IMBER VILLAGE SOUL CLUB

"Seven miles from any town, There stands Imber on the Down"

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They used to adorn every soulies holdall and/or vest and dungarees up and down the land in the 70's...in fact it was definitely a part of the Northern Soul "uniform", and gave you instant identity when en route to a nighter or dayer. Below on this page is a selection of original Imber sew-on patches that used to be on my old holdall...all lovingly sewn on by my good self and not my mother, I hasten to add!
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I've yet to complete my collection of original Imber patches, so if anyone is willing to part with any / all of the following, I'd be VERY interested - 1st, 2nd, 3rd anniversary and the first night "Russ & Richard" ones....must be in good condition, mind!

Here are the Imber Village Soul Club anniversary badges that were given out on the night.  I still need the first three to complete the selection.  

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As you no doubt already know, the "End of an Era" nighter was not to be the final night at Imber ...firstly, there were tickets on sale that very night for another night to feature Tommy Cnut, with the evening to be recorded (see the Artists page), and secondly an additional half a dozen dates were announced by the end of September '71.
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There were also several other original badges produced to cash in on the popularity of the Imber Village Soul Club ...with colour variations and subtle changes to some of the more popular ones over the years. Here are some of my favorites.....has anyone got the "Heart, Kidney and Liver of Soul" one with Tommy Cnut's face profile across the heart? It tickled me when Wigan Casino cashed in on what was started at Imber, politics and of course the worst case of foot and mouth, rumored to have started in the clubs shit house, eventually closed the doors to the first heart of soul. The final night was eventually to be December or possibly March and then again in Septembuary 5th. '71ish ...I was there!
THE DANCERS THE ARTISTS THE MANAGEMENT THE MUSIC
THE DJ's GUESTBOOK IMBER'S OVATION THE BADGES

Soulful Links -

Soulful Scootering
Dudley Zoo Soul
Eddy Edmondson's Soultime
Helen and Pete's Northern Soul Pages
In The Basement
Hull Soul Club
Keepin The Faith
Jeff Lemlich's site
Life & Soul Promotions - Events in the South and West of England
Northern Soul Music (Nick Rennie)
Night Owl
The Night Shift
Bernie O'Brien's Soul City Limits Site
Scenesville Soul
Scorchin' Soul
Soul-a-go-go site
Soulcast
Soul Express
Soul Galore
Soul Jamm (modern soul)
Soul Patrol
Soul Source
Soul Surfin'
TSOP - The Sound of Prestwich
This Old Soul
Yonin's Soul Pages

Capitol Soul Club

Scenesville

Frobisher

Dennis Brennan Records

Yorkshire Rider Club

Pat Brady Records

Craig Moerer

Henry Atkinson

Raving Mad Records

Philly Archives

Sidney Barnes

James Bell

Ronnie Walker

Erma Franklin R.I.P.

Hoagy Lands R.I.P.

Sharon Soul

Ray Goodman & Brown

(The Moments)

Cool Sounds Records

Wilton Allnighter

100 Club & Cleethorpes

Soulful Kinda Music

In The Basement

Indiana 45's

Soulful Detroit

 

John Manships site-a must visit
Steve Bardsleys from Australia
Dusties soul radio-Just what it says, Jeff Hofman from the USA
The-soulsurvivor.co.uk  Northern Soul,  Motown and Soul music site based in Cambridge
This Old Soul Of Mine-Loads of ra's and information
THE SOUL OF THE NET--Top site for soul from Israel
Competition ain't nothing -lots of info, nice one foz!
This is scorchinSoul-Loads of ra files on this one
Keeping the faith-The on line group, you should go there now !!!!!!!!
ROENHAGEN'S NORTHERN-not only us English speakers have soul!!!!!!!
OUR NORTHERN SOULS-I like this one
Soulbones - Brian's site, new one to me, check it out 
EDDIES NORTHERN SOUL TIME-great site
SOULSORCE-loads of info and RA files on there, nice one
Soulclan-a site from our friends in Canada, really good site
Soul Whirlpool-It's big in Japan !!!!!!!!!!
Soul Search - lots of links to soul sites
The R&B Pages - For loads of links to alll things soul
These old shoes soul club - London club
THE NIGHTOWL- I think oldest-great database
Suffork Soul -Northern/Motown 
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF RECORD LABELS-want label pics, here you go
SOLID HIT SOUL-superb site a must
UK northern- cd's records and info
www.mjpromotions.com-the dome and other London gigs
SOUL EXPRESS-nice site and getting better
SOUL-NET-LOADS OF LINKS
SOUL-A-GO-GO-another good one
SOULGALORE-go have a look at this 
The Groove-site for RealAudio soul
NORTHERN SOUL SOUNDS-well worth a visit
Soulcity-Bernie O'Brien's site, both Northern Soul, 60's and 70's 
Northern soul on-line-Brian's site based on his collection of tracks
SoulBoys of the world unite-naff name, but very informative !!
David Nathan's r&b-"The British Ambassador Of Soul"! 
In The Basement-Soul mag, covering assorted soul
BOO-GA-LOO-nice site well worth a visit
Soul Serenade-Sixties rare soul site
SoulSurfin-Nicks soul page, some nice stuff
Soul Survivors club-so many top class sites and here's another !!!!
scenesville.com New site, Very nice, well worth a visit
SCOOTERS-just what it says
OKEH RECORDS-info on this wonderful label
Sour Mash - soul events in the London area
IAN'S SOUTH COAST SOUL-find out what's going on down there
GORDON STONE-really nice site for info and records
THE DANCERS THE ARTISTS THE MANAGEMENT THE MUSIC
THE DJ's GUESTBOOK IMBER'S OVATION THE BADGES