“Undeniably at the
forefront of a northern soul revival” Vogue
“An authority on
the genre’s renaissance in the club world” Time Out
“Deptford Northern
Soul Club have emerged as the new faces of Northern Soul.” Yuck
“It’s one of the
most uplifting sounds, this uptempo soul music, it just gets me every time”
NTS
“By
recontextualising Northern Soul in a modern context, they empower the genre to
continuously evolve, imparting new meaning to younger, perhaps previously unaware
audiences” Pilot
Magazine
“An authority on the genre’s renaissance in the club world” Time Out
“Deptford Northern Soul Club have emerged as the new faces of Northern Soul.” Yuck
“It’s one of the most uplifting sounds, this uptempo soul music, it just gets me every time” NTS
“By recontextualising Northern Soul in a modern context, they empower the genre to continuously evolve, imparting new meaning to younger, perhaps previously unaware audiences” Pilot Magazine
Deptford
Northern Soul Club (DNSC) are childhood friends Will Foot and Lewis Henderson,
whose early love of soul developed after discovering Lewis’ Dad’s record
collection. After bringing their musical heritage to the forefront with their
debut DJ set at Deptford’s Bunker Club 9 years ago, they have since taken their credible and popular club night around
the UK, performing at the likes of Glastonbury,Green Man Festival, with regular
residencies at London’s EartH and Moth Club and YES in Manchester.
DNSC
have emerged as the new face of Northern Soul, bringing the movement back into
the conversation of modern dance music. With a welcoming and inclusive
community and a unique energetic dance-oriented feel, their nights are not what
you’d expect from a typical Northern Soul night and allow people to forge their
own experience with the genre. Alongside their popular club nights, Will and
Lewis run a modern reissue label, DNSC Records (DNSC.r) in association with
PIAS, enabling soul lovers to experience Northern Soul tracks as they were
meant to be heard.
“We have never been interested in nostalgia - we love soul music because it’s brilliant. We think it resonates with young people today as it has a timeless universal message - what really matters resides in relationships, not material things.” DNSC
A bit of background info on what we’ve done:
Deptford Northern Soul Club started in November 2016 with a sold-out show at Bunker Club in Deptford. Due to popular demand they returned to spin records as part of a monthly residency at the club - that still continues on and off to this day! Since then, backed by regular sell-out nights with queues down the street, Will and Lewis took the party to Glastonbury Festival 2017 playing to over 1500 people at William's Green stage where they were listed as number 20 in the top attractions at the festival.
Since then the boys played at End of The Road Festival, Norman Jay MBE’s Good Times Goes East party in Hackney and the Q Awards at the Roundhouse in Camden. In November 2017 they went on tour around the UK and Ireland.
The summer of 2018 boasted nights at Corsica Studios - London, Menagerie - Belfast and The Junction - Cambridge, to name a few. DNSC also hit the festival circuit to headline the coveted After Dark slot on The Walled Garden stage at Green Man Festival in Wales spinning tunes to well over 1.5k festival goers.
The boys took their records up to Manchester to start a monthly residency at YES, cementing themselves in the north with a massive sell out debut all before heading out on a mini pre NYE tour debuting Brighton, Komedia and iconic East London venue, The Shacklewell Arms. DNSC also returned to the Roundhouse, Camden to play at the Q Awards with Idles and Wolf Alice.
In the run up to the 2019 summer DNSC joined the campaign to Save The Social raising money to save the iconic Soho venue, hit up the Queens Yard Summer Party in Hackney, and debuted Bristol’s Thekla.
June saw Will and Lewis return to Glastonbury Festival playing five times over the weekend including The Meat Rack in NYC Downlow, William’s Green and the Deluxe Diner in Shangri La. The duo also returned to Green Man Festival in Wales and went to Scotland for the first time playing at Rost and La Belle Angele in Galsgow and Edinburgh stopping off to play at The Hare & Hounds in Birmingham and Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. 2019 was also marked the formation of DNSC.r (Deptford Northern Soul Club Records) and saw the first reissue of Lester Tipton - This Won’t Change/Edward Hamilton - Baby Don’t You Weep.
2020 marked the start of a new residency at Moth Club in Hackney. Over the fallow period of the COVID-19
pandemic Will and Lewis both worked to expand DNSC.r putting out rare, lost and unreleased records, the way they were made
to be heard. Just to mention a few names they have put to wax; Sebastian
Williams, The Soul Stirrers, Spinners, Candi Staton, Doris
Willingham, Jackie Wilson, The Delreys Incorporated, Garnet Mimms and
Doris & Kelley...
Summer 2021 saw Will and Lewis back on the bill at Green Man Festival, Camp Bestival, Love Hangover Festival as well as back at Peckham Audio and Night Tales.
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