This coming Friday and Saturday night, the scooter friendly folks over at Subway Soul together with Dig Deeper and Eli “Paperboy” Reed are putting together a phenomenal two-day soul festival at Gowanus’ latest and greatest music venue, The Bell House.

You’re going to have a hard time convincing the New York Harbor Ferry service to allow you to take your scoot over to Governor’s Island on Sunday June 21st but you can be sure that you’ll be moshing alongside plenty of scooter fans at the other end.

Scooter fan, and Scooterist’s demi-god, Steven Patrick Morrissey turns 50 years young today. ‘Nuff said.
Apparently he has quite the bash planned, with a gig back in his twin-hometown of Salford/Manchester.
Just couldn’t let the day pass without acknowledging His Royal Mozzness.
Happy Birthday Miseryguts.

The fine folks at the New York Mod Squad Facebook group have given us the heads up that Scooterist favorite Jonathan Toubin will be spinning the decks at Beauty Bar tonight filling the air with Mod sounds:
Beauty Bar New York and Three Olives Vodka presents the Boogaloo Shampoo – the party where New York’s hardest-working DJ (over 300 gigs in 2008), New York Night Train Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin, fills the mod-ish newly-redecorated back room dancefloor to ceiling with bubbly 45rpm soul classics, novelties, and obscurities – spanning late-r&b …

The next night of 60′s Motown, go-go, and northern soul and all-round scooterists’ dance heaven has just been announced for next Friday, April 17th at it’s recently regular venue, Fontanas.

The Modfather is in town this month and will perform at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square on April 24.

His new album, “22 Dreams” is out now.

What more is there to say except, buy the ticket, buy the album. See you there.