There is an interesting new google feature that shows the statistics for the amount of searches that take place for a search term that you can type in.

Here are the results for "northern soul", quiet interesting, or not?

There was plenty of interest in 2004, certainly lots of spikes of interest, but it seems to be declining steadily now by the looks of it, not dramatically, but certainly down on 2004.

Intersting that most searches are from Portsmouth in the UK, perhaps the mighty "Hip Shaker" club has somthing to do with that? 400+ students every week being turned onto Northern?

Sweden has the most interest of the European countrys.

Any opinions, comments etc?

Edited May 12, 200619 yr by James Trouble

Has it ever mattered ?. People who listen and collect this genre of music will always be about, i could care less over some statistical conclusion, conducted via the internet. Bottom line for me is that certain folks want to collect rare American vinyl records and also attend certain venues where you have the chance to hear similar sounds. Yeah there are those who only listen via mp3 etc, and never venture beyond the armchair, once again (yawn) i could really care less. Thank god for those who still champion this sound and long may it last, it will in my closed world.

One of the best things that ever happened in my life.

I would love to discover it for the first time, all over again.

Maybe someone else will, and I envy them that task - I wish it was me..

Keep the faith, good music never dies.

Edited May 13, 200619 yr by 45cellar

Cheers for reply, I'm seeing a wider picture now. As I haven't experienced one of the dos that you mention , I can't comment further.

Venues down here are very few & far between & do have to be supported. The previous week-end there was nothing local. Last Friday, there were 7 of us having a beer in a pub in Aldershot discussing our proposed saturday night dos - 2 went to Oxford, 2 went to Banbury, 2 went to Weston SM & 1 went to Brighton!

We have to travel feckin miles a lot of the time so generally pick venues carefully & don't come across the dos you mention.

Col

So less of makes us fussy?

True, but some still go where they don`t like the music policy so they can moan.

Why do they do that???

I could be a rich man if I sold up now, But I realised how rich I am, just in time.

Edited May 13, 200619 yr by 45cellar

I could be a rich man if I sold up now, But I realised how rich I am, just in time.

Soul is something you enjoy, you miss it when it`s not there.

According to the Audi advert

How come `they` managed to define it, when none of us could.

Let them think what they like

I certainly wouldn't go looking for it so much, to me i use this sites message board for info you all give. ebay and Gemm for buying some stuff. But i would search if looking for some particular on a song cause i don't want to start posting hundreds of new posts daily about a song lol. You will all prob say that's what we here for.