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Northern soul

July 2024

  • Dancers leaping in wild shapes

    ‘My flash kept blinding everyone on the dancefloor’: Elaine Constantine on capturing 90s northern soul all-nighters

    The UK photographer took these powerful shots of northern soul nights 30 years ago. Now collected in a new book and exhibition, they offer an intimate glimpse of a peculiarly British subculture

April 2024

  • Photo of BUZZCOCKS<br>UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: Photo of BUZZCOCKS; L-R Steve Diggle, John Maher, Pete Shelley, Steve Garvey (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)

    A musical tour of Manchester: from the Hallé to the Happy Mondays

    Every genre of music has made its mark on Manchester, including dialect ballads, classical, TV theme tunes and all the strands of post-punk. Welcome to the north-west sound

November 2023

  • Martha Godber, Emilio Encinoso-Gil and Chloe McDonald in Do I Love You?

    Do I Love You? review – laughter and pain in John Godber’s northern soul comedy

    Three struggling twentysomethings find solace in dance in the writer-director’s well performed if not quite satisfying new work

April 2023

  • John Cooper Clarke, press photo

    Honest playlist
    John Cooper Clarke’s honest playlist: ‘The thrill of Elvis has never gone away’

    The poet grew up listening to Bill Haley & His Comets and plays northern soul to kickstart a party, but whose blues does he find too painful to hear?

February 2023

  • Funny Woman<br>Gemma Arterton stars as Barbara Parker - the force of nature who takes 1960’s London by storm. Her journey from Blackpool beauty queen to comedy superstar and nation’s sweetheart is based on ‘Funny Girl’ the best-selling novel by Nick Hornby. The series follows Barbara from a factory in Blackpool to the male dominated world of the 1960s sitcom where she redefines the prevailing attitude to funny women and in the process finds her voice. The series written by and starring Morwenna Banks (Damned) also stars Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding), David Threlfall (Shameless), Tom Bateman (Behind Her Eyes), Clare-Hope Ashitey (Top Boy), Arsher Ali (Line of Duty), Alexa Davies (White House Farm), Emily Bevan (Temple), Leo Bill (Becoming Elizabeth), Matthew Beard (Vienna Blood), Olivia Williams (The Crown), Rosie Cavaliero (Code 404) and Alistair Petrie (Sex Education).

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Gemma Arterton will charm your socks off in Funny Woman

    Arterton’s bottle-blonde Barbara Parker ditches Blackpool for swinging 60s London in this Nick Hornby adaptation. Plus, Grayson Perry boards the soul train to Wigan. Here’s what to watch this evening

November 2022

  • Bruce Springsteen performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

    Bruce Springsteen cover reignites row over lost northern soul classic

    Who saved Frank Wilson’s Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) from Motown oblivion?

November 2021

  • Vernon Pryce dancing at the last night of the Wigan Casino.

    ‘Dancing kept me sane’: how black British youth found a home in northern soul

    From winning dance competitions to confronting Nazis, black veterans of the 70s soul all-nighters share their stories – and counter the idea that the movement was exclusively white

June 2021

  • Dean Parrish

    Dean Parrish obituary

    US singer whose 1960s song I’m on My Way became a cherished anthem of northern soul

September 2019

  • 6Ts Rhythm and Soul club night, 100 Club, London

    The world's best parties
    6Ts Rhythm and Soul Society: sweat and talc at London's longest-running club night

    For 40 years, one all-nighter has brought the heaviest, most obscure soul classics to London’s 100 Club – and its middle-aged crowd doesn’t quit

November 2018

  • Waves of joy offstage and on ... Frankie Valli performing in Durham, North Carolina on 30 September.

    Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons review – farewell tour has crowd beggin' for him to stay

    The 84-year-old Jersey Boy delivers a two-hour show stocked with hits and laced with a bone-dry wit

May 2018

  • alice rawsthorn at the serpentine summer garden party in 2016

    On my radar
    Alice Rawsthorn’s cultural highlights

    The design critic on Maggie Nelson’s beguiling writing, a truly creepy sculpture and a northern soul classic

August 2017

  • Old pro ... Dobie Gray performs the song Out on the Floor at the teenage fair in a scene from the movie Out of Sight.

    10 of the best
    Northern soul – 10 of the best

    Roll out the lino and shake out the talc as we spin and slide through ten Torch tunes and Casino classics from Britain’s rare soul underground

September 2016

  • ¥o-Landi Vi$$er of Die Antwoord had our guru “hooked”.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about winners

    Our reader picks from the songs you championed for a victory-tinged playlist that spans musical genres

December 2015

  • Mad raver, 12/4/1997, Pleasuredome.

    Slaves to the rhythm: 30 years of hardcore ravers – in pictures

    From breakdancers at block parties to table dancers in Ibiza, Lost in Music is the definitive document of club culture – a photography archive that unites legends from behind the lens and behind the decks. Get ready for a rewind

October 2015

  • Walk this way with My Adidas, say Run DMC

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs with product placement

    Cars? Clothes? Watches? Artists themselves? Suggest songs that mention brands with a promotional push that appears to overstep mere artistic endeavour, says Peter Kimpton

June 2015

  • Sally Carman

    Theatre Q&A
    Sally Carman: ‘Everyone has a Dreamers – a place you used to go when you were an age when you felt invincible’

    The former Shameless star talks to Jude Rogers about her new, all-female musical play, a fond tribute to the local nightclub

February 2015

  • Elaine Constantine

    Elaine Constantine: ‘You may have a shit job, but you iron your clothes and polish your shoes’

    Ahead of this Sunday’s Baftas, the outstanding newcomer nominee talks about the surprise success of her debut film, Northern Soul, and why the music and dance movement thrilled working-class kids in the 60s and 70s

December 2014

  • Anna Calvi in concert

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs with vibrato, tremolo and oscillation

    Wondrous wobbles, brilliant bends, tremendous trembles. In voice or guitar, organs or other instruments, name your songs that show expressivity and innovation by sound alteration, says Peter Kimpton

November 2014

  • Triple-sax skills… Roland Kirk

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: best saxophone songs - results

    Through a storm of nominations blowing in from last week’s topic RR regular Mnemonic calmly creates an embouchure A-list

October 2014

  • Northern Soul down under

    Australia culture blog
    Northern soul attracts a new – and younger – demographic down under

    As a film about the scene’s 1970s heyday is released, Australians are keeping northern soul alive in the southern hemisphere, writes Pete Smith
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