Post by coops on Sept 20, 2008 3:44:14 GMT
Bentinck Miners’ Welfare, Kirkby-in-Ashfield
The whole Bentinck package is often a very positive experience and this evening was no exception.
From the warm welcome from joint promoter Pete to the goodbyes at the end of the night and all that’s between.
Bentinck is getting a very good reputation for it’s friendliness and also it’s music policy.
The main room provides the main stay of this northern soul scene while the small but perfectly formed ‘back room’ is gaining a lot of respect for the underplayed and very soulful tracks on offer in there for the discerning ear.
I, one again didn’t spend a lot of time in the ‘back room’, not because I don’t like the music on offer but because I like to dance and, although it has a slight slope, the main room’s floor was born to dance on.
Mick Payne provided the early-doors set, as he usually does. I have heard him quite a few times and his mix of sounds are very much growing on me, he played an excellent set which really deserved a later time slot.
Chris Cooper (no relation) from the team was next on and, once again, the music he played could not be faulted. Trying out the occasional not-heard-so-often tunes mixed in with perennial favourites one couldn’t ask much more from a dee-jay.
As a post script to Chris Coopers’ set I must add that this twenty-first century we are in is a whole world apart from when we all first danced our first dance at the local youth club, soul disco or all-nighter.
On a soul forum the previous night I asked if he would play the Del-Rays – Destination Unknown and he did. Top marks for customer service but also…. How far we have advanced in technology during thirty odd years but despite this furtherment of the human race’s tools of communication a record first heard thirty odd years ago can still inspire such feelings as it did the first day I heard it in the days before CDs, DVDs, home computers, air bags and a horde of other advancements. I guess I’m trying to say, what ever changes in our lives we still have that constant that is northern and rare soul, it’s something from within, a feeling, a warmth and as the stickers say “A way of life”.
Skegness man Dave Raistrick was next up, again if variety was the spice of life we were well spiced up for a further hour but, and this surprised me, this night at Bentinck seemed to be a night for chatting, socialising and the verbal comfort of communicating with friends because the footfalls on the dance floor were far from the usual stampede this club offers. I haven’t a clue why, these tunes on another night would have packed the floor but not tonight!
This in no way took away the enjoyment of the evening it was just an anomaly that I’m not used to in this neck of the woods.
Had to go half way through Cressy’s set which is always a joy to hear. Once again, Bentinck Miners’ worked for me, a very, very pleasant evening surrounded by one of the friendliest bunches of people in the area listening to music which must surely be the food of life.
images on ournorthernsouls.org
The whole Bentinck package is often a very positive experience and this evening was no exception.
From the warm welcome from joint promoter Pete to the goodbyes at the end of the night and all that’s between.
Bentinck is getting a very good reputation for it’s friendliness and also it’s music policy.
The main room provides the main stay of this northern soul scene while the small but perfectly formed ‘back room’ is gaining a lot of respect for the underplayed and very soulful tracks on offer in there for the discerning ear.
I, one again didn’t spend a lot of time in the ‘back room’, not because I don’t like the music on offer but because I like to dance and, although it has a slight slope, the main room’s floor was born to dance on.
Mick Payne provided the early-doors set, as he usually does. I have heard him quite a few times and his mix of sounds are very much growing on me, he played an excellent set which really deserved a later time slot.
Chris Cooper (no relation) from the team was next on and, once again, the music he played could not be faulted. Trying out the occasional not-heard-so-often tunes mixed in with perennial favourites one couldn’t ask much more from a dee-jay.
As a post script to Chris Coopers’ set I must add that this twenty-first century we are in is a whole world apart from when we all first danced our first dance at the local youth club, soul disco or all-nighter.
On a soul forum the previous night I asked if he would play the Del-Rays – Destination Unknown and he did. Top marks for customer service but also…. How far we have advanced in technology during thirty odd years but despite this furtherment of the human race’s tools of communication a record first heard thirty odd years ago can still inspire such feelings as it did the first day I heard it in the days before CDs, DVDs, home computers, air bags and a horde of other advancements. I guess I’m trying to say, what ever changes in our lives we still have that constant that is northern and rare soul, it’s something from within, a feeling, a warmth and as the stickers say “A way of life”.
Skegness man Dave Raistrick was next up, again if variety was the spice of life we were well spiced up for a further hour but, and this surprised me, this night at Bentinck seemed to be a night for chatting, socialising and the verbal comfort of communicating with friends because the footfalls on the dance floor were far from the usual stampede this club offers. I haven’t a clue why, these tunes on another night would have packed the floor but not tonight!
This in no way took away the enjoyment of the evening it was just an anomaly that I’m not used to in this neck of the woods.
Had to go half way through Cressy’s set which is always a joy to hear. Once again, Bentinck Miners’ worked for me, a very, very pleasant evening surrounded by one of the friendliest bunches of people in the area listening to music which must surely be the food of life.
images on ournorthernsouls.org