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    Any Northern Soul Fans here?

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    Hi Folks, just thought I'd mention this great Northern Soul Night coming up at The Globe, Albany Road, Cardiff, this coming Saturday 14th Jan. The band are playing live with local guest DJ's spinning classic Northern Soul sounds on vinyl. Great way to celebrate us beating the wurzels, by getting your dancing shoes on, and cutting a few shapes on the dancefloor in the evening

    Seen them many times live at Scooter Rallies, Northern Soul weekenders etc. Got to say they are the best Northern Soul Band out there.

    Tickets are a tenner, either on the door, or via see.com

    Sludge, get your dancing shoes on, get that Fred Perry outta the wardrobe, wash and iron your Levi's, and get ready to do some backflips and somersaults. None of this 'eavy metal trash you normally listen too lol!

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    Was there ever a Northern Soul club in Cardiff? There seemed to be quite a big scooter-boy/mod scene back in the day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    Was there ever a Northern Soul club in Cardiff? There seemed to be quite a big scooter-boy/mod scene back in the day.
    New ocean club over by Rover way. Mid to late 1980's

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    maddasa local soul band, fabulous in dempsey's was still going until its announced closure on the 12th feb this year, i do the rallies as well mr soul who are you ??? the all nighters are great, but new line up now hopefully just as good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    Was there ever a Northern Soul club in Cardiff? There seemed to be quite a big scooter-boy/mod scene back in the day.
    Northern soul...
    Strange but I'd never heard the term until a year or two ago. Recently made up or was it just not listening?
    A bit like the 70's 'Glam Rock' genre, never heard it called that until the noughties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by discodaz View Post
    maddasa local soul band, fabulous in dempsey's was still going until its announced closure on the 12th feb this year, i do the rallies as well mr soul who are you ??? the all nighters are great, but new line up now hopefully just as good.
    Hello, the All Nighters have two new vocalists. Have checked them out and they are both as good as the two they have replaced.

    Fabulous have a night at Barry West End Club, on 11th February, due to the imminent closure of Dempseys

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
    Northern soul...
    Strange but I'd never heard the term until a year or two ago. Recently made up or was it just not listening?
    A bit like the 70's 'Glam Rock' genre, never heard it called that until the noughties.
    Someone with greater knowledge may well correct me but the scene started in the North of England with people and record shops importing rare black soul music in the 60s. A club scene sprung up from that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Bloop View Post
    Someone with greater knowledge may well correct me but the scene started in the North of England with people and record shops importing rare black soul music in the 60s. A club scene sprung up from that.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/0/24164508

    Northern Soul is a phrase coined by writer Dave Godin in 1970, when he noticed football fans from northern England asking for old-fashioned, fast-tempo soul records in his London shop.

    Dave Godin was an amazing man - and a friend of mine. He ran the Anvil cinema in Sheffield for decades and apart from his love of music (Northern Soul in particular) was a unique and passionate campaigner for a wide range of causes. Sadly missed.

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/200...artsobituaries

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
    Northern soul...
    Strange but I'd never heard the term until a year or two ago. Recently made up or was it just not listening?
    A bit like the 70's 'Glam Rock' genre, never heard it called that until the noughties.
    Both genres were definitely referred to by those names (and by a number of other names / sub-genres) at the time - 70's

    Deffo

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    There was an excellent documentary on BBC 4 about Northern Soul last summer;-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHx4AoCk4k

    Must admit it passed me by somewhat at the time and thought cash in crap like this was representative of it - I was wrong;-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7rCetTHkUk

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    Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/0/24164508

    Northern Soul is a phrase coined by writer Dave Godin in 1970, when he noticed football fans from northern England asking for old-fashioned, fast-tempo soul records in his London shop.

    Dave Godin was an amazing man - and a friend of mine. He ran the Anvil cinema in Sheffield for decades and apart from his love of music (Northern Soul in particular) was a unique and passionate campaigner for a wide range of causes. Sadly missed.

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/200...artsobituaries

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul
    Thanks for sharing Jon.
    I'll enjoy reading those today.

    if I had a time-travel wish it would mid 70's and I would be a young man, standing in the queue of the Twisted Wheel, or the Mecca, or Wigan Casino, in my baggies and vest-top and Robin Friday hair - with my blood pumping un-naturally fast.
    Just for one night

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vimana. View Post
    Both genres were definitely referred to by those names (and by a number of other names / sub-genres) at the time - 70's

    Deffo
    Cheers. So busy out playing most of the time back then and not taking much notice of the DJs spiel in between records I obviously missed the terms.

    Great music though and I certainly enjoyed the soul bands that used to play in the docks and the Inn on the river.
    Good that Mr Soul is posting this stuff, might well shuffle on down to one of the venues

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    ^^ Inn on the River (Pub on the Mud!) some great music and times in there

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vimana. View Post
    ^^ Inn on the River (Pub on the Mud!) some great music and times in there
    Indeed there was. Of course bands would play for virtually nothing then. They'd get their beer money by someone taking a bucket round the pub with perhaps the brewery offering a few quid.

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    In the 70s there were a few bods from Blackwood and a few from Porthcawl I was the only one from merthyr that would travel to Wigan casino, there was a coach that was run from Porthcawl Blackwood Gloucester and on to the casino.
    There was another club called Stars & stripes in Yate just outside Bristol which was a fantastic northern soul night.
    The 80's a kid called Mark Payne ran nights at the Manot suite in Porthcawl mark sadly died 1990 and the rest is now folklore.

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    [QUOTE=Whisperer;4710153]In the 70s there were a few bods from Blackwood and a few from Porthcawl I was the only one from merthyr that would travel to Wigan casino, there was a coach that was run from Porthcawl Blackwood Gloucester and on to the casino.
    There was another club called Stars & stripes in Yate just outside Bristol which was a fantastic northern soul night.
    The 80's a kid called Mark Payne ran nights at the Manot suite in Porthcawl mark sadly died 1990 and the rest is now folklore.[/Q

    Wigan Casino was a bit before my time. However, two Northern Soulies who made those coach journeys up to Wigan Casino back in the day, Al Kent from Blackwood, and Dai Bater from Pencoed will be at The Globe tomorrow night.

    There were some excellent Northern Soul Nights run at The Pavillion by a local guy, Nigel Graham, until October 2015. Sadly, they have ended

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    Even " The Goodies " tapped into Northern Soul with " Black pudding Bertha , the Queen of Northern Soul "
    although unlike the other two Bill Oddie was from Rochdale.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whisperer View Post
    In the 70s there were a few bods from Blackwood and a few from Porthcawl I was the only one from merthyr that would travel to Wigan casino, there was a coach that was run from Porthcawl Blackwood Gloucester and on to the casino.
    There was another club called Stars & stripes in Yate just outside Bristol which was a fantastic northern soul night.
    The 80's a kid called Mark Payne ran nights at the Manot suite in Porthcawl mark sadly died 1990 and the rest is now folklore.[/Q

    Wigan Casino was a bit before my time. However, two Northern Soulies who made those coach journeys up to Wigan Casino back in the day, Al Kent from Blackwood, and Dai Bater from Pencoed will be at The Globe tomorrow night.

    There were some excellent Northern Soul Nights run at The Pavillion by a local guy, Nigel Graham, until October 2015. Sadly, they have ended
    Yep your right Al Kent and Nigel graham took over the Porthcawl scene after mark died. Tell them Brick says hello.
    Steve strange was on the coach as well. The only thing that puts cardiff and northern soul together is we used to meet a West Indian guy in the Lexington And he would serve us up a 1000 blues so in its way it played a big part...lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
    Northern soul...
    Strange but I'd never heard the term until a year or two ago. Recently made up or was it just not listening?
    A bit like the 70's 'Glam Rock' genre, never heard it called that until the noughties.
    honestly? as has been said, northern soul was an upbeat version of tamla motown

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw-7Mh0FQOU

    growing up on motown made an appreciation of northern soul just that much easier

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68 View Post
    Yep your right Al Kent and Nigel graham took over the Porthcawl scene after mark died. Tell them Brick says hello.
    Steve strange was on the coach as well. The only thing that puts cardiff and northern soul together is we used to meet a West Indian guy in the Lexington And he would serve us up a 1000 blues so in its way it played a big part...lol
    Will do matey

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    Really enjoyed that, great band, good to see the real dancers strutting their stuff. Went to the Bristol game earlier, all in all a great day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whisperer View Post
    In the 70s there were a few bods from Blackwood and a few from Porthcawl I was the only one from merthyr that would travel to Wigan casino, there was a coach that was run from Porthcawl Blackwood Gloucester and on to the casino.
    There was another club called Stars & stripes in Yate just outside Bristol which was a fantastic northern soul night.
    The 80's a kid called Mark Payne ran nights at the Manot suite in Porthcawl mark sadly died 1990 and the rest is now folklore.
    Manor suite in Porthcawl brings back fantastic memories. Was a regular in the 80's in between the national scooter rallies where Northern Soul dominated the music scene. Wonderful times....

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    Quote Originally Posted by elytillidie View Post
    Really enjoyed that, great band, good to see the real dancers strutting their stuff. Went to the Bristol game earlier, all in all a great day.
    Great day all in all, eh?

    I thought the DJ, Lordy was awesome, and played some stunning Northern classics. I suppose it helps that he is from Wigan and was a Casino regular until he moved down here in '79

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