Grayson Perry’s The Full English
Channel 4 Thursday 9th February 9-10pm
Quirky artist and TV presenter Grayson Perry concludes his three part examination of what it means to be English’ these days .
This sees him journey North where he supposedly chats to a pair of Northern Soul enthusiasts in Wigan before visiting an All Niter in Blackpool. (There is also an interview with Paul Heaton :Ex Beautiful South )
He’s not everyones taste but he doesn’t take himself too serious
A four part series from BBC and PBS starts on the 21st January 2023
Details below
The BBC has announced that it will air a brand new four-part music documentary boxset featuring and executive produced by Hip Hop legend, Chuck D, called Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World. Developed by Chuck D and his producing partner, Lorrie Boula, the series will air on BBC Two and drop as a box-set on BBC iPlayer on January 21st. It has been co-produced by BBC Studios and PBS.
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It's that time of year again...
Back in April 2013, Russ aka @Amsterdam Russ started up a freebasing topic, simply set up for Source members to share their wildlife photos.
Straight off it became a most popular topic, so popular it was extended to include all types of photo subjects, with a new year based topic at the start of every year.
So here we are 10 years later ...
The 2023 topic has just kicked off and can be had here
https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/43
SOUL STORIES: a novel by Stephen Riley.
Soul Stories is the follow-up to The Truth About Northern Soul, but unlike its predecessor, it is fiction – well, kinda, sorta… The author explains:
“When The Truth About Northern Soul was published, it attracted a huge amount of feedback – most of it positive, I am pleased to say. One comment in particular, from a friend who knows me from way back, caught my eye. She asked why I hadn’t included certain other stories. There are two answers: first
Audio-Technia releases a limited-edition version of the Sound Burger, with the inclusion of modern day tech such as bluetooth, usb charging etc, guess such sort of makes sense, anyone's interests stirred...?
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Audio-Technica, the fan-favorite Sound Burger, makes a welcome return after 40 years! The limited-edition AT-SB2022 portable turntable is the return of the Sound Burger, with modern updates including Bluetooth® connectivity and a USB-C chargin
A quick site news style post just to inform all that the long-standing Markt/Sales moderator James Rice aka @James Rice is stepping down from his role tomorrow.
James has chosen to step down as he wants to focus more on his new job which he will be starting soon.
Regular users and readers of our Soul Markt section will be well aware of the top job that he has done over the last four years (since March 2018). Always acting in a most measured calm manner which given some of the heated
A msm view of the 'mod' revival back in 1979 from the BBC Archive
James Hogg reports on the mod revival currently taking place in London. He interviews Ian Page - the vocalist with the new mod group Secret Affair - and John Entwistle of mod's elder statesmen The Who. Is the mod rebirth just a flash-in-the-pan, motivated by money, or is there more to it than that? The whole affair is regarded with some amusement in Yorkshire, where the mod scene never really went away
Source Revisited - a occasional series of things that were up and then they weren't.
Recent reading about the Lost & Found - Real R&B And Soul cd comp release (that was put together by Paul Weller and Keb Darge) led me to making a mental note to have a dig for this the next time was messing around in the backend of soul source.
This was originally up on here in the late 90s and would say that my original source was perhaps a grab from the BBCwebsite.
At the time found this
Ikea are all set to launch a new range of audio related products next month
In collaboration with the Swedish House Mafia, the new OBEGRÄNSAD (Swedish for 'unlimited') collection is set to launch in store during October 2022.
The collection consists of more than 20 clever home furnishing solutions for producing and performing music in the home setup – as well as solutions for listening to music and creating a relaxed atmosphere. The collection includes a record player, LED work,
Peter Triska has asked me to post this letter from the MND Association in response to the donations from Susan Triska's Memorial Night at Culcheth, thanking everyone who donated an AMAZING £1500
Just out, details follow...
Acid House As It Happened by Dave Swindells.
Blurb
'A brilliant title for what is already the definitive unofficial visual history of 1988. Swindells photographed the first Acid nights at Future and Shoom in March ‘88, then Spectrum, Trip, Mutoid Waste Company, events organised (or otherwise) in car parks and bus depots, all throughout that year of seismic change, ending in November with the appropriately named Adrenalin. Dave documented and wrote about
Recently had word passed on regarding a book that may be of interest to members of a certain age or outlook...
Coronation Baby, Council House Kid, The 1970s: A Soulcial History
'a social/urban history for those who were there',
The 1950s hailed a rapid change and a bright future for many, an exciting new Elizabethan age with over a million new council homes built for returning soldiers and those in need, for their new and growing families. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan proclai
Details of a recent release from Acid Jazz Records
Matt Berry Featuring Emma Noble - Beatmaker / Beatmaker (Instrumental) - Acid Jazz Records - AJX635S
This cover of the 1970s psych funk classic by Swedish artist Doris recently had its first outing via the first episode of 'Toast of Tinseltown', a BBC series starring Matt Berry.
It's a limited-edition picture sleeve 7" vinyl release, along with a smart picture sleeve you also get as a first time exclusive the instrumental version.
Published today a 'straight-talking no-holds-barred autobiography' from one of the more enjoyable twitter accounts to follow Karl Phillips aka Bootlegger or The Captain, details follows..,,
Karl Phillips is just one of the lads – roofer by day, pilsner drinker by night. But as Bootlegger, he’s scored hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube with his hilarious matchday vlogs and keeps a huge number of followers on social media hooked with his humorous musings on life, work, the Flamethrow
A fair bit of background work has been going on over the last few weeks. Part of these improvements have been a revision of the site structure which is now in place.
We have revised the structure and the order of our site main features in order to improve the navigation of the site and to a lesser extent reflect the current use, demands and so on of the Soul Source site. The current stucture listed below...
Main Features of Soul Source
These are the primary features of Soul
The Guardian is running an interview and feature on Ewan Spencer, details and link folow below
‘We’ve always been very good at enjoying ourselves’: Ewen Spencer’s photographs of a lost clubbing generation
In the late 1990s, the photographer shot images of dancers at niche London club nights. He reflects on how smartphones have changed the scene, and how his pictures became a book
These pictures aren’t about Teds, Skinheads, Northern Soul, Acid House or Jungle and Garage, the
A quick highlight Submitting News and Articles
Soul Source is always on the look out to share the all eras and all styles soul music word. You can quickly and easily submit quality soul music related news and articles, be it northern soul, funk, modern, motown, club, classics and beyond genres via either the 'Add New Article' link (members only - tap here) or via the 'Contact Us' link at the bottom of every page
Highlight and news about our 'share' feature here on Soul Source
May be aware, but as we have just added a new service and tweaked things a bit feel a timely update shout may be worthwhile, here are...
Share Links Feature
Any of our/your Soul Source content be it
Forum topics/posts,
Event Guide Events/Comments
Gallery Images/Albums,
Forum Sales/Wants
Source Store 45s/Cds
Videos, Newsletters,
can all be shared to many socail features including po
Just a quick heads up that a popular Event Guide feature has just returned.
Local Events / Events Near Me
As the title hints at it's a section in our event guide that displays all the local soul relatedevents to you
Local being a default radius of 50 miles, however if logged in you can edit this to suit your own needs.
Part of our main event guide, so to check it out just tap the link below...
https://www.soul-source.co.uk/calendar/14-local-soul/
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Stuart Cosgrove: Apologies alone are not enough to atone for racism
An interesting article from Stuart Cosgrove shows up on The National newspaper website. Known to many on here as the author of such books as Detroit67, Memphis68, Young Soul Rebels and more, the author passes on his take on the current mainstream media's reaction to the killing of George Floyd.
It was inevitable that George Floyd’s killing would reverberate arounds the media and lead to an outpouring of self-recriminat
