The following review first appeared on the Soul Talk chat group on Topica and is reproduced here with permission, and further playlists have also been posted there and will doubtless appear on the Capitol Soul Club Website. My comments follow David's:-

David Flynn wrote:
By Lucifer it was a hot night at the Dome last Friday, as you'd know if you were there!?! Our July session has been our quietest night of the year for the last couple of years, and it was also the "Big Brother" TV final that night too! ;-)

Anyhow, we were extremely delighted to get way over x200 in (probably x250+ at the height?), which meant it was busy but thankfully not rammed considering the temperature, and the majority were the hard-core/regular soul scene fans, which is always most humbling. This also was reflected in the increased amount of clapping along to tunes in all the right places, I noted during the evening.

I have to say that I thought the evenings music content was one of the best for a long time, as the last couple of sessions had drifted a little more than normal into the oldies field. The CSC team hence decided to make a concerted effort to spinning a few more of the lesser known and under played tracks, again, during the DJs earlier sets, whilst y'all getting your drinks in and thumbing through the sales boxes...intermingled with a few classics/requests, naturally! :-)

Arthur Fenn was on top form and given a free hand to play whatever he liked, be it 70's or 60's and his play list posted earlier, reflected this...don't miss him at Scenesville in a couple of weeks time! Special mention also to our "super-sub CSC DJ", Stuart Tyler who played two blinding sets...watch out for his playlists cropping up, and his initial selection set the scene beautifully for the night to continue...it was quality from the word go, indeed! Needless to say, Greg, Alan and anchor man for the night, Carl, didn't do too bad themselves! ;-)

Here's my contribution:
GERRI HALL - WHO CAN I RUN TO - HOT LINE

GINGER LOGAN - I KNOW WHAT I WANT - C/UP
L.ALLEN - CAN'T WE TALK IT OVER - GREEN DOLPHIN
CHOICE OF COLOUR - YOUR LOVE - A.P.T.
EBONIES - YOU GOT IT BABY - MIDWEST
GERRI DIAMOND - ONLY YOU (CAN FEEL THE LOSE) - COUNTERPART
MIGHTY SAM - GEORGIA PINES - AMY
O'JAYS - WORKING ON YOUR CASE - MINIT
BENNY CURTIS - DIRTY HEARTS - RESIST
COUNTS - (OUR LOVE'S GONNA BE) STRONGER THAN EVER - YES
BILLIE WATKISS - SWING YOUR LOVE (MY WAY) - MASTER-KEY TEST PRESS
TONI TALBERT - YOU BETTER WATCH YOURSELF - VIRTUE ACETATE
THE JOKERS - SOUL SOUND - SKOFIELD
ROSE BATTISTE - HIT AND RUN - REVILOT
SEPTEMBER JONES - GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR LOVE - PIED PIPER UNISSUED
JOEY DELORENZO - WAKE UP TO THE SUNSHINE GIRL - MI-VAL
SOUL INC. - MY PROPOSAL - COCONUT GROOVE
THE DEADBEATS - NO SECOND CHANCE - STRATA
DREAM TEAM - I'M NOT SATISFIED - GREGORY
RALPH GRAHAM - SHE JUST SITS THERE - UPFRONT
MARY WHEELER & THE KNIGHTS - I FEEL IN MY HEART - ATOM
JO ANN GARRETT - A WHOLE NEW PLAN - CHESS
JACK MONTGOMERY - DO YOU BELIEVE IT - SCEPTER
HELEN TROY - BRING THAT MAN MY WAY - C/UP
GREATER EXPERIENCE - DON'T FORGET TO REMEMBER - COLONY 13

I at last made it to the Dome. I don't usually travel out of the South West for pure Northern do's, as my preference is for Modern. But a lot of people locally, people like Paul O'Brien, Mark White and others said I must go, so I did! Got held up on the Motorway (a big smash) for over an hour at about Swindon but arrived about 10ish and parked right outside!

The venue I liked, it is big but not too big, has a worn feel to it and it felt comfortable. The crowd when I got there were mostly chillin' but it very soon picked up.

To me the content was mostly Northern and I was surprised at how many I actually new, I dunno guess I was hyped into expecting old and obscure R'n'B. Whilst there was R'n'B it was not excessive or oppressive.

Arthur Fenn did an excellent spot and, for a moment, I thought I was in the modern room with a fair sprinkling of 70's material.

The sounds buy and large I enjoyed and the mix as good. Dave's playlist above amply illustrates this from well known to rare to expensive to cheap to unknowns. Dancefloor reaction was good allnight, but it appeared to me that the biggest response generally was for out and out well known Northern favourites.

Not really by design but I conveniently left at the point Dave put down Joey Delorenzo, a cut I can't get on with at all. It may be the biggest, or one of the biggest around right now but for me it is just one of those tracks that has all the right ingredients for now, is instant and, for me, disposable. Think of other tracks that have gone big for this reason but very soon afterwards are rejected and, probably, hated. I don't mean to dwell on that particular track as being representative of the night because it wasn't.

Good night all round.