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Rick Scott Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 1 hour ago, Mike said: BBC TWO this Saturday 26th August at 19:45 -21.45 hrs, a 1 hour, 30-minute show. Just to be clear the above time start and Finnish according to TV Schedules is 7:45 Start and 9:15 Ending 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 24, 2023 Author Share Posted August 24, 2023 16 minutes ago, Rick Scott said: Just to be clear the above time start and Finnish according to TV Schedules is 7:45 Start and 9:15 Ending good catch, article edited to reflect this https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbctwo/20230826 thanks Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Happy Feet Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Let's hope they over run again ,,,,, Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Seano Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Just flicked through this week's Waitrose 'Weekend' newspaper and surprised to see a 2 page spread where Stuart Maconie normally has a column featuring Northern Soul, focussed on the up coming screening of the Prom. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Roburt Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Looking forward to watching this TV show tonight. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Paul H Posted August 26, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2023 Is this bringing the longest underground scene, our beloved Northern soul, into the mainstream public eye ? Watching it now, and the singers and musicians are presenting the music very well and good choice of sounds to a packed Albert Hall. But i wished it would stay underground, under the radar, off the screens, or am i just getting too old....... 6 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Roburt Posted August 26, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2023 90 minutes of great TV .... . . . good songs, good musicians, good singers. Best thing on the box this year. 4 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Owd Codger Posted August 26, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2023 Indeed Just enjoy the music as it was intended, not how it relects on YOU . 4 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soulman58 Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Having given up after 3 songs on the radio, I have now watched it. Enjoyable yes, but I enjoyed the tribute to Aretha and the Dee Dee Bridgewater concerts more. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Frankie Crocker Posted August 26, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2023 54 minutes ago, Paul H said: Is this bringing the longest underground scene, our beloved Northern soul, into the mainstream public eye ? Watching it now, and the singers and musicians are presenting the music very well and good choice of sounds to a packed Albert Hall. But i wished it would stay underground, under the radar, off the screens, or am i just getting too old....... In the words of Williams and Watson, it’s far ‘Too Late’. The music’s not been underground for decades so just go with the flow, discover your own obscure sounds and support venues where progressive DJ’s work hard at exposing the rarest of the rare. 9 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Scooterboy Posted August 26, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2023 It was a great show, thoroughly enjoyed it. 5 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soulof Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 We really loved it! Brilliant singers and orchestra it sounded amazing even on our really ole TV without surround sound. Read in the other thread some songs did not make the cut hope they release another longer one with them included as well 3 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 27, 2023 Author Share Posted August 27, 2023 If missed or want to rewatch the current BBC iPlayer link is below https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001q211/bbc-proms-2023-northern-soul-at-the-proms Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Neil Austin Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Really did enjoy the show , nice glass of wine what a treat . well done Stuart ️️️️️ 3 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Colsoul Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 A fitting tribute to the original artists and musicians, Col. 2 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Kenb Posted August 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2023 Sing-along-a-Northern. Maybe you had to be there. Glad i wasn't. 8 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Roburt Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Wish I'd known about it early enough to have gotten a ticket & been there. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Tazhoughton Posted August 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2023 (edited) I personally thought the Royal Albert Hall represented our Passion for soul music really well , Everyone there looked like they had an amazing time, the atmosphere must have been electric, I do love the Proms so for me it was a perfect match, Edited August 27, 2023 by Tazhoughton 5 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Neil Austin Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Yep , if Stuart did again I would go 100% 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post ulyssees Posted August 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2023 Enjoyed the prom, my only gripe …..no instrumentals, imagine Festival Time, Bari Track or Double Cooking played by that orchestra. 7 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Neil Austin Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 A little Ramsey Lewis too ️ 1 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Tazhoughton Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Holly st James, Imagine the kettle drums at the beginning ♡ , that would be a choice from me , 2 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Hooker1951 Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 That was a bloody good effort to get it right ML 2 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Carty Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Didnt work for me . 3 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Kathryn Magson Posted August 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2023 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Carty said: Didnt work for me . Me neither - sadly it's all becoming way too commercialized for my liking Edited August 27, 2023 by Kathryn Magson 4 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Frankie Crocker Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 On 25/08/2023 at 20:08, Seano said: Just flicked through this week's Waitrose 'Weekend' newspaper and surprised to see a 2 page spread where Stuart Maconie normally has a column featuring Northern Soul, focussed on the up coming screening of the Prom. Thanks for the heads-up. I just walked to central London via Waitrose to pick up a copy. Boy, does Maconie write well. I’ve just started his book, The Pie At Night, and am enjoying it tremendously. 3 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Mick Reed Posted August 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2023 1 hour ago, Carty said: Didnt work for me . Snap 4 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post 45cellar Posted August 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2023 19 hours ago, Soulof said: We really loved it! Brilliant singers and orchestra it sounded amazing even on our really ole TV without surround sound. Read in the other thread some songs did not make the cut hope they release another longer one with them included as well I hope so too. It would have been nice to see the full version. Surely they could have allocated extra time for this event. I enjoyed the program. The singers and orchestra covered the songs well. 5 hours ago, ulyssees said: Enjoyed the prom, my only gripe …..no instrumentals, imagine Festival Time, Bari Track or Double Cooking played by that orchestra. If they do revisit in future and with such an orchestra at their disposal the Instrumentals should definitely feature. 5 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Leicester Boy Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 For those who enjoyed it.. great. Is it what we were got into when we were young and stupid, I think not but each to their own. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Mush Posted August 27, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2023 Young and stupid, maybe, but it was our passion, and nothing can take that away, we are Soulies. I absolutely loved it, yes it was all main stream stuff, but the point is the BBC recognised our passion and put it out there, yes we are are a niche group of people but putting it out there can only be for the benefit of us, I didn't even know it was on. Until last year I lived in a small village in Oxfordshire for 5 years, nobody had even heard of Northern Soul there, I got a text this morning to say watch it on catch up from my mate Dave(75), he absolutly loved it, never too old to enjoy our passion!!! Now living back in my home city, Southampton 5 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Stephen Houghton Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Nice one mush ,I agree with everything you have said Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Thinksmart Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 (edited) Once underground, Subculture is now becoming the newly accepted mainstream culture whether Northern Soul or orchestral House music. It has more cultural relevance for most than ballet or opera by now. Edited August 28, 2023 by Thinksmart 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Epic Posted August 28, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2023 On 26/08/2023 at 20:51, Paul H said: Is this bringing the longest underground scene, our beloved Northern soul, into the mainstream public eye ? Watching it now, and the singers and musicians are presenting the music very well and good choice of sounds to a packed Albert Hall. But i wished it would stay underground, under the radar, off the screens, or am i just getting too old....... That ship sailed in 1977 with the Granada "This England" programme on Wigan Casino !! 4 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soul-slider Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 On 26/08/2023 at 23:26, Soulof said: We really loved it! Brilliant singers and orchestra it sounded amazing even on our really ole TV without surround sound. Read in the other thread some songs did not make the cut hope they release another longer one with them included as well One was Jimmy Beaumont's 'I Never Loved Her Anyway'. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevesilktulip Posted August 28, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2023 Haven't seen it and probably won't but can't get exited either way. Regarding Stuart Maconie, on a northern soul show on radio 2 a few years back, he said he loves the music but doesn't like the politics. To illustrate this he told the story of when he tried to play 'the Night' but found himself on the wrong side of a compilation so played 'Grease' on the basis they'd know it. He just likes every pop music fad deemed 'cool' by the telly since he saw the Beatles aged about three. 3 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Stephen Houghton Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Same as a awful lot of northern djs Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Tykebike Posted August 28, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2023 The singers and the orchestra did an excellent job but I hate the way that its seems that history has been re written so that Wigan Casino is the be all and end all of Northern Soul but its' predessor The Twisted Wheel has been airbrushed out. Other clubs of the late 60's contributed to the type of soul music that became known as Northern Soul long before Wigan Casino. I wouldn't class Hold Back The Night by the Trammps as Northern Soul as it's the type of sound that we Wheelers rebelled against in much the same way as those super smooth productions by The Stylistics, Chi-lites, Commodores, Harold Melvin etc. Let battle commence... 6 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
AlanB Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 On 27/08/2023 at 13:36, ulyssees said: Enjoyed the prom, my only gripe …..no instrumentals, imagine Festival Time, Bari Track or Double Cooking played by that orchestra. Exus Trek and Sliced Tomatoes were on the radio (full) version. I think your suggestions would have been better choices . Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Owd Codger Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Tykebike said: The singers and the orchestra did an excellent job but I hate the way that its seems that history has been re written so that Wigan Casino is the be all and end all of Northern Soul but its' predessor The Twisted Wheel has been airbrushed out. Other clubs of the late 60's contributed to the type of soul music that became known as Northern Soul long before Wigan Casino. I wouldn't class Hold Back The Night by the Trammps as Northern Soul as it's the type of sound that we Wheelers rebelled against in much the same way as those super smooth productions by The Stylistics, Chi-lites, Commodores, Harold Melvin etc. Let battle commence... The Wheel closed in January 1971 I think.....quite a few years before the type of smooth productions as above. And things like "Hold back the night" and "Heaven must be missing an angel" were probably played at Rare soul venues before crossing over. When I went to The Wheel, as I recall, there was no "Title" attached to the type of club playing rare soul....it was a place that attracted you because they played "IMPORTS"...wow!! Edited August 28, 2023 by Owd Codger 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Bourne Fox Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 (edited) Regarding “Hold back the Night “, the instrumental “Scrub Board “ was/is popular and still gets plays on the scene to this day. Edited August 28, 2023 by Bourne Fox 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Sutty Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 11 hours ago, Stevesilktulip said: Haven't seen it and probably won't but can't get exited either way. Regarding Stuart Maconie, on a northern soul show on radio 2 a few years back, he said he loves the music but doesn't like the politics. To illustrate this he told the story of when he tried to play 'the Night' but found himself on the wrong side of a compilation so played 'Grease' on the basis they'd know it. He just likes every pop music fad deemed 'cool' by the telly since he saw the Beatles aged about three. Was it him, I can’t remember, it was at the 100 club and it was a celebrity radio guest who was playing off CD and selected the wrong track and did indeed play ‘grease is the word” instead of the night… great hilarity ensued… it was def not intentional as he apologised over the mic (whoever it was) Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Mgm 1251 Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, Sutty said: Was it him, I can’t remember, it was at the 100 club and it was a celebrity radio guest who was playing off CD and selected the wrong track and did indeed play ‘grease is the word” instead of the night… great hilarity ensued… it was def not intentional as he apologised over the mic (whoever it was) I think it was Andy Davies,Johnathon Ross’ sidekick on Radio 2,whom Stuart had on his Northern Soul show,also on Radio 2... Edited August 29, 2023 by Mgm 1251 addition Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Frankie Crocker Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 21 hours ago, Tykebike said: I wouldn't class Hold Back The Night by the Trammps as Northern Soul as it's the type of sound that we Wheelers rebelled against in much the same way as those super smooth productions by The Stylistics, Chi-lites, Commodores, Harold Melvin etc. Me neither. Trammps were pure disco fodder when I was in Manchester during the mid to late 70’s. Rather like the Tavares, another decent outfit with tunes that grace any wedding celebration as they are accessible to anyone who can handle pop music. I think Maconie must have included Hold Back The Night to make the Prom a bit more populist and to cow-tow to the ultra-Woke layers of management at the BBC. Inclusion of the tune also reflects his very limited knowledge of Northern Soul. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Chalky Posted August 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, Frankie Crocker said: Me neither. Trammps were pure disco fodder when I was in Manchester during the mid to late 70’s. Rather like the Tavares, another decent outfit with tunes that grace any wedding celebration as they are accessible to anyone who can handle pop music. I think Maconie must have included Hold Back The Night to make the Prom a bit more populist and to cow-tow to the ultra-Woke layers of management at the BBC. Inclusion of the tune also reflects his very limited knowledge of Northern Soul. There is far more to Tavares than their pop hits, some great 70s soul Edited August 29, 2023 by Chalky 10 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Eddie Hubbard Posted August 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2023 2 minutes ago, Chalky said: There is far, more to Tavares than their pop hits, some great 70s soul Exactly ,albums like Hard Core Poetry and Madame Butterfly are great examples of 70’s Soul at its best . 6 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Eddie Hubbard Posted August 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2023 8 minutes ago, Frankie Crocker said: Me neither. Trammps were pure disco fodder when I was in Manchester during the mid to late 70’s. Rather like the Tavares, another decent outfit with tunes that grace any wedding celebration as they are accessible to anyone who can handle pop music. I think Maconie must have included Hold Back The Night to make the Prom a bit more populist and to cow-tow to the ultra-Woke layers of management at the BBC. Inclusion of the tune also reflects his very limited knowledge of Northern Soul. To be fair ,Hold Back The Night was massive at Wigan ,played by John Vincent off the new Zing album .The tune was only previously known as the instrumental Scrub Board ,from The Torch era etc 4 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Steve G Posted August 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2023 (edited) Ha! "Hold Back The Night" - it just so happens I finished my set Sunday evening with this. Floor rammed more so than any other northern classics and oldies. Make of that what you will. Edited August 29, 2023 by Steve G 5 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Popular Post Kenb Posted August 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2023 16 minutes ago, Frankie Crocker said: Me neither. Trammps were pure disco fodder when I was in Manchester during the mid to late 70’s. Rather like the Tavares, another decent outfit with tunes that grace any wedding celebration as they are accessible to anyone who can handle pop music. I think Maconie must have included Hold Back The Night to make the Prom a bit more populist and to cow-tow to the ultra-Woke layers of management at the BBC. Inclusion of the tune also reflects his very limited knowledge of Northern Soul. Tavares With Freda Payne :I Wanna See You Soon. Cheap as chips and v.g (IMO) 4 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Owd Codger Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 4 minutes ago, Eddie Hubbard said: To be fair ,Hold Back The Night was massive at Wigan ,played by John Vincent off the new Zing album .The tune was only previously known as the instrumental Scrub Board ,from The Torch era etc Which is what I said above... A record never changes, only a person's viewpoint as to that record's reflection on their ever changing tastes and self image. 2 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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