Northern Soul: Keeping the Faith
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-Northern soul was the birth of late night dance culture in Britain and it refused to go away. Even now it is still the biggest underground scene that ever swept the UK.
-Wigan Casino was pulling in around 2000 people every Saturday night. The streets were full in Wigan around 12am of people waiting to get into the casino. People were buying an selling records in the venue and you had to push your way in. The music was made by black, not very well known musicians in tiny studios in America. A lot of the records were hard to get, the obscurity was fascinating. The Mods wanted edgier sounds to fit their look.
-The term, 'Northern soul' was named by a music journalist when he noticed that northern football fans came to his store in London asking for vinyls that were heavy dance tunes that nobody had ever heard of.
-"Northern soul has an elitism, it elevated you out of the day to day. Northern soul more than anything, is about the people. It's about the characters that it attracts."- Elaine Constantine
-Something that stuck with me in the documentary was the passion that went into it. For so many people who lived through the era of northern soul, they are still living it. It's not just music and dancing, it's a way of life for them. It is their life. So many people in the documentary still regularly attended all-nighters and adored the music that brought them nostalgia. Northern Soul is still a huge part of Britain and the working class culture.
-Northern soul was the birth of late night dance culture in Britain and it refused to go away. Even now it is still the biggest underground scene that ever swept the UK.
-Wigan Casino was pulling in around 2000 people every Saturday night. The streets were full in Wigan around 12am of people waiting to get into the casino. People were buying an selling records in the venue and you had to push your way in. The music was made by black, not very well known musicians in tiny studios in America. A lot of the records were hard to get, the obscurity was fascinating. The Mods wanted edgier sounds to fit their look.
-The term, 'Northern soul' was named by a music journalist when he noticed that northern football fans came to his store in London asking for vinyls that were heavy dance tunes that nobody had ever heard of.
-"Northern soul has an elitism, it elevated you out of the day to day. Northern soul more than anything, is about the people. It's about the characters that it attracts."- Elaine Constantine
-Something that stuck with me in the documentary was the passion that went into it. For so many people who lived through the era of northern soul, they are still living it. It's not just music and dancing, it's a way of life for them. It is their life. So many people in the documentary still regularly attended all-nighters and adored the music that brought them nostalgia. Northern Soul is still a huge part of Britain and the working class culture.
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