Is an photographic exhibition that creates a visual link to past forgotten music era where people lived for that one long soulful weekend and craved that deep rich sounding music where dancing alone was dancing with that tune. Because soul music is associated with style and coolness of a scooters.’Soulheaven makes the
Link between scooters and early soul music, making you visually aware of that period in time each photographic print has its own soundtrack which moves you back to a period where life was uncluttered free. Using photography and visual references to take you back to that place.
A story of a man a scooter and that tune
It happens at night why because it was the spiritual owl that called me to arms called me on a breath of soul to a place that place
It was cool before cool became cool it was different your date for the night was that tune one moment where you became one with you soul and connected to that tune she beautiful inspiring moving me to tears truly yours ,never truly mine
The 6th of December 1981 that's the date I had to be there I had to dance to that tune that keeps playing in my head like a carousel
That beat,them memories,feet tapping mind singing, nervous excitement loud and clear
It was the November 1981
The last time the last place the last dance
How do I get there I have to be there I need that soul in my bones like a warming jacket,
Ah let build that scooter and ride to the soul.
Or catch the train haunting sax playing in the background of my mind oh feel the soul I have to dance that tune that feeling brings a warm memory of love that was mind and now has gone I see my collection of soul with wheels memories talc sweat beat waiting wanting play it play it I need that tune addiction of the soul feeding my heart a loud clap I hear that tune I see that floor dusty white vibrating with a beat like waves on a beach calling me now
I must dance I sing truly yours ,never truly mine , I hum that tune I see that beat I feel that soul
Northern Soul is a style of music with associated dance styles and fashions that developed in the north of England in the late 1960s. In the beginning the dancing was athletic, featuring spins, flips, and drops. The music originally consisted of obscure American soul recordings with an uptempo beat, very similar to and including Tamla Motown, plus more obscure labels (e.g. Okeh) from cities like DetroitBy 1970 British performers were recording numbers for this market, and the scarcity of soul records with the required beat led to the playing of stompers, or records by any artist which featur
Early Northern Soul fashion included bowling shirts, button-down collar shirts, blazers with centre vents and unusual numbers of buttons, and baggie trousers. Many dancers belonged to clubs organized by dance halls and wore club badges issued at each dance. Foremost among the original clubs were those at the Torch in Stoke, Wigan Casino, the Blackpool Mecca, the Mojo in Sheffield, and the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. In later years, Northern Soul became synonymous with the Motown Sound.
