This Is Northern Soul In Northants The Stanwick Hotel

It’s hard to believe we are into our 8th year of promoting Soul events at this fantastic venue. There is a new way guaranteeing your space on the dance floor! Buy your tickets on line at or you can still pay on the door (subject to availability)  

The Venue; The Stanwick Hotel is an award winning privately owned boutique hotel situated in the heart of rural east Northants. The main function room has a fantastic beech wood large dance floor (ideal for dancers). There is ample parking and food available. Rooms are available to book if you are travelling to the event. Why not make a weekend of it! The hotel is less than 5 minutes from the beautiful Stanwick Lakes Nature reserve and activity centre and less than 10 minutes from one of the newest shopping complexes in the UK Rushden Lakes which has many top brand retailers situated within.

The team; behind the event are Jem Brittin, Len Dopson, Steve Scotney & the latest addition local Soul fan Paul Hunter. Between Len & Jem over a 25 year period they promoted some of the best attended Soul Nights in Northants. Len staged the much loved ‘Embankment’ Soul Nights in Wellingborough from the mid 90s to the mid 00s. Jem was one of the founder promoters of The Pembo Soul Nights (Pemberton Centre) Rushden and the originator of The Soul in the Bowl nights Rushden, both these events featured Len as co promoter. I’m sure many will remember the legendary ‘Len’s Den room’ at the original Soul In The Bowl Nights. Steve joined the team about 10 years ago and along with Jem promoted ‘The Snooks’ Raunds Soul Nights back in 2012. As well as regularly DJing, Steve is hands on behind the scenes with the technical stuff and equipment. Paul is a Northants lad who has been into the music since the mid 1970s, a regular attendee of nights up and down the country and is passionate about promoting ‘This is Northern Soul’ in Northants and beyond!

The Music & Sound; Jem & Len’s era’s on the scene started at different times but also crossed over. Jem started his journey in the 1970s ‘Golden era’ of Wigan Casino etc. while Len Started out during the ‘Second wave’ 100 Club etc during the late 80s/ early 90s. So musically they are inspired by those times. Predominately you will hear most of Northern Soul tunes you know and love at the event but also be prepared to be pleasantly surprised by some other inclusions in the DJ sets. We will also feature specially selected guest DJ’s that fit in with our ethos of entertaining the crowd and importantly keeping the dance floor busy! All music is on vinyl format, played on the industry standard Technics 1210 decks through the most up to date top quality sound system. We are confident that you will hear the music we all love in the finest fidelity!