グレンソンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (グレンソンInstagram)「Let me take you back to 1978. I was a confused teenager growing up in Nottingham and bouncing between music styles trying to find something that connected. Then one Friday my mate asked if I’d go with him to a northern soul disco at the local leisure centre, and with no idea what it was but assuming there would be alcohol and girls, I agreed.⁠ ⁠ I walked into a scene that has stayed with me forever. A big wooden floored room like a gym with hundreds of people dancing and sliding around the floor to the most uplifting music I’d ever heard. I walked onto the floor and joined in, trying to copy the unique style of dancing in order to fit in. My Oxford Bags were flapping, my Royal Brogues were sliding on the talc that they throw on the floor and four hours later I was exhausted but fulfilled.⁠ ⁠ I was a middle class kid from the Midlands, not a working class kid from the North but it didn’t matter I was hooked and music is democratic and when I heard the Wigan casino is 50 years old this week I knew we had to do a special mailer and showcase a few styles that have come out of my old Northern Soul psyche. For me it was always Royal Brogues or Loafers, and you had to have leather soles for sliding in the talc but nowadays people prefer rubber, but other than that, you can see where these shoes came from. Tim.⁠」9月24日 20時00分