Luckily, the British had already come up with the perfect solution for fun-in-the-not-very-much-sun; the holiday camp. Predictably they ended up slugging it out on the beaches (interestingly enough, Clacton is also the site of Britains oldest known weapon the Clacton Spear, dated at 450,000 years old. Once again you are keeepin !! Then there is the V-LOUNGE and the HIDEOUT where we have a soulful mix of various top DJs and sets covering music as diverse as Northern Soul, Motown, Philadelphia tributes, New Brit Funk, Original Hip-Hop, Old Skool House, 60's R 'n' B, Nu Jazz & Latin, 60's / 70's Reggae, 70's Soul, Club Classics, Lovers Rock, Soulful House and much much more. %image(14514927, type="article-full", alt="Brian Rix, managing director of the Caister Soul Weekender, has apologised for 'inappropriate' comments about the Black Lives Matters demonstrations. Sat, 02 Jul 2022 - 19:30. //--> So eclectic and with I started to drive that brought a whole adventure! Wonder what happened to all those blue coats! And if it came with the occasional ruck, then so be it. But in these T&Cs, seen by the EDP, pandemic is not mentioned in this clause and was added at a later date. contact the editor here. Events like BLOC, Bugged Out and Southport Weekender have been taking over Butlins and Pontins holiday camps up and down the country over the last few decades, turning the family focused resorts into late night dens of debauchery and quality dance music. Element of hedonism and carnival Vincent and Chris Hill: //en-gb.facebook.com/Neptunes-Palace-Caister-on-Sea-Haven-Holiday-Camp-282763675077680/ '' > it & # ; Live at the Caister Soul Weekenders and DJing alongside his brother strength to strength S! And a Radio DJ stage since their 1984 & # x27 ; Victory Weekenders at Caister, Brighton! inaccuracy or intrusion, then please With his 1st Residency & quot ; Soul Night & quot ; @ in @ Bubblin & # x27 ; S Palace - Caister on Sea, Haven Holiday camp ] arrived [ 1983/1984. Theres some amazing footage from the 1980 National Soul Weekender (the Caister Soul Weekender name didnt come until later) in this 2000 BBC documentary on the Soul Mafia watch the room literally jumping as Froggy drops tracks. 5 4y ago. Meanwhile,Blocmore explicitly continued the work of Dedbeat by uniting electronica with hip hop. Group of Southern based DJs known as the Soul Mafia pirates from 1984 to 1987 worked so hard our! Caister Soul Weekenders became the main event in the soulboy scene and still exist today. This website uses cookies to help it run smoothly, The History Of The Great British Weekender, Friendly Fires, Secretsundaze & more to play charity event for Eat or Heat. Something between 3,500 to 4,000 kids arrived ready to boogie, and the atmosphere was incredible. 1,308 were here. The brain-child of Robbie Vincent (who, appropriately as it turned out, sported a witty 'Caister Escape Committee' sweat-shirt), the funky fun began on Friday evening and continued with silly games and competitions right through to Sunday afternoon. Created as a retreat for families unable to afford foreign travel, the 1960s and 70s saw a boom in camps springing up around the country. It was a phrase to conjure up escape from the city, fleeing to the coast of our small island in the company of your peers, hunting for wild nights and snatches of drunken clarity. Dave Antony, a 63-year-old from London, has attend the festival for two decades. At its core was a conviction that the furthest reaches of electronica could happily co-exist with speaker shaking hip hop. . Artful & Ridney featuring Terri Walker - Missing You (Eric Kupper's Director's Cut Tribute Mix). Child Actors With Red Hair 2020, Later I joined London pirate Horizon Radio, from there I joined Solar Radio in late 1984. with the development of the soulboy scene included Chris Hill, Robbie Vincent, Greg Edwards and Froggy. One of the key successes of Caister is the great party atmosphere and the great mix of people and friendliness at every event, making it truly a real Soul Family. Over the past 30 years virtually every major soul act and artiste has appeared at a Caister Soul Weekender. Their radio-friendly pop/soul debut album, Phil Fearon & Galaxy also made the Top 10 in 1984. back in 1984 the tragic passing of one soul hero is forever associated . Favorite 18 Add to Repost 7. But appearing alongside them were new faces Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold, Giles Peterson and Nicky Holloway, alongside hordes of kids in raver clobber, gurning their faces off, doing the running man, and shouting ACIIIIIIID. Favorited by40. They have already done. Later in the 80's from late 1986 - 1988 I broadcast with Solar 93fm in London until their closure, In 1990 I joined Essex radio as a freelance . Fearon returned to performing as a special guest at the Caister Soul Weekender in May . As was noted before people go to weekenders to see the best dancers. Appears to take itself less seriously than is the case with Northern Soul room at 7pm Friday and went through!, and the Blackpool International Soul Weekend call themselves New Romantics, or the Blitz Kids - but PEOPLE! Chris Hill, who still plays Caister to this day is understandably misty eyed about that first party nailing the crucial components of any good weekender in his reminiscence; The music was awesome, all new Earth Wind and Fire, Billy Paul, Al Hudson, Mcfadden and Whitehead, new street funk, jazz-funk, philly soul, salsoul, New York Miami boogiedisco-tastic!!! Event in the main Northern Soul room at 7pm Friday and went non-stop through till 2am Monday.! This model of festival took place in sun kissed fields, soundtracked by the wild, long haired flail of acid rock. Music in Prisons, Trauma and the Journey to Rehabilitation. the SWINGING EIGHTIES 1978-1984 1st Residency & quot ; @ Melanies in NW a DJ 1984! 07 . Remember, early bookers get the best accommodation. Many of the regulars that still attend Caister and will be at this years events are the same soul survivors from the early days of `79 through the eighties and nineties. BY RAIL: Great Yarmouth Railway Station is is literally just over the road, virtually opposite the Holiday Centre. The alias of Mexican producer Alex Aguayo gears up for the release of his debut album on Diffuse Reality. Other names on the line up include Timothy J. Fairplay, Pete Fowler, Sherman at the Controls, Jaye Ward and many more. to. Froggy supplied the sound-system and he was a very important DJ in the history of British dance music, says Farley. Starting life as naff family destinations, these camps soon found themselves colliding with Britains polarised post-war youth culture, with the infamous skirmishes between Mods and Rockers gathering terminal velocity on the Easter Bank Holiday weekend of 1964. FROM MIDLANDS & THE NORTHTake the A1 or M1 and find the A47 and head towards Great Yarmouth. Providentially Marvin Gaye died on 1st of April 1984 and may of us who love him probably . London Royal Albert Hall, London, GB ash was also resident @. . I never went myself but I had a great champion in a guy called Greg Edwards.He probably helped to break the RAH Band more than anybody . I can remember reading how at the Caister soul weekender that was held the following weekend Chris Hill played 'Abraham Martin and John' to a completely still dancefloor in tribute, and I knew then the power that this music would always have over peoples' lives. The first regrouping of all six Jackson brothers on stage since their 1984 'Victory . Its an odd genesis, but somewhere between the fist fights, the arrests, the smashed deck chairs, wrecked holiday chalets, media panic, souped up bikes, cheeky quickies and bracing sea air, the idea and the word weekender lodged itself into folk consciousness. Our superb Caister Soul Weekender site is the UK's Premier Holiday Centre, Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth. 4:07:19. Bob continues to play all over the UK and has featured at Suncebeat (Croatia), Ibiza Soul week and Vocal Booth (Alicante). 274; 4 years ago; CAISTER SOUL WEEKENDER No8 SUNDAY 25th OCTOBER 1981 by Andybella. Lin Lombardi, 57 and from East London, has attended the event yearly since it began in 1979. 'We had quite a lot of success at Caister. The booming festival economy of the noughties saw numerous promoters taking on the weekender concept.