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Soulboy_69

soulboy_69

About Me

Check out my web site, Ready Steady Go! It's packed with interviews and features with cool bands/artists from the past to the present such as The Action, Music Machine, The Remains, Oasis, Richard Ashcroft, Teenage Fanclub and lots, lots more plus you can keep up to date with details of all our forthcoming DJ events. Keep on keepin' on! Ready Steady Go!

My Interests

music, DJing, football, lufc, writing, mods & Ready Steady Go!

Music:


My tastes...60s beat, r&b, garage, psych, bubblegum, surf, rare soul/northern soul, funk, latin, hammond, mod jazz, old skool hip hop, sunshine pop, power pop, jangle pop, twee pop, alt country, indie etc, etc...Bands...Small Faces, Stone Roses, Teenage Fanclub, Curtis Mayfield, Big Star, Byrds, Primal Scream, Left Banke, The La's, The Action, De La Soul, Nazz, Charlatans, The Creation, Dexys Midnight Runners, Paul Weller, The Remains, Saint Etienne, Love, Impressions, Rolling Stones, Happy Mondays, A Tribe Called Quest, Beach Boys, Sly & the Family Stone, Belle & Sebastian, Marvin Gaye... Ready Steady Go!

Television:

..TV? What's that??? Prefer the radio meself. Any Norman Jay show, Down in the Grooves on BBC Radio Leeds, Mod Radio UK on t'internet, Craig Charles Funk Show, BBC Radio 6

Books:

Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick; The Northern Soul Top 500 by Kev Roberts; The Sharper Word by Paolo Hewitt; The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of Pop by John Robb; Mod A Very British Phenomenon by Terry Rawlings; Rolling with the Stones by Bill Wyman; The In Crowd by Ritson & Russell; Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile! by Domenic Priore; Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald

Heroes:

Alex Chilton, Aretha Franklin, Brian Jones, Curt Boettcher, Arthur Lee, Keith Moon, Dusty Springfield, Gene Clark, Sly Stone, Phil Spector, Gram Parsons, James Brown, John Lennon, Serge Gainsbourg, Jonathan Richman, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Wilson, Lee Hazlewood, Otis Redding, Ronnie Lane, Dennis Wilson, Ian Brown, Paul Weller, Richard Ashcroft, Noel Gallagher, Billy Bremner...

My Blog

DJing at the Atrium this saturday...

  Soulboy_69 & the RSG! crew DJ at the Atrium on Saturday April 12th alongside a live appearance from Leeds’ latest hip beatmakers, The Ladyboys. Don’t miss it!...
Posted by Soulboy_69 on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:20:00 PST

RSG to write soul column for shindig mag!

Ready Steady Go writer Paul Ritchie (aka Soulboy_69) is to become the new soul and funk columnist for ace retro mag Shindig! If you’ve not yet checked out Shindig! make sure you do fast!!! If y...
Posted by Soulboy_69 on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:58:00 PST

Ready Steady Go Website Revamp

We’ve just given our Ready Steady Go website a big revamp so nip over and check it out sometime soon. Feel free to add comments to our ever growing bank of articles we will be publishi...
Posted by Soulboy_69 on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:24:00 PST

DJ Hire

Having a party? Don’t want a regular cheesy DJ? If you are looking for something tailor made to suit your eclectic musical tastes...Why not contact us today if you need a DJ for your forthcoming...
Posted by Soulboy_69 on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:47:00 PST