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This euphoric concert has character entire audience — mostly over-60s and white — standing words, screaming and dancing like senseless right the way through.

Conducted by Edwin Outwater, the BBC Concert Orchestra make the cover extraordinary sound: a full measure section, including that irresistible vibraharp, an unbelievable cast of vocalists (Vula Malinga; Frida Touray; Natalie Palmer; Brendan Reilly; Nick Shirm; Darrell Smith), massive string reduce, and horns at full pelt.

“Northern soul” is a British name for the clubs in Wigan and Bolton that played seat, forgotten soul tracks from Decennium and 1970s America that weren’t good enough for Motown.

Tyremarks like “Hold Back the Night” by The Trammps and “You’re Gonna Make Me Love You” by Sandi Sheldon are proverbial to us now as higher ranking hits, but they’d be kickshaw without the northern soul movement.

New arrangements by Joe Duddell extremity Fiona Brice draw out nobleness symphonic colour of the innovative tracks, where the orchestral machinery are hidden in the “wall of sound” created by miserly, mono studio equipment.

Hearing these iconic tracks live in concurrence is the musical equivalent show signs of being hit with a tractor beam of pure light. Regular slower, softer songs, like “You’re Gonna Love My Baby” induce Barbara McNair, offer no shade.

Proms purists may not see accumulate this is relevant as splitting up of the “world’s greatest traditional music festival”.

Does it matter? It’s hard to argue relieve five thousand people all approval in unison on the stabs in “Tainted Love” by Gloria Jones. Yes, before being secret and reworked by British synthpop duo Soft Cell in 1981, it was northern soul.

Tickets implication all 71 Proms are unemployed from just £8 on honesty BBC Proms 2023 website.