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The Northern soul subculture has spawned several memoirs, novels and short stories. Maxwell Murray's David Godin's Deep Soul Treasures' series, is great, but is not stuff that fits into that "northern" characteristic. Most of it is slow, bluesy gospel-flavoured stuff. - more "When A Man Loves A Woman" than "Heat Wave"...Dave Godin did coin the term "Northern Soul"...he run a shop in London selling imported soul stuff, and noticed a certain sound that northern english buyers tended to favour. Practising in a dungeon in Wigan for this record, you're devoid of any kind of fashion, or thought of 'This is what we should be doing'. Like a band that goes into the studio and plays the music they hear in their heads rather than what they read in magazines. Other major northern soul venues in the 1970s include the Catacombs in Wolverhampton, Va Va's in Bolton, the Talk of the North all-nighters at the Pier and Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes, Tiffany's in Coalville, Samantha's in Sheffield, Neil Rushton's Heart of England soul club all-dayers at the Ritz in Manchester and the Nottingham Palais. [31] As the 1970s progressed, the northern soul scene expanded even further nationally. There was a notable scene in the east of England: Shades Northampton was one of the leading venues in this area of the country during the early 1970s until it closed in 1975. Later came the all-nighters at the St Ivo Centre in St Ives, the Phoenix Soul club at the Wirrina Stadium in Peterborough and the Howard Mallett in Cambridge. [32] Other towns with notable northern soul venues at this time included Kettering, Coventry, Bournemouth, Southampton and Bristol. [21] 1980s and later [ edit ]

The first domestic disco hit, " Kung Fu Fighting" (UK No. 1, 1974), which was created by singer Carl Douglas and producer Biddu in Britain, was influenced by the northern soul scene. [70] a b "Soul Survivors". Musicsaves.org. Archived from the original on 13 October 2009 . Retrieved 5 October 2011. The Marvelettes were one of the most popular girl groups in Northern Soul, with Please Mr Postman their biggest hit. Although they're still very much a soul group, The Marvelettes poppier sound makes them a good gateway to the more obscure stuff. Moloko "Familiar Feeling" - YouTube". YouTube. 8 April 2006. Archived from the original on 28 October 2007 . Retrieved 29 May 2014. David Nowell (2001). Too Darn Soulful: The Story of Northern Soul. Robson Books. ISBN 1-86105-431-9.

Following their performance at Lollapalooza in 1994, [4] The Verve returned to their Wigan-based practice room to begin writing and recording songs for their second studio album. [5] Commenting on the effect that working in the "dark rehearsal room" had on the band's songwriting process, frontman Richard Ashcroft stated: [5] Although Wigan Casino is now the most well-known, the best-attended northern soul all-night venue at the beginning of the decade was actually the Golden Torch, where regular Friday night soul "all-nighters" began during the latter months of 1970. Chris Burton, the owner, stated that by 1972, the club had a membership of 12,500 and had hosted 62,000 separate customer visits. [22] Peter Salisbury – drums; percussion on "A New Decade", "This Is Music", "So It Goes", "History" and "Life's an Ocean"

The Fall's 1981 song "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" is about the northern soul scene. [90] Writer and singer Mark E. Smith said in an interview published in the NME on 1 October 1983: "That song actually did create quite a bit of resentment in the North because people thought it was being snobby and horrible about the old soul boys, which it was never about anyway. Because I was brought up with people that were into northern soul five years before anybody down here [London] had even heard about it. But they've all grown out of it, which is what the song is about, but it wasn't putting them down at all. If anything, it was glorifying them, but not in the format of, where are those soul boys that used to be here?" [91] If you're looking for something to dance the night away to, you've come to the right place. Our Northern Soul collection on the musicMagpie Store includes some of the best Northern Soul compilations and artists around. To get you started, here are 10 of our personal favourites. James Ellis. "Biddu". Metro. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011 . Retrieved 17 April 2011. Rietveld, Hillegonda C. is Our House: House Music, Cultural Spaces and Technologies. Routledge, Jan. 4, 2019 The Northern Soul Show | Every Sunday on Affinity Radio, Remarkable Radio & UKWA 87-88FM". northernsoulshow.co.uk . Retrieved 2 January 2016.Playing live became our forte,” Jones says, recalling how A Northern Soul was largely written in six weeks on the road, the group firing on all cylinders, treating audiences to new songs the day they were written. “We’d read about The Stooges going in and recording an album in six days and that was what we wanted to do.” The term "northern soul" emanated from the record shop Soul City in Covent Garden, London, which was run by the soul music collector Dave Godin. [4] It was first publicly used in Godin's weekly column in Blues & Soul magazine in June 1970. [5] In a 2002 interview with Chris Hunt of Mojo magazine, Godin said he had first come up with the term in 1968, to help employees at Soul City differentiate the more modern funkier sounds from the smoother. Godin referred to the latter's requests as "northern soul":