The Shed, Beeston, Nottingham

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Friday 10th - It takes a very special occasion for me to actually miss Soul Ole at Peterborough Post Office, but this night in Beeston, outer Nottingham was due to be a meetup on Paddy Grady's message board on Friends Reunited Connections, they'd designated it as a warm-up the night before they'd be seeing the Velvelettes in Northampton. Additionally I'll be in Peterborough the next 2 Fridays anyway with the Velvelettes on 17th and City Club on 24th.

This "Shed" is Beeston's community centre, the room used for the night is an octagon shape with a stage, seating at tables round the edge and a large dancefloor. Ann from the message board who I'd last seen at Whitby weekender spotted me almost straight after I arrived and introduced me to the 4 others there that I hadn't met before, the other couple I'd met at Ilkeston arrived a few minutes later, soon met up with folks I knew from other venues in Notts as well. The sounds were a fair mix of "classic Northern", "Modern Oldie" and Motown, all very danceable. Enough people in to make a good atmosphere, at the same time not too crowded so space on the dancefloor was comfortable.

This night runs on 2nd Fridays of the month, I'd certainly go more often if I lived a lot nearer.

Alan

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if i had known you were there i would have said hello ;D .....i was by the left speaker left corner...baggy pants n buttons ;D

the shed is a great venue... it was the soul club of Edwin Starr with fond memories of his many gigs there, always seems to get going a little later than most, and a few faces were missing that weekend due to another "do" ......huge wooden floor and a non smoking venue too !

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It was good to be back at this venue, some 11 months after I first went and posted the original review, I'd been once more in April this year too.

This night was the venue's 6th Anniversary, one nice surprise was the early doors DJ was none other than one of the younger "Girls On Top" Laura Dixon, she's really excited for returning to Lincoln this coming Saturday. Other guest DJs were Nev Shooter and Chris King joining Sam Moore. The playlist was very much as described in the first review, I danced for much of the night and had again met up with a few of those on the other message board mentioned, as well as other friends I know in that area.

Thumbs up from me again for this one

Alan