Northern Soul...

[Lie-in King]

...at the Proms - I know there are a few fans of the genre here & since Lynne introduced me to it, I count myself as one, though I'm still (& guess will always be) muddling through...

Anyway, if anyone's interested, it's on this evening - BBC2, 19:45 > 21:15 & I'll be watching with interest :-)

[Lie-in King]

Sorry, I meant to add the RT link -

https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-hxi6nq/northern-soul-at-the-proms/

[Barsel]

Thanks L-i-King. Will record that so I can forward any bits I might not like.

[andy-hughes]

I have always completely failed to see the entertainment, or even the point, of taking a specific sound and style of music, and orchestrating it.

For me, the entire point of Northern Soul - and I live less than two miles from the site of the Golden Torch - was the visceral excitement of the music, and the underground status, that bound enthusiasts together in a secret society.

To take that, water it down beyond parody, and then dress it up for a bunch of dinner-suited Prom fans who wouldn't know Gloria Jones if they passed her in the street, is a compete and utter waste of time.

OK, rant over.

[Lie-in King]

You're welcome, Barsel :-)

Andy - have you heard the concert already? Do you *know* that what you describe is what happened on July 15th when it was performed? If not, then I'll simply say on here what I usually do out loud when I read you - stick it where the sun don't shine, sunshine.

"...in a secret society", my behind. Hardly, with queues down the street & around the block at Wigan Casino, as Lynne described it. Hmm, I wonder who I'm listening to?

I shan't be replying if you do respond, so that's also *my* rant over.

[Ellipsis]

Perhaps those who enjoyed its viscerally excited heyday, 50 years ago, now enjoy listening and reminiscing.

No doubt if nobody liked it, nobody will be listening.

[naomi24]

Very well said, LiK. Have a lovely evening.

[Floko]

I'll be watching :-).

[Lie-in King]

Hi Ellipsis - I will enjoy listening, but have no reminiscing to do, other than wishing Lynne could watch it :-)

Ta, Naomi - thank goodness Mr Tesco came today so I can have a few sips through the evening. No doubt there'll be tears & that's before I see MotD! ;-)

Hi Floko - are you a fan? From t'North or just drawn in like I was?

[ladybirder]

Me too. How could you not;-))

//After their years on Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night, there’s no genre the BBC Concert Orchestra can’t elevate to brilliance. They did so again here, conducted by Edwin Outwater, with a sextet of impressive vocalists, including Vula Malinga, Natalie Palmer, Brendan Reilly, Nick Shirm and Frida Touray. Newcomer Darrell Smith looked such a willowy chap but blew my socks off with his vocal power in The Drifter and The Night.\\

[Lie-in King]

Hi lb x

[barry1010]

A lot of people from Birmingham went to the Wigan Casino for the northern soul all nighters

[douglas9401]

I live less that two miles from the site of a former shovel works but don't claim to know the secrets of the forge workers or indeed four candles.

All together now with Tommy:

Just another fool, achin' his heart...

[Floko]

L-i-K. I used to dance (sort of) to the genre back in the
day. (From Openshaw, about 29 miles east of Wigan.)

[Lie-in King]

Barry - are you a Brummie? Sorry if I should know that, I don't pay enough attention round the site these days... :-)

Douglas - as I said, I'm still muddling through, so if that's a lyric from a song, can you be more precise, please - which Tommy, what track? :-)

[Lie-in King]

Floko - well done, it looks...strenuous, shall we say? I've heard of Openshaw!

[Togo]

I think I might have been in at the start off the "Northern Soul" scene or at least been part of it in at its cultural inception if not its eventual label. Saw PP Arnold on stage when she was an unknown member of the Ike and Tina Turner tour set that played Hanley in 1966 as part of the Stones tour. I will watch it and if Daryl Banks is not referenced I will be firing off a curt missive. Open the door to your heart indeed. The 17.48 post was sooo accurate, although for the first couple of years during what was the brief Mod( not those) movement era the music was very much an "in thing".

[Deskdiary]

I’m an enormous Soul fan - Soul and Funk to be precise, and I’m an anorak…probably as my more than 5000 pieces of vinyl testify, but, I’ve never quite ‘got’ Northern Soul, although I suspect that’s because it’s more 60s whereas my narrow interest is 70s and up to the mid 80s.

However, thanks for the tip and I’ll have a watch.

[Bobbisox1]

I’ll give it a go, but like DD, I’m not really sure what the attraction is of NS

[Lie-in King]

Togo - I didn't know Darrell Banks & have just listened to "Open the Door to Your Heart" - ta muchly, more grist to the mill :-)

Dd - I hope you enjoy it, it should be...different :-)

Bobbisox - I didn't know NS at all. The first song Lynne played me was "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" by Frank Wilson & I was hooked. Watching folk dancing to the tracks is a source of constant amazement to me - I couldn't have managed those moves when I was that age! :-)

[Togo]

It is called "Northern Soul" for just some of the dance tracks that were favoured by the wizzed up all night aficionados Bobbi. Those tracks were really only a part of the 60s R & B genre that was the in set sound of the 60s. The Who were also our sound in the clubs(no discos then) and numerous bands that went on to produce household names. Zoot Money, John Mayal, even Georgie Fame were but a few.