100 Hits - The Best Northern Soul Album

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Tim Wall, Nicola Watchman Smith and Sarah Raine (2019). The Northern Soul Scene. EquinoxPublishing. ISBN 9781781795576.

The single enjoyed a third life in the early 80s, when the Soul Supply label reissued it at a crucial moment. The Wigan Casino had closed in 1981, and despite regular meets in Rotherham and Stafford for the staunchest keepers of the faith, there was a sense that the original movement had entered a decade-long slump. However, a new generation, too young to have frequented the Casino themselves, were curious to find out about the scene that had inspired 80s pop heroes like Soft Cell, Dexys Midnight Runners and the Style Council. Under My Thumb, along with a sudden spate of Kent/Modern various artist compilations, ensured that every youth club disco in Britain had some authentic northern soul for little mod kids to shake a tapered, not flared, trouser leg. Norcliffe, Josh (28 February 2014). "The Current Northern Soul scene: Is it just nostalgia?". Louder Than War . Retrieved 17 October 2016. But the intensity took its toll on the band. Somehow, they came to the belief that 10pm at night was the only time they could capture the sounds in their collective heads. Recording until four or five in the morning, they’d sleep for 12 hours, get up and do it again. “It was all about waiting for the inspiration… And if it wasn’t there, we’d get really, really depressed,” Ashcroft would recall. “After six weeks of going up and crashing down, everything you’ve been doing takes its toll. You start losing it.”The Verve". Musicsaves.org. 15 May 1995. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012 . Retrieved 5 October 2011. Initially, the band tried to record the LP inside the rehearsal room itself, so that "they could record as they had been rehearsing", but, when this approach proved to be impossible, they relocated the recording sessions to rural Wales with producer Owen Morris. [5] Tom Hiney, writing for The Guardian in September 1997, claimed that the band's experience of recording during this period was "intense and morose, but it produced an album that will still be listened to in 30 years' time." [5] Recording [ edit ]

Dave Godin. Later, Godin released "Deep soul treasure" series. "The Up-North Soul Groove", Blues & Soul magazine, June 1970 Dwarfs were a Pennsylvania garage band fronted by singer-keyboardist Robert Zimmerman (not that one), and the piledriving Stop Girl, based on a filthy fuzz guitar riff shamelessly indebted to the Stones’ Satisfaction, would nowadays just as likely be deemed freakbeat as northern soul. Although The Twisted Wheel was the birthplace of Northern Soul, Wigan Casino was its most popular venue. It was once named the best disco in the world by Billboard magazine and at one point boasted over 100,000 members. Its all nighters, which began at midnight and ended at 8am, are the stuff of legend.

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Rylatt, Keith and Phil Scott, Central 1179: The Story of Manchester's Twisted Wheel Club, chapter 8 "Bye Bye Blues" Former Casino DJ Richard Searling presents a weekly radio show on BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Stoke and SOLAR Radio (Sunday at 10 am UK time) dedicated to northern soul, [81] whilst John Kane's Northern Soul is broadcast across various BBC local radio stations in the North of England. [82] Rietveld, Hillegonda C. is Our House: House Music, Cultural Spaces and Technologies. Routledge, Jan. 4, 2019 Classic 45s from Kev Roberts' List of the Northern Soul Top 500". Classic45s.com. Classic 45s . Retrieved 29 August 2013.