Dig? Soul & Retro Club Night

Dig? Soul & Retro Club Night is at The Night Owl on Friday 16 October, with DJ S on the decks. It's a club night rather than a live gig, so the focus is on the dancefloor and the records rather than a stage set. DJ S describes the music as groovy, running from the 1950s through to the 1990s, with a heavy lean towards soul. That's a wide span of decades to cover in one night, so you'll hear things from the early R&B and doo-wop of the fifties, the Motown and Stax era of the sixties, the disco and funk of the seventies, and the soul-inflected sounds of the eighties and nineties. The soul is the common thread that ties it all together, so it's less about a specific era and more about that particular groove.

Because it's a club night, the whole thing is built around the dancefloor. DJ S will be working through the years, pulling from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, and the soul is where the set spends most of its time. It's the kind of night that works whether you're there to dance or just to listen and see what comes up. The Night Owl is a dedicated spot for this sort of thing, so it's a natural fit for a night that looks back across a few decades of soul and retro sounds. It's on Friday 16 October in Birmingham.