The Northern Soul scene sprang up in the UK in the late 1960s in clubs like The Twisted Wheel and Wigan Casino. Initially the music played in the clubs was popular American soul singles but as the ...

Northern Soul is a tale of two young lads (played by Eliot James Langridge and Josh Whitehouse) discovering the music that changes their lives. They harbour ambitions of DJing as a partnership and ...

The plot is unremarkable, but Elaine Constantine’s debut scores with its soundtrack, its characters, its performances and its affectionate portrayal of a small-town ’70s Lancashire where Wigan looks ...

In the 1960s, young people in the north of England partied like they never had done before. Industrial towns like Wigan and Stoke were injected with a new energy when imported soul music began to ...