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“Whether your first experience of Northern Soul was trying to backdrop to a scratchy cassette at the youth club or nodding to the beat and trying not to stare at the spinners and swallow-divers in a regional ballroom in the wee hours, you’ll probably be asking yourself (like me and Marvin) -what’s going on? Who are these people on the web, peddling this insipid travesty of what has been our passion for decades? How did the scene become the preserve of pretty young things? And what the hell can I do about it?

In this book, Paul Sadot exposes the social media interpretation of Northern Soul for what it is – theft. A heist of perhaps the most underground movement in British popular culture. Drawing on 40 years’ experience as a dancer, record collector and DJ in the soul scene, Sadot interrogates the influencers and calls out the 21st century custodians of a culture which they have cheapened and faked for personal gain.

Honest, incisive and entertaining, Insta(nt) Soul hits back at the tide of blandness that has stultified the scene and packed it in a pretty parcel of cosy nostalgia for smartphone surfers.”

Hobie Sconner – The Gutter and Stars