Issue 35 Soul Survivors Dec 11/Jan12

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WHAT’S INSIDE? 2 MEMBERSHIP 4 Fitzroy talks to DJ GREG EDWARDS 8 DARRELL’S FUNK BOX 10 MERCHANDISE Welcome to Issue 35 tha tough year for many, intot takes us from 2011, which has been a 12 Fitzroy chats to prosperous year for our 2012. Hopefully it will be a fresh and COLIN CURTIS PT2 advertisers, readers and us too!

The year has flown by bu t we hav 16 JUMP START - WORDS website, introduce our ‘member e managed to get a new ’s only’ issue and have mo planned for 2012. Our

by Ginger Tony re we had planned for wh Birthday/Awards night wasn’t quite what en 18 THE SOUL SURVIVOR we sta rted thinking about it at beginning of the year, bu the AWARD RESULTS & Robbie Vincent hosting t was a success with the help of Mr the Aw ard s.

We hav e included some of our favourite photos in PHOTOS can see them all on ourthis issue along with the results, but you we bsi te.

22 Fitzroy talks to There are some brilliant MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE expect some interviews concerts lined up for 2012 so you can to come out of them, alo others that we are consta 24 RECORD REVIEWS ntly striving to bring young with some .

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Fitzroy talks to

One of the most integral pioneering and ground breaking radio DJ presenters, Greg Edwards, entertained and educated many of you reading this magazine at a time when soul music had very little spectrum. His trials, triumphs and tribulations reveal that Greg’s journey to his iconic status was a bumpy one. Here is part one, part two will be in the next Member’s issue…. and the rest was off the record!!

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You came to England via New York and Grenada, how were your musical ears via those three culturally different countries?

What I heard on the radio as a child was a lot of calypso and Spanish music. In the Caribbean we heard music from America amongst the pop and there weren’t many black stations. When I went to America I heard a lot of Hispanics music and latin in New York, plenty of soul and believe it or not country and western.

I’m well aware of the Caribbean & country and western connection as my parents come from Jamaica..unusual but a common fact!

What age were you when you went to America?

I was 7 at a time when America was looking for professional people like doctors and engineers so when my aunts and uncles came out of Grenadian university they came over as you could not get into the country without some kind of qualification.

ing with them. I said yes and they asked when can I start and can they have my passport to book a flight to England. They said based on the fact Motown had a good UK foundation and Tony Wilcott from CBS UK had put a word in for me and it was an opportunity.

What year was this and were you djing in the UK or America?

It was 1971 and I was Djing in the USA with a friend at a club called the Blue Lantern in an old building and to keep the cost of the electricity down we stole road lamps from the road works on the street and the whole place was furnished with them. It didn’t last, and thinking about it, I should have been in prison for doing that LOL. I did the Time & Place in Manchester and the Explosion in the UK, probably the venues that gave my parents the wrong impression and I was 21 years old.

What did you achieve in your time at CBS?

What was your inroad to the music industry and how did you manage to work at CBS during the prolific TSOP era working with The OJay’s Billy Paul, The Three Degree’s and Harold Melvin And The Bluenotes?

I’ve always liked music and listened avidly to the radio since I was 3 years old and something happened to me listening to one particular artist, Johnny Mathis, singing things like Chances are and the ubiquitous Misty. I liked classical music like Tchaikovsky and as a teenager I’d go through the record stores and listen to the Temptations “It Would Rain” from beginning to end. I had come to the UK with the intentions of studying economics and business management and as a relief from that I ended up going to clubs and not particularly enjoying them, but remember people from the record companies bringing artists to clubs to promote them as there were no local radio stations. I went back to the States to be reprimanded as my parents had the perception that I spent too much time around clubs as I’d mentioned it on occasions in letters, and with black parents at that time if you do it once you’re doing it all the time. Whilst getting my act together I used to frequent the CBS records building on West 52nd as I knew some of the A&R people. I’d always asked about the latest Johnny Mathis material and they all got to know me there. On one visit I was told that the management wanted to see me upstairs and they said they had a new label they were unsure how to run and because I loved music and DJ’d, would I be interested in work-

When I got here they had just released Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes “I Miss You” which was dealt with by CBS promoter Lewis Rogers. I had to deal with not just Philadelphia Records but all CBS’s custom labels, Epic, Monument and predominantly all their black artists. I worked with Charlie Rich and also white soul artists like Sonny who did Doctors Orders, Johnny Nash with his style of reggae and Steve Ellis and The Foundation. Steve was considered the white soul guy in this country and I turned them all into hits. I told them I would make PIR records as well known and successful as Motown and was laughed at in the way of being this little black boy who was one of only two that worked in the whole CBS organisation throughout the world, who’s never worked in the business before. I was left to get on with it with very little budget but it was good that I didn’t know the business as I approached it with common sense and in a way it hadn’t been done before. I’ve never been and never will be star-struck as I understood what my job was, to believe in the music they made and I liked to get it to the people who liked it. If the BBC wouldn’t play it I’d find a way to get it played and I created what was then and now regional promotion. I went out chasing around the country and got into clubs to create competitions for dj’s to compete against each other for my records.

When colour TV’s had just come in I ran a comp for them to win the largest colour TV available and that was a big prize back then. I’m sorry if it seems odd but I never cared about the artists as they often got on my nerves as they gambled too much or fell out with each other, especially if they were on tour. www.thesoulsurvivors.co.uk

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How long were you there at CBS? Till 1974 when I joined Capitol and I left for a ridiculous and simple reason when I had the group Labelle. At the time I had the most female artists, like Sonny, Dr’s Orders, The Three Degree’s and Labelle. The Labelle buzz in the States was big with Patti Labelle and their space age type concerts and music direction. I got a company here to get them over to perform and we lined up five concerts around the country but then slowly but surely they were all cancelled but for one at the Drury Lane Theatre. I remember Paul McCartney was promoting and on tour with his solo Band On The Run concept in the USA. He sent a letter to say he wanted to see Labelle and cancelled one of his dates in Texas so he could be here to see them. I thought hmmm interesting, then the next thing you know all these different artists like Barbara Streisand were coming and even a request from Princess Margaret! Something was going on and yet CBS were not backing me up in seeing the concert as important and it ended up that the Drury Lane was packed out with hardly any of the public present, as the industry and important people bought all the tickets. The concert was a sell out and wowed everyone and we had an after party at a club called Wednesdays or Thursdays (the name of the week was the name of the club) in Kensington and I introduced all the celebrities to Labelle. I decided that If I had to do all of that again it wasn’t worth my while so I left and never went back. You’d have thought that things would be acrimonious between me and CBS but actually not as they all understood and I’ve remained very good friends, from the chief executive to everyone, and I was always welcomed back. At the time I was fighting with the BBC at the lack of black music being played and complained regularly and often. In 1973 Emperor Rosko was going away as his father was ill and I was approached to fill in for him on a Saturday afternoon on Radio 1. As I had complained so much here was my chance to do something about it. I managed to get the producer, Dave Price, to go with me on certain 06 www.thesoulsurvivors.co.uk

things I wanted to do and introduce artists like Hall & Oates’s first album, Manu Dibango, The Pointer Sisters and a few Philly stuff as I didn’t want to be accused of promoting my record label through the radio. They thought my ethos was too complex but I knew I could introduce new things and make it cohesive. I played unmanageable things like Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and they allowed me to get away with it for months then I was told Rosko was not coming back but they liked what I did and to carry on. Derek Tillery who was the very first head of Radio One didn't like some of the things I was playing and called me into his office.

I remember it very well as it was Princess Anne’s wedding day and he had the TV on and he didn't look up at me once. He advised he’d listened to the show and didn’t like certain things and they were not for Radio One, like Hall and Oates, and instructed me not to play them. He also said it’s rude to laugh on radio as people invited me into their homes as a guest so I should just introduce the record and no laughing. I was totally astounded!! I didn’t say anything and they asked me to take over Mike Ravens Saturday show in the evening around 5pm. I felt that this was just to side line me as they didn’t like what I was playing during the day. My contract was up for renewal in the April and Capitol had just launched in September and asked me to join them but I declined for now and said I’d think about it. So I did the two shows for Radio One and felt, after listening to Capitol, that the DJ’s had more control over what they did, so I joined Capitol. Everyone thought I was mad as I was doing Top Of The Pops also but I was happier doing what I was doing other than being like the other Radio One jocks like Tony Blackburn. They seemed to appear jealous of what I could say, play and get away with on radio ....and they had more glory than me.

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talks to Fitzroy Part 2

Here is the second part of a long interview from two years back, the first part was featured in issue 15 of The Soul Survivors magazine.

Regarded as one the North’s DJ Gurus and being born and bred in Stoke, DJ Colin Curtis is an avid Spurs fan, unlike his opposing Gooner fan and London Jazz funk equivalent, George Power. If anyone is qualified to explain the difference between the evolution of the Jazz Funk phenomenon and the Northern Soul scene, he certainly is, from his activity in both arenas.

Going back to when we spoke of the Northern Soul term, it kind of amazes me because America strangely embraced the term, especially on the websites.

At the time it wasn’t the term, John Anderson from Soul Bowl is probably the best person to ask. When he first sold music from Scotland he used to ring me from a red phone box and stick singles into a disco tron and play them down the phone expecting me to make some rash decision to buy them. He used to go to the States and buy these bits in bulk. Most dealers then were more than happy to get rid of that stock for cheap and amongst them may be some Country and Western as well as collectable rare groove. John’s never been a 12 inch collector so his 7’s became a Mecca for Northern Soul & Rare Groove so it’s more of a geographical term.

Keb Darge took a Northern Soul mentality, the eyes bleeding matrix number mentality of collecting and used that on the funk scene via the internet and he single handedly blew it up. I’m sure there are plenty of others who’ll claim they were probably there before him but ultimately he was the trigger that made collecting funk records worth hundreds of pounds a phenomenon. Looking back at it now the irony is like taking coals to Newcastle, the idea of American dealers with books on how much a track is worth and everybody’s now clued up on all genres and that’s come from Britain and France. The massive difference was that the black music explosion in London was more poignant in getting the music over to people that eventually charted. Some Northern did cross over and made the charts as a lot of Northern Soul records are good pop songs. They would have had more impact had there been more specialist radio shows.

Can you remember when you started to get an influx of a southern audience?

Probably in Birmingham where people from Nuneaton and Bristol would show up, the Londoners would mingle in around 77 when we had the Alldayers like at the Ritz. We had Tavares, Archie Bell, Side Effect, Ronnie Laws and Lonnie Liston Smith live. We had the Tiswas Alldayers with Chris Tarrant and they were incredible with 2000 people watching the ventriloquist John & the monkey. It was a fantastic scene with clubs like Cassanelli’s where we had George Power. I just loved George he’s a positive guy, he’d obviously come through his own problems but he had no barriers. He

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just blew it up and I got to know Paul Anderson. I used to love Paul when he went through his Go-Go phase, it was perfect for Birmingham. Around that time I was playing Harlequin Four “Set It Off” which was the beginning of the house beat. Eventually the whole Chicago thing took off, that reminds me of Djing in Bognor with Paul Oakenfold trying to look through me boxes in my chalet.

(LoL) I read somewhere that the rivalry between the Blackpool Mecca and Wigan Casino was like that of two passionate football teams, did it ever kick off?

No, but then again yes in the style of music, somebody once wrote about me years later when asked who their favourite DJ was. I was amongst the list of this particular guy who said Colin Curtis would come into a room of 500 people play for an hour, no one would dance and then 5 years later we’d all get it, and that for me said it.

If you book me it’s for what I play and when I booked George Power, Chris Hill etc I wanted them to be themselves and not adapt. I wanted people to see these people in their awe and achieved that probably best in Birmingham with Westwood. Credit to him and whoever had a shot at him needs to get a better aim. Tim Westwood for me epitomises someone who has a lot more passion. He comes over as this totally false guy, but somewhere along the line he’s held it all together and continues to believe in his passion. Paul Trouble Anderson…different class no problem, Paul Murphy…different class; these are guys that fitted slots in areas we’d opened up. We were able to dismiss the Northern Soul away from the Locarno. In the main room it was Jazz Funk Soul mixture, in the smaller room it was pure Jazz, everything from Fusion to Be Bop. When you said you had Tim Westwood up there, just for clarification, what was he playing?

He was playing a bit of everything Hip Hop, Go Go & Funk. He used Hip Hop as his tool to go forward.

London views of Westwood and what we see on TV is a different character. You know that in London to be someone you got to be larger than life, there are people who have personas that they’ll be criticized for.

Someone like George Power had a persona but it took people a long time before they appreciated what he had done and achieved in London. He was appreciated at the time but he was never embraced by the Chris Hill thing. For me up here it wasn’t about that, I wanted anybody who could add something. Some people are very defensive about what they got, in the North we tried to add things at the Manchester and Blackpool alldayers where we had the Leeds boys Schofield, Ian Dewhurst and Mike Shaft.

There were probably a lot more black DJ’s in London than up here for maybe the same reasons as I said previously on the social side of things. I don’t think outside of Birmingham and Manchester many of the cities were in a position to have black DJ’s and clubs more than those that already existed. We had lots of trouble with the police when we brought the black crowd to Manchester we used to and see the chief Constable Anderton ....the guy who used to talk to god. We had regular meetings with him because he didn’t want it happening as it was a Sunday blah blah blah, too many black people - and this was the police chief of Manchester!!

What you said is a mirror image of what George spoke of in 71/72 when he did a club next to Wood Green police station!!

Moving on... we have something in common…you’re a Tottenham fan... I’ve been a Spurs fan since I was about 8 or 9, how was it for you coming from Stoke watching them beat Tottenham at the weekend at the Stoke City ground??

I became a Spurs fan around 1960 and had a comic called Hotspur and on the 60 or 61 cup final day I was dropped off at my grandparents and watched us beat Leicester that day and that was it. In 63 I tried to get a kit and it was impossible so my mother cut a v neck in a white t shirt, sewed it back up again and I drew the cockerel badge on. You couldn’t get the kit back then, I’ve grown up with Tottenham and I’m a fair-weather fan. I’ve never been to White Hart Lane but from the Danny Blanchflower double to Garth Crook, Alan Gilzen (I pipe up with Cyril Knowles) and it’s a roller coaster ride (which I agree with totally).

I remember travelling up to the Ritz in Manchester with a coach load of Londoners organised by Cleveland Anderson who was djing on the same bill as you and Richard Searling in July 1983. We hit the dance floor exercising our Electro boogie moves to the new emerging sound that was rocking Electric Ballroom in Camden Town Friday Nights at the time. But I understand you weren’t feeling the Electro? If so why?

I was painted like that as part of this Electro thing with Greg Wilson. When Legends opened in Manchester Greg became the DJ there who was pushing this forward, and there was no point in me doing that there so I played in Birmingham and Nottingham. We bought Mantronix and Afrika Bambataa to Rock City. I was playing things like Warp 9, ET Boogie and Soulsonic Force.

Did you play Ruichi Sakamoto Riot in Lagos?

Yeah (me excitedly Oohhh!!) The Voice of Q, what excited me was that this music excited the young black kids in Manchester. These were kids 83/84 and when the next groove had come in and kicked off. I would utilise this with everything else as the music was strong. I liked electro funk but also bits like Weeks and Co If Your Looking For Fun (I smile at that). At Roxy City you could not hear yourself when they started to stamp! You could hear nothing else but this huge fu**ing earthquake!!

I got memories of that at Electric Ballroom also.

There you go another football connection!!

Have you done any remixes or made tunes that you can speak of or been credited for compilations concepts?

I did Buddah compilations and Blackpool Mecca Magic.

I was not in the right place as had I been in London I coulda done 50 maybe. I had lots of ideas and by 1990 got married and had four young kids. I’d love to have done more but didn’t take those opportunities but

don’t have regrets. But I got a lot of respect for those who put the time in like Ian Dewhurst who did all the Mastercuts when he went to London, Dez Parkes did the Rare series and Jasper the Vinyl Junkie did a few.

Back in the early days I’d come to London and go to Contempo in Hanway Street and the reggae shops also for the odd version of a soul tune. I used to meet Gilles Peterson who’d take me to Mole Jazz in Kings Cross and Paul Murphy’s old shop. I’d visit City Sounds etc. and I used to enjoy it. I’d go to Jazz and Swing and Discany in Birmingham and used to put £200 on the counter and they’d give me a mug of tea and I’d stay till they closed. I work on the same principle by studying an artist who they write and work with, which then influences what I buy. Later Masters at Work and Blaze continued those kinds of traits and you kind of know what to expect from their productions.

Any artists that you met who inspired you?

Junior Walker who was very much into his cars, Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, Sylvester, Al Hudson, Randy Muller. I spoke to them not as a fan but for who they were and their other aspects and not to sign my albums, though I did once with Roy Ayers who said to me Colin “You could buy a yacht if you didn’t have so many records”.

You mentioned earlier Louis Vega, is he aware of your history?

No I don’t talk to artists about me, I’m just some sort of catalyst, I shouldn’t be in the position I’m in playing black music, I have no history, no family history, no reason to do it but it’s come and taken over my life and I glad that it did. It’s not about me, if it was I could easily have been a Chris Hill, though I didn’t deliberately avoid it. We spoke of the remixes and comps and yes if I was in a different area I could have done those things.

But I’m also the basic working class guy that you mentioned earlier and that was what the Northern scene was Monday to Friday on the factory floor and Friday, Saturday, Sunday all about the music. Much later you could see the difference between the black and white crowds who followed the music, they were as different as chalk and cheese.

Interesting... I know you read Dez Parkes interview where he indicates his teenage black generation coming through via their local reggae community and start to branch out into London’s west end. Down here there was also another difference where the soul heads took a lot of stick in London with the reggae heads. Certain jazz funk and soul venues like Global Village had a big gay following and some of the fashions like the handkerchiefs in your back pocket were taken on naively and negatively to some people’s detriment.

That was also happening in Birmingham where some would wear the ties around their neck and what jeans you wore were also integral. The black fashion statement there wasn’t like that in Manchester, there was in Nottingham to a degree but in Birmingham, like London, yes the cutting edge in fashion music or cars etc. is something I admire in anybody and so I’d always be drawn to it. I used to get some of the heavy Reggae guys in 85 in Berlin’s, which was the one club I decided I just wanted to be me and take bits of all the parts that I’d done and put something together that reflected everything. Northern Soul aside, as I had no desire to continue playing 60’s soul music, I took all aspects of boogie Soul with groups like Cool Notes, mixing it with the Controllers then some Bossa and Art Blakley, Blue Note to Brazilian sounds, f****ing hell for me it was better than having sex!!

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S D R O W with Ginger Tony

“Not going quietly...”

I can just imagine it. “You can’t make me leave!

There’s still life in me – listen, I can still make the magic happen!!!” And just as we’re about to say goodbye and God bless to 2011, the old fella delivers a couple of unexpected gems...

45’s latest album “Stop! Look! Listen” (Origami Records) hits the stores in Japan around about now. It’s another collection of wonderful tracks crossing genres (from Jazz to Soul and back again) and showing that not only does this man know how to make good music – he loves it too!

“Jump Start” listeners will already have enjoyed many of the stand out moments including Ray Mann’s smooth vocals on “Lucky Day” (a future summer 2012 anthem? Let’s hope so), Gizelle Smith’s stunning outing on “Much Longer” and 2 jazzy gems – “I Remember Ramsey” and a rather splendid cover of Lonnie Liston Smith’s classic “Expansions”. This deserves to go huge in the New Year, fingers crossed.

The man behind The Juju Orchestra and The Bahama Soul Club, Oliver Belz, is back with a new project. “All About Jazz” from Kojato & The Afro Latin Cougaritas is definitely more Afro Beat than previous projects (although they did have their fair share), but the Oliver Belz sound is clearly here. If you’re a fan, you’ll love this too!

“And now the highlights.”

Unfortunately, my beloved Arsenal hasn’t gifted me with too many highlights this year, so it’s probably best I keep this music related.

“Eccentric Audio” (Smoove & Turrell’s 2nd album) has deservedly sent the funky Geordie duo global! You may well have caught tracks being dropped everywhere from Radio 2 to Coronation Street and there isn’t too many records I like that share that claim to fame!

Monday Michiru’s sublime collection of cover

versions “Don’t Disturb This Groove” arrived in May. “Just in time for the summer” I thought... well at least the soundtrack was good. We had a new and very different outing from Nicola Conte with “Love & Revolution”, Nick Pride’s “Midnight Feast Of Jazz” did exactly what it said on the tin and Grupo X’s “As Hills Go By” is just glorious easily one of my top 10 albums of 2011, as is “There's More To Life Than This” from Ben Westbeech, once again I can be accused of bias, this man is yet to make a bad record IMHO. And as I mentioned last time, you really need a copy of “Destiny” from Shuya Okino in your life. It’s guaranteed to draw envious comments from anyone who catches sight of a beautifully packaged CD and it sounds wonderful too – bonus!!!

Finally, an album that’s dominated recent months for me, not just on the “Jump Start” but also out and about - “Britannia-Shing-A-Ling” from Sunlightsquare. If you’re yet to experience this gathering of extremely talented musicians and vocalists and Latin tinged Jazz is your thing, then please go have a look / listen. You won’t regret it.

“Laters...”

It’s around about this time of year (and this part of the column) you’ll find me saying a huge thanks to everyone I’ve bumped into over the past 12 months. That means you at the bar, on the dancefloor and you out there in radio-land. Big thanks to Anna & Fitz for allowing me to waffle away (another year gone by without being rumbled.lol) and lastly everyone who reads, supports and loves The Soul Survivors Magazine.

Happy Chrimbo and all the best to you and yours for twenty-twelve!

Ciao for now!

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Cat No: EXCDP 58 Official Street Date: 12th December 2011

MASCARA : SEE YOU IN L.A. The long lost Luther Vandross, Ula Hedwig and David Lasley sessions make it to CD on a set of classy soul and disco from the 70s. Original vinyl exchanges hands for upwards of £100. CD features three bonus radio mixes.

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THE SOUL SURVIVOR AWARDS VOTED FOR BY READERS 2011 BEST UK SOUL ARTIST/GROUP (Past or present) Winner – Incognito (Also winners of 2009/2010) Runner Up – Omar BEST GLOBAL ARTISTS/GROUP (Past or present) Winner – Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder & Luther Vandross (All the same number of votes) BEST SOUL ALBUM – Independent or Major (Past or present) Winner – Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On Runner Up – Stevie Wonder – In The Key of Life BEST SOUL RECORD LABEL – Independent or Major (Past or present) Winner – Motown Runner Up – Expansions (Winners of 2009/10 Awards) BEST SOUL CLUB NIGHT (Past or present) London and home counties Winner – Soul Network, London (Vivy B) (Winners of 09/10) Runner Up – Soul by the Jetty, Essex BEST SOUL CLUB NIGHT (Past or present) Outside London and Home counties Winner – Soultrain in Bristol Runner Up – Parkers in Manchester BEST SOUL WEEKENDER Winner – Southport Weekender Runner up – Caister (Last year’s winner) BEST SOUL HOLIDAY ABROAD Winner – Soul In The Algarve (Vivy B) (Last year’s winner) Runner Up – Salou Soul BEST SOUL CONCERT Winner – Teena Marie (Last year’s winner) Runner Up – Maze BEST SOUL PROMOTER Winner – Vivy B (Soul Network) Runner Up – Ultimate Boogie Nights (Jenny Mackenzie) Last year’s winner BEST SOUL CLUB DJ Winner – Vivy B (Soul Network) Runner Up – Peter P BEST SOUL RADIO STATION (Past or present) Winner – Solar Radio (Last year’s winner) Runner Up – Zero Radio (Last year’s runner up!)

BEST SOUL RADIO PRESENTER (Past or present) Winner - Robbie Vincent Runner Up – Peter P BEST SOUL PUBLICATION PRE 2000 Winner – Blues and Soul Runner Up – Soul Survivors!! Bless the voters – we weren’t even an idea in 2000!

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MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE talks to Fitzroy

Apart from the rugby famed All Blacks New Zealand have a musical exporting talent in MdCL a musician DJ producer who for over ten years has made his mark in the world of broken soul funk and jazz music. In line with his new Renegade album album on Tru Thoughts get an insight to the man!!

How does a native Kiwi end up in the hub of West London's Carnival epicentre incorporating music that’s slightly beyond your years and collaborating with the broken soul beat embryo movement that was bubbling and championed by my old school chum IG Culture, Bugz In the Attic, Phil Asher and 4Hero?

I was chasing a girl Lol. I was living in New Zealand and the girl I was seeing came to the UK and in a parallel way I had musical interests and initially wanted to go to New York. The girl and I broke up and I was alone in London but had one number of Dave Angel who’d done a gig in New Zealand 5 years prior and noticed me with a rhodes keyboard. Dave asked if it belonged to me although he hadn’t heard me play but said if you’re in London give me a call.

So I called him and met him and we recorded a track and later met up with Nathan Haynes and I recorded with him also. Nathan invited me to Information Inspiration which was a total musical education. I’d previously grown up listening to acid jazz and a bit of jungle and when I got introduced to Phil Asher I ended up doing a keyboard solo on a track and remember the musician in me was surprised when he only wanted a little input, but that’s when I learnt less is more. Then Phil went on tour and dropped me off at IG Culture’s and we hung for a week and it was amazing as he was jamming on the SP12 like a drummer soloing on the drum machine. It was a natural progression to meet Dego and the Bugz crew. It was funny that the music they were making was informed and inspired by all the music

that I loved and put together in a way I couldn't imagine, but it was like a dream come true. As a musician I learned how to contribute to that and it felt like that’s where I was meant to be.

When did you come to the UK? In 1998 as I was on a travel scholarship and went to Cuba and got a taste of London and kept coming back and went back to New Zealand. Then I bought an MPC in Japan and started making music and album 6 degree’s which got picked up by Universal in the UK and I relocated here in 2000.

I first came across you on the 2000 Black Lp with Abdul Shyllon on Relax...Unwind as I bought it For the Music Of The Earth cover and Da One Away feat Bembe Segue To Tomorrow. The album features Kaidi Tatham, IG Culture, Phil Asher, Domu, Dego and Seiji, how did you become involved with this native West London collective and what was the energy behind the creative juices that we hear on that album like to be part of?

It was just a vibe man and it was the most amazing event and having a connection with those individuals. That first year in London was so exciting as I’d wake up knowing I’d do something vibrant and creative without knowing what that was. Especially in 1998-2000 being part of working at the Bugz studio it had so many people with two rooms with Phil Asher, Kaidi Daz Sedji, and it was crazy like what’s going on?

You see in London we constantly have a rebirth of new found music, like 10 years prior we had the rare groove underground funk where people had just discovered old funk and soul that had been made 10-15 years prior like it was new and unheard.

That was my experience for example as a jazz fan I knew Gene Harris and Ramsey Lewis as acoustic jazz players but then discover Ramsey’s Sun Goddess. I was like no way and tried to conceive it was actually another dimension of the same artist.

Our magazine has a cd that we give away when we get new members who sign up and one of the tracks featured is by Real with your remix of Never Never Give Up. I must commend the production and the interpolation of EW&F’s Jupiter brass stab influence. How much remix work are you approached to do and who are some of the old and new school artists you’ve worked with?

Ahh nice one..over the last year or so I’ve been remixing a lot but tried to slow down to do original productions and live shows but people approach me to do stuff and If I like it I’ll do it. People like Jody Watley hit me up because I did a mix for Shelly Horn for Verve and consequently I’m doing tracks for her new record and Jodie hangs at my monthly event in LA. It’s an amazing way to have met artists, some of whom I can call If I want to work with them.

For the last ten years you’ve been touring constantly in the USA, UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Cuba.

How do all these different countries and continents react to the MdCL experience?

It’s been super positive and I find every place resinates differently. It amazes me like when I went to Norway who liked Trance and really hard rock but they loved the gig so much. To have that universal contact is hard to quantify.

When Teena Marie sadly passed you and Sy Smith collaborated on a Teena track that wasn’t one of my favourites, Lover Girl, but I appreciated what you did to it and to be honest liked it more. I spoke with Erik Rico on my radio show last Thursday who hinted that he may be collaborating with you in 2012, so who, like you, should we watch out for in the future to bring the new soul jazz and funk flavours to the world?

Definitely Sy Smith. I just produced her whole new album and there are a few covers on there, one being a Billy Ocean track called One Of Those Nights (You Feel Like Getting Down) that comes out next spring( Ohh that makes me smile.) I’m also doing an album with Sandra St Victor of Family Stand and a big band album with a band in Holland. Then I’m doing an album with an amazing string player, Miguel Ferguson, doing orchestral takes on J Dilla beats.

I receive your emails and updates and free downloads, how does that work for you in this climate of supposed world recession to be accessing your music where it can be forwarded to anyone, or is there a clever twist in your risk factor thought waves?

I’m pretty objective in how the industry has changed in the past 7 years. I’ve very much been into the internet activity and free downloads make sense. I did a joint feat Rahel called Hope as a free download and a year later Bobbito Garcia started a label and put it out as a 7. Then Gilles Peterson picked it up for Brownswood and people started contacting me saying the track was good but it had been a free download for a year prior. Some tracks, which would usually have been on a 12, you can now release as a free download.

Your new album Renegades features Nia Andrews, Bembe Segue, Omar, Tawiah and the purple percussionist Sheila E, to mention a few. I reviewed it and it certainly is the most experimental musical album in this issue. It’s out on Tru Thoughts whom Omar is now associated with, so is this a combination of technology and live studio recordings, as everyone’s location universally can make this logistically a hindrance, how long did it take to finish?

From the first demo it was probably a couple of years but

when I knuckled down it was 6 months. I was travelling around so the album documents me travelling around from London to LA. My faves on the album include Tawiah’s Under Orders as she flows with her UK dialect on the broken groove and Omar & Sheila E’s Get Started, Bembe Segue’s Push and Sandra Nkakes Alabi..why is the album titled Renegade?

It’s named after the title track which calls out the fake pretenders, which there are a lot about at the moment, and going with your own belief and not going with the majority and being a renegade!!

What else is forthcoming from MdCL and where can everyone catch you and when you gonna do the Jazz Cafe or intimate venues like The Assembly Halls or The Bush Theater W12?

It sounds like fun and I’ve just done some dates last week but it looks like May 2012 to come back. I do a lot of solo show that’s on a dance floor tip where we put accapella on the turn tables and do a full live remix session.

I’m in contact with Dez Parkes and Marc Mac from 4 Hero, how do you feel that the UK is viewed by the Americans, as you have experienced both sides of the Atlantic with the DJ’s and the artists.

The UK artists are influenced by the American music and because they are so far away from it they are very objective about it, re interpret it and make a new sound out of it.

The Americans are not as objective, they are too close to it and cannot mash it up as much. America could not have done Jungle or Grime and it’s no secret that Timberland was influenced by jungle. It’s a distinctive thing that you have here in the UK. Mark thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Record reviews George Benson-Guitar Man (Decca) This album retains so much of George “Bad” Benson’s antidotes from his impeccable career considered to be like Carlsberg by some probably the most commercially successful Guitar Man in the music arena. His distinct vocal and guitar plucking chords revisit semblances of his earlier Breezin’ days on I Want To Hold Your Hand followed by the first of five recognised covers Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour. George’s midas touch graces three more in a row classics, the 60’s explosive latin smash Tequila, Norah Jones’s Don’t Know Why and Michael Jacksons impassioned Lady In My Life. Smacking of his 1980‘s cocktail jazz number Moody’s Moods, is a similar twist on My One And Only Love accompanied by some swing jazz and acoustic joints Paper Moon and Danny Boy. The notorious and melodious note for note jazz scat is captured and solemnized in the smooth and funk Fingerlero. Like fried chicken George is still finger licking good!!

Body & Soul 15 Years mixed by Francois K, Joe Claussell and Danny Krivit (Ministry Of Sound) Three of New York City’s dj producing royalty celebrate 15 years of a now universal concept of Body & Soul with a double mix CD of soulful house disco boogie and funk.

Cd 1 kicks starts with an underground mix of Whitney Houston’s Love Will Save The Day and DJ Spinna’s mix of the hugely and massively loved Shaun Escoffery’s Days Like This.

Some of my old late 80’s house playlists, Soft House Co What You Need, the UK bomber Bang Bang You’re Mine and Tribal House’s conscious Motherland energize the mix like Star Trek. Hugh Masekela’s Don’t Go Lose It Baby, Earth Peoples’s Dance Beats disco dazzler Souvenirs by Voyage and Bolla’s Afrikan Basement add more versatility.

Cd 2 embraces Convertion’s Lets Do It and Esther Williams monumental I’ll be Your Pleasure. From the UK Blazes’ fab latin bossa mix of Coldcut feat Lisa Stansfield’s People Hold On and 808 State’s Pacific 212 make a valid musical impression. Still to come is the mammoth Sounds Of Blackness’s The Pressure and JB”s undubbed Give It Up Turn It Loose. The finale and the most down tempo but personal album winner for me is a local NYC gospel group track championed by the late Larry Levan called Keedz Stand On The Word. Like Crown Heights Affair this is good for ya Body & Soul!! Fitzroy Philadelphia International The Re-Edits (Harmless) After Motown helped pave the way, two righteous soul brothers became entrepreneurs in successfully running a rare black owned record label. Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff 40 years ago built an empire known as PIR (Philly International Records) embracing love, peace, unity and a message in their music. Amongst the 21 chosen babies from their enormous catalogue are edits and extended mixes of the infamous Philly sound. Some of the edits work better than others, for example on the Uptempo Good Time Philly side, my tip on those tight arrangements are Keep Schtum’s People’s Choice Do It Anyway You Wanna, DJ Mila‘s Dexter Wansal Life On Mars, DJ Frictions’ Jones Girls Dance Turned Into A Romance and Jimmy The Twin’s The OJay’s Message In The Music mixes.

The Mellow Slinky Philly elongates Jean Carns’ If You Wanna Go Back Baby, Morning Star edit sweetly and Archie Bell’s Strategy gets a nice dj friendly mix from Touchsoul. SratchNSniff ’s Let The Dollar Circulate mix by Billy Paul sucks you in like quicksand with the twist and turn Philly arrangement.

The mid 80’s warehouse and rare groove classics Easy Money and Don’t Let Love Get You Down get 7-8 minute the reverb and echoed re rubs that may work for some who felt that the songs were too short. Was That All It Was gets a revamp using its middle section adlib as the intro which works naturally and Nights Over Egypt gets a Set If Off percussive hi hats lift. My personal fave is The DJ Apt One’s very subtle edit of Wake Up Everybody, you just listen and enjoy!! Once again it’s time to get down to the Philadelphia sound!! Fitzroy The Story Of Lovers Rock This film which depicts an era of music that surrounded me in one way or another as I grew up around the perimeter of it and dipped my toe in as a soul head. I also experienced it second hand from my opposing reggae loving cousins. This has unexpectedly proved to be an increasingly popular release that more screenings were being frequently added to larger cinema’s in it’s screening areas . More of a lover’s rockumentary than a scripted story, it features an array of musical artists and comedy actors who recall their almost religious devotion in attending a dance and part taking in an almost meticulous matrix movement style, of intimate dancing and cultural unification embraced by the young black teenage youth of the 1970’s and early 80’s. Stories from Dennis Bovell, Victor Romeo Evans, Robbie G, Eddie Nestor and some of the musician and singers integral in the lovers rock movement are told with humour, fashion references,racial differences,political satire and impassioned vocabulary. This film I guess is the lovers rock testament to what Young Soul Rebels was suppose to be but dispassionately for me wasn’t as a soul head. Both myself and the audience did LOL a lot as I recalled my own limited (as a soul head/jazz funker ) but personal memories of the “creasing two skirts” or “rubbing of the wall paper” rituals to tunes like Paradise-Jean Adebambo, Smiling in The Morning-Caroll Thompson and It’s True-Donna Rhoden. There was too much to cover with limited time but the gist is impossible to miss. Essential viewing!! Fitzroy 24 www.thesoulsurvivors.co.uk

Nicole Mitchell Met this lovely lady at the Vybe event in Leyland last month, where she did a PA and sang the first track off the CD – “Need to Know”, which really caught my attention. The album – The Bi-Polar Music Project...Volume 1 : Licensed to Chill, contains 15 good quality tracks, mainly ballads (to chill to) but my favourite is a more up tempo track “Music is Life” dueting with Al Olive. Other stand out tracks are “Only Human” which has a nice jazzy feel at the end, "Paradisaic Nights" and the album finishes with a duet with Phil Perry - nuff said.

The entire album was co-written by Nicole and the next instalment – Volume 2 – Licensed to Thrill is due out soon I believe. If you get the opportunity to listen to the album, I would recommend it highly. Russell Ashton - Soul Survivor Member Nile Rodgers Le Freak (Sphere) Originally I was allocated a twenty minute interview with Nile Rodgers for our Soul Survivors’ magazine issue 25...this ended up being a two and a half hour epic conversation. Some of what he shared with us is included and written in an almost nonchalant portrayal of Nile’s autobiography the aptly titled Le Freak. To those outside his seemingly illogical upbringing was the most logical to him growing up in the middle of the 20th century.

His destiny was already pre-ordained to be one of abnormality, his interracial family nucleus consisted of his black teenage Mother and her life long affinity with a slick, cool and white Jewish drug addict stepfather. Their surreal world of sexual gratification, hustling, narcotics and illegal activities during Nile’s early 50’s to the late 60’s childhood to teenage pubescent years, had become a formatted template of normality.

Like Patsy Gallants 1976 hit, Nile frequently bounced back and forth “From New York To LA “ like a basketball off a Harlem Globe Trotter’s waiting hand, depending on what crisis was unfolding in his disruptive parent’s unconventional lifestyle. His life threatening asthmatic and early glue sniffing/drug taking experiences only enhanced Nile’s survival senses to kick in on many occasions in his pre-famed teenage life. By his early teens there was already enough life experience material to make an Oscar winning box office film script, let alone his star-studded famous rock & soul life he would engage with for the next 30-40 years.

From his bohemian hippy tripping to becoming a consciously awoken Black Panther, to morphing with his longterm friend and musical genius Bernard Edwards, as one half of the dynamic DHM ethos duo CHIC, Nile’s had his fair share of Good Times as well as many bad ones.

Nile’s DNA is ingrained within the musical membrane of an amazing whose whose list of 20th Century artists including Diana Ross, Sister Sledge, Luther Vandross, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Duran Duran and Madonna.

Throughout this his battle with alcoholism and class A drugs was eventually overcome with a visit or two from the Grim Reaper, which eventually sobered him up.

Reading his memoirs, at times like a Chic ballad You Will Cry and often shriek a Chic Cheer for the tribulations of a man who helped so many universally get unconditionally Lost In Music!! Fitzroy

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Cameron Pierre - Radio Jumbo (Destin E World Records) Attending the recent Breakfast Band concert I bumped into Courtney Pine who gave me this CD, being it’s producer. Wow how refreshing to hear such soulful jazz played with such exquisiteness. Dominican Cameron Pierre, previously unknown to me, named the album after his local radio station that influenced his mind. He plays the guitar and banjo in a jovial melodic and Caribbean cultured fashion and at times... with a live string quartet.The first three tracks Ma Molly, Big Foot and Radio Jumbo will have your toes subconsciously tapping like you got St Vitus’s Dance. Michele Henderson's vocals on Stevie Wonder’s Another Star fit like a hand in a glove and If Only introduces Kyron Akai on the steel pans synchronizing notes with Cameron’s guitar licks. It’s hard not to imagine the George Benson influence on the sublime Soul Eyes. The African presence is felt on Traditional with some soothing vocal dialect. A nice addition to support GB’s cd review!! Fitzroy Ben Williams - State Of Art (Concord Jazz) Combining old classic jazz traditions with a new millennium twist, bassist Ben Williams’s State Of Art album should appeal to the rebirth of cool jazz fanatics. With great execution listen to Home which sounds like a funky Fela Kuti meets Grover Washington funk sandwich. Woody Shaw’s Moontrane is performed with a straight ahead and a funky jazz angle and John Robinson and J Rawls’s Lee Morgan Story is sealed smoothly with John Robinson rapping on Ben’s funky bass rhythms. His version excursions of Michael Jackson’s Little Susie and Stevie Wonder’s Part Time Lover are interpreted almost unrecognizably beyond their original comprehension but sonically captivating in their new guises. Mr Dynamite tails off the album with a good old vibrant jam session. Fitzroy Loose Ends - So Where Are You (Expanded Edition) Soulmusic.com If ever there was a UK group whose music was synonymous with the emerging 80’s electro soul championed commercially by the USA’s Change SOS Band and BB&Q it was Loose Ends. Jane Eugene, Carl McIntosh and Steve Nichols trio-mendous collaboration was a formula that was digested like a young born adjusting to SMA. With two covers of Dexter Wansals The Sweetest Pain and David Bowie’s Golden Years enjoy Magic Touch, A New Horizon, Hanging On A String, So Where Are You and the latin jazz instrumental Silent Talking. In tow are the Twilight Firm and Frankie Knuckles remixes of Hanging On A String, Timmy Regisfords mix of You Can’t Stop The Rain and Magic Touch feat Roy Ayers. Sounds fabtastic 25 plus years later just as The new line up of Loose Ends are re-emerging with a recent sell out at the Jazz Cafe in Nov 2011!! Fitzroy Loose Ends - A Little Spice (Expanded Edition) Soulmusic.com This release includes five new titles previously not available on the album and extended mixes of Tell Me What You Want and Choose Me. (Emergency) Dial 999 still retains to this day that organic UK jazz funk template with Jane Eugene’s slinky vocals and the uplifting production. I was always partial to Choose Me as it reminded me so much of a moog Slave vibe and the ad libbed minimal vocal-instrumental spanish guitar licking A Little Spice. An earlier long version of a pre album single with a Tom Browne vibe In The Sky produced by the Real Thing’s Amoo brothers sounds incredible as does the mellower EWF influenced Only A Day Away. Not to be slept on either are We’ve Arrived, Don’t Hold Back On Your Love and a smoochy No Stranger To Darkness. A nudge and a reminder of how the UK rivalled the USA for a while at least in producing quality soul music!! Fitzroy Push - Band On A Mission (Push Records) From an elite circle of live bands who alongside the Brand New Heavies were instrumental in keeping the funky jazz and breakbeat momentum flowing..Push are back as a band on a mission.

Recorded mostly at the old Boogie Back studios with a core of the original members and a certain Candi Staton and Hamish Stuart of Average White Band, the album is accurately retrospective of what some newer bands fail miserably to recreate.With Daniel Pearce’s distinct soulful vocals and great musicianship, check out the menage of soul and jazz funkiness goodies Band On A Mission, Walk In The Park and the Herbie Mann meets Herman Kelly’s Dance To The Drummer’s Beat sounding The Blast. With Mick Talbot on keys, Dom Glover on trumpet and Xavier Barnett on BV’s..the balance of talent is rife like the plague. Very funky and quite classy and well deserved of a mighty PUSH. Nice album!! Fitzroy MdCL - Renegades (Tru Thoughts) Mark de Clive Lowe enlisted contributions worldwide from UK, New Zealand, USA and France to collaborate on this Renegades album. With powerful vigour Omar and Sheila E covert a dark, bumping and percussively funky Get Started. Nia Andrews makes the first of a few appearances on The Why followed by Under Orders feat Tawiah on top of some militant drumming from Richard Spaven and Bembe Segue on BV’s. Nia rides the rough rugged and raw production on Renegades and also articulates in various high octaves on Hooligan. Bembe Segue bellows over an instantly, infectious punch for punch production Push pursued by Ovasoul7’s zephyr vocals oozing over a very soulful Everything. Of all the interludes No 2’s jazzy live drum skit stands out and to end Parisian based vocal exponent Sandra Nkake breaths a bilingual esoteric spirit into the acoustic funk track Alabi. Refreshing broken soul with jazzy overtones outcoming like a Batman Blaff in ya face!! Fitzroy 26 www.thesoulsurvivors.co.uk

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......its not all four to the floor you know! Words DJ Marcia Carr What an incredible 12 months it has been; wars and rumours of wars, presidents toppled and crazy weather, but through it all some of us smile on, and for others, the one thing that binds us together is the abundance of good quality Underground Dance music; we are one nation under a groove - let’s aim to keep it that way into 2012!

I am suitably touched whenever I hear DJ Aaron Ross don his soulful cap as he has on production of the rather beautiful song ‘Alive’ with NYC poetess Ursula Rucker, out now on Restless Soul. Ross has laid on thickened drum beats as Sterling Ensemble’s Albert Menendez’s various keyboards are layered on top; weaving in and out they coast to the bridge and beyond on the effective and simpler Main Mix, which is sure to set alight the feet of those who like a bit of Blaze, EOL or Joe Claussell – Dub heads check the Straight mix for late night club sets.

Songwriter, musician and singer Robert Strauss is our Canadian adopted brother known to many for his compositions of twistingly elegant Disco and furious etchings of Broken Beats over the last several years.

Since living in London he’s been quietly working hard at developing his live studio Wax Recordings, of which the Soul induced funky creation ‘Classy Lady’ by Personal Life is one of studio’s first fruits. Likely to be a strong contender in 2012 as a Modern Soul dancer, this Stuart Lisbie fronted song has the earmarkings of the 80’s sound, but is as bright as it is contemporary to suit all sorts of parties now and radio friendly enough to be heard on all sorts of radio stations – this is a must have for collectors!

Whatever your choice of club anthem, it’s all subjective right, but occasionally along comes a song that touches hearts and souls everywhere – now repackaged the Seamus Haji presents Mekkah feat., Stephen Granville ‘Race Of Survival’ single first hit promo vinyl back in 1994 under Haji’s Mekkah alias.

An official release on Soul Love indie appeared in 2004. This timely re-release is bound to set sparks flying all the way now with these new, superb Sean McCabe renditions. Beautifully set key stabs and punchy chords work in harmony with Granville’s amazing crisp falsetto and the remarkable Dub mix has a forceful presence of bottom heavy bass to keep Underground club floors moving. Along with the Unreleased Original Sonz Of Soul mix, you need to grab yourself a copy of this uplifting, prize party winner!

An affair of Hammond sounds and electric Boogaloo meets House Dance, this is aimed squarely at the dance floor - for the purists out there and those who enjoy Samba and Latin Soul – crafted ever so magnificently by Italian DJ and producer Luis Radio and Raffa Scoccio. Apparently, the likes of Louie Vega and Joe Claussell have taken a fancy to this and it’s not hard to see why with the mass of drum beats and percussion that loop on and on, the arrangement moves around in such a way you won’t have time to get bored with club mix!

Album selections…

Zed Bias returns to his alto-ego Biasonic sound for his 2nd LP on Tru Thoughts: Biasonic Hotsauce – Birth Of The Nanocloud which heads more in a reggaefied direction via gritty bashment riffs, some wanting Dubstep and a bit of funk lined cuts thrown in across 15 tracks with a few fruit interludes. Also on Tru Thoughts, A & R head Robert Luis has compiled the next instalment of Shapes; a double CD it features label artists showcasing the down-mid tempo smoother of their work in Soulful electronica, folk style funk, World music and Broken Soul sounds, while the 2nd CD delivers a strong set of dance floor friendly cuts by Lanu, Quantic, Mark de Clive Lowe and many others. Josh Milan presents his first album project since departing from Blaze, entitled Honeycomb Music Volume 1. It’s a well-thought out sublime collection of must have songs; inspirational Soulful Dance of House laced jazz fusions, Afro grooves and future Boogie classics with an all-star vocal cast including Sandra St. Victor, Angela Johnson, Alexis P. Suter Band, Dawn Tallman and Cassio Ware.

Another outstanding LP that seems to have gone under the radar is the Colonel Red ‘Keep Walkin’ (Tokyo Dawn) new project. Rather heavyweight on an electronic, Soulful side, the album which is co-produced by Erik Ritfield, and features guest Ursula Rucker finds Red on a reflective and introspective tip, with programming being dipped in hip hop beats.

Broken Beat action is rife too on choice cuts Driving Me Crazy, Woman, Can We Work It Out, and for the funk in you check out Feeling Free and I’m Colonel Red – an impressive opening song, these are just a few of the other highlights.

Altogether, this is a fail-safe blessed and essential assortment of 21st century funk from start to finish!

Catch me the last Thursday of each month co-hosting with DJ/producer Sy Sez on www.colourfulradio.com; 9pm-12am.

See you about in clubland soon. Enjoy the festivities – remember the reason for the season, Merry Christmas and all the best to you and yours for a prosperous New Year! Blessings ♥ For all the latest info on gigs and more with Marcia Carr and the Ladyz™ aka LadyBugZ visit TMP: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59753396276 - www.myspace.com/marcia_c - the Ladyz™: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47372132317

Send 12”s / CDs for review consideration to: TALKING MUSIC PRODUCTIONS c/o 22 Eton Close, London SW18 4UD. DJ booking/enquires: marciadavinylmc@facebook.com 30 www.thesoulsurvivors.co.uk

Event reviews/letters Eric Roberson @ The Indigo2 - 13th October 2011 Eric (who is affectionately known as "Erro" by friends and fans) came on stage with his band looking 'Picture Perfect' in matching monochrome suits. Eric connected with the audience immediately from the moment he stepped on the stage. With a strong stage presence and great sense of humour which shone through throughout his performance by constantly interacting with the crowd and engaging in conversation and jokes throughout his performance.

With eight recorded albums to date, Eric touched on most of them with his very soulful vocals. His enthusiasm and love for performing were apparent and he performed as many of his great songs as he could and he never wanted the evening to end, which kept the audience hyped and wanting more and more. He is a selfless performer and wanted to put his excellent band in the spotlight as much as he was.

Eric is truly a 'Mister Nice Guy' and if you are a fan of his music, you will be an even bigger one once you have seen him perform live. Miss Sparkle The Breakfast Band @ The Tabernacle W11 14-11-2011 Who would have thought that on a Monday night in November so many would turn out to see a UK jazz funk band who had not played together for 20 years. Apart from your average music fan recognised names like MP Diane Abbott, Courtney Pine and Yan Kincaid of BNH were amongst the flock of musical sheep who gathered at Ladbroke Grove’s The Tabernacle in Powis Sq W11. We were all forever more going to remember this night in November witnessing the distinct, innovative and multicultural original members of The Breakfast Band. I was immediately transported back in time when I heard Trinidad, Tokyo Shuffle and Broadside Rhumba.

Their individual musicianship was quite compelling to watch as they performed as a group and as soloists. With two sets they were welcomed each time with a mass of adulating applause, none more so than when they treated us to the mammoth and pivotal bad boy...LA.14. Was I busting a jazz move or two?...Oh yes ...guilty as provisionally charged...even Courtney Pine shared later he had noticed me doing so. Truly spell bounding and exhilarating, I urge you to drop everything like a hot potato and go if you get a chance to see them live on stage!! Fitzroy Shalamar @ Indig02 29-10-11 Guaranteed to pull the crowds in but nothing had prepared the lastmin.com crew for the scramble they had to get tickets for the packed and sold out Shalamar session. Jeffrey, Carolyn and Howard are no strangers to the venue and churned out their catalogue of 32 www.thesoulsurvivors.co.uk

Solar hits like cows do milk. There It Is, I Can Make You Feel Good, Take That To The Bank, Sweeter As The Days Go By, I Owe You One, Second Time Around, For The Lover In You and Night To Remember were the popular anthems. With choreographed routines and lots of crowd interaction, the night was tailed off by the after party rocking till 2am with Vivy B, James Anthony and Rudy Ranx spinning the wheels of steel. For the last Soul Survivors award winning Ultimate Boogie event of 2011 it sets you up for what’s to come in the Olympic year of 2012!! Fitzroy Blackpool Mecca Reunion The Blackpool Mecca, which was one of the North West’s premier northern soul venues during the 70s, had a reunion night on Saturday 5th November at the Swallow hotel in Preston. I was brought up on Funk in Liverpool so I never visited the Mecca on a Saturday night, however I did attend a number of Jazz Funk all dayer’s towards the end of the 70s at this venue because the Mecca went through an evolution from Northern through to Disco/Funk and Jazz/ Funk whilst Wigan Casino stayed a Northern soul venue only.

The room was decorated with banners promoting current North West venues such as Freestylin and Vybe alongside old Blackpool Mecca memories.

The main DJ on the night was the legend that is Colin Curtis supported by the DJ collective known as “the Mecca mafia”, music on the night covered quality Northern soul, mid tempo dancers from Oscar Perry, Chuck Jackson, Ann Sexton & Millie Jackson and others.

Philly floor fillers included 12 inch mixes of “ I love music”, “The more I get the more I want” and “ Bad Luck” to name but a few.

The Jazz Funkers in the house got down to Running Away, Spread Love, Movin and The Bottle and many more.

My favourite track on the night was “You’re Gonna Get Next To Me”. Quality cross section of Black music from the 70s played to a mature crowd from across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands.

Big shout to the Blackpool Mecca appreciation society and Janet Crowe for organising the night.

Raph Parkinson - North West Soul Survivor Funk Therapy @ The Recreation Ground, Camberwell SE5 When three musical amigo’s with history dating back 30 years a piece get together to bring you Funk Therapy, you know they mean business mixed with pleasure. Billy Cameron (Black To Basics) Abbey Shah (Bluebird and Catch A Groove Records) and Akin Shenbanjo (DJ Dancer and one half of Spirit Level) provide a Saturday Night shakedown with free entry for those who like to groove like Radiyo. It’s an intimate space with enough room to boogie to funk bullets from The Time, Slave, Steve Arrington and other funk generals. Its friendly and commercial anthems free so if you like depth dive into this musical well once a month for a real fling foot session!! Fitzroy

Soul Survivor Awards @ Fluid Oct 22nd 2011 We decided to offer something more, after the success of last year’s awards, so we laid on a joint 5th Anniversary celebration of the magazine and our 2nd Soul Survivor awards over two floors with guest Dj’s and a soul music legend as our host.

Thankfully people arrived early with Mucho Soul’s Ket Shah’s soulful DJ selection and there was great anticipation in the air as our special host Robbie Vincent mingled with the congregation. Robbie was on form with his quick wit and charm as he presented the awards with his designated assistant for the evening, Anna of Soul Survivors. Robbie was very gracious in having his photo taken with the award winners and runners up Clifford Irving Snr. on camera. Bluey of Incognito for the 2nd year running collected The best UK Soul artist whilst Vivy B became Robbie Vincent's bezzy mate for the night collecting 4 awards for Best Soul Club Night (London & Home counties) best Soul Holiday, Best Soul Promoter and Best Club DJ. Ultimate Boogie Night for the 2nd year via Teena Marie won Best Soul Concert and Solar Radio did the double by winning Best Soul Radio Station. Robbie was overwhelmingly voted Best Radio Presenter, to his surprise, and gave a humble acceptance speech. For the full list of award winners see page 19. With both floors busy, the party continued upstairs with Stomp’s Scott James, Vivy B, Dezzie D and Darrell S laying down the 80‘s, 90‘s and 2000 plus soul R&B & hip hop classics.

Downstairs Marcia Carr and Ginger Tony doubled up for an uptempo mix selection followed by Dez Parkes and his version excursion jazz funk & boogie edits to a packed floor. Colin Scott ended the night nicely till 4am for yet another successful Soul Survivor event where all that hard work seemed to have paid off!! Fitzroy

Soul 360 & The Soul Survivors Night 19/11/11 @ Hidden This was a collaboration of Soul II Soul’s HB’s Soul 360 and The Soul Survivors hosting two rooms of soul influenced music past and present for a mature soul gathering till 6am. Both rooms were full to the brim, yet not uncomfortably. In the soul room Dave VJ was spinning a mixture of Chaka Khan Clouds, Man Parrish Hip Bop Be Bop to Young MC Know How followed

by Jerry Bascombe with Fatback’s Wicky Wacky to R&B classics like Mystikal Danger. Vivy B mixed it up with some 80’s classic & 90’s R&B flavours with Da Buzzboy finishing off with some jazz funk and boogie for the fling footers.

The soulful house room was buzzing with Sy Sez and Paul Trouble Anderson in the mix followed by Neil Pierce and Jazzy Q keeping that vibe alive. For a first joint venture this was a success, considering this was possibly the busiest Saturday night in November with many regular and one off events happening!! Fitzroy Club Soul - Starpoint Radio 11 November 2011 Being held at the Holiday Inn in Bexley meant this was a comparatively local night out for me and as it was a Friday night too that meant a good start to the weekend. This was only the second event at this venue run by Starpoint Radio so I was surprised at how busy it was. There were two rooms to choose from, one had the slightly more commercial Soul with special guest Greg Edwards where everyone sang at the top of their voices. Room two had a varied selection of soul from all levels and a nice relaxed atmosphere. I can see this event growing fast and becoming a great night out for the Soul crowd of Kent; the next event is New Year’s Eve. Anna

Loose Ends Review The Jazz Café on Friday 11th November was filled with vibrant, excited anticipation, as the audience, filling out every corner of the venue, welcomed Hannah Francis onto the stage as she opened the show with “That Thing”. Hannah only recently sprung onto the UK scene with her debut album “Means to an End” in June. With her wonderfully mature and soulful voice, it is hard to believe how young she is. She wowed us with “Let Me Love You”, “Find a Way”, “Chance” and “2 Step”. Hannah truly set the stage as the night ramped up to the next level as the pioneer of UK Soul, Carl McIntosh made his appearance and Carl and Loose Ends elevated the atmosphere further still. Carl McIntosh and the band had the place rocking with several of the classics - “Stay a Little While Child”, “Don’t You Ever”, “Mr Bachelor”, “Don’t Be a Fool”, “Gonna Make You Mine” and a couple of fabulous new tracks, “Walk On” and “She’s That Girl”, building up to the crescendo of another classic, “Slow Down”. Carl then disappeared with the band. We hadn’t heard our favourite track! The whole place burst into hand clapping and shouts for “Hanging on a String” which got louder and louder. The band returned and gave us the ultimate classic as the finale to an absolutely electric performance. The whole blend of the cosy venue, the close proximity to the artists and their interaction with us fans, combined with their brilliant show, was second to none. Jen Jenny B Marquis-Brown Foreplay @ Clapham Grand 10th Nov 2011 Having interviewed one half of this dynamic quartet I thought it rude not to attend their forthcoming concert. Bob James on keyboard, Harvey Mason on drums alongside bassist Nathan East and, new to the crew, guitarist Chuck Loeb, flew into the UK as part of their European tour. Foreplay impressed a masterclass of musician and showmanship collectively and individually upon a jazz connoisseur audience on both upper and lower tiers of the Clapham Grand venue. Very humbly these four heros played with such panache that confirms why as purists we like real live music.

Harvey Mason was ridiculously stupendous on the drums beyond belief, his hands and eye coordination was one of a martial art Jedi warriors persuasion. Chuck Loeb amiably stepped into the reputable shoes previously worn by the established Lee Ritenoir and Larry Carlton and Nathan East showed why he’s worked with Barry White, Michael Jackson and Madonna as well as holding a fine vocal note too. Foreplay played a zephyr like set showcasing cuts like Eastern Sky, 3rd Degree and More Than a Dream and we were treated to a Foreplay spin on Bob James’s memorable classic Westchester Lady. I managed to meet both Bob and Harvey backstage who were there to meet the adulated audience. True masters at work!! Fitzroy Gwen McCrae with Electric Empire @ Assembly Rooms, Islington, Thursday 17th November Australian band Electric Empire were the support act of the evening, playing tracks from their inaugural album and we were also treated to a track or two from their second album which is

currently in production. All the band members are accomplished musicians who all equally share vocals as well and it was good to see they loved to perform live and see the audience reaction to their songs. They played an excellent set and it is easy to see how they have earned the title 'The Wizards of Oz', a band that have a very bright future.

Miss Gwen McCrae commanded centre stage as soon as she started with her evergreen classic 'Funky Sensation' and her loyal fans responded accordingly, singing along word for word with their musical icon. Looking every inch the soul diva that she is, Gwen sang all her classic hits including '90% of me' and 'Rocking Chair' which she mixed into her ex-husband George's worldwide hit 'Rock you Baby' which ironically was intended to be recorded by Gwen but due to other commitments was unable to record it and as a consequence George was offered the track. 'Let's straighten it out' and 'Keep the Fires Burning' showed that Gwen's vocals are strong and can hit all the notes with ease. The anthem 'All this Love I'm Giving' had Gwen offering the mic to the audience, letting them sing the chorus to her.

Gwen went full circle by concluding with the track she had started with, 'Funky Sensation', which aptly describes just what Gwen is. Miss Sparkle Mario Biondi - Ronnie Scotts, W1 November 2011 Ringing Ronnie Scotts night and day for the last three weeks to a point that the booking office answered "hello Jane" finally paid off, I managed to get on the day two tickets for the sold out everybody wants to see Mario Biondi concert at Ronnie Scotts. Word got out and I was everybody’s best friend, but Hilary's screechs won the contest hands down.

Bottle of Chilien white perched on the edge of our priority seats I could feel the excitement in the room. Looking around the club it was filled with a much older crowd and I wondered if they were true Mario fans or Ronnie Scotts members grabbing a deal. I was half expecting to see familiar faces but was later told that tickets went to members only, selling out in three days.

"The Ronnie Scotts All Stars" got us in the mood and finally the moment came. Straight into "Love Overboad", one of my favourite foot tapper,s Giovani Amato's trumpet solo was incredible. "Rio De Janerio Blues" allowed the band to get into a galloping Latin rhythm. Playing numerous tracks of his signature album "Handful of Soul", "Slow Hot Wind" sends tingles down your spine, "On a Clear Day" was the best rendition by far I had heard in ages and everybody clapped and sang along to "My Girl". Another favourite "Serenity" followed by "All My Days" showed how tight the brass section played. “And now for a new track" like heck the first two bars of "This is Who You Are" and yes I was up bopping and to my amazement on my own, so I sat down after a couple of smiles from an embarressed Hilary, sorry!! When Mario sings in his native tongue it's like melted chocolate and leaves you wanting more. Bluey was in the audienece so "Can't Get Enough" their collaboration went down a storm. "No Mercy for Me" and "I Can't Keep Crying Sometimes" are vocally so powerful the crowd was silent. Rounding off, the All Star's rendition of "A Night in Tunisia" brought the audience to their feet shouting more...

He's back the first week in February so keep an eye out, tickets will go like hotcakes. Jane Bonotto

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What’s goin’ on?

THURSDAY 1 DECEMBER

Stylistics @ Indigo2 at the 02, Greenwich

FRIDAY 2 DECEMBER

Soul Train Legends Launch Party @ Awch Bar & Lounge, 516 Old Kent Road, London SE1 5BA. Doors 10pm DJs on rotation. (See Ad)

SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER

Soul on the Harbour @ Jacksons Wharf, York St, Ramsgate Kent CT11 9DS Free, 8 till 1 with East Kent Soul Connection DJs. Move On Up @ Greyhound Bar & Club, 151 Greyhound Lane, SW16 5NJ with DJs Stevie Dundee and Tony Rodriquez. £3 B4 11 £7 after (See Ad) Driza Bone Soul Family live @ Jazz Café, 5 Parkway, London, NW1 £20 Doors 7pm Solar Radio Christmas Party @ Charlie Wrights, 45, Pitfield St, N1 6DA with DJs Miike Gee, Tony Monson, Neville, Gary Spence and guest PA’s TBC 10pm-4am £8 in adv £10 OTD

SUNDAY 4 DECEMBER

De La Soul @ Indigo2 at the 02

Omar @ Hoochie Coochie, 54 Pilgrim St, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, NE1 6SF

TUESDAY 6-8 DECEMBER

Pharoah Saunders @ Jazz Cafe, Camden NW1

FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER

Joey Negro and the Sunburst Band @ Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, Islington, N1 2UD. Doors 7pm (See Ad) Strictly Vinyl Sessions @ Bloomsbury Bowls, Tavistock Hotel, Bedford Way, London WC1H 9EU with DJs Paul Trouble Anderson, Gordon Mac, Chris Philips, Fitzroy Da Buzzboy, Midnight Xpress, Carl Dennie & Live PAs. 8pm-3am £7 in advance

SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER Alexander O’Neal @ Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London N1 2UD 7pm (See Ad)

JazzFunkSoul @ Charlie Wrights, 45 Pitfield St, N1 6DA Resident DJs Neville, Colin Scott, & Stevie Day 10pm - 4am Treacle Soul @ Queens Head, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 7-1:30am DJ's: Guest Rob James (JFSR ) Marcus Bell,Shaun Evans, Keith Long & Dave Blow.

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Northern & Rare Soul night @ Pemberton Centre, HE Bates Way, Rushden, Northants NN10 9YP 7.30pm till late. Djs Len Dopson, Dave Vanner, Jem Brittin, Steve Brown and guest Soul Sam. £5 in Adv or £6 OTD. Estuary Soul Christmas Party @ The Westcoast Bar, Margate, with Tony Matthews, Roni O’Brien, Ginger Tony, Pete Collins & more

SATURDAY 10-13 DECEMBER

Brian McKnight @ Jazz Cafe, Camden, NW1

MONDAY 12 & 13 DECEMBER The Brand New Heavies @ Under the Bridge, Stamford Bridge, Fulham Rd, SW16 1HS

FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER

SoulBrew Karaoke Xmas Special @ Queen of Hoxton, 1-5 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3JX £5 entry 8pm till 2am Karaoke with a 5-piece band & YOU performing Soul & Disco Classics from our list of 80+ songs.

SATURDAY 17 DECEMBER

The Emotions, Natural Four, Barbara Mason and compare Greg Edwards @ The Indigo2 at the O2, Greenwich. Doors 7pm After party till 2am Tickets available from Soul Survivors (See Ad) Beyond Soul 1st Birthday @ The Black Sheep Bar Cafe, 60 Camberwell New Rd, London SE5 0RS. Free B4 10pm £5 after. DJs Keith G, Dezzi D, Ronnie T & Brad Lee (See Ad) Funk Therapy Xmas Party @ The Recreation Ground Bar, 65 Camberwell Church St, SE5 8TR. 10-4am Free Djs Abbey, BC Funk & Akin Kent Soul Sessions @ Bar 59, High Street, Gravesend, Kent DA11 0BQ with DJs Tony Matthews, Roni O’Brien, Pete Collins, Jon Layton, Messy and more. Free entry 8pm-2am Soul Shack Christmas Party @ London Stone, 109 Cannon Street, London EC4N 5AD £5 OTD 10pm-3.30am with DJs Ash Selector and James Anthony brining you the best in soul music classic & new, Rare Grooves, Philly, Salsoul, Jazz Funk, Weekender anthems, Boogie, Disco, Smooth Soulful RnB with a topping of Soulful House and Revival.

So Soulful 70’s @ The Ley Inn, Back Lane, Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, PR6 7EU. Crossover & 70's Soul Anthems £5 or £6 OTD DJ's Eddy Edmondson & Steve Plumb and guests Matty Sherlock & Bob Taylor 8pm-1am

SUNDAY 18 DECEMBER

The Boating Club @ Temple Pier with Djs Scott James, Stretch Taylor and guests.

Soul Cruisin’ @ Aboard the Golden Flame at Blackfriars Millennium Pier. DJs Jeff Young, Eddie Pillar, Neil Rushton, Ivor Jones, Gary Dennis, Bigger, Mick Farrer & Steve Hobbs. 310pm £22 from 07718 757840

MONDAY 26 DECEMBER

ThrowBaak @ Babalou, St Matthews Church, Brixton, London SW2 1JF 10pm-5am £7 B4 Midnight - £10 after. DJs DJ 279, Dave VJ, Rochelle, De Lori and Jnr Mac spinning 70's & 80's Soul, Funk, Disco & Rare Groove classics all night long.

TUESDAY 27 DECEMBER

Soultrain @ Motion, Bristol, BS2 0PX. 8pm-3am. Four rooms of the finest Soul/Reggae Revival from the 70’s, 80’s & 90’s. (See Ad) We Love Soul 2nd Anniversary @ Club Hidden, 100 Tinworth St, London SE11 5EQ 10pm7am 3 Rooms of the best along with a Live PA from Leroy Burgess. £15 + MOTD. (See Ad) Tickets available from Soul Survivors Funk & Soul Reunion @ Ultra Gatecrasher, 2 Queen St, Nottingham, NG1 2BL with Colin Curtis, Jonathan, Neville, Master G, DJ Fever, Barney B, Perry Louis and many more. £10 with 5 rooms of the best funk and soul. (See Ad) Filthy Soul FREE Alldayer @ Hobgoblin Pub, 73 White Lion Street, Islington, London N1 9PF. Resident DJ's: Andy Jones, Wayne Arbon, Neil Forbes & Marcus Bell & guests David Marshall, Charles Watson & James O' Connor. Modern, Xover, Northern, 2 Step, Deep and Sweet Soul.

FRIDAY 30TH DECEMBER

Soul Purpose Xmas All Dayer @ Sketchley Grange Hotel, Hinckley, Leics, LE10 3HU Soulful music from 70's to today in 2 rooms, resident DJ's Mark Randle, Sam Evans and Mark Goddard with guest DJ's Sean McCabe, Fitzroy Da Buzzboy, Gary Dennis, Neil Self, Shaun Gallagher, Phil Levene, Andy Jackson - Soul Sam - Cressy - Mark Hopes John Fisher - Andy Baskett - Barry Cooper 3pm2am with late bar, door tax £8 OTD (no admission after 11pm) (See Ad)

NYE - SATURDAY 31 DECEMBER Stomp @ The Squire, 290 North Street, RM5 3AB. 8pm-5am with top DJ’s from Stomp Radio. £15 B4 18th Dec £20 after (See Ad)

Soul Network New Year’s Eve Party @ Cape, Corner of Love Lane & Wood Street 9-5am Book b4 10th Nov for Dinner & Dance @ only £19.99 Dance only £10 B4 1st Dec. DJs Vivy B, Tony Rodriguez, Fitzroy da Buzzboy, Darrell S. Tickets available from Soul Survivors SoulBrew New Year’s Eve Party @ East Village, 89 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3HX DJs SoulBrew All-Stars, Jazzie B, Ashley Beedle, DJ Vadim & Kyri R2 Tkts £15, £25 OTD

The Soul Survivors Radio Shows with Fitzroy da Buzzboy Every Thursday 6-9pm Sunday 11pm-1am Bi-weekly Tuesday 7-9pm Bi-weekly

Where you can find Fitzroy and a bundle of mags!

9th Dec - Strictly Vinyl, London WC1 27 Dec - We Love Soul @ Hidden 30 Dec - Soul Purpose, Hinkley NYE Soul Network @ Cape, EC2 6-8 Jan - Blackpool Luxury Soul Weekender 28 Jan - Soul Network Mansion Party, Bristol

Greyhound’s New Year’s Party @ Greyhound, 151 Greyhound Lane, SW16 5NJ h DJ Stevie Dundee 9pm - 5am. £5 in adv/ £10 OTD Starpoint New Year’s Eve Party @ Holiday Inn, Southwold Rd, Bexley, DA5 1ND with a full line up from Starpoint DJs. £10 Av or £15 OTD Tortured Soul live @ Jazz Cafe, Camden NW1

SUNDAY 1 JANUARY

Love Fever NYD Soiree @ The Nest, 36 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London, N16 7XJ 4pm-4am £10 adv or MOTD DJs A&A, FCL, Jimmy Edgar, Secret Guest

FRIDAY 6-8 JANUARY 2012 Luxury Soul Weekender @ Hilton, Blackpool. Keni Burke, Valentine Brothers, Sheree Brown, and Soul Talk. Top DJ line up.

SATURDAY 14 JANUARY

JazzFunkSoul @ Charlie Wrights, 45 Pitfield St, N1 6DA Resident DJs Neville, Colin Scott, & Stevie Day 10pm - 4am Kent Soul Sessions @ Bar 59, High Street, Gravesend, Kent DA11 0BQ with DJs Tony Matthews, Roni O’Brien and guests. Free entry 8pm-2am

SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY Omar @ Jazz Cafe, Camden, NW1

MONDAY 20-27 FEBRUARY

Egyptian Soul @ Sharm El Sheikh.

Tickets available from Soul Survivors.

SATURDAY 25 FEBRUARY Joyce Sims live @ The Cheshire Lounge, Millington, Cheshire. DJs Hewan Clarke, Gordon West, Alex Badass

We Love Soul @ Hidden Club, 100 Tinworth St, London SE11 5EQ 10pm-7am Soul Network @ London

SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY

Joyce Sims live @ The Jazz Cafe, 5 Parkway, Camden Town, NW1 7PG £17.50 7pm (See Ad)

SUNDAY 4 MARCH

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings @ Leeds, Stylus

WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH

SATURDAY 21 JANUARY

Soul On The Road @ The Westcoast Bar, Margate with Cool Million, Soul Talk, Tom Glide and Westcoast Soulstars. (See Ad)

SUNDAY 22 JANUARY

THURSDAY 8 MARCH

SATURDAY 28 JANUARY

THURSDAY 8 MARCH

Treacle Soul @ Queens Head, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 8- late DJ's: Paul Stuart (Southport), Debs Watkins and Hosts Marcus Bell, Keith Long & Dave Blow Gwen Dickey of Rose Royce @ Hoochie Coochie, 54 Pilgrim St, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, NE1 6SF Soul Network Mansion Party II @ Bristol Tickets available from Soul Survivors.

ThrowBaak @ Babalou, St Matthews Church, Brixton, London SW2 1JF 10pm-5am £7 B4 Midnight - £10 after. DJs DJ 279, Dave VJ, Rochelle, De Lori and Jnr Mac spinning 70's & 80's Soul, Funk, Disco & Rare Groove classics all night long.

SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY

Soul Fine @ The Tereza Joanne Boat, King George V Dock, Woolwhich Manor Way E16 2QY 10pm-4am Djs Enyaw, LP and Woz and Special PA from Junior Giscombe. (See Ad) JazzFunkSoul @ Charlie Wrights, 45 Pitfield St, N1 6DA Resident DJs Neville, Colin Scott, & Stevie Day 10pm - 4am Kent Soul Sessions @ Bar 59, High Street, Gravesend, Kent DA11 0BQ with DJs Tony Matthews, Roni O’Brien and guests. Free entry 8pm-2am

Soul On The Road @ The Ferry, Glasgow with Cool Million, Soul Talk, Tom Glide and Westcoast Soulstars. (See Ad) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings @ Birmingham, HMV Institute

FRIDAY 9 MARCH

Soul On The Road @ Club Replay, Stockport with Cool Million, Soul Talk, Tom Glide and Westcoast Soulstars. (See Ad)

FRIDAY 9 MARCH

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings @ The 02 Shepherds Bush Empire

SATURDAY 10 MARCH

Soul On The Road @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle with Cool Million, Soul Talk, Tom Glide and Westcoast Soulstars. (See Ad)

SUNDAY 11 MARCH

Soul On The Road @ The Grand, London with Cool Million, Soul Talk, Tom Glide and Westcoast Soulstars. (See Ad)

WEDNESDAY 4 APRIL

Larry Graham & Graham Central Station live @ at The Grand St. John's Hill, Clapham, London, SW11 £25 - Doors 7pm

THURSDAY 10-17 MAY

Soul In The Algarve @ Portugal.

Tickets available from Soul Survivors.

FRIDAY 11-13 MAY

Southport Weekender 48 @ Minehead. 25th Anniversary SOLD OUT!!

FRIDAY 15 - 18 JUNE

The Yorkshire Soul Weekender @ Sand Le Mere Holiday Village, £60 for 3 nights with Luxury Accommodation included.

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WEDNESDAY 10-20 OCTOBER

Mediterranean Soul @ Turkey. All inclusive from £295, Beach,Pool & Night Club Parties.

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WEDNESDAY 17-31 OCTOBER Soul in the Caribbean @ Barbados Tickets available from Soul Survivors

WEEKLY EVENTS EVERY TUESDAY

Riding High @ The Vibe Bar, Brick Lane, E1 7.30 till 11.30pm DJ Abi Clarke plays rare grooves, lovers rock, 80s soul, boogie, neo soul.

WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY

Funk & Soul @ Anise, 9 Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4YL DJ Sugaray & Guests.

1st Wed/Fri Soul, Funk, Boogie & Disco 2nd Wed/Fri All things Funky.

3rd Wed/Fri Classic R&B, Hip Hop

EVERY FRIDAY

Soul Train Legends @ Awch Bar & Lounge, 516 Old Kent Road, London SE1 5BA. Doors 10pm DJs on rotation. (See Ad) Soul Uprising @ Rendezvouz Bar & Grill, 1149 High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, RM6 4AT Resident DJs Peter P and Bonnie DJ plus guests. 10pm til 3am Soul, funk, jazz, boogie, RnB and Reggae. Free entry Love Fridays @ The Brickyard, 222 South Street, Romford, RM1 2AD. 8pm-2am Djs Birdy, Tee Smith and guests.

EVERY SATURDAY

Just Buggin @ Purple Turtle, 65 Crowndale Road, Camden, NW1 1TN Djs in Rotation. 10pm-4am £8 guest list B4 12 and £10 after. (See Ad) Funky Sensation @ Upstairs at Ronnie Scotts.

FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Move On Up @ The Greyhound Bar & Club, 151 Greyhound Lane, SW16 5NJ. DJs Stevie Dundee & Tony Rodriquez. 9.30pm-3.30am (See ad)

IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR EVENTS LISTED HERE FREE OF CHARGE, PLEASE EMAIL OR GIVE US A CALL. anna@thesoulsurvivors.co.uk or 01732 844246 WE EMAIL EVENT REMINDERS OUT ONCE A WEEK INCLUDING COMPETITIONS TO WIN TICKETS! SEND YOUR DETAILS IN TO RECEIVE UPDATES. Events can be subject to change so please check with promoter if unsure.

Soul Radio

SUNDAYS

12 Mid-4am Colin Faver on solarradio.com A soulful mix of upfront & classic house/Beats 9-11am Sandra C on stompradio.com 9-11sm Sunday Service with Brian Kelly on WEEKDAYS (Mon-Fri) 9pm-12 Sy Sez on colourfulradio.com with zeroradio.co.uk Jazz funk and soul 1-4pm Dave Brown on Solar guest Marcia Carr the last Thursday 10-1pm Robbie Vincent www.jazzfm.com MONDAYS 9.30-10.30pm Hidden Gems 60’s to new 10-Midday The Sunday Soul Affair with 6-8pm Darrell’s Funk Box with Jazz Funk & Soul on www.fcumradio.co.uk Curly CJ starpointradio.com Jazz Funk & Soul Soul on soulpower-radio.com 10pm-Midnight Whistle & White Socks 6-8pm Strictly Vinyl Sessions with Carl Brigade with Simon Ford on zeroradio.co.uk 10-Midday Soul A.M with the Master J on tongueandgrooveradio.com & soulam.co.uk Dennie on solarradio.com Soul/Rare grooves FRIDAYS 11am-1pm Marky Mark Soul Motive show 6-8pm Souled Out with Colsie on Midnight-3am The Jazz House with Paul on www.back2backfm.net www.tongueandgrooveradio.com Ruiz on www.jazzfm.com 12-3pm Soul Syndicate with Peter P 7-9pm Clive Ashford Soul Show. Soul, disco, 7-10pm Rob Goodman on Key56 centreforcesessions.com 107.5fm time fm & jazz funk on www.nationalsoulradio.com Radio.www.key56internetradio.com.

2pm-4pm Original Mastercuts with Ian 7-9pm Ian Henry with Soul, Jazz Fusion & 9-11pm Sammy Sam with Disco, Boogie, Dewhirst & Alan Champ starpointradio.com funk on generationradio.co.uk Soul & Jazz Funk starpointradio.com 3-6pm Soul Syndicate with Bonnie DJ on 7-9pm Birdy's Menagerie on zeroradio.co.uk SATURDAYS centreforcesessions.com Time 107.5FM 7-10pm Rod Allsworth Classic Soul Show 8-10am Jump Start with Ginger Tony on 3-6pm The Sunday Afternoon Affair with on Fyldefm.com solarradio.com From nu-jazz to funk & jazz Sly Bang 103.6fm www.bangradio.fm 8-10pm Vibe Tribe Pt2 with Matt & Andy P 8-10am Sunshineman on 89.8 FM London 3-6pm Stumpi-Inspiration Show Soul on on www.soulconnexion.com station898fm.net Jazz, Funk & Soul diversefm.com 102.8fm Herts, Beds & Bucks.

8-10pm Souled Out with Mark K on 9-11am Saturday Soul Bowl with Sean P 3-6pm Soul360 with Aitch B on www.tongueandgrooveradio.com on Hot96.co.uk www.colourfulradio.com & DAB London 9-11pm The Hot Box with Gary Turner on 9-11am MK Show on starpointradio.com 4-6pm Neo Soul Agenda with Simon Zeroradio.co.uk Soul-jazz, nu-jazz & latin beat with Mark, Ricky & Trevor. Soul, Funk, Rare Precilla on www.vulive.co.uk.

10pm - Midnight Insatiable Soul with Roni 10am -12pm Soulful Saturdays with Ian 4-6pm The Soul Cellar with Al B in Bristol.

O’Brien on Solar Radio Dee pointblank.fm 90.2fm Ldn. www.passionradiobristol.com TUESDAYS 10am-Midday The Early Bird Catching 6-8pm Soul Connection with Mark Blee on The Worm Show House FM with DJ Birdy 4-6pm The Music In Me Soul Show with Joe-DJ on www.tsolradio.com banburyinternetradio.com Soul, jazz & Funk 11am The Starpoint Radio UK Soul 4-7pm Ralph Tee on www.jazzfm.com 7-9pm Jazz Movement with Sean P on Chart on starpointradio.com.

Hot96.co.uk 6-9pm Sunday Night Soul with Keith Fletcher 11am-1pm 6MS SESSIONS Disco, soul, on BBC Radio Lancashire Motown/Northern 8-10pm The Groove Collection with John house, funk boogie on stompradio.com Douglas on www.JFSR.co.uk 7-9pm Miss Sparkle on stompradio.com Midday-3pm Soul Syndicate on Time 9pm-Midnight Stretch Taylor with the classy 107.5fm centreforcesessions.com Chris Phillips 7-9pm Up Klose & Personal with Brother PJ side of urban on Colourfulradio.com & DAB on www.hot96.co.uk Jazz Funk & Soul Midday-2pm Groove Control Show with 9-Midnight Inside America Michael Speaks Ash Selector on solarradio.com 8-10pm Ladybugz including Marcia Carr on Da Costa on thesouloflondonradio.com ministryofsound.com 1-4pm Saturday Soulmine with Jonny WEDNESDAYS 8-10pm Jazzpower with Shaun Gallagher on Layton & Mr Messy on zeroradio.co.uk www.soulpower-radio.com 1-3pm Ian Henry with Soul, Jazz Fusion and 3-6pm Soul Syndicate with DJ Phillo funk on www.generationradio.co.uk 10pm-Mid Mellow A on soulradiouk.com centreforcesessions.com 107.5fm time fm 10pm-12am Steve O'Mahoney playing Soul, 2-4pm Turn the Music up with James Midnight-3am DJ Afroogroove on 91.6FM Jazz & Funk www.radio789.net.ms Anthony on solarradio.com Classic ‘n’ current or www.genesisradio.co.uk/afrogroove 8-10pm Soul Syndicate with Peter P on 91.6FM From 12 midnight to 3am featuring 2-4pm Dancefloor Grooves with Jamie time1075.com the best in jazz, fusion, latin, soul, afrobeats & Taylor on www.banburyinternetradio.com spoken word.

8-10pm The Triple SSS Show with Shaun 3-6pm Peter Young on Jazz FM. A mixture of Evans & Marcus Bell on www.radiomk.co.uk old & new soul with ‘The Soul Cellar’ at 5pm JL’s Groove can be listened to on demand on www.celticradio.com 10pm-Midnight Good Groove Show with 6-9pm Superior Rhythm Soul Show from Ruth Fisher on solarradio.com or Sky 0129 Weekly podcasts on dazlingsoul.com Spain with Dean Freeman on exitefm.com THURSDAYS live365.com/station/atomicdog65 24/7 4-6pm Jazz Funk Soul with Neville on 6-9pm Soul Survivors Show with Fitzroy da solarradio.com 2nd Saturday of month webstream Soul, Jazz & Neo Soul Buzzboy on colourfulradio.com If in Costa del Sol, check out global.fm Jeff 5-7pm The Morpheus Soul Show 6-8pm GMT Nu Soul Central with Tony Thomas Mon-Fri 2-5pm, Sun 9-Midday www.playvybz.com DJ Johnny Rebel Rodriguez on solarradio.com Podcast soulpower08.mypodcast.com 5-9pm Club Classics Chris Brown on Star 7-9pm Ride da Rhythm with Hilary John @ 107.9/1 FM in Cambridge. Soul & Motown Tony Poole on TKO Gold 106 Wks-9pm www.station898fm.co.uk & 89.8fm London 96.7 & 87.7 FM in Spain or tkogold.com 6-8pm Soul Inspired with David Bishop on 7-9pm Infiniti with Andy Jackson on 107.5 www.zeroradio.co.uk Classic 60’s–80’s Soul Marky Mark of Soul Motive with soul Tulip Radio Modern Soul Radio 7-10pm Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show funk.ssradiouk.com/category/shows/soul-motive/ 7-9pm Angie D’s Diva Got Soul Show on on www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/funk_soul/ The Groove with Suzy Chase podcast www.urbanjazzradio.net shows on www.thegrooveradio.com 7-9pm Skippys Soul on NevisRadio.co.uk 8-10pm Angie D’s Diva got Soul Show on VibeRide Podcast/radio Shows at 10-1am A Touch of Soul with Devon BBC urbanjazzradio.net Neo, 80’s, soulful house Derby 104.5fm, Notts 103.8fm & Lincs. 94.9fm VibeRide.org.uk 8-11pm Soulpower with Shaun Gallagher Dez Parkes, Marc Mac with an eclectic 12-2am Back to tha o’l skool on 90.8FM on www.soulpower-radio.com mix of black music via podcast on Strictly 80’s soul & Rap lightningfm.co.uk 8-10pm Nick Gunn’s Soul Armoury on www.newwaveradio.co.uk zeroradio.co.uk. Jazz, Funk, Soul & Boogie