Northern Soul Allnighter 45 Live Kidderminster

Well wasn't that quite something! New venue and at first it looked a bit high-street clubby - neon lights, TV screens, trendy bar fittings, bouncer on the door etc. but actually it was the ideal venue for this - fairly small but beautifully clean wood dancefloor, red lights (which got turned off later on, no disco lights either: another plus), really reasonable bar prices, nice seating too and unlike some venues there were enough tables to draw from! All ages crowd but apart from a couple of drinks on the dancefloor moments (which didn't last long) no problems, some top dancers from all over as well.

With a DJ line up like that you couldn't go far wrong and everyone did what you would expect. Good mixture though, it wasn't too obscure, wasn't too overplayed (with one exception, and in 9 hours I am being dead picky) highlights for me were Jordan Wilson playing Bobby Williams, Daz Dakin playing Bird Walkin', Martin Farmer (of course he's the best DJ in England 😉) playing pretty much everything but particularly Jerry Hall and The King Cobras, Martin Shaw playing Jesse Johnson. Moments like that are often few and far between but they just kept coming, there was more, much more I can't remember.  

At one point it looked like the DJ's milling around were outnumbering those on the bill so there was a real buzz about this one. Unlike several other events there was still a reasonable crowd at 5am too.

The only reason for not giving it five stars was a spin of House For Sale (because I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of do's I've been to in the last 12 months that didn't play it  to the point that just once I'd like the hear The Snake instead) but this is being very, very picky and it was at about 3:45 am and more than made up for by the quality of everything else. Probably the best event of the year so far; looking forward to the next one in November.

Edited May 23, 20223 yr by Timillustrator