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The Face: Northern Soul - A Primer For The New Soul Rebels

Taken from The Face, September 1982, here's a depth piece on Northern Soul featuring articles and a great chart from Network's Neil Rushton with additional input and pieces from Robert Elms, Steve Strange, Blue Rondo's Tony Gordon and Soft Cell's Dave Ball.

https://testpressing.org/2009/10/11/the-face-northern-soul-a-primer-for-the-new-soul-rebels/

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And we didn't get a mention because we weren't in the North or they didn't know we were going or we were a passing anomaly that wouldn't last: ho hum!

Funnily enough, I have a copy of the first (or possibly the second) Kent LP that has photocopies of this article included as promotional bumpf from a record plugger - the LP sleeve and the photocopies have a sticker on with the pluggers details - when I get a chance I'll find it out and post their name up here.

Funnily enough, I have a copy of the first (or possibly the second) Kent LP that has photocopies of this article included as promotional bumpf from a record plugger - the LP sleeve and the photocopies have a sticker on with the pluggers details - when I get a chance I'll find it out and post their name up here.

For Dancers Only

"Beer Davies" of Birmingham.

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"of such things are legends made"

I remember this issue like it was yesterday. spent days reading it over and over. I got a good friend of mine interested in the music after this article. Darkest Days is still his fave tune. A great feature with some great interviews/stories

I have a copy. Neville Brody the legendary designer of the Face (the most influential magazine and type designer of modern times) was big into Northern, met him a couple of times whilst at college and visiting the Face offices with the other students from my course - who all got pissed off coz all we talked about was Northern and they wanted to hear about typography.

Dave

I have a copy. Neville Brody the legendary designer of the Face (the most influential magazine and type designer of modern times) was big into Northern, met him a couple of times whilst at college and visiting the Face offices with the other students from my course - who all got pissed off coz all we talked about was Northern and they wanted to hear about typography.

Dave

I too have a copy, but sadly no interesting anecdote:ph34r:

I was 16 when this came out and more immersed in the scene than i have ever been before or since and was only vaguely aware this existed. It just goes to show how much attention or care we had about what was going on in the media concerning what we loved.

I was a Smash Hits fan myself... whistling.gif

And we didn't get a mention because we weren't in the North or they didn't know we were going or we were a passing anomaly that wouldn't last: ho hum!

Thanks for posting Mike brings back some great memories as haven't seen, but have wanted to, for many years.

Ady, ironically though this article was more than instrumental in me attending the 100 Club shortly after publication (and re-reading it Elms does mention the 100 Club although don't remeber it being mentioned at the time either). Whilst most of the Mod/Soul nights in London were playing a staple diet of 'Love on a Mountain Top' and 'There's A Ghost In My House' (there was no internet of course and very few in London - at least attending these type of events - that new anything much about Northern beyond a handful of commerical titles - I should say that this isn't really true as there were lots of people in London with incredible knowledge, but not in my, then, cirlce of friends/acquaintances) but this provided me with a list and the opportunity to search out new tunes that I'd never heard of, it wasn't long before I was asking for stuff like 'Back Street' etc to be played and taking my dodgy bootlegs down to the Cambridge on a Sunday night to get them played (anyone else remember this north London event?). Soon started chatting to a few lads who were really into it at the time and one or two the dealers who'd show up now and again (Cockney Mick and the young chap from Ilford who was friendly with Dick Coombes) they invited me to the 100 Club a few weeks/months later saying I'd love it - it blew me away and resulted in me being a regular for the next 7 or 8 years.

For me at least, at the tender age of 15/16 and with little else to go on, it helped to open the door.

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Thanks for posting Mike brings back some great memories as haven't seen, but have wanted to, for many years.

Ady, ironically though this article was more than instrumental in me attending the 100 Club shortly after publication (and re-reading it Elms does mention the 100 Club although don't remeber it being mentioned at the time either). Whilst most of the Mod/Soul nights in London were playing a staple diet of 'Love on a Mountain Top' and 'There's A Ghost In My House' (there was no internet of course and very few in London - at least attending these type of events - that new anything much about Northern beyond a handful of commerical titles - I should say that this isn't really true as there were lots of people in London with incredible knowledge, but not in my, then, cirlce of friends/acquaintances) but this provided me with a list and the opportunity to search out new tunes that I'd never heard of, it wasn't long before I was asking for stuff like 'Back Street' etc to be played and taking my dodgy bootlegs down to the Cambridge on a Sunday night to get them played (anyone else remember this north London event?). Soon started chatting to a few lads who were really into it at the time and one or two the dealers who'd show up now and again (Cockney Mick and the young chap from Ilford who was friendly with Dick Coombes) they invited me to the 100 Club a few weeks/months later saying I'd love it - it blew me away and resulted in me being a regular for the next 7 or 8 years.

For me at least, at the tender age of 15/16 and with little else to go on, it helped to open the door.

OK I'll forgive them and I missed the Elms mention. I can live with a bit of reverse snobbery, the North gets it direct most times.

OK I'll forgive them and I missed the Elms mention. I can live with a bit of reverse snobbery, the North gets it direct most times.

I don't think they deserve the forgiveness it was a rubbish magazine anyway laugh.gif, besides they spent plenty of page space trying to add some sort of trendy credibility to the article by interviewing London based 'new romantics' when it'd have served the article better to have included more on the 100 club given it was on their (publishing) doorstep.

Love the description of Get It Baby...."The 'Poison Arrow' of Northern Dance? Well crucial!" laugh.gif

WORD!

Funnily enough, I have a copy of the first (or possibly the second) Kent LP that has photocopies of this article included as promotional bumpf from a record plugger - the LP sleeve and the photocopies have a sticker on with the pluggers details - when I get a chance I'll find it out and post their name up here.

It will be 'For Dancers Only' as that was released in 1982 around the same time as the article.

Had a look at my copy and there's nothing to reference it so I'd be interested to see that 'bumpf'

Regards..

Still got my copy, the following month I had a letter printed in the letters page putting a few things straight.

KTF

Baz

sure its done the rounds online a few times now and may even be up here somewhere

but if missed it its turned up again

The Face: Northern Soul - A Primer For The New Soul Rebels

https://testpressing....ew-soul-rebels/

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