Gina G

[straight acting]

Does anyone else on here love " Ohh Ah just a little bit" , was it big in the clubs, I'd long stopped going out by the time this was released.

[gunbuck]

Great, great song. One on my favorite tunes of the 90s. Unfortunately none of her other singles really rivalled it but "Higher Than Love," "Gimmie Some Love," and the remix of "Everytime I Fall" were all pretty good as well.

[marmite7]

Couldn't stand it - sorry. It typified everything I hated about "gay club music".

"You're gay - so you'll automatically love anything, bouncy, fluffy & er, gay"!

Give me deep, progressive house anyday - the fewer lyrics the better and a bassline that hurts! A La Digweed, Cattaneo, Deep Dish, Nick Warren & Danny Howells.


How old are you Straight A? I hit 40 earlier this year and still go clubbing ;)

[straight acting]

I'm 40 but gave up serious clubbing a long time ago, prior to leaving the Uk I did used to go to Soul Heaven at the Ministry and the odd jazz funk revival thing. I've beeen out a few times here in Florida, but I have a 2 year old who exausts me most of the time. I stopped going to "gay clubs" in the late 80's when the music changed it just wasn't my thing.I loved disco then Hi nrg, tecno and stuff passed me by.

[marmite7]

I can quite understand stopping going to gay clubs in the late 80's - me too!


When "House" first kicked in (1985/6), I was addicted to that sound too, so it's just a natural progression thing for me. I went to the clubs which played the sounds I liked, which usally meant a straight/mixed venue. The "local" gay clubs were sadly clinging onto the past and trying to recreate an era long gone. (Hence all the Almighty remixes of classic hi-nrg I spose!)

My local gay club is the pits! Tired remixes of bog standard tunes, with a few fluffy trance tunes chucked in for good measure. I've been once this year, got shit-faced and abused the DJ with:

"do you play this stuff all night, or does it get better"? ;)


Won't be going back there. (There's only so much Fleetwood Mac, Snap, Gareth Gates & Shannon nrg remixes one can stand!!) And for me that's ZERO.


Mark

[straight acting]

It's kinda difficult as one gets older, we had our time and for me it was 77/78 starting with the manchester Ritz alldayers and blackpool mecca carrying on through Jazz funk/ Disco then the Hi Nrg thing. The problem for me at least is todays dance music doesn't really speak to me in the way music did back then, I do like some of the soulful garage stuff, and the discoey side of house. But not enough to go driving hundreds of miles and frantically collecting vinyl as I did back then.
Oldies nights are okay VERY occasionally, and to be honest they do tend to be predictable and can be tedious. This makes me an old saddo who sits around the hopuse spining the oddd tune and musing about my halcyon years :)

[Energyguy]

I have not been clubbing for years - The music nowadays does absolutely nothing for me... I would rather sit in the house and play my 80s HINRG/Soul/disco stuff

[marmite7]

Nowt wrong with halcyon days matey ;)

My passion for vinyl remains undiminished, although I do tend to "buy back my youth" -as does everyone at some time!!

The last "house" tune I picked up was Praise Cats - Shined On Me. Quality vocal and perfect beat.

I used to frequent the Northern Soul / Tamla venues in & around Norwich and was part of a scooter club, who regularly "hit" Gt Yarmouth, where I danced me sox off at Crystals & Tiffanys. Ohhhhhhhhhh those were the days. :)

Samson & Hercules (pre Ritzy) was where I very first danced, to George Benson, Brothers Johnson, Stacey Lattisaw and my love for rhythm driven music started there I spose. The DJ always finished with 3 Northern tracks, which kick started me in that direction too, along with Motown, obviously.

1983 saw me enter my first gay club and that 4x4 beat had me hooked. (Still does, regardless of whether it's Bobby O, Cowley, Marshall Jefferson, Fingers Inc or Faithless)

If it's repetitive, has a bass line that thumps then I'm sold.

Although cheesey, "white", beats by numbers, mass produced tunes, leave me cold. IE: Ian Van Dahl, Sash and most of the Ibiza anthems you hear on radio. Soul-less, banal and made to make a quick £/$!


How can anyone NOT be moved by Joe Smooth - Promised Land or the awesome Frankie Knuckles remix of Unbreak My Heart - Toni Braxton!

House? Hi-nrg? As long as it's good I'm there. :P

[straight acting]

I was also a keen scooterist , buliding custom lambrettas from 79-85. I had another bash in the mid 90's . Those 80's scooter runs were magic though, Yarmouth was my favourite. Do you remember the Norwich Broadsmen SC , I remember seeing them all pulling into Scarborough in 1981, what a sight!

[swerzer]

Originally Posted by Energyguy

I have not been clubbing for years - The music nowadays does absolutely nothing for me... I would rather sit in the house and play my 80s HINRG/Soul/disco stuff

Ditto!....................God, I'm old!

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by swerzer

Ditto!....................God, I'm old!

LOL :lol: Tell me about it fella - We are all getting old - can see us all in years to come at some Disco/HINRG revival party - bombing round the dancefloor in our wheelchairs - spinning round with corn plasters flying everywhere :lol:

[marmite7]

The Broadsmen? :lol:


Me & my best mate started up a rival club - The Cougars, although "Stax" the leader of The Broadsmen pleaded with us to join his club!!!

Found out why later - when I bumped into him at the local gay club!! ;)

Also had one of the Broadsmen - Jimmy (and got propositioned by his other half - Gary) Blinkin queers everywhere :lol:


We nearly got battered cos of his bloody club. We got followed by crap loads of bikers and pulled into a carpark just outside Norwich. As it was my neck of the woods, I walked over to the pack of bikers, where they asked if Stax was about.

"Nope", I replied "he's in The Broadsmen".

"Aint you Broadsmen then?"

"Nope - we're The Cougars."

"So wos that on the back of your helmet"?

"NCSC" (Norfolk Cougars Scooter Club)

"Oh - sorry, thought it said NBSC"!!!


They left - we went home and changed our underwear, just in case the shit stained our sta-press!!! ;)


Halycon days are best

[straight acting]

Originally Posted by marmite7

The Broadsmen? :lol:


Me & my best mate started up a rival club - The Cougars, although "Stax" the leader of The Broadsmen pleaded with us to join his club!!!

Found out why later - when I bumped into him at the local gay club!! ;)

Also had one of the Broadsmen - Jimmy (and got propositioned by his other half - Gary) Blinkin queers everywhere :lol:


We nearly got battered cos of his bloody club. We got followed by crap loads of bikers and pulled into a carpark just outside Norwich. As it was my neck of the woods, I walked over to the pack of bikers, where they asked if Stax was about.

"Nope", I replied "he's in The Broadsmen".

"Aint you Broadsmen then?"

"Nope - we're The Cougars."

"So wos that on the back of your helmet"?

"NCSC" (Norfolk Cougars Scooter Club)

"Oh - sorry, thought it said NBSC"!!!


They left - we went home and changed our underwear, just in case the shit stained our sta-press!!! ;)


Halycon days are best

Well I er, I never realised that there were gay scooterists, I suppose there must have been. Well I never!

[marmite7]

Think about it matey - mods = style, cutting edge, well-groomed etc etc. Can't fail to be anything but gay ;)

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by marmite7

Think about it matey - mods = style, cutting edge, well-groomed etc etc. Can't fail to be anything but gay ;)

True mate... very true