his Saturday slot on Radio 6.

But, agree on Robbie Vincent...his Saturday morning show on Radio London back years ago was one of the only places you could listen to any decent soul music other befor ea few crap signalled pirates (JFM, Kiss)started in the early 80s.

(Greg Edwardes excepted)

[Parkdrive]

I used to listed to Invicta in the early 80's now choose to listen to back2back fm and Solar, very wide spectrum of black music on those 2. Loved Robbie Vincents ability to search out the finest back then.

[Parkdrive]

Another guy that did a lot for soul music but never gets a mention is Peter Young, who's been around for ages and used to go out of his way to buy tunes to play on his shows rather than just stick to a rigid play list. Same goes for, dare I say it, Tony Blackburn.

[Salsaboy]

I-Level. Minefield. The clothes!!

[Help-Ma-Boab]

This put a bounce in my step and sets up the weekend nicely...