northern soul
Live Review: The Blades – The Academy, Dublin 19,03,2022
The Mods, The Northern Soul lovers and the New Wave fans of a certain generation all converged on The Academy Dublin last night for the long await and anticipated show by the Dublin band The Blades, Trojan Records / The Blades t-shirts are to be seen dotted through out the crowd and a good number …
NEWS: The Lathums’ one-only 7″ ‘The Snake’ raises £4,000 for the Latics
BACK in September we reported on Wigan’s indie chosen few, The Lathums, and the equal parts excellent and fun fundraising idea they’d got going in order to raise funds for their hometown football club, Wigan Athletic, and its community trust: they were gonna record a cover of Al Wilson’s legendary northern soul classic, “The Snake”; …
New Music: Idle Kyle – Twisted Attention (EP)
The brittle, delicate arpeggiated piano of ‘Grounded’, the first track off Philadelphia’s Idle Kyle‘s EP “Twisted Attention”, serves notice that there is something quite unique ahead. It is a track that flirts with jazz tropes – time signature changes, delicate and subtle layers that change direction and shuffles and grooves. Yet somewhat antithetically, the song …
Film Review: Northern Soul
Being a Northerner, I’ve heard many tales about Northern Soul over the years. I’ve known many people who were really into that scene and its garnered almost a cult status as the years have gone by. There seems to be a resurgence of the scene over the last couple of years around the North of …