But in my experience most I knocked around with left because they had 2 or 3 years on the scene and decided they'd settle down with the wife and kids, do the local pub etc.įor me and for many others the music was as good if not better than what went before e.g look at Butch's playlist in Chalky's article. I've read before that some left the scene in the early 80s as disillusioned with the music. Although my youth has long gone, it has been great to see the young of today as deliriously happy as we were then. But I stuck with the music at home (wasn't hard, it's a part of me) and have even been to a few nighters in recent years after a long layoff. I look back on that time and find it impossible to fathom why anyone would want to radically change something that the dance floor proved was banging popular. I have to say that I was one of the disillusioned soulies in the late 70's/early 80's, disillusioned with the music policy and the way that people started to filter away from the scene because of it. The knocks, set backs, having to learn lessons in life and for us collecting the hard way is as you say what shapes us.it is what makes us stand out from the flock and I personally loved every minute of life back then. We now have a scene and life with little or no imagination and creativity. Everyone expects everything for little effort, probably a result of all the reality TV shows. I think people get too much slack these days, not just in music but life in general. I wasnt overlly impressed with the artists,probably cos they were singing to a backing tape,but i do remember sam wards big cowboy hat! haha When the auto-complete results are available, use the up and down arrows to review and Enter to select. Wigan Young Souls, bringing more energy and spirit into a great movement. Well said phil,exactly the same for me word for word pal!Īlso chalky,you mention the carlton club,i attended a particular nite when sam ward,frances nero,were playing,i was a young lad and i dont remember to much about it other than wasnt lou ragland on aswell? Wigan Young Souls, bringing more energy and spirit into a great movement. Indie RPG/beat-em-up hybrid Young Souls announced by The Arcade Crew. Alibaba And Lending Club Launch Financing Program For U.S. ![]() I loved the sense that something brilliant was happening and you were in on it which, I suspect, was how it might've felt right at the outset? Looking back, it could be a bit scary if you were a yoof from the sticks lol people could be uncompromising and cut you little or no slack which, and this might sound strange, is a good thing I think.Ĭall it elitism, snobbery or what you will but it definitely didn't always feel like an easy ride. That said, in a weird way that's part of what made it special and different and worth doing because if you stuck with it and 'got it' what you got was absolutely the best: music, people, places, experiences. Young Souls neues Co-op Beat’em’Up angekündigt. I'd be 16-17 when I started attending many of those nighters in the early eighties and while a bit of me will always be disappointed that I was too young to have attended WC or the Mecca, for obvious reasons, there's another bit that's eternally grateful for the fact that my taste in and attitude towards rare soul was shaped by those people and places in the early 80s. The Torch, Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca and Cleethorpes Pier - the bootleggers that made it. Obviously, there are a few more.Hats off to you for taking the time and for having the foresight to document that period coherently and in detail - I can think of a few who would struggle, candles got well scorched, both ends lol. Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul. Shotgun, Pucker Up Buttercup, How Sweet It Is. Anything pre the 'Bell' era, but especially 'At The Club' and 'Baby What I Mean' Let The Good Times Roll/Feel So Good.ĭrifters. Spain, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, USA.since the early. Not by expats like in Australia but by people from the local mod scooter skin and 60’s scene in Germany. THIS SATURDAY Wigan Young Souls present a hardcore frantic dancing night at Highfield Soul Club Underplayed Northern Soul oldies on original vinyl, with lots of young energy So wether your. I did my DJ 'ing in Nottm., but I also visited the Twisted Wheel, the Mojo etc.Īnyway, in no particular order, off the top of my head and subject to a modicum of Merlot. The perception of the post wigan ‘’dark years of northern soul’’ also seem to ignore the spreading of Northern Soul all over Europe and beyond. So, what might be 'rare' to some is commonplace to others. Click to expand.The trouble is that AFAICT there are regional variations.
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