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I think you're unfair to comment about people financially gaining from the scene without finding out about their involvement in it, especially when you do it on an internet forum, (a pla
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Elaine Constantine's film is pretty good (though with a few minor-ish flaws that have been widely discussed). Otherwise I 1000% agree with you - frankly I don't WANT acceptance, it's 'MY
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Dont you offer your services as a more commercial DJ now Mark. Seems a bit hypocritical does it not. Too many people seem to want to have a dig at things these days, includ
Northern Soul .... Companies lining up to use 'fashionable' music. Constantine's money making love story, Shredded Wheat and Northern Soul... Synonymous with a healthy lifestyle? Someone didn't do their research.
There is a lifetime spent from teenage years joining a movement with very little parental knowledge, intervention or in my case care. This underground scene was forged for reasons of social acceptability, to challenge authority, thankfully it needed no money to join, and the countrywide connections made, (a time pre internet,mobiles) ensured there was always someone to help with costs, travelling, entrance fee, drugs.
'People' will talk about it just being about the music... It was so much more than that, Friday night all nighter Saturday night all nighter Sunday all dayer, travelling the length and breadth of the country, scoring drugs, losing jobs, relationships made and broken due to the hardships of committing to living the life.
And that music, something about that music... if it gets you...its for life.
Dancing all night and day, singing til your throat is hoarse, no sleep, little eating, LIVING exciting daring challenging definitely not conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
Drugs were widely used by the majority and acceptable in this closed society,police drug squads set up specifically for controlling the Northern scene, chemists regularly ransacked, people died on dance floors and 30 years on the people that 'left the scene to raise families' quote unquote are stable, socially acceptable, caricatures NOW financially able to cultivate a 'look', family raised, able to join a scene that at times, heartbreakingly so, survived underground in between those years....
There is a whole age being glossed over, churned, and spat out as this respectable twee existence.
Look deeper for longer.