Daytime Northern Soul dance party with rare grooves and driving beats at Black Box Hastings.
Black Box Hastings is hosting a Northern Soul Day Party on Saturday 28 November, starting at 3:00 pm. It's a daytime dance party built around Northern Soul, so it's one you can get into while it's still light out and be home well before midnight.
For those who aren't already across it, Northern Soul is a whole culture around mid-sixties American soul records that never quite took off in the States but found a second life in the dance halls of Northern England. The sound is defined by a fast, driving beat and a big, soaring vocal — the kind of records that keep a dancefloor moving for hours. The day party format means the music runs through the afternoon and into the evening, rather than starting late at night.
The organisers are promising rare grooves alongside the driving beats, so it's not just the well-known classics you'll hear. If you're into the deeper side of soul, that's where the real interest lies — the records that didn't make the charts but still have that same energy. It's a good way to hear the sound from both ends: the big, recognisable tracks and the rarer finds that don't get out much.
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It all kicks off at Black Box Hastings on Saturday 28 November from 3:00 pm, so you've got the whole afternoon to get stuck in.
