Item No: 033
Posted: 19/12/05
Item: SSC Christmas Special December 17th 2005
Well we had another great night at Upstairs Downstairs on Saturday with another great crowd in to appreciate some splendid soulful music.
This capped a terrific year at the club with sounds spanning from the 60ss right through to the latest soulful dance tunes.
All 25 free club CDs were snapped up and the club have started taking names for a special trip to the Orwell in Wigan on 27th January and at £10 is great value for what promises to be a great night out in the new year.
Before then the next Seaside Soul Club event will take place on 14th January. This has been brought forward owing to Simon (yes he of the sideburns and braces and excellent sales box!!) and Vicky's ska and northern event at the Kings Arms Hotel in Morecambe the following Saturday 21st January. Many of the club will be at this event and it makes total sense not to clash with our friends.
Well what a night we had with five hours of excellent music which seemed to fly by. Tim started things off and obviously his trip to Records and Relics paid off with a really good mix of modern/northern classics with Johnny Johnson's "I don't know why" on EMI and Fred Hughes timeless Mecca classic "Baby Boy" on a super Brunswick album.
Talking of the Mecca we had our friends from the Fylde with us too in the shape of the Family Tree Crew namely Pete Haigh and Andy Lett
along with the delightful Julia, Carmel and Coral who thoroughly enjoyed the music, the dancing and the chat. Tim kept the Northern sounds going and set a high standard to follow which was kept up all night by the DJ's.
Following Tim I opened up with The Dells "Don't trick me treat me" and played a broad mix of Northern, Modern and Crossover. Of course the oldies flowed as did the beer but it was the more recent sounds of Sonja Grier "Right here right now" and Vince Montana's "That's what love does" that got the biggest dance floor reaction before the more familiar sounds kicked in.
Pete Haigh had to leave us at around 11.00pm to get to his gig at The Mint in Kendal. Talking of Kendal a big shout to Rod and the crew from the Lakes who have supported us so well over the last twelve months and thanks for the Robbie Vincent CDs Rod cant wait to listen to them.!!!
Charlie and Sean Tracey then funked up the night with some class dancfloor groovers from War & DJ Genesis and of course classic northern from The Casualeers to name but a few. By this time the dancefloor was rocking and the beer flowing. Coral won the £20 football card prize which she duly shared with Carmel and so well worth the journey despite the detour round Preston Docks owing to the M55 being closed .
Duffs closed the night with all the classic northern tracks we've begun accustomed to him playing and the big modern sounds of Skip Mahoney and Phyllis Hyman getting big dance floor reactions and then closing on Cory Glover "Little Girl". Duffs will be djing next at the do at Smokies on New Years Eve with tickets at £10 and include a live band performance too so if you love your Northern Soul then that is one not to be missed. More details on this gig in our Events section soon
Our next Seaside Soul Club gig is Saturday 14th January 2006 and we hope to feature more excellent soulful sounds from across the soul spectrum making it one of the best one roomed events in the North West.
View Pictures of the night here
Sean O'Connor
To all our supporters, the Crew at Seaside Soul wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.
