Post by coops on May 3, 2008 3:32:58 GMT
The Soul ‘Ole, Peterborough.
This was the first time I had been back to the City which I frequented so often as a Northern Soul ‘fan’ in my mid-teens in the mid-seventies for quite some time.
I’ve been to the Soul ‘Ole on a number of occasions and had yet to be disappointed, but this night was, by far, the best night I (and others I spoke to) had there yet.
It’s a small (ish) venue with only one room, this being the case, with it’s ‘open music’ policy it meant that the whole spectrum of our northern soul was played in the one room, and personally I feel this is how it should be.
A couple of people commented to one of the promoters that there wasn’t enough ‘oldies’ played, I knew who these were and did see them dancing to ‘modern-oldies’ (1970s plus) records.
I was also told a couple had mentioned that there wasn’t enough ‘modern’ being played, as it happens I know who these were and yes, you guest it, I saw them dancing to some classic 60s stuff as well as their chosen genre, but, I guess you can’t please all the people all of the time.
As for the music, the whole gambit was played from the Casualeers – Dance, Dance, Dance right through to Black Box – Fall Into My Life and all manor between.
The Dee-Jays: First up was Neil Randall, a local lad playing classic oldies followed by Soul ‘Ole regular resident Dave Forrest who, in the main played classic 60s, both these lads are from the ‘Boro so knew what the locals wanted. (But the attendance was by no means all locals, many travel to this gem of a venue).
Next up was another Peterborough man ‘Smudge’ who slipped in some ‘modern-oldies’ along with classics that are not played too often like Danny Monday – Baby Without You, which, by the sound of it’s clarity was most certainly a ‘real one’ as all the pressings I have ever heard have a sound quality which could only be improved by using them as Frisbees!
After Smudge Barry Cooper and Dave Appleyard took it in half hour turns to fill the last two hours full of magical 60s soul, cross-over, modern, a smattering of R n B and (as you would expect from Mr. Appleyard) a healthy amount of Cleethorpes Classics.
An Excellent evening, the dance floor never emptied once and three pints cost me just £5:70p, that’s got to be worth a trip over alone.
There was an unofficial theme to the night which was ‘replica Shirts’. The score there was Nottingham Forest 3 shirts, Peterborough united 2 shirts and Tottenham and Chelsea drawing both with 1 shirt each.
The Soul ‘Ole, Peterborough, across the spectrum of Northern Soul and very well worth a visit.
Micheal D Cooper Dip/RSA
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This was the first time I had been back to the City which I frequented so often as a Northern Soul ‘fan’ in my mid-teens in the mid-seventies for quite some time.
I’ve been to the Soul ‘Ole on a number of occasions and had yet to be disappointed, but this night was, by far, the best night I (and others I spoke to) had there yet.
It’s a small (ish) venue with only one room, this being the case, with it’s ‘open music’ policy it meant that the whole spectrum of our northern soul was played in the one room, and personally I feel this is how it should be.
A couple of people commented to one of the promoters that there wasn’t enough ‘oldies’ played, I knew who these were and did see them dancing to ‘modern-oldies’ (1970s plus) records.
I was also told a couple had mentioned that there wasn’t enough ‘modern’ being played, as it happens I know who these were and yes, you guest it, I saw them dancing to some classic 60s stuff as well as their chosen genre, but, I guess you can’t please all the people all of the time.
As for the music, the whole gambit was played from the Casualeers – Dance, Dance, Dance right through to Black Box – Fall Into My Life and all manor between.
The Dee-Jays: First up was Neil Randall, a local lad playing classic oldies followed by Soul ‘Ole regular resident Dave Forrest who, in the main played classic 60s, both these lads are from the ‘Boro so knew what the locals wanted. (But the attendance was by no means all locals, many travel to this gem of a venue).
Next up was another Peterborough man ‘Smudge’ who slipped in some ‘modern-oldies’ along with classics that are not played too often like Danny Monday – Baby Without You, which, by the sound of it’s clarity was most certainly a ‘real one’ as all the pressings I have ever heard have a sound quality which could only be improved by using them as Frisbees!
After Smudge Barry Cooper and Dave Appleyard took it in half hour turns to fill the last two hours full of magical 60s soul, cross-over, modern, a smattering of R n B and (as you would expect from Mr. Appleyard) a healthy amount of Cleethorpes Classics.
An Excellent evening, the dance floor never emptied once and three pints cost me just £5:70p, that’s got to be worth a trip over alone.
There was an unofficial theme to the night which was ‘replica Shirts’. The score there was Nottingham Forest 3 shirts, Peterborough united 2 shirts and Tottenham and Chelsea drawing both with 1 shirt each.
The Soul ‘Ole, Peterborough, across the spectrum of Northern Soul and very well worth a visit.
Micheal D Cooper Dip/RSA
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