{"id":710240,"date":"2026-07-25T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710240\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:51:08","slug":"a-new-generation-is-carrying-the-torch-for-northern-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710240\/","title":{"rendered":"A new generation is carrying the torch for Northern Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas Whittleton, 22, and Charlie Mulligan, 25, are co-founders of Kingston Upon Soul, a club night based in Hull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They say they grew up hearing stories about the scene from relatives, with Mulligan citing his uncle&#8217;s two-step dance skills as a standout memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mulligan also began attending a long-running Northern Soul club in the city, called the Hull Soul Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Northern Soul is my escape. When the music starts, everything heavy falls away,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s more than music, it&#8217;s walking into a room and knowing you&#8217;re surrounded by people who feel things as deeply as you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whittleton adds: &#8220;We were both massive lovers of Northern Soul and noticed there had been an older following in the city for years, but there was nowhere young people were going to, so we just thought, why not start our own night?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In big cities such as Manchester, there is an amazing soul scene \u2013 and the vast majority of that is young people. Hull was missing that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Whittleton, 22, and Charlie Mulligan, 25, are co-founders of Kingston Upon Soul, a club night based in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}