Warwick Soul Club

Another Friday with multiple choices! There were, slightly bizarrely, three events within 8 miles of each other in Coven, Heath Hayes and Great Wyrely, but having done the first two in the last month or so I thought I'd give Staffordshire a rest. There was Wilson Hall in Halesowen (always a reliable option with Little Scotty and unusually not on Soul Source this month) and a new? one in Redditch but I thought I'd try somewhere different, so headed south. 

This is an established local soul night, pleasant venue, good parquet dancefloor (although it could be bigger as it did get pretty packed at times), a regular crowd, locals, all ages with a few visitors - was chatting to some people from Hinckley. Cheap bar (£1.30 for lime and soda and £3.50 Guinness) and nice hall, 1920's feel although it looked older from the outside. Perhaps the highlight was the amazingly good dancing DJ (not both at the same time); didn't catch his name but the chap with the Stax t-shirt on - unusually, he danced (very well indeed) to the preceding DJ's set and then got up and DJ'd himself, then danced to pretty much the whole of the following DJ's set; thats stamina for you!

Music was OK, pretty heavy on the Tamla Motown, which isn't my preference (but is what it's advertised as) and they know their audience so it went down well and you can't criticise an event for doing what it says on the tin. Mostly top 500 and a few repetitions but on the other hand one of them was Going To A Happening which I could listen to all night anyway. So in short a dependable local night playing mainly proven oldies. 

Did a couple of sketches, run out of grey paper so back to the sketchbook. 

I rarely give 5 stars - I've noticed most reviews are by the promoters of the events who inevitably give 5 stars to everything. I am trying to be objective.