Motown and Blackpool. 13 July 2019.

I went to Blackpool on Saturday with my music and dancing chum Linda. We went to the ’60th Anniversary of Motown’ event at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom organised by Goldsoul.   https://www.goldsoul.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=97

The music started at 8.30pm, the dancing got going about 9.30, and carried on until 2.00am. The huge dance floor was full for the whole evening thanks to the skill of the DJs, especially Ginger Taylor on the run up to midnight.

As the music is generally from the 60’s the age of the crowd is generally in its 60s too, but but there were many much younger people there as well. People are there for the dancing, there was drinking but no drunkeness. At various points in the evening we noted that there were actually more men dancing than women. A guy dancing near me was doing some great moves, and was smiling to himself all the time. He was enjoying himself so much he occasionally laughed with pleasure. (He was a big chap btw and in appearance you might have thought he had arrived by tractor!). This is what it’s all about to me. And this is what part of the dancefloor looked like:

I’d like to share some of the music being played from Apple Music, but I don’t think it’s possible, so these are screenshots of two tracks that we particularly enjoyed:

If you’ve never been to Blackpool, this what it looks like at night. The ballroom is directly underneath the tower:

If you go for a walk on ‘the prom’ the morning after, the tower might look someting like this:

Todays weather forecast for Blackpool, 15th July 2019:

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