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IN ASSOCIATION WITH CLEETHORPES KENT RECORDS UK NORTHERN SOUL 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 23 PRESENTS FRIDAY 12 JUNE – SUNDAY 14 JUNE 2015

AND NORTHERN, RARE & MODERN DJS PAR EXCELLENCE

JOCK MITCHELL 2 WHAT’S GOING ON 3 MAIN ROOM MAIN DANCE HALL

FRIDAY ALL-NIGHTER SUNNY SUNDAY AFTERNOON 8.00 – 8.45 Pete Hulat 12.00 – 1.30 Banbury Boogie 8.45 – 9.30 Keith Money 1.30 – 2.15 Ford Anglians 9.30 – 10.15 Dave Rimmer 2.15 – 3.00 Hinckley Hunks 10.15 – 11.00 Mick Smith 3.00 – 4.00 Soul Mastermind of 2015 11.00 – 11.40 Butch With Roger & Dave 11.40 – 12.20 Mick H 4.00 – 5.00 Mick Smith 12.20 – 1.00 Roger Banks & The Cleethorpes 2015 Dance Competition SUNDAY SWEATATHON 1.00 – 1.40 Keith Money 8.00 – 10.00 Dave Rimmer & Mick H 1.40 – 2.30 Ady Croasdell 10.00 – 11.00 Keith Money 2.30 – 3.15 Butch 11.00 – 12.00 Roger Banks and DJ dirty deeds 3.15 – 4.00 Mick H 12.00 – 1.00 Mick Smith & Support Team 4.00 – 5.00 Pete Hulat & Mick Smith 1.00 – 2.00 Ady’s Adieu

SATURDAY AFTERNOON MODERN ROOM SOUL WORLD CUP All teams & timings are subject to alteration and we work on FRIDAY NIGHT the FIFA “largest envelope gets it” principle 9.00 – 10.00 Steve Woomble Peake Practice 12.00 – 1.30 WALES 10.00 – 11.00 Andy 1.30 – 3.00 SCOTLAND & IRELAND 11.00 – 12.00 Ivor 3.00 – 3.30 SPAIN & GERMANY 12.00 – 1.00 Cliff 4.30 – 6.00 FRANCE & CHANNEL ISLANDS 1.00 – 2.00 Terry o f n

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. 9.00 – 10.00 Dave Rimmer w 4.00 – 5.00 Soulful Cris w 10.00 – 10.45 Pete Hulat w 10.45 – 11.30 Keith Money Poser 5

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2 12.15 – 1.00 Mick Smith

R 1.00 – 2.15 SHARON McMAHAN & JOCK MITCHELL E

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E 2.15 – 3.15 Butch K

E 3.15 – 4.00 Keith Money

E 4.00 – 4.45 Soul Sam W 4.45 – 5.30 Mick H s ’

t 5.30 – 6.15 Dave Rimmer 6 6.15 – 7.00 Roger Banks 4 MODERN ROOM UPSTAIRS ROOM 5

SATURDAY AFTERNOON SAT NIGHT 1AM-6AM 12.00 – 1.00 Fish’s newish releases round up. 1.00 – 6.00 THE NORFOLK VILLAGE EXPERIENCE TEF’S DJ FOLLIES DJs Terry Jones, Chris Forrest, Ivor, Alan Lots of big name DJs playing a handful of records each Paterson, Tats, Dave Halsall & late signing Binsy for the hell of it. for your edification.

SATURDAY NIGHT 8.00 – 9.00 Cliff 9.00 – 10.00 Taffy 10.00 – 11.00 Terry 11.00 – 12.00 Ivor 12.00 – 1.00 Mark 1.00 – 2.00 Andy 2.00 – 4.00 Sean Hampsey & Tats Taylor “Just Soul” Jamboree 4.00 – 5.00 Soul Sam 5.00 – 6.00 Steve

SUNDAY AFTO 1.00 – 2.00 Tats 2.00 – 3.00 Andy Davies 3.00 – 4.00 Soulful Cris 4.00 – 5.30 Steve Woomble & Pals

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s ’ t 6 8 9 EDITORIAL Sandy & Greg

2014: That Was The Cleethorpes That Was. Lest we forget, it’s a minor miracle we’re here at all. The phone call on the morning of the day before the event to tell me we didn’t have any nighter licenses and had to close at 2am each night should have put us out of business: it came close to getting me admitted to The Priory. However the spirit of Cleethorpes Weekender goers shone through. Everyone supported us in our predicament and pulled together in whatever way necessary. After driving up the A1 with Harold Melvin’s ‘Bad Luck’ on repeat on the CD player, I was touched by the attitude and sympathy of everybody on arrival; when they said “It’ll be brilliant as usual”; I almost believed them. Three days later, I did. That’s the only reason we’re here again. Licenses are in place already. We’ve shaved an hour off the nighter times by public demand. Many wanted a couple of hours lopped off but there are plenty of younger ones and diehards who like to push it, so we’ll see how 5 am and 7am go and can adjust next year. Sandy and Greg were a pleasure to work with and resulted in me getting phoned on the mobile by Dionne Warwick when they failed to meet a couple of times: nice. It has also led to some licensing of Greg’s recordings from the 60s and 70s further down the line. Like the Art School Dance, the 100 Club goes on forever. Three dozen years this September, I’m sure I’ll see a lot of you at the anniversary nighter. And we’ve revived the Anniversary Thames Riverboat party on Oct 3rd for the first time since the 80s; book that one soon. Tomas McGrath has joined the 100 Club roster of DJs and has added more youth and enthusiasm. For a quiet chap he obviously enjoys himself behind the o f n

i decks; it’s infectious. . s t We have a very classy pair of acts this year, as befits our connoisseur 6 .

w crowd. Sharon McMahan is both a singer and songwriter whose tunes we have w thrilled to over the decades. She will sing the best of her recordings and those w

5 she wrote for the likes of Barbara Lewis and Deon Jackson at Carla & Karen 1

0 records in the 60s. Jock Mitchell is a very active singer in Florida nowadays 2

and has brought two of his musicians to augment the band and show there is R

E much more to his vocal skills than that Northern Soul masterpiece ‘Not

D A Chance In A Million’. N

E Kent continues to flourish and “Pied Piper – Follow Your Soul” is the most K

E talked about Northern CD since “Pied Piper Presents”! Vinyl continues its E return and we’ve restarted the LP series with “Dave Hamilton’s Detroit W Dancers” Kent 502. s ’

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s ’ t 6 12 SHARON M cMAHAN 13

a boy from our street and in 1963 with ‘Here Comes he was on another porch That Boy I Love’ for two houses down, Ollie’s Karen label. She ringing the doorbell. then concentrated on So, quickly, I hollered writing, until 1966 to him. “Hubert, I when she returned to need a title for a the studios with ‘Got song!” He thought for To Find Another Guy’ a second and said, cut at the same session Someday We're Gonna as the Capitols ‘Cool Love Again’.” Jerk’ which was recorded It became a hit for the first. “Ollie had all of us group it was designed for, The stand around a mike and he Searchers from Liverpool and Ollie recorded our hand claps onto the Cool cut it on Barbara Lewis whose version Jerk track. So, the next time you hear sold well and Sharon got to write her Cool Jerk, you'll hear us back there… follow-up ‘Straighten Up Your Heart’. havin’ fun! What a memory!” Deon Jackson was Barbara’s male Other McLaughlin recordings equivalent at Karen/Carla and Sharon’s remained in the can though some like songs for him included the terrific the sublime ‘Where There Is Love’ have dancers ‘That’s What You Do To Me’ escaped and can be heard in lo-fi on and ‘I Can’t Go On’. YouTube. Her Cleethorpes’ rendition of She worked with Don Davis on it will be the first time it has been sung ‘You’re The Fool’ for Mavis Staples, since 1968. The Three Degrees and Etta James Sharon took a regular day job when and another Detroit legend Johnnie Karen folded and managed a band for

o Mae Matthews on ‘I Have No Choice’. some time. She returned to the studios f n

i Sharon was born in Sevierville, In a recent interview with Lois In her own words – “She was a true for producer Clive Davis in 1973 when . s

t Tennessee and moved to Detroit Wilson, Sharon remembered; soulful singer and she felt it all the way he was at Columbia and recorded the 6 . when she was four. Her “Sometimes he would ask me to write down to her toes. I was there when she beautiful, self-penned ‘Get Out Of My w

w grandmother had a baby grand something and have it ready in a day or recorded it. It was a Saturday morning Life’. Having signed Sharon on an w piano in the house where they so. He would put an order in and come at United Sounds. She loved that song excellent contract, Clive had big plans 5

1 lived and she and her siblings were by a couple days later to pick it up. so-o-o-o-o much. She used to come over for her but was ousted from his position

0 all taught on it, she from the age of That’s how ‘Someday We’re Gonna Love to my house to practice it. Ollie was there and her career stalled. 2 five. She loved the piano and began Again’ came about. producing her then and he told her to She moved between Detroit and R

E writing songs; turning professional Ollie stopped by, like on a Monday come over and learn that song! She California where the Columbia sides

D at the age of thirteen. and told me he needed a song for an would have coffee with my mother and were cut and has recently issued the N A cousin told her of a DJ from Ann English group and that he would be

E we practiced that song over and over CD “Somebody Else” which was cut at

K Arbour, Michigan called Ollie back on Thursday to pick it up. I was and over again. When she recorded it, her new home in Altadena, California E

E McLaughlin who had started a dumbfounded. But I reviewed the pop she wore a flowered dress and she had with vocals put on in Hollywood. publishing firm and was looking for sound and I got my creative juices

W a little bottle of gin. But her vocal was Sharon will have copies of this

s songs. She auditioned four songs for him spinning but needed a title. fabulous. Her voice resonated like great new CD with her and is so ’

t in December 1961 and with her mother’s Out of frustration, I went out on the thunder out of a cloud.” pleased to be able to sing her songs to 6 consent he signed her as a writer. front porch. I looked to left and saw Sharon’s own singing career started her dedicated fans; as are we. 14 JOCK 15 MITCHELL His first 45 was under his real name for the Philadelphia Newtown label where he recorded Ted Jarrett’s blues-tinged ballad ‘You Can Make It If You Try’, a big hit for Gene Allison in 1957, and also covered Bobby Bland’s early soul classic ‘Turn On Your Lovelight’ on the flip. Both sides were produced by Richard Rome. Jock moved to Detroit in the early 60s, signing for Harry Balk’s Impact label in 1965. His first release, this time credited to Jock Mitchell, was the punchy soul take on Hank Ballard’s How Happy’ hit and next appeared on then relocated to ‘Work With Me Annie’. his own Golden Hit label with ‘Nomad Tampa Bay, The next year saw the release of the Woman’. Florida and then R&B flavoured ‘I Got To Know’ and on This atmospheric, moody number to Gainesville in the flip was the Duke Browner penned was a Detroit collectors’ favourite for that state where soul of ‘Not A Chance In A Million’. many years, played at venues like he formed Little Those two and a half minutes of Stafford’s Top Of The World club, along Jake & The Soul

o Florida native Arthur Mitchell superb Northern Soul have brought him with Stewart Ames ‘King For A Day’ Searchers in f

n to Cleethorpes nearly 50 years later. which shared the same backing track. 2008. i began singing seriously in 1956 as . s

t a twelve year old. His manager Jock remembers rehearsing the number The Golden Hit flip ‘Free At Last This outfit 6 . loved his voice and put a group for three weeks before recording it in (Great Day A-Comin’)’ was also has worked w

w behind him before taking him five takes at United Sound studios. recorded by James Barnes & The regularly w to Chicago to cut four It was many years before he Agents for the label. around south west 5

1 sides as Jake Mitchell found out that the UK’s As well as the record USA with their dynamic

0 for Chess. They were Northern Soul crowd had company, Jock ran two live act ever since. 2 sadly never released. adopted the record as nightclubs; one of Some of our crowd will R an anthem and rushed E However he was a which Jock Mitchell’s remember Jock from

D great live act and to the dancefloor every Rose Room was his appearance at the N time those distinctive named after his wife Gold Soul trip a few

E went on tours with

K some of the greats opening chords Rosa. years ago and he is E blasted out of the When his music keen to meet the fans

E of black music like Sam Cooke, Roy speakers. business interests that he met there and W

s Hamilton, Lulu Reed, Jock went on tour with petered out he moved to the many new ones he ’

t Amos Milburn and the Shades Of Blue Connecticut where he will win over at this 6 James Brown. around the time of their ‘Oh worked as a head chef and appearance. East Midlands movers 16 17

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s ’ t 6 18 About The Venue BOOK NOW 19 for our 24th 6Ts Weekender Friday 10th – Sunday 12th June 2016 The Weekender is held at the Beachcomber Holiday Centre, 208 North Sea Lane, Cleethorpes DN36 4ET, telephone 01472 812666. Cleethorpes is easily reached by road just off the M180 which links up Name of Party Leader with the M18, M1 and A1. There is also a railway station with regular trains from London, Sheffield, Manchester and the Midlands. Address The holiday centre is reached by travelling east along Cleethorpes’ seafront, past the leisure centre to Pleasure Island theme park. It is just to the right of the roundabout at the junction of Kings Road and North Sea Lane. A taxi from the station is about £5. Postcode

When You Get There Telephone (Home) (Mobile) Bring your receipts and any bizarre correspondence we may have had with you, we will trade that in for your weekend passes. The reception is open from NAMES OF MEMBERS IN PARTY 4pm-11pm, then we’ll move everything to the main door. You won’t actually need the passes for the venue until 8pm. 1 Accommodation Please remember to keep accommodation, dance and other areas as clean and 2 tidy as possible for the goodwill of the management. Towels, sheets and toilet paper are NOT provided but there are basic pillows and duvets or blankets. 3 The caravans have cookers, fridges, TVs and crockery etc. 4 Passes You will be expertly fitted with a wristband on arrival. Once your wristband is on you must keep it on until you have evacuated the premises for good. 5 o f Passes must not be tampered with or removed as we can’t issue replacements. n i

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t Electricity & Deposit 6 . Electricity and gas are included in the caravan accommodation. There is a £25 w

w deposit on each caravan. Fully refundable if all is in order. Unfortunately there is no spare accommodation on site, we can only offer w weekend dance passes.

5 Facilities 1 A deposit of £20 per person is needed to guarantee your place. 0 Heated outdoor swimming pool, snooker/ pool room and amusements are all This is refundable up to May 1st 2016. 2 adjacent to the dance hall. There is an all day and night café by the pool. R Cheques or postal orders payable to: E There is a very good fish and chip shop and a small convenience shop just 6t’s Weekenders, (Don’t postdate them) D 10 Hatfield House, 108 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 6SN

N outside the front gates. The pub opposite also does good food. E (Please enclose a SAE for your receipt) K There will be a cloakroom for the Saturday all nighter on the ground floor near E

E the main toilets, £1.50 per item and well worth it for peace of mind. PayPal is now an option, but it will be £20.75 per deposit to cover their charges. Mail the dosh to [email protected] W Thanks s

’ Final prices and Live Acts will be confirmed in January 2016

t This year the vehicle for running around the acts is supplied by Just Vehicle 6 Rental Ltd 03334 566000. Thanks to Dean, Dougie and Tats. Enquiries 020 7636 2622 or 07773019559 [email protected] 20 6t’s All-Nighters At The 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, London W1D 1LL 11pm-6am unless stated 6t’s No membership required RESIDENT DJ s BUTCH, KEITH MONEY, JOEL MASLIN, TOMAS McGRATH & ADY CROASDELL

DATES FOR 2 015 ALL NIGHTERS

Saturday July 11th

Saturday August 22nd Tickets go on sale for 36th Anniversary

Saturday September 26th 10pm-6am 36th Anniversary – Ticket only Details on www.6ts.info

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5 Saturday October 3rd 7pm-midnight 1

0 The return of the Anniversary Thames Riverboat Roustabout 2 £22 Cheque to A. Croasdell or £23 PayPal R

E (details on page 19) D N

E Saturday 10th October K

E Crossfire Oldies All Nighter E Venue 229 by Gt Portland St tube station, London W1W 5PN W

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