Soulboy

Soulboys were a working class English youth culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fans of US soul and funk music, the culture emerged in the south of England when at Northern Soul events staged in the South of England, attendees began to take more interest in the more modern funk and jazz funk sounds of artists such Lonnie Liston Smith and Roy Ayers than the obsessive interest in obscure 1960s soul records that characterized the Northern Soul scene. The culture emerged around certain clubs in the South East of England such as The Goldmine in Canvey Island and The Royalty in Southgate as well as a number of specialist DJs including Chris Hill, Robbie Vincent, Greg Edwards and Froggy. Caister Soul Weekenders became the main event in the soulboy scene and still exist today. Much of the Casual scene that emerged in the 1980s was borrowed from Soulboys, not least the sideways fringed Wedge haircut. Although the soulboy scene was huge by the early 1980s it received little media coverage as it was centred around US funk acts and was largely working class. Therefore, it received far less coverage than other more middle class youth cultures of the same period, notably the New romantics.

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* [http://www.last.fm/user/IanAR/tags/soulnetwork-co-uk SoulNetwork-co-uk: Last.FM Radio Station] "Music typically enjoyed by Soulboys 1978-85"