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ISSUE 56 NOV-DEC 2014
CANDI STATON ALICIA MYERS MICA PARIS VIVY BEE BOB JEFFRIES and regular features
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Dear Fellow Soul Survivors
Welcome to Issue 56 wh ich I am proud to say is filled with girl power from America’s Candi Staton and Alicia Myers who both started their career s at a very young age and dealt with the conflicts of working in both the gospel and secular music arenas. We then have ou r own home grown sou th London artist Mica Paris and DJ Vivy Bee who have both fought for what they’ve got and pav ed the way for women of the future. These four inspiring wo men have a story to tell which they share with Fitzroy. Not satisfied with that, we crossed the boarder to hear from one of Scotland’s finest DJ’s Bob Jeffries who has appeared at every Southport and Bla ckpool Luxury Soul We ekender. In addition to the intervi ews, reviews and our reg ular features, Fitzroy has reviewed the controversial film North ern Soul which seems to have rat tled many a cage. Wow has he got something to say about this one….in fact a whole pag have always encouraged your reviews and though e!! We ts and now is no different. Please do n’t just sit on the fence let us know your thoughts; whether you agree or disagree we want to hear from you. Fitzroy would like to tha nk Natasha Bennett for the Candi Staton interview, Ralph Tee for Alicia Myers and Alexanda Von Preussen For Mica Paris. Have a good read, a gre at Ch Year....we’ll be back in Jan ristmas and even better New uary 2015.
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Candi became a musical child prodigy in the gospel world recording at a very young age and toured the gospel circuit with some pretty impressive future secular performers. Meeting many hurdles in her personal and professional life and as each decade unfolded Candi gave us memorable and pioneering recordings with her voice of distinction. As much as she is revered her story is enlightening and typical of the preconceived ideas we have of the artists we adulate from afar.
churches she used to oversee. We were hardly in school but got tuition from Bishop Jewell and then Naomi’s father Lorenzo decided to get us a recording contract. Our first song was done in LA and we went on the road with other singers and our music was being played on the radio. We then signed to Nashville Records, recorded 7 songs and were hailed as being the bomb of the day so everyone was interested in us. We
Tell us about life growing up in Alabama with your sister Maggie and Naomi Harrison, whom you formed the Jewell gospel group as teenagers touring the gospel circuit.
It was a family affair, my mother had separated from my alcoholic and gambling father. My oldest brother Sam moved to Cleveland Ohio and got married and asked us to relocate. Bishop Jewell had a church on Kinsman Avenue which we regularly attended on Tuesday nights where they would have a contest; I guess the American Idol of its time. Aged five, my sister and I had a vocal group called the Golden Echoes as we knew how to sing together and made an impact. Bishop Jewell, who had a chapel at the school was so excited that she teamed us up with her granddaughter Naomi Harrison who was 9 at the time, I was 11 and my sister was 13. With our mother’s blessing we attended the chapel and would perform to screaming kids. As we rehearsed more songs Bishop Jewell named us The Jewell Gospel Trio and took us around the 30
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worked with The 5 Blind Boys, Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, The Staple Singers and became a top of the line group until I was about 17. As teenagers we learned and saw that things weren't right with the finances. My sister got married and I left after a while, graduated and married a local boy and started having children. I thought my singing career had ended and stayed married for 7 years. Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls started singing secular music and I went to one of their concerts in Alabama. They both said they could get me signed to Capitol Records which
planted a seed for me to do that but my husband was very jealous and controlling. I’d led a sheltered life, he was abusive and I was very afraid of him and didn't know how to get away. My brother was a bully and so he made sure my husband didn’t get in the way so I finally managed to get out and recorded a song called Upper Hand in Birmingham, Alabama which didn't do anything but it’s now pretty hard to get. Apparently it goes for a lot of money as there were only about 1000 copies made. My second record was with producer Rick Hall of Muscle Shoals after meeting Clarence Carter at a club in Birmingham. Clarence asked me to open for him and introduced me to Rick who was looking for a new vocalist as Etta James had just left him. The first night he heard me sing three songs I’d Rather Be An Old Man’s Sweetheart, Never In Public and For You during that session. He decided to shop a record deal and that’s how I got started. Wow ok that’s some introduction. After your solo career took off you covered Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man which was kinda funky with a Gene Chandler Duke Of Earl flavour. You also covered Elvis Presley’s In The Ghetto. I discovered a version of you and Elvis singing alternate lines and it’s amazing. I don’t know how they managed to do it but it’s really good. I’ll send it to you.
I didn’t know about that.. it sounds a bit like what they did with Natalie and Nat King Cole’s version of Unforgettable. I look forward to hearing it. Sorry we’re digressing slightly, how did you come to record In The Ghetto?
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Alicia Myers Fitzroy talks to
Like Raphael Saadiq this Detroit Girl was one of those young gifted and black impressionable youngsters who grew up during the Motown explosion. Purely by naturally fated default Alicia Myers went on to become the lead female vocalist of the disco funk group One Way. Naively taking her gift for granted, Alicia progressed to exceeding any prior expectations and have a solo career in both the secular and gospel world. Read how she managed to “do her thang and still keep god in her life” ahead of her pending visit to Blackpool in Jan 2015.
You’re an original Detroit girl? Yes I was born and raised and still live in the city. I’m part of the Motown generation listening to The Supremes and all that great talent. Ok you’re the sixth of nine children I believe? Yeah ..you’ve done you’re homework. Indeed and your brother Jackie was in Chairman Of The Board? Yes and he’s now in the gospel arena and is the director of a family church here in Detroit, he’s still active in music as we write songs together and he travels a lot. I understand you got your start in a school talent show?
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Yes during high school at Detroit Eastern High that changed to Martin Luther King High in 1968 when I was only 10 years old. My family convinced me to enter the talent show with my brother, against my wishes I may add, to participate, as I didn't think I could sing. My brother Jackie was the talented one of the family but my grandmother, with her words of wisdom, said “Girl you better get in that talent show with that boy”. We won first place and from there we went to The Club in Detroit which most people were astounded to hear, with me being only 10 years old. Me and Jackie started dancing and doing duets of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and became part of local bands
and groups. One was called Sins Of Satan; don’t ask me why they were called that lol, but they later became known as Round Trip. I then went to Al Hudson and The Soul Partners, which became One Way. Were you not part of a group called The Mildtones? Yeah you know my history better than I do Fitzroy ha ha. I know this because I spoke with Al Hudson and Dave Roberson 2 years ago and Al mentioned he was friends with your parents and heard you sing. The Mildtones were fading out and he asked you to join his band around the time of the Happy Feet album. CONTINUED IN FULL EDITION!
youngster first hand. Ian who released the film’s sound track on Harmless Records shared with me that the music and dance scenes in the film made the hair on the back of his hands stand up, it was so frighteningly realistic.
Like Sam & Dave I'm a “Soul man” so “God made me funky” like the Headhunters and I'm also a “Jazz Freak” like Paulette Reeves. Over the eight years of our Soul Survivor history we've spoken to men and women from the north and south of the UK as well as the deep south, west and east coast of the USA and beyond, all hailing from various ethnic backgrounds and cultures. The defining link is their mutual love for SOUL (Sound Of Universal Love) MUSIC (Man Understanding Spiritual Information Clearly) of which the fundamental essence is BLACK (Benevolently Loving Afro Centric Knowledge).
This may be seen as a controversial Marmite review, you’re either gonna love and respect my honesty or you’re going to hate it’s bitter tasting TRUTH (Translating Real Unedited Tales Honestly)!! I was invited to one of the pre London screenings of the film Northern Soul which is based on the real life experience and research of Elaine Constantine who lived, ate and breathed that elite world of the UK norths industrial and working class teenage cultured generation. The story circa 1974 is based mainly around a lost teenager who becomes a young soul rebel by default by checking out his local youth club. He's befriended by an impressionable elder who introduces him to a world of exciting Motown esq music and drug induced heaven and eventually finds himself with many a like minded and predominantly white worshipping audience, at the dubbed Mecca club.. the Wigan Casino.
I tried to to get an interview that didn’t materialize with Elaine but I spoke with DJ and compilation guru Ian Dewhirst who experienced this euphoria as a
I get that it means something personal to the DJ’s, promoters and fans of that momentous period, however it didn’t make me feel that I missed out, like I felt I have with other music era’s that I wasn’t part of for whatever reason before and during my lifetime. I must stress that I’m NOT trying to add fuel to the ongoing fire of the north and south divide because like the OJay’s “I Love Music” far too much for that kind of triviality.
I feel strongly that this film had a perfect chance to educate a majority of people universally who had little or no knowledge of this phenomenon, but it chose only to serve the regional minority that celebrate it's ongoing legacy. Historically there are some blatant inaccuracies portrayed which provokes some poignant unanswered questions.
The Northern Soul era is the sub culture of an indigenous black American creation that many African Americans artists I’ve interviewed shared their concerns over the portrayed imbalance of that period. We know unequivocally where Southern Soul comes from. So please explain the illogicality of how the UK’s Northern Soul region whose area size compares to the USA’s state of Oregon, conquers an irrefutable African American sound and universally renames it causing confusion like they own but didn’t create it? Why is there's no reference to the importance of pirate radio stations like Radio Caroline breaking the music? Despite the fact that 1974’s Britain was a brewing racial melting pot why is the huge lack of integration not qualified? Considering the period’s demographics and hostile racial climate are we to believe that the film’s only biracial female having a relationship with a white teenage male would have no serious conflicting issues.
What it does show without reservation is the prelude to the 1980‘s acid house
scene, in how these kids indulged in an iniquity of enhancing stimulants. The violence shown could equally have been the back drop for the same decades football hooliganism story.
Why are these observations so important? It’s a film for god sake and you can’t include everything Fitzroy? (I hear some of you reading this cry) My answer is simply that It matters greatly, because without these missing pieces of the puzzle, people will sadly take this film as a factual documentation. Now this concerns me as a universal soul survivor whose’s spoken with many noted authorities including at least three that are respected as Northern Soul echelons. As a bi monthly magazine in an attempt to embrace the various branches of the soul tree, we have reached out for a regular Northern Soul inclusion in our publication, but thus far it’s been to no avail. In this film for the umpteenth time I’m seeing a denial of the real essence of black music when embraced by certain predominately caucasian audiences. It’s like revisiting the 1920’-1930’s “Prohibition Cotton Club” era where the black artists made and performed the music but only for the privileged white audiences to endure it. It’s what Gang Starr’s Guru was rapping about in the song from the Mo Better Blues film soundtrack “Jazz Thing” if you listen carefully.
Many are aware of the factual reality but treat it like a child who is seen and not heard. Well this music soul child has a voice and it’s to serve everyone regardless of our ethnic background. Collectively, as a so called “Soul Family”, we have a responsibility to deliver accounts with equilibrium otherwise the non qualification will continue to cause a division amongst those who love black music. A catchphrase from the TV program hosted by the comedian Roy Walker comes to mind here when he’d talk to the contestants trying to work out the obscured image’.. “Say what you see”. See the film and form your own opinions..this is my mine.
Peace love and nuff unity Fitzroy of Soul Survivors, music lover, dj, journalist, musicologist and humanitarian.
We’ve done this before so we’ll keep it simple. I’ve been fortunate to DJ for you over the last two years at Jazz Cafe, Camden and people are coming out to hear the old stuff but anticipating the new. So how were those two gigs for you? Oh it was great and because I’ve done so many other things over the past 25 years, when I come back to music it’s like a breath of fresh air for me and it doesn't get boring. It feels new and I’d probably get sick of it if it was all I did. I’ve done TV, radio and the media stuff that’s taken me from doing the one album a year routine. I’ve done a fashion TV show and a show on Radio 2 but I do miss it as I need to evolve and work with lots of people and to be thrown into situations that I’m not used to. Speaking of which, last year there were rumours you were going to do an album with Rod Temperton. We did it already, it’s done. It took us two years to record at his place outside of London. He does everything including all the instruments and only used two outside musicians, Tommy Bucari who mixed Michael Jackson’s stuff and Jerry Hey who did horns for Michael and Earth Wind & Fire. I’ve given people a sneak preview of that and in between in the past year I’ve been working with the Freemasons on their projects and this I believe will be coming out before my album with Rod. Their stuff is more now where as Rod’s is a beautiful album and, don’t get me wrong, it’s not as current in terms of style. The Freemason stuff will fit in with what the younger generation want. They are more house producers aren't they? Pretty much and that’s how they make hits. We spent four months on the project, which doesn't feature just us, but we did three songs and are the feature of the album. It’s so current and sounds wicked. So when’s the release date on that? That’s gonna be next year as we don’t want to go into the Christmas rush. So how are you shaping up for the We Love Soul Event? I’m good and I’ll be in my zone because you know me, when I’m up there I’m off. I cannot explain the feeling of when you can connect creatively with that spirit. It’s quite a fitting gig because it’s a late Xmas early New Year treat. Totally and the London crowd love
those 90’s tunes I wrote which is weird as I don’t get that anywhere else. They like Care Free, Should Have Known Better and South Of The River. I think it’s because it’s the soundtrack to their lives and because you were so unique as an artist when you came out they’ll have fond memories of those tunes. It’s a beautiful and amazing thing to have and I don’t take it for granted. Im waiting for you to do Love Bizarre. It’s funny I wrote that with Max Beesley and it was the B side of Two In A Million and a wicked tune. I don’t know if enough people know it, which is why I hesitate to do it as it’s a serious music lover tune. That’s why every time I see you I ask if you’re gonna perform it. I think if you slipped that in I could imagine everyone going through their Mica albums to find it. Yeah Yeah it’s a rare tune, which again is why I think not many know it. I remember I did perform it at the Jazz Cafe about 18 years back and I’d just written it. With Andy Gungadin, Jason Robello, Howard on keys and Max on drums; I had a wicked band then. We dropped it and people went absolutely nuts and you know I might take you up on it now thinking about it. There you go. Now you’ve worked with a lot of People - Omar, Leon Ware, Prince wrote you a song and you covered Eric Benet’s You’re The Only One. Will we see you collaborating with any of those again? No, but it was a time when I also worked with Bobby Womack on I Wish I Never Met You..have you heard it? No I haven’t. You need to check that out, I wrote it with him in LA and it’s a wicked tune. I also worked with James Ingram. I’m very open to work with people but I never approach them, I only ever did that with Omar. When I wrote Shoulda Known Better I’d heard There’s Nothing Like This and wanted to get a remix done so I asked my record company if they could get hold of him and that was the only time. Everyone you mentioned approached me as I don’t like to push myself on people and this business is fickle. If you’re not being played on the radio and don’t push yourself up on people, people are not quick to work with you and you have to be hot. There are new people like Rudimentals, who I’m up for working with cause I love music and collaborations and creating new things and I believe things come to you.
I actually wonder if anyone’s gonna be astute enough to revamp Young Soul Rebels because people young and old are still young soul rebels at heart. Absolutely and when we did the song in the melody at Jazz Cafe people went crazy. I haven’t performed that song for years not realising people still want to hear it. Alex suggested to do a melody of all the songs which worked and I’m open to anyone who wants to do that and some of my other older songs. There’s a method in my madness Mica as people reading this include producers and remixers. Yeah I hear ya. You’ve not changed at all Mica despite the fame, fortunes and bad times which you shared in our last interview. Oh Fitz the pain is incredible and you have to hang on in there as it does get better. You’ve gotta go through it and you can’t have the dream without some suffering to achieve it. They don’t teach you this growing up, every time something bad happens, something good follows because when it was shit I didn’t quit. Don’t get me wrong it hurts like hell but when I’m on stage, it’s like I’m in heaven. Well we are both of Jamaican stock and in our culture when things get tough we just kiss out teeth and say “Churrrh” and do ya ting!! Yeah that’s right and we’ve been through it historically in this country as people of colour we’ve had it hard. When I speak to my friends in America Chaka Khan and Natalie Cole, not to name drop but I’ve known them for 20 years, they say that I should be up there making it. I say I would if I was in the States as they support of being a talented black artist. I was the first one doing what I do in the UK at the time and before me we had Sade who’s great and we love her but she’s not a gospel singer. It’s a completely different sound and I’m more like the yanks so the UK industry were not used to my sound and didn't know what to do with me. I feel like I’m trail blazing and I don’t mind it because it helped open the door for people like Beverley Knight. You don’t always need commercial music to sell, it does help but if you are consistently good, you’ll always have an audience. I make a tune for the charts and then one for the street and that’s how when radio is no longer playing your shit, the street never forgets what you gave them. Thanks Fitz see you soon.
MICA PARIS talks to Fitzroy
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A proud south Londoner, Arsenal fan and a primal screaming gospel sensation Mica Paris has been banging the drum for the UK soul sisters for nearly three decades now. Diversifying into radio and TV presenting along the way Mica is still doing her music and live performances with the same energy and sense of humour she had from day one. Ahead of her London date at We Love Soul we had a catch up on her “Carefree” attitude and “Contribution” to being a “Young Soul Rebel” with a cause!!
Record reviews
The festive record reviews include a seasona greeting from EWF, 2 classic reissues from a lyrical messenger, a vocal jazz scat specialist and a contemporary rare groove slow jammer. Mixing it up with some cultural soulful reggae, african house, two compilations, some remix albums and 2 current and impressionable male jazz vocalists, there’s definitely something for everyone to choose as an appropriate pressie..So enjoy Steve Arrington - Way Out 80-84 (Tummy Touch) Taking you way out and back to his Hall Of Fame and Positive Power albums, Steve “The Invade” Arrington’s 80-84 collection releases some unreleased tracks from that vintage period vaults. CD 1 supplies 12 of the best from the two aforementioned album classics including Weak At The Knees, Way Out, Beddie Biey, Nobody Can be You, Mellow As A Cello and What Do You Want From Me. CD2 hosts Steve’s vintage recordings of his Salsoul single Summertime Loving and Way Out’s B side Special FX. Spiritual Interludes come courtesy of Tribute To Trane and Hyperspace whilst the rest of the tracks take a more funk rock with soul avenue as exampled on Funk & Roll Rock, Why, Crazy Bout You and Mysterious Woman. Steve sings in the 1980-84 vocal pitch alongside a current live band to bring credence to how they would have sounded 30 years back. Interesting!! Holiday - EW&F (Sony) For the first time in their 40 plus years recording history the ‘mighty mighty” EWF take on a seasonal album. With the familiar gospel vocals and emphatic Pheonix Horns ensemble sound that has resonated with the world, this was a no brainer. You’ll experience many staple festive hymns and sit around the log fire classics with some alternative jazzy swing and funky arrangements. Amongst them are Away In A Manger, Joy To The World and a Sun Goddess simulation of O Come All Ye Faithful. Jingle Bell Rock, Little Drummer Boy and Winter Wonderland are diversely different from the originals and based on two EWF anthems September and Happy Feelings which get a subtle vocal revamp becoming December and Happy Seasons quite ingeniously. Overtones of Fantasy lie within What Child Is This and the Kalimba instrument makes its presence felt throughout the album. Helping those to “See The Light” EWF get spiritual......again!! Reel People (Remixes) Reel People Music As one of the few live music bands within the UK soul realm Reel People are also sought after remixers. Featured are 25 tracks from established and unestablished talents opening with an uptempo transformation of Heston’s I Resign To You and the nu disco mix of Choklate’s Tea. The Incognito camp has Tony Momrelle’s Fly and Incognito’s Freedom To Love carry the afro and latin percussive torch and Maysa’s Runnin’ embracing a moody moog bass line groove. Almost as a fitting tribute Randy Crawford and the late Joe Sample’s Respect Yourself is included alongside and deep and eerie sensual 4/floor mix of Leon Wares Work Me. New girl on the block Debra Debs delivers a bubbly Jill Scott esq Fizzy Lemonade before an uplifting 80’s feel on Muzart’s The Party After. Check out the bongo capturing Nights In Africa and BSTC’s military drummed Love It as part of the album’s diversity. Real music from Reel People. Ralf Gum - In My City (GoGo) Experimenting with the esoteric and tribal sound of South Africa today’s later day Giorgio Moroder German producer Ralf Gum conjures up a subtly nice piece of African influenced rhythms. Unlike others who tackle a more complicated formular, Ralf keeps his production simple but effective presenting his digital and analogue components as an alive vibe. Africa’s main man with the horn Hugh Masakela displays this trumpet brilliance on With Her Hand and In The City. With strong almost falsetto vocals mixed with 4/floor and broken afro beat gusto, male contenders Jocelyn Mathiue’s Our Love Is A Star and Kalele’s A Brighter Dream are uplifting. With some diversity on this album I’m feeling the hypnotic syncopated and oozing combination delivered on The Pap by Monique Bingham and the Patrick Adams type synth on My Angel feat KB. Omar steps out of his comfort zone and sounds quite elevated on Love Core. The Best Thing lends from the late 80’s acid days, closing an interesting piece of musical freedom!! Don E - Future Rare Grooves (www.don-emusic.com) Creating the memories of rubbing off wallpaper or simulating the R Kelly lil “bump & grind” in the boudoir is selling this album concept by the bucket load. With the unique UK Caribbean twist on the USA template script and killer beats Don-E harmonises his zephyr vocals over ten seductive grown and sexy nice and easy grooves. There are some teasing Future Jing interludes included amongst the salacious openers Big Peeeeple Tings duet with the versatile Natasha Watts and Feelin U. A throwback to the underground and blues party classic jamz I Got It!! Live It Up Propa, Without Your Love and You’re Special are inspired by two step classics Open Up Your Heart, Lover To Lover, The Fruit Song and an immortal Body Fusion. As exampled on his 1992 debut album with Unbreakable and Mystery this is Don-E’s comfortable musical chair when he’s making “mellow mellow” tunes like Lowrell. Gwarn Bad Bwoy!! ( 18 www.thesoulsurvivors.co.uk
Soul Togetherness 2014 (Expansions) Perfect for the modernist ahead of the festive seasonal pressies list ST2014 is at large like Dave Allen. Three of the established UK soul ambassadors Paul Johnson, Lisa Stansfield and Glen Goldsmith get the smooth musical Soul Talk remix touch. There is some vocal elegance from Lalah Hathaway on Shine and stepping in the name of love is the usually balladeering R&B smoothy Joe. From the vintage vaults of 1978 I’m happy like Pharrell that Linda Clifford’s sublime I Can’t Let This Good Thing Get Away is amongst this menage of nu classic soul. LSW favourie son Eric Benet’s Harriet Jones gets a surprisingly uplifting Cool Million mix whilst Tracy Hamlin gets a downtempo mix of her house versioned Luther classic. I can see the floor jumpin’ jumpin’ like Destiny’s Child to a bumping J Holiday’s Thinking about You. For those who like more oomph The Company’s Superstar and Tyrone Lee’s Get My Life Back reach 120 BPM on the richter scale. Another Forest Gump selection of musical munchies!! Psalms - Right Time (Congo) Always introduced by Omar as his lil sister Psalms aka Samir takes centre stage and drops her own conscious lyrical compositions with a mixture of lovers rock, soul, R&B and afro influences. Relax Your Mind is a nice melodic introduction to the cultural Caribbean spiritual enlightenment laced throughout this album. Aided by her father Byron and brother Scratch Proffesser who produce and master this selection respectively, Psalms gets afro funky like Manu Dibango on Dreamz Come True. Like Eargasm this is lovers rock territory when listening to Psalms’ effortless and sanctified voice on Right Time, Paradise Supreme and Smile. Her soulfulness graces a Roy Ayers themed Happy Day and entwines like vines around a branch on the haunting and percussive Pure Love. Not leaving out her big bro she co writes Angel with Omar and gets seductive on To Be With You Only and vocally shimmers over Move To The Groove. Beautiful testimonial music in the hands of a prospective beholder.
Gil Scott Heron - Free Will (BGP) If ever the creator sent a minister of information to planet earth, it was in the personification of Gil Scott Heron. This CD comes with extra bonus 13 takes of the original 1972 prophetic album. Much of what Gil Scott preaches back then in the 20th century is relevant in the social and political arena’s of the 21st. Free Will is surely an inspiration to the pioneering UK drum & bass sound and I always loved the empathy and depth of Gils voice on Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues and Did You Hear What They Said? If some are sceptic of his visionary foresight someone please explain how Ain’t No New Thing resonates still 42 years later like the tolls of a church bell? His flexibility between song and poetry percussion shows why he and the Last Poets’s conscious words woke up the black and scared the white populations in America with short interludes The King Alfred Plan and No Knock. Awesome!!
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The Janet Lawson Quintet (BBE) This is so easy to critique because it was one of the most electrifying jazz dance albums of 1981. Janet Lawson was an accomplished jazz scat vocalist who surpassed herself on the infamous fast and furious double bass rumbling So High. Many who flocked The Horseshoe and Electric Ballroom Friday nights in London and jazz arenas in the UK would have needed a respirator after dancing to that. With a less emphatic but equally classy straight ahead number Nothin’ Like You Janet and her air tight quintet became immortal jazz icons. Taking things so much further than Judy Roberts with You Promised Janet’s vocal gymnastics backflipped and triple jump somersaulted moreso on my second album favourite a mesmerizing Sunday Afternoon. Included in this package are 4 bonus tracks from The Miles Davis Sessions Versions that are predominately of a melancholy nature unfortunately however Joshua has flashes of another So High. Worth having if you don’t know this!! Jarrod Lawson - Jarrod Lawson (Dome) From Portland Oregon home of super band Pleasure its time to embrace ‘Special Things” from Jarrod Lawson. Do not be surprised if the jazzy soul elements of Donald Fagan, Omar, Stevie Wonder, D’Angelo meets the universal conscious mind of Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott Heron and Donny Hathaway arouse you. Jarrod is an accomplished pianist with a voice unlike the blue eyed soul of Jamie Cullum and Jay Kay, that resinates with the deeper DNA of the aforementioned. He has congealed his craft to a perfection on Music And It’s Magical Way, a D’Angelo Spanish Joint pt2 Sleepwalkers and He’s Here. Dome have struck gold here with Jarrod’s package of live instrumentation, everyday global social commentary and lyrical flow as an album debut. With titles like Redemption and a Stevie Wonder moog influenced Spiritual Eye, Jarrod’s immediate stamp reminds me of the impacting late Teena Marie’s Wild & Peaceful debut back in 78’. My inner-vision mind predicts a future collaboration with Gregory Porter!! Gregory Porter Issues Of Life Features And Remixes (Membrane) Completing my jazz trio of reviews is the Bill Withers griot of jazz Gregory Porter. Exploring various genres of the music spectrum with such a precision of musicians and story telling skill, I found this previously unreleased material compelling to listen to. Gregory scats with the ease of Ella Fitzgerald and Eddie Jefferson on Moanin’. Fantastic sax sonics enhance Be My Monster a tale of animal attraction and a funky Grover Washington Black Forest type groove on Issues Of Life. Gregory sings real truths in rearing positivity for the young ones in About The Children which has a long but intriguing instrumental break. He easily slam dunks the funk upon Just In Time and a wooing tale She Gone and like The J5‘s Hallelujah Day check out the crazy frenzy of Army Of The Faithful. Lastly Song Of The Wind features Gil Scott’s Heron’s partner Brian Jackson’s Midnight Band and D Booker, daughter of Flora Purim and Airto, the latter parent also playing percussion. Simply unstoppable!! Night Dubbing II - Imagination (ISM) Imagination defined the electro moog disco sound of the 80‘s from the UK to universal worldwide acclaim. Original drummer Errol Kennedy and Yam Who’s ISM label owner Andy “come together” like Kool & The Gang and re create Night Dubbing II, an update of the pioneering 1983 release. Enlisting the maestro skills of illuminating remixers including John Morales, Kon and Late Nite Tuff Guy, the project features very subtle to quite abstract versions of Imagination’s catalogue. Just An Illusion, Changes and the Night Dubbing remix of Body Talk are very true to the first recordings as opposed to the diversity of the Flashback, Burning Up and J Kriv’s Body Talk mixes. The package is certainly dance floor friendly with a slight flavour geared more towards the commercial than underground ears. There’s alternative mixes of both Body Talk and Music & Lights so you are spoilt for choice. This could be ‘So Good, So Right” as a festive present!! Northern Soul (The Soundtrack) Harmless This soundtrack features some exciting tracks from quite a few cross over artists that made their mark in the future modern era as well. Edwin Starr, Shirley (Soul Time) Ellis, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (The Night), Marvin Gaye, Eddie Holman, Eloise Laws and Melba Moore take centre stage on the Northern Soul forum. In recent years I’ve appreciated the changing 4/floor rhythms of tunes like Don Thomas Come On Train and the cross over Tom Moulton remixed It Really Hurts Me Girl by The Carstairs, most definitely and the interchanging funk within The Crows exceptional Your Autumn Of Tomorrow. Flying out the shops quicker than a sub missle it’s a great pressie for the Northern fans. Fitzroy
Mood Swing - Eric Nolan (Boy Wonder Records) Hailing from a mighty fine pedigree "The O'Jays" no less, Eric Nolan Grant brings us this mighty fine album "Mood Swing". From the get go you know you're in for a treat. Opening up with "Do My Thang" a real jam session sounding joint and the musicianship not only on this track but throughout the whole album is second to none. As you progress through listening to the album from the smooth "Remind Me", the awesome "I Miss You", the fabulous cover of Anita Baker's "You Bring Me Joy", the soulful back in the day "Give Her Love" to the ballad “When You Cry”. One thing is apparent Eric's vocal range is awesome and so wonderful he charms you throughout each track as he tells you a story. The songs are well written and the production is excellent, this album is one of those rare one's where you press play and listen from start to finish. An essential album you need to have in your collection for all soul music fans. If you ain't feelin' this you aint got a pulse! Ash Selector (Solar Radio)
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VIVY BEE of Soul Network
talks to Fitzroy
Local girl Vivy from the “Tooting Popular Soul Front” is a revolutionary like Wolfie Smith in giving herself and her followers that essential ‘power to the people’ who love that rough, rugged and raw street soul from the mid 1980’s. From pirate radio to hustling in a predominately male domain as a focused DJ, entrepreneur and business woman, Vivy runs a successful 20 year venture Soul Network for mature music lovers. She is in fact making Soul Survivors history unconsciously as the first female DJ/ Promoter featured interview in 8 years. Dubbed the Vibe Mistress read how she juggles her music career with being a mum.
At what point did you discover soul music and where did you go? Basically in my family when the kids got to a certain age we were given bikes but I opted for a record player. I used to purchase 7 inch records in WH Smiths when I was about 8. Was it specifically soul music or other genres as well? No it was soul music but I didn’t know it at the time and the first record I bought was Too Little Too Late by Denice Williams and Johnny Mathis. As a teenager I was hooked up with a pirate radio station called Quest FM and remember waiting in the local phone boxes to make requests for the radio shows. I used to go to a club called Flickers in Tooting and that’s where the dj’s from the radio station played which would have been my biggest influence for sure. What DJ’s were playing and how young were you? Gary M who ran the station Tony Paul, Mark Anderson who were local south London DJ’s. I was 18 and playing things like Surface Happy; Street Sound’s Love Ballad Love Box sticks out as a memory. So the kind of soul you liked was more the mid tempo and two step rare groove. Were you influenced by your older sister’s music at all? Yeah definitely things like Body Fusion by Starvue but I wasn’t really influenced by my sisters as they liked a totally different sound to what I liked and when the 90’s hip hop and R&B came in that was right up my street. When you started playing out what kind of gigs were you doing before you started Soul Network? I did house parties and weddings for people like my friend Jane Jackson. I had the records so people used to ask me to DJ. At what point did you learn to mix? Around that same time actually. What happened was that we used to hang around the radio station’s studio and one day it got raided. Gary asked me to take over whilst he went to sort out the rig which was elsewhere. I thought shit, what 22 www.thesoulsurvivors.co.uk
am I gonna do and just grabbed some of his records and covered the show. There was a big response from people phoning up asking who was playing and saying it was a wicked show and that’s how I made my mark. From the radio show I started doing mix tapes and practicing my mixing. I’ve heard from various people who bought your mix tapes that you used to travel the whole of London distributing them, how did this play a part in the beginnings of Soul Network? I used to get on the tube in the early morning like I was going to work hustling all over London with a bag full of tapes. That’s how people know me because I’d go into the shops and ask if they liked soul music and if they answered yes, persuade them to buy a mix tape and then invite them down to Soul Network. That’s the real ground route of Soul Network. The very first Soul Network was a function room in Tooting but we held residency at Heavenly Wine Bar in Garrett Lane Tooting. There were about 10 other people involved at the start and we had an idea that if we brought 10 people each, we’d have a 100 for a party. I suggested that we all liked soul and we were networking so it was my idea to name it Soul Network. As a collective we had different ideas and parted ways so it ended up being myself and Mick who’s my eldest daughter Lucy’s father running it in the early days. This was 1994 and the tunes that stick in my mind are Mary J Bliges’s first album and Brandy’s Best Friends. So whilst running Soul Network you were also residing at the Emporium in King Street W.1 Yeah that’s where I met Tony Rodriguez and it was on a Thursday Night. It started at Embargo in Chelsea on a Monday night and I was surprised that so many people came out on a Monday. I became involved after seeing a flyer in my sound man’s studio. With me running Soul Network I curiously rang up the flyers contact number and asked what’s Soul Central about. Me and Dennis Brown spoke swapping notes and upon discovering I was a female DJ he booked me. They stuck me in room 2 warming up and room one emptied completely to listen to me in room two. CONTINUED IN FULL EDITION!
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Back Issues
If you have missed out on any of these interviews, we have a selection of back issues here waiting for you! Issue 2
Issue 9 Leroy Burgess Joy Denalane
Issue 16 Gwen Dickey Tommy Stewart Tribute to Froggy
Issue 23 Smokey Robinson Larry Graham Mint Condition Angela Johnson
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Issue 10 Jean Carne April Hill Omar pt2
Issue 17 Larry Blackmon Barbara Roy
Issue 24 Shaun Escoffery N’Dambi Greg Wilson Rob Hardt
Issue 4 Tributes to James Brown
Issue 11 Dez Parkes Will Downing
Issue 25 Nile Rodgers Philip Bailey Keni Burke
Issue 5 Jocelyn Brown
Issue 12 Chris Hill Jeffrey Daniel
Issue 18 Bluey Leon Ware Lenny Williams Hi St Soul Eric Benet Issue 19 Mica Paris Noel McKoy Erik Rico
Issue 26 Randy Muller Leroy Hutson Gordon Mac
Issue 6 Tashan Beggar & Co
Issue 13 Melba Moore George Power
Issue 20 Thelma Houston Eric Roberson Paul ‘Touble’ Anderson
Issue 27 Michael Henderson Teena Marie pt2 Richard Searling Ralph Tee
Issue 21 Teena Marie Chaka Khan Steve Arrington Maxwell John Morales
Issue 28 Tributes to Teena Marie Gary Dennis Conya Doss Heston
Issue 7 Dr Bob Jones
Issue 14 Frankie Beverly Ronald Khalis Bell Amp Fiddler
Issue 8 Omar MBE
Issue 15 Brand New Heavies Colin Curtis John Legend
Issue 22 Mary Davis Teddy Riley Chauncey Black Freddie Lee
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Tribute to Dick Griffey
Issue 29 Eddie Amoo Alex Lowes Les Spaine
Back issues all available at £1.50 each or full set available (excl 1) with annual membership for £69 Issue 30 Patrice Rushen Morgan Khan Adriana Evans
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Issue 47 Trevor Nelson Sugarhill Gang Rose Royce
Issue 41 Caron Wheeler Omar MBE Rob Hardt
Issue 48 The McKoys Don-E Steve Arrington pt2 Personal Life
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Issue 51 Roy Ayers Linda Clifford Ralph Johnson Natasha Watts Gregory Porter
Issue 52 Norman Connors Michael Henderson Lisa Stansfield Eric Roberson
Issue 53 Chaka Khan Archie Bell Robert Cray Bashiyra Sandra St Victor Alex Lowes Issue 54 Eddie Levert Norman Jay MBE Vladimir Cetkar
Issue 55 Marlon McClain Wayne Henderson Angela Johnson Shaun Escoffery Eric Roberson
Issue 50 Leee John Andrew Roachford Carleen Anderson Fred Wesley D VJ & L Wesker
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BOB JEFFRIES Talks to Fitzroy
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I’ve known Bob for about 8 years now and he seems to have enormous respect around the DJ and club attending fraternity considering he’s quite a modest and proud Scotsman. Getting bitten by the soul bug at a time where some native Bay City Rollers where waving the Tartan flag and flared trousers, Bob managed to play to a large number of soulful fans at an early age to becoming a long term resident at two of the Uk’s long running soul weekenders. Working with some of the north and north east’s finest like Richard Searling and Colin Curtis along the way.
Where are you from - originally in Scotland? I came from Dundonald - which is on the west coast near Kilmarnock. How did you come across soul music and how did that grow to you clubbing then to djing? In our area there wasn't a lot of black music and it tended to be one offs. I started going out about 1977 to a local club on a Sunday called the Claremont Hotel and the guy, Terry Quinn, who ran it became a friend of mine and introduced me to black music. At the time they played everything in the same room so you’d hear mid 70-late 70’s funk, R&B, jazz and some reggae tracks. Only me and a couple of friends at my school were into black music but then you find similar numbers in the next town. How prevalent was Northern Soul at the time? I came through a jazz funk background and it was only around 1980 that I came across what’s termed as Northern Soul. When I spoke to the late Fran Franklin she told me there were none or hardly any blacks in Scotland at the time so what was the ratio of integration if there was any at all? In our area, a small town, absolutely none and we were 30 miles outside of Glasgow. I didn’t hit Glasgow till about 4 years later and even then there was hardly any. A good friend of mine, Segun, whose parents came from Nigeria started djing in the late 70’s and he was the only kid like me I moved with.
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At what point did you start djing? Around 1977-78 when our local youth club decided to buy some decks and they didn't have anyone interested in playing. So me and my friend Danny Kilpatrick had a little collection of records and started playing there. I was approached by a local guy and moved to doing mobile disco playing, predominantly black music, and with cross over tracks as well and working six nights a week. So how old were you in 1977. I was born in 1959 so about 18-19. So what were you listening to before you got into black music? At school all of my friends were into the chart music around 14-15 and I’d see some black artists on Top Of The Pops and veered more towards that music. So you are trying to tell me you were not part of the Bay City Rollers brigade?? Ha ha ha no I probably dressed in some of the clothes though. Ok so when did you migrate into doing the clubs? Terry Con heard that I was playing out quite a lot and I worked at the Darlington Hotel, which held over a thousand people on a Saturday Night. Then around 1979-80 I worked at the biggest club, Bobby Jones, and ran all dayers in the early 1980’s at that club. Ok as we both discovered recently, my friend and initial DJ mentor Cleveland Anderson is a mutual connection. Cleveland was a local DJ who lived 10 minutes up the road from me and was quite a character. He’s very small but stocky, dressed outlandishly and freaky for the late 1970’s with bleached processed hair, earrings, nose ring and he stood out. We became mates and he used to educate me with tunes like Sonny Stitt’s Slick Eddie, Doug Richardson’s Salsa Mama and much to my dismay Cat Steven’s Was Dog A Donut. He went missing for three years up in Scotland after Billie Davidson and Dave Waters supplied him with plenty of work. Yeah Dave Waters used to run a club in Paisley called Paris and Cleveland worked with him for quite a few years. I was doing all dayers in Scotland, Middlesborough, Newcastle and the north of England and it was Billy who got me to do things in Aberdeen at Stonehaven. There’s a good friend of mine called John Keir whose house I used to go to in a rough part of Glasgow and similar to you and Cleveland, he’d let me listen to tunes. Cleveland told me about clubs like Panama Jack and The Warehouse? Yeah I remember those and Henry Africa’s in Glasgow and this is a strange turn around from 30 years ago. A black guy I used to meet in Henry Africa’s who DJ’d a bit called Nicky Korank and I did a night last week and saw him for the first time in 30 years. He’s still into the music. What was it about Cleveland, who comes from down south, that made him so popular that he could come and have residencies and eventually live in Glasgow for three years? I think, like you described, he was a one off and there was no one who looked like him in our area and he had an infectious personality. He was good at getting people to get into his thing and he mixed with a lot of DJ’s so he stuck out. SEE THE FULL EDITION FOR THE REST!!
Event reviews/letters Soul Scenario Ipswich - Sat 30th August Dean Hurd invited me up to Ipswich to play along side him for the second time in a year. Mixing up tunes like Shirley & Co Shame Shame Shame, Sex Machine mash up and other retro 70’s bump and hustle grooves Dean laid the structure of how the night would flow. Really busy and relaxed audience to play to I followed suit with a not so deep retro but funky 70’s with a 2000 lick set for quite a trendy set of revelers who danced like extra’s from Saturday Night Fever. As well as the locals there were a few who traveled from London to “taste the music” like Kleeer. Quite enjoyable!! FF The OJays at Indigo2 - 17th September One of my favourite vocal trios from Ohio came to the Indigo2 after a 26 year absence from the UK. Although it wasn't full to capacity on the first of two nights, people had travelled far and wide to experience 50 plus years of professionalism from Eddie Levert, Walter Williams and Eric Grant. Although they didn't perform many songs I personally wanted to hear, they did all their classics Love Train, I Love Music, You Used To Be My Girl, For The Love Of Money, Give The People What They Want and BackStabbers. One of the highlights was when Eddie invited someone up on stage to share the limelight as he sang this favourite of mine Family Reunion. Non other than Soul Survivor member Sue Chrispin hurdled the railings in front of the stage and just melted as she hugged Eddie for dear life: you had to be there. It was her accompanying brother Steve's 50th and a birthday he'll always remember. Alas we didn't hear Put Our Heads Together or Favourite Person which I know they rectified on the full to capacity crowd the next evening but they gave a very polished performance. Slick moves, smart suits and voices that have stood the test of time are why This Time Baby these Philadelphia musikateers reign supreme for me in bringing The Message In The Music. FF Mica Paris at Jazz Cafe - 19th September Mica commands the stage with her humour and audience interaction and of course singing with her rip roaring voice. We were treated to new tracks that from a forthcoming album she's done with Rod Temperton and a melody of some of her finest anthems. One Temptation, Carefree, South Of The River, Shoulda Known Better and a welcomed Young Soul Rebels satisfied her loyal fans for sure. Her band made some of those studio produced records sound very lively on the Jazz Cafe stage. Mica surely made a great “Contribution” to the Friday night start to the weekend.. Catch Mica Sunday 28th December at We Love Soul at Scala Kings Cross. FF Soul Network 20th Anniversary, Revolution - 20 Sept Starting off 20 years ago in a small wine bar to becoming one of London’s most pre sold big people's soul gigs is no mean feat. Vivy B pulled out the stops, the balloons, champagne and food eateries that could have passed for a wedding reception. Two rooms of over 600 people celebrated like Kool & The Gang from 10pm-4am, dressed to impress at a good old fashioned east end knees up. It was also my 10th year of residency so alongside Darrell and Colin
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Williams we spun the uptempo jazz funk boogie and broken beat soulful house with Viv, Tony Rodriguez and Mark Williams dropping the party set in the main room. It was like Shalimar a Night To Remember and the next one is at the Heron Tower Sat 15th November. FF (Soul Expressions) Soul Brothers & Soul Sister Novotel Stevenage - 4th October This was held in a large conference type space in a hotel and had a good attendance that travelled from Luton, Northampton, Ealing, Croydon and beyond. Stevie Day was getting the mature mixed crowd in the mood before Natasha Watts gave another typical audience interaction performance. We Love Soul and Soul II Soul's long serving HB blended some classic 90’s dance floor fillers and retro 80's keeping the floor busy before I came on and supplied the fling foot selection. Next one is December 20th in the old town of Stevenage..see advert for more info. FF Hamish Stuart @ Jazz Cafe - 9th October The ex falsetto voice and guitarist of Scotland's most renowned soul and funk outfit Average White Band played to quite a busy Thursday evening audience bearing in mind it was a school night. This was an excuse for me to dig out some Isley Bro's, Caesar Frasier and Jon Lucien pieces to warm up the audience before and after the gig. Hamish was full of energy with and without his guitar and revisited some of the AWB, Person To Person, Love Of My Own, Queen Of My Soul classics and presented his show like it was an audience with Hamish Stuart with plenty of humourous banter. His band were most definitely an adequate one recreating some of the memorable AWB repertoire. To finish a rendition of Pick Up The Pieces had everyone reliving their youth of the 1970's and considering there was an England game on that night I think the Tartan Army were loyal to Hamish. Great night! FF Embassy Soul Weekender Marks Tey - 10-12th October This was my third year in a row of spinning at the Embassy Soul Weekender which gets bigger each year. Familiar and new faces came out early on a busy Friday night to see ‘born a star’ Natasha Watts who ploughed through some slight unprecedented technical faults and delivered on point as usual. Myself and Ash Selector played the Get Down Friday Night platters that matter. Because of DJ duties upstairs I was unable to teleport myself to the second room to comment. Saturday afternoon after a session in the gym, myself George Kay, Ash Selector and Dave VJ were panelists for the Master Of The Airwaves book Q&A session in the bar area of the hotel. It was an interesting incite into the humble beginnings of our DJ careers that apparently those in attendance thoroughly enjoyed. Saturday Night was very busy and Georgie B gave a welcomed old school revival flavoured PA before local maker and shaker Ray Keith spun a classic jazz funk and soul set. Myself, Ash and Ipswich Soul Scenario’s Dean Hurd in the mix continued the party that finished at 6 am with Andy Turtill and Frostie. Nice one Jay, Andy and Chaz for another relaxing and enjoyable weekend..bookings already being taken for 2015. FF
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Where you can find Fitzroy in Nov/Dec 2014 & Jan 2015
8/11 - Throwbaak at POW Brixton 7/12 - Xmas Soul Boat Temple Pier 2-7pm sold out 20/12 - The Over 30’s Xmas Party Venue Bar Stevenage 2-4th Jan 2015 - Luxury Soul Weekender Blackpool
Southport Heritage Weekender - 17-19 October It was a bit of a Timewarp revisiting the Butlins site but as soon as I saw the familiar faces welcoming me as I got my pass and accommodation that surreality brought back fond memories. I opened the Funkbase Friday night till vocal supremacist Angela Johnson performed with a live band treating those attending to her amazing rendition of Lady T's Déjà Vu. Simon School Boy Phillips, DJ Diggz and Steve Wren mixed up some hip hop and RNB Flava Of The Old School like Bev Knight just for openers. I checked out Byron Stingly in the Powerhouse and his falsetto voice of glass shattering proportions performed Devotion, That’s The Way Love Is and Get Up Everybody signatures. I caught bits of Ashley Beedle rocking the Connoisseur Corner and Paul Trouble in da mix with Mike Dunn’s Phreaky and the Trackheads VsTweet mash up played twice, it went down so well. After a good nights kip I popped into the Funkbase where Terry Jones, Andy Davis and Bob Jeffries warmed up the Funkbase before a lastmin.com sub bench change occured. Literally less than Kiefer Sutherland’s 24 hours before the weekender commenced both Keni Burke and Leroy Hutson were unable due to unforeseen circumstances to appear. Quick thinking and Speedy Gonzales negotiations secured the Queen Of The Philly Scene Jean Carn to fly over and give a “sweet & wonderful” performance to a full house Funkbase Saturday afternoon. This was special and Jean received such warm adulation considering the circumstances. You could tell that the weekender had kicked into another gear by 4pm as all afternoon session rooms were busy especially the Powerhouse for Sounds Of Blackness. I caught a few SOB songs but had to return for DJ duties down south to my slight disappointment. Like Kleeer Alex and Dave “You Did It Again” guys. FF Funky Nation at Ronnie Scott's - 25th October I played an enjoyable 7 hour set to the most up for it packed crowd I've had the pleasure of Djing to in over 2 years of playing at Ronnies. Literally from playing EWF’s Fantasy followed by Odyssey's Native New Yorker, Saturday Night Fever was alive and kicking in Soho London. This really was a trip down Disco Inferno lane and I was made to feel like I couldn't put a "get on the good foot" wrong. The journey was a Light Buzz Year one.. To jazz funk soul and boogie infinity and beyond that’s inspired the whole club formation dancing to .. No not Candy to Candido's Jingo. If you don't mind a bit of cheese with your soul biscuits.. check out Funky Nation every Saturday!! FF 5th September Omar @ Jazz Cafe Not surprisingly it was a full house as Omar graced the stage. I was fortunate again to be spinning some discs and with his backing singers Chris Ballin and Samia and his lil bro Scratch Professor he gave yet another well received gig. Omar went through some of his most iconic familiar and not so familiar hits over the course of an hour and a half. He definitely brings a mixed aged audience together who traveled far and wide to be there, including a work chum I haven't seen for 25 years and a huge Omar fan Lisa Missah Warden. Revisiting his older repertoire as well as bits from his current album, he has no choice but to enthrall in doing his updated version of There’s Nothing Like This. Full of humour and interaction Omar does not disappoint especially when he’s live on stage. FF Well September and October was made up of week-
enders….4 in fact! My house is a mess due to my absence, I have no money, I’ve put on weight from the crap food and alcohol, missed my regular running and salsa and my feet hurt but what a bloody fab time I have had! I wouldn’t have changed it for anything. Firstly I went to the UK Dance Congress with Hilary and Raymond where we thought we would learn some salsa fast track! It was our first weekender of this type so all fresh and fabulous. They had four venues with different dance styles in each but we stuck to the salsa venue and danced day and night. We did 10 hour classes over the course of the two days and then danced at the club in the evening. The instructors where fantastic. I had never heard any of the music before which some might have a problem with but it actually enhanced the weekend and made it all the better. We made some new friends and I think I am probably still rubbish but I loved every minute of it and will be going back again for sure. Next stop Caister. I went to my first Caister at 17 or 18 in the days of Neptune’s Palace, pyramids and shaving foam. Hilary and I went with a large posse from Kent called the Malteasers and we had the time of our lives. For many years, Caister was the top event on my calendar. I made some of my best friends there and had some of my funniest times where I cried with laughter and this I have decided is how I want to remember it. We decided this one was our last but we left on a high note. Different faces, different DJs but all of them having the same fun that I had all those years ago. I realise it is a controversial subject for many and those who have never been really have no right to comment. Brian gave us a super duper caravan, that I never realized existed, for which my Caister buddies Hilary, Angie, Yvonne and I were grateful and we closed the door for one final time. Thank you Caister from the bottom of my heart for all the memories that I will cherish forever. The following weekend I attended the South Coast Soul Jam organised by Bob Masters, this was a new venue on a caravan site. We arrived in the venue to the sounds of Ian & Rob and a fantastic party atmosphere. There was one small room and then a large main room both of which were full of smiling faces and great music. Saturday got better and I have got to say how brilliant the sound was. Bob nailed it first time at a new venue….well done. Sadly we had to be at work Monday morning so we missed the grand finale which was a concert from Incognito. I was gutted as the feedback from that was amazing. If you are trying to work out which weekenders to go to next year then this HAS to be on the list for all the right reasons. Value for money, great sound, DJ selection and vibe…. you won’t be disappointed. Oh and before you ask….yes I did pay for the weekend! Southport was my next stop and as Fitzroy has already done his review I won’t duplicate it but as always it was a top weekend. Seeing Sounds Of Blackness was probably my highlight along with some great sets in the Connoisseurs Room although it was just the hottest place on the planet! I wish we could bottle the feeling we get from these fantastic events and pass it on to those who need their souls lifted……maybe one day?
I shall now being going into winter hibernation….see you next year! Anna x
What’s goin’ on? REGULAR EVENTS
Soul Shack @ Britannia, 20 Monument St, London EC3R 8AJ. DJs Ash Selector & James Anthony 10pm-3am
A Hard Days Night @ Vibe Bar, 92 Brick Lane, E1 6QL. Original and northern soul 45s from 7pm
FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER
EVERY THURSDAY
Jazz on the Park Upstairs @ The County Arms. Hale End Road E4 9PB. The Phil Capone Trio ft vocalist Shelley. 8:30-11pm Food avail. £5
1st THURSDAY
Funky Nation @ Upstairs at Ronnie Scotts, Frith St, W1 8-3am
EVERY SATURDAY
NOVEMBER
SATURDAY 1 NOV
Move On Up @ The Greyhound 151 Greyhound Lane, SW16 5NJ with resident DJs Stevie Dundee & Tony Rodriguez £5 adv, £5 OTD B4 11.30pm or £10 after. Soul Night @ The Fox Pub, Keston, BR2 6BQ. 8-Midnight Soul & Disco. Free entry
FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER
Remember The Times @ Belair House, Dulwich, SE21 7AB. 9pm-2am £5 entry. All things soulful and funky.
SoulBox @ Maze Inn, 7 Chase Side, Southgate, London, N14 5BP. 8pm-3am Soulgood @ Club Amber, Theobalds Lane, Cheshunt, EN8 8RU. 9-2am
SATURDAY 8 NOV
Flicks Reunion @ Woodville Halls, Gravesend, DA12 1DD. Throwbaak @ Prince Of Wales, 469 Brixton Rd, SW9 8HH. 10pm4am DJs 279, Fitzroy da Buzzboy & DJ Chucks. £7 B4 12 or £10 after. Ruby Soul @ Clubhouse, Middlesex Stadium, Breakspeak Rd, Ruislip, HA4 7SB with Ash Selector, Jon Jules & Ian Dee. 8.30pm-2am The Sunday Soul Sessions @ The King George V Pub, Cranbook Rd, Gants Hill. 3-11pm
SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER
Soulful Pleasures @ The Club Lounge, Broad Street, Dagenham RM10 9HP. 8pm-2am Djs Tony Fernandez, Birdy and Frostie.
SATURDAY 15 NOV
Soul Network @ Heron Tower, Bishopsgate, EC2 10pm-4am
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THURSDAY 20 NOV
Sean Escoffery & Avery Sunshine @ Under The Bridge
Going To A Go Go @ The Breck Club, Poulton-Le-Fylde with Jimmy Scrivener, Rod Allsworth & guests.
SATURDAY 22 NOV
Soundclash @ Prince of Wales, Brixton, SW9 8HH with DJs Marcia Carr, Johnny Reckless, Sean P & Circle Of Funk. (See Ad) Jazz Funk Soul - The Reunion @ The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0PP I Got Soul @ Licked, 11 Woolmead Rd, GU9 7TX Farnham. 8pm-2am
FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER
Stevenage Soul Club @ CIU Club, 31 High St, SG1 3AU £5 Adv Matt Bianco @ Under The Bridge
FRIDAY 28-29 NOV
Dimitri from Paris @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle.
SATURDAY 28 NOV
Tudors & Bogarts Reunion @ The Star Bar Lounge, 32 Railway Approach, Harrow HA3 5AA 9-3am
SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER
The Sunday Soul Sessions @ @ The Victoria Pub, Victoria Road, Romford, RM1 2PA. 3-11pm
DECEMBER
WED 3-5 DECEMBER
Dwele @ Jazz Cafe, Camden NW1 (See Ad)
FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER
Joey Negro Xmas DJ Set @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. Remember The Times @ Belair House, Dulwich, SE21 7AB. 9pm-2am £5 entry. All things soulful and funky.
Soulgood @ Club Amber, Theobalds Lane, Cheshunt, EN8 8RU. 9-2am
SATURDAY 6 DEC
Aswad @ Jazz Cafe, Camden NW1 (See Ad) Collective Soul Saturday @ Flyover, 3-5 Thorpe Close, Portobello W10 5UB. 10-3pm £20 incl Caribbean meal £25 OTD. Move On Up @ The Greyhound 151 Greyhound Lane, SW16 5NJ
with resident DJs Stevie Dundee & Tony Rodriguez £5 adv, £5 OTD B4 11.30pm or £10 after. Soul Night @ The Fox Pub, Keston, BR2 6BQ. 8-Midnight Soul & Disco. Free entry Smoove Grooves @ Woolston Manor, Albridge Road, Chigwell. PA from Hi St Soul
THURS 10 DECEMBER
Citrus Sun @ Jazz Cafe, Camden NW1 (See Ad)
FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER
Gallopers @ British Legion Club, Cleveleys with Jimmy Scrivener, Rod Allsworth & guests.
Essex Funkers Christmas Bash @ Harlow Town FC. £10 8pm-2am Les Knott, Frostie, Chris Brown, DJ Dab Throwbaak @ Prince Of Wales, 469 Brixton Rd, SW9 8HH. 10pm4am DJs 279, Billy Biznizz & guest. £7 B4 12 or £10 after. Ruby Soul XMAS @ Clubhouse, Middlesex Stadium, Breakspeak Rd, Ruislip, HA4 7SB with Ash Selector, Jon Jules & Ian Dee. 8.30pm-2am
SATURDAY 13 DEC
The Sunday Soul Sessions @ The King George V Pub, Cranbook Rd, Gants Hill. 3-11pm
SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER The Brand New Heavies @ Jazz Cafe, Camden, NW1 (See Ad)
MON 15-17 DECEMBER FRIDAY 19-20 DEC
Smoove & Turrell @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle.
SATURDAY 20 DEC
Soul Expression Christmas Party @ The Venue Bar, 70 High Street, Stevenage, Herts, SG1 3EA. 9pm2.30am. Live PA with Gary Poole, Djs Fitzroy da Buzzboy, June Furlong, Stevie Day, Danny Peters, DJ Isis, DJ Glossy, Malcolm Aubrey and Eddie B. (See Ad) Soul Fine @ The Tereza Joanne Boat, King George V Dock, Woolwich Manor Way, E16 2QY. 10pm -4am with guest Natasha Watts and DJs Fat Freddie M, Enyaw, DJ LP and DJ Woz. (See Ad) Soul Shack @ Britannia, 20 Monument St, London EC3R 8AJ. DJs Ash Selector & James Anthony 10pm-3am £5 B4 11pm £10 after Soul @ The Ashley, Thornton Cleveleys with Jimmy Scrivener, Rod Allsworth and guests.
SUN 21 DECEMBER
Soul Cruisin’ Christmas Sessions @ Blackfriars Millennium Pier
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MON 22-23 DECEMBER
London Community Gospel Choir @ Jazz Cafe, Camden NW1 (See Ad)
SATURDAY 27 DEC
Christmas Madness @ Halfway House, Southend Arterial Rd, Brentwood CM13 3LL 1pm-1am Suite Soul @ The Foxbar Hotel, London Road, Kilmarnock. 8-2am £8 DJs Al Kent, Rob Sinclair & Bob Jeffries. Express Yourself @ Abbey Moor Gold Club, Green Lane, Addlestone KT15 2XU. 8pm-2am Adv £10 tkts.
SUNDAY 28 DEC
We Love Soul @ The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, London N1 9NL. Live PA from Mica Paris and DJs Bigger, Clive Johns, DJ Vybz, Paul Trouble Anderson, Neil Pierce, Aitch B, Sticko Zaza, DJ Sammee, Cornell Campbell and Goldie. (See Ad) Soultrain @ Java, 9 Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5NF 9pm-4am (See Ad) The Sunday Soul Sessions @ The Victoria Pub, Victoria Road, Romford, RM1 2PA. 3-11pm
NYE 31 DECEMBER
Swankey Do IV @ Bickley Manor, Chislehurst, Kent. 8pm-2am. 2 rooms, 9 Djs, hot and cold buffet included. £40 advance of £50 OTD. See Ad) Soul Network @ Revolution, America Square, London EC3 7pm-4am
HOLIDAYS/
WEEKENDERS 2015
FRIDAY 2-4 JANUARY
Luxury Soul Weekend @ Hilton, Blackpool with One Way including Al Hudson & Alicia Myers also PA by Tracy Hamlin. (See Ad)
THURSDAY5-8 MARCH
The Prestatyn Soul Weekender @ Prestatyn Holiday Park, North Wales.
FRIDAY 20-22 MARCH
NSN Portugal Weekender @ Praia Du Luz. Special guest performances and DJs. Luxurious apartments & exclusive venue. (See Ad)
FRIDAY 1-4 MAY
Caister Soul Weekender @ Great Yarmouth
THURSDAY 7-14 MAY
Soul In The Algarve @ Portugal
FRIDAY 8-10 MAY
Southport Weekender 52 @ Butlins Holiday Resort, Minehead.
SUNDAY 17-24 MAY
The Ibiza Soul Week @ Club Punta Arabi, Ibiza
WED 24 JUNE-1 JULY
3 The Soul @ Cyprus. DJs Bigger, Ronnie Herel, Vivy B, Brian Jay, Mike Stephens, Chris Box, Brian Norman and Live PA from Natasha Watts. (See Ad)
FRIDAY 3-5 JULY
Hayling Island 3 @ Hayling Island!
WEDNESDAY 22-29 JULY
SunceBeat 6 @ The Garden Tisno, Croatia.
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Soul Radio 8-10am 7 days a week! Marcus Hayes Soul Show on cruisefm.co.uk 1-3pm Mon-Fri The Dave Brown Show on starpointradio.com 5-7am Mon-Fri Supa Fine Sessions with DJ Speedy on www.tsolradio.com
DAILY
1-3pm DJ Hal presents FUNK Beyond da Call of Duty on streetfm.net (94.) 3-5pm Marcia DaVinyl MC MiXedBag show on mi-soul.com Soul Jazz tinted kaleidoscope of black music - old & futuristic. plus guests.
MONDAYS
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5-7pm UK Soul Chart with Kevin J on cruisefm.co.uk 8-7pm Dave VJ presents Grown & Sexy Show on misoul.com 6-8pm Strictly Vinyl Sessions with Carl Dennie on solarradio.com Soul/Rare grooves 6-8pm Souled Out with Colsie on www.tongueandgrooveradio.com 7-10pm Soul360 with Aitch B on www.colourfulradio.com & DAB London 8-10pm Souled Out with Mark K on www.tongueandgrooveradio.com 8-10pm The Rod Allsworth Classic Soul on Fylde Coast Radio & Deeside
8-11pm Ian Jons The Monday Mission on www.zeroradio.co.uk 9pm-Midnight The Big R&B show with Ronnie Herel on mi-soul.com 9-11pm Ian Henry with Soul, Jazz Fusion & funk on generationradio.co.uk 10pm-12am Soul Crackers George Power & Funksy. LGR 103.3fm London or lgr.co.uk 10pm - Midnight Insatiable Soul with Roni O’Brien on Solar Radio 11-12 Midnight Bushbaby on cruisefm.co.uk
9-11am Sunday Service with Brian Kelly on zeroradio.co.uk Jazz funk and soul 10-2pm with Jeff Young on Jazzfm.com 10-1pm The Sunday Lunchtime Connection Bang Radio 103.6fm www.wearebang.com SATURDAYS 8-10am Jump Start with Ginger Tony on 10-Midday The Sunday Soul Affair with solarradio.com From nu-jazz to funk & jazz Curly CJ starpointradio.com Jazz Funk & Soul 8-10am Sunshineman on 89.8 FM London 10-Midday Soul A.M with the Master J on stationfm.ning.com 89.9fm Jazz, Funk & Soul tongueandgrooveradio.com & soulam.co.uk 9-11am Saturday Fry Up with Mark, Ricky 10-Midday The Sunday Morning Affair & Trevor on starpointradio.com Soul & Funk with Sly Bang 103.6fm 9-Midday Soul Fusion Show with DJ Gloss 12-2pm DJ Enyaw on dejavufm.com with on soundfusionradio.net with soul and funk The Sunday Soul Selection 10am -Midday Soulful Saturdays with Ian 1-3pm Mucho Soul with Ket & DJ AKA on WEDNESDAYS Dee pointblank.fm 90.2fm Ldn. www.back2backfm.net 1-3pm Ian Henry with Soul, Jazz Fusion and 10am-Midday The Early Bird Catching 2-4pm Russ Dewbury with Jazz Rooms funk on www.generationradio.co.uk The Worm Show House FM with DJ Birdy Sunday SocialBrighton’s Juice 107.2 7-10pm Jazzi Q on colourfulradio.com 10am-12pm Kev Roberts on Solarradio.com 3-6pm Stumpi-Inspiration Show Soul on 8-10pm The Triple SSS Show with Shaun diversefm.com 102.8fm Herts, Beds & Bucks. Evans & Marcus Bell on www.radiomk.co.uk 11am-1pm 6MS SESSIONS Disco, soul, house, funk boogie on stompradio.com 4-6pm Soul Source with Richard Searling on 8-10pm DJ Marky P with the Paradise solarradio.com Midday-2pm Groove Control Show with Sessions on cruisefm.co.uk Ash Selector on solarradio.com 4-Midnight The Soul Train team in Bristol 9-10 Les Knott Jazz Funk Soul on redzfm.com bring you soultrainradio.co.uk Midday-2pm Saturday Soulmine with 9-11pm Steve O'Mahoney playing Soul, Jonny Layton on zeroradio.co.uk 4-6pm Randy Peterson Playing a soulful mix Jazz & Funk www.radio789.net.ms 1-4pm Paul Sams’ Modern Soul Sessions of house music on www.housefm.net 9-11pm Jason Anderson - Soul Ascension on Stompradio.com 6-8pm Soul Discovery with Mick O’Donnell on http://mixlr.com/soul-ascension/ on solarradio.com 2-4pm Turn the Music up with James 10pm-Midnight Notes & Tones with Ruth Anthony on solarradio.com Classic ‘n’ current 7-9pm Essex Funkers with Les Knot on Fisher on solarradio.com or Sky 0129 www.cruisefm.co.uk 2-4pm Dancefloor Grooves with Jamie 10-Midnight Les Knott on Zeroradio.co.uk Taylor on banburyinternetradio.com 7-10pm Soulful Sundays with Keith Martin 11pm-Midnight Trevor Nelson’s Soul on magic1152.co.uk 2-5pm The Bushbaby Flava on Show on BBC Radio 2 cruisefm.co.uk 8-10pm Soul Therapy with DJ Annelle on 11pm-1am Perry Louis on Diverse FM 2-6pm Peter Young on Jazz FM. A mixture of soulradiouk.com old & new soul with ‘The Soul Cellar’ at 5pm 9-10pm DJ Pressure’s Classic Material THURSDAYS Rap Show on cruisefm.co.uk 4-6pm Seaside Vibes with Paul Clark on Midday-3pm Sizzlin Wit Soul with Alan Zeroradio.co.uk Gray on fyldecoastradio.co.uk 60s/70s Soul 10-Mid Sunday Night Soul with Keith Fletcher 4-6pm Collins & Mason on back2backfm.net on BBC Radio Lancashire Motown/Northern 3-4pm Hidden Gems 60’s to new Soul on www.fcumradio.co.uk Midnight-3am DJ Afroogroove on 91.6FM 5-6pm CJ Carlos in the mix cruisefm.co.uk or www.genesisradio.co.uk/afrogroove 4-6pm Modern Soul Sessions with Paul 6-8pm Marky Mark with Soul Motive on Sams on jfsr.co.uk 1.6FM From 12 midnight to 3am featuring back2backfm.net the best in jazz, fusion, latin, soul, afrobeats & 7-9pm Ride da Rhythm with Hilary John @ 6-8pm Movin’ On! with Mark Blee on spoken word. www.station898fm.co.uk & 89.8fm London soulpower-radio.com JL’s Groove can be listened to on demand 7-9pm Infiniti with Andy Jackson on 107.5 6-8pm DJ Allans Funk Sessions on on www.celticradio.com Tulip Radio Modern Soul Radio soulradiouk.com 7-10pm Back in The Day with Doug Forbes 6-9pm Superior Rhythm Soul Show from Weekly podcasts on dazlingsoul.com on Calon105FM www.calonfm.com live365.com/station/atomicdog65 24/7 Spain with Dean Freeman on exitefm.com webstream Soul, Jazz & Neo Soul 8-10pm Soulpower with Shaun Gallagher 5-7pm The Morpheus Soul Show on www.soulpower-radio.com If in Costa del Sol, check out global.fm Jeff www.playvybz.com DJ Johnny Rebel Thomas Mon-Fri 2-5pm, Sun 9-Midday 8-11pm Soul Therapy Show DJ Mike T on 5-9pm Club Classics Chris Brown on Star tongueandgrooveradio.com or tngr.co.uk Podcast soulpower08.mypodcast.com 107.9/1 FM in Cambridge. Soul & Motown 8-10pm Whistle & White Socks Brigade Tony Poole on TKO Gold 106 Wks-9pm 6-8pm Soul Inspired with David Bishop on with Simon Ford on zeroradio.co.uk 96.7 & 87.7 FM in Spain or tkogold.com www.zeroradio.co.uk Classic 60’s–80’s Soul 8-10pm Boogie Wonderlandwith Nick Davies 6-8pm Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show Marky Mark of Soul Motive with soul Winchcombe 107.1fm radiowinchcome.co.uk funk.ssradiouk.com/category/shows/soul-motive/ on www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/funk_soul/ 9-11pm Scott Savill with Soul From The Shed 7-9pm Skippys Soul on NevisRadio.co.uk The Groove with Suzy Chase podcast on cruisefm.co.uk shows on www.thegrooveradio.com 8-10pm Mellow A on soulradiouk.com 10-Midnight Nick Gunn’s Soul Armoury VibeRide Podcast/radio Shows at on zeroradio.co.uk. Jazz, Funk, Soul & Boogie 8-10pm The Soulful Session with DJ Chris VibeRide.org.uk Philps on zeroradio.com FRIDAYS 10-1am A Touch of Soul with Devon BBC PLEASE EMAIL ANY 2-4pm Mellow A on jfsr.co.uk Old Skool Soul Derby 104.5fm, Notts 103.8fm & Lincs. 94.9fm 5-7pm Ian Jons Friday Funk Sensation 12-2am Back to tha o’l skool on 90.8FM NEW SHOWS, from on www.zeroradio.co.uk Strictly 80’s soul & Rap lightningfm.co.uk 6-8pm The Feel It Show with Wayne B & DELETIONS SUNDAYS Angie D on urbanjazzradio.net 12 Mid-4am Colin Faver on solarradio.com OR AMENDMENTS TO A soulful mix of upfront & classic house/Beats 7-9pm Mike Vitti’s Funky Nation with Jazz Funk, Soul and Boogie on mi-soul.com anna@thesoulsurvivors.co.uk 9-11am Sandra C on stompradio.com
TUESDAYS
4-6pm DJ Len’s Selection box on jfsr.co.uk 6-8pm June Furlong on Solarradio.com 9-Midnight Inside America Michael Speaks Da Costa on thesouloflondonradio.com 9-11pm Suite Soul with Bob Jeffries on starpointradio.com 10-1pm Cyber Soul with Johnny Reckless on colourfulradio.com 10-Midnight Tony Rodriguez & Stevie Dundee with Move On Up Show solarradio.com 10-Midnight DJ Andy Richards with Timeless Soul on cruisefm.co.uk
9-11pm Backatcha with Sammy Sam on starpointradio.com Disco Boogie Soul & Funk 10-12am Evolution with DJ Mease on radio2funky.co.uk