JB

Bolton Lancashire

England



alrite people i,m finally on line Johnny Boy has come out of the stone age and is now scooter riding, soul singing, beer drinking myspace cyber kid, Bollocks i dont understand all the cyber geek shite and i never stuck in at school so fuck my punctuation. Keep The Faith.



Northern Soul is a term that was originally coined to describe ‘rare soul of the type enjoyed in the North of England’” Quote from “Soul Survivors” by Russ Winstanley & David Nowell. In the mid 60’s, Britain began embracing American Soul music, the Motown sound appealed more than earlier 60’s soul records that had been hits in the states. A club scene built up around the country that was dedicated to dancing to these records (which included Motown and other sounds from Detroit). When the rest of England moved on to either Funk or Progressive Rock, hardcore soul fans in the North stayed with fast, four-beat, and sometimes 100mph, dance music; searching out ever more rare examples of the sound they loved. It’s difficult to describe what Northern Soul is. Just how the term came about is easy to write down but the essence is in the sounds themselves. The best way to find out about Northern Soul is to listen to the music, I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like it after they had heard a few of the more popular tracks. For Me, Northern Soul means danceable, smoochable, BIG PRODUCTION sounds including all my favorite drums, brass, woods, glocks, Xylophones, strings and a bloody good black vocal. Need I say more? More so it means to hell with the bollocks of what the elite’ests say! It’s not about how much the record costs, what label it is on or even what media you choose to use. It’s about the music… simple as that! Just because you don’t collect doesn’t mean you’re not worthy. This scene will die soon if everyone keeps up this pretence that northern soul is about a small black piece of vinyl/acetate! Play it how you like and let it live on.