Style photographer Elaine Constantine is making a film about her teen crush: the Northern Soul scene. Bob Stanley joins the kids polishing their moves and hoping to make the grade on screen
On a Thursday afternoon at the Old Queens Head pub in north London, it's pretty quiet. There are just three or four customers at the bar downstairs, but coming through the ceiling is an insistent, Motown-like bassline. Climb the stairs and you're in another world. Skating across the parquet floor are some 200 kids spinning, dropping, sweating to a five-decades-old tune called Suspicion by the Originals. Around the edge of the floor are a few furrow-browed, older onlookers. This isn't a club, it's a practice session. It has the atmosphere of a boxing ring.
Photographer Elaine Constantine has been obsessed with Northern Soul since 1976, when she went to a youth club in her home town of Bury, Lancashire. "I...
On a Thursday afternoon at the Old Queens Head pub in north London, it's pretty quiet. There are just three or four customers at the bar downstairs, but coming through the ceiling is an insistent, Motown-like bassline. Climb the stairs and you're in another world. Skating across the parquet floor are some 200 kids spinning, dropping, sweating to a five-decades-old tune called Suspicion by the Originals. Around the edge of the floor are a few furrow-browed, older onlookers. This isn't a club, it's a practice session. It has the atmosphere of a boxing ring.
Photographer Elaine Constantine has been obsessed with Northern Soul since 1976, when she went to a youth club in her home town of Bury, Lancashire. "I...
- 9/1/2011
- by Bob Stanley
- The Guardian - Film News
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