Welcome to The Buzz Co > The Soundtrack To A Groovy Generation ©1995 - 2007 This site is devoted to the UK's premier retro dance night covering musical styles of Northern Soul, Deep Funk, Retro Dance, Eastern SItar Funk, Garage Punk, Freak Beat, Psychedelia, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll, Jazz Dance, Mod Jazz, Hammond Groove, Lounge Core, Orgasmic Pop, Ska, Rocksteady, Soundtracks, Blaxploitation, Exotica, Acid Jazz, Brit Pop. This is a dancers only night so be warned. We also play host to the finest live bands and guest DJ's. From here you can also get information about our other club night Plastic Fantastic > @ The New Roadmender, Northampton and www.beatwell.com > Buy on line today. Our sister site www.kassjones.co.uk> Kass Jones caters for everything in vintage clothing, 1 off peices and vintage accessories form the 1950's, 1960's and the 1970's. New Buzz Banned Night - Danny Conners, Stickman Rights & The Pepperbox live Friday 22nd February February sees the second Buzz of the month (22nd Feb) , but this time it's the first of our new extended Buzz Banned Nights. We will be taking over the Soundhaus venue from 8pm and presenting, for your listening pleasure. The OnOffs front man Danny Conners, the promised and re-scheduled brilliance that is Stickman Rights and to kick the night off, the majestic psychedelia of The Pepperbox. We are not going to rob you blind with an exorbitant early admission price so the early door fee is only a paltry £3.50. The night will run through from 8pm until 2am with the main hall opening at 10:30. Buzz DJ's will then keep you dancing until the early hours.Art Brut @ The Buzz Friday 8th January Ok it's all getting a bit complicated again!First and for most massive apologies to the Stickman Rights boys but we have had to postpone their legendary return gig because we have Art Brut in the main hall on this night. Doors open at 7:30 with tickets available for £10.For further information and to buy tickets please contact The Soundhaus Tel: 01604 250898 76-92 Great Russell StNorthamptonNN1 3BUenq@thesoundhaus.comTickets 01604 604020Brighton Beach Vs The Buzz Starting in February 2008 we will be assisting the Brighton Beach collective in room 2 at Leicester University. Along with all the usual Brighton Beach sounds we will be spinning our rarer Buzz dance floor tunes to the masses.The first event kicks off this Saturday the 2nd February at the now infamous Leicester University. Brighton Beach regular DJ Helen Baron will be playing the usual mixed bag of indie/britpop/club soul whilst Rob & Andy will be selecting the grooves in room 2. Along with the tried and tested Northern Soul, Freakbeat and Garage Punk we are going to delve in to the Boogaloo, R&B, Ska, Rock & Roll, Hammond Groove, Exotica, Rocksteady, Latin and Funk. We are also hoping to introduce a few guest DJ's in to the mix also to help spice up the night a little. For further information on upcoming dates check out the Brighton Beach website www.brightonbeachclub.co.uk Tickets : £5 adv Doors / Times : 10:00pm-2:00am Tickets Available From: The Student Union, Rockaboom, The Wardrobe, Pulp Fashion & Left Legged Pineapple (Loughborough) Leicester University, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH Ballroom Blitz Saturday 19th January After the sellout NYE event at Northamptons Roadmender venue this is our first Ballroom Blitz event of 2008. Rob, Andy & CJ will bring you the usual choice 70's Soul, Disco, Funk and Reggae tunes in the main hall whilst in the front bar Alex will be spinning the best Punk, New Wave, Glam and bubblegum pop. Feature films in the movie room are 10:30pm Dirty Harry 12:00am ZOMBIE Flesh Eaters Further information can be found on our events page under Ballroom Blitz or the New Roadmender website.New items added to our Vintage Clothing range. Finally, after spending the last 6 months hunting for the some of the finest vintage and retro fashions we have begun to upload them. Over the course of the next few weeks we have over 400 new items to list on our sales and auctions page. If you don't see anything you fancy right aay keep coming back because we are bound to have something for everybody.We are constantly on the look out for interesting items from the 1950's through to the present day and our stock changes accordingly.www.kassjones.co.uk Kay, pissed NYE? You decide! Ballroom Blitz & The Buzz NYE part @ The Roadmender Ok, hands up those of you that made it until 4am? Those that did we salute you, talk about hardcore, and we are talking proper hardcore. Not that drivel listened to by those pillocks that dress up in orange boiler suits and jump around (because they can't actually dance) to that thumping crap all night, and it is crap, that's why you can buy it in Tesco's for 3p for a 50 CD compilation ;0) Anyway here finally are some of the images of the night. The quality is a bit rubbish because of course the smoke machine made it almost impossible to see anything and the vodka made it impossible to focus. But what a night! The New Roadmender was completely sold out and you even had to queue up for a fag. Madness, but the best night out this NYE anywhere else in the world! FACT. How do I know, cause you all keep telling me so. Ballroom Blitz/Buzz NYE images> Get Up & Use Me Our Buzz mate Yvonne McKeowen is taking a well earnt rest from all that jumping and spinning at our NYE party to bring a little bit of sound culture to Northampton on Saturday 19th January at the infamous Labour club with her new night "Get Up & Use Me!". A pack of femme-fatales spinning everything from Garage, Post-Punk, Freakbeat, Swing, Electro and Rock n Roll Sleaze. Is the tag-line for this evening. Admission is free with live music provided by The Old Romantic Killer Band & Sukie. Further details can be found on Yvonnes Myspace page. www.myspace.com/yvonnemckeown Moons images added to the GALLERIES page Finally, at last Fridays Buzz Christmas party, we all got to see the moons live with their first home crowd since the End performance back in our wet, wet summer.Kay was on hand to capture the moment on film and we have the images here for you to enjoy.Moons images> Website Update Photos from Novembers Ballroom Blitz night @ The Roadmender have now been added to the GALLERIES section of the website.Robs DJ profile has been added to the DJ section of the website.New content has been added to the Artwork section of the GALLERIES. This includes some vintage and rare flyers and posters. Uptown Decadence Unit images added from Novembers Buzz to the GALLERIES page. Images from Novembers Ollie Dabblers gig @ The Buzz now added to the GALLERIESImages from Novembers Bongolian gig @ The Buzz now added to the GALLERIES2008 and beyond.2008 is already looking to be a busy year for us here at The Buzz. With the launch of the new club night Ballroom Blitz and various other venues around the country. On top of that we have a whole host of new bands secured to play. These include Leicester's The Falling Leaves, who are confirmed to play The Soundhaus on the 8th January and local legends Stickman Rights, who have re-formed to put some garage punk back on the scene in Febrary. The Buzz & Ballroom Blitz NYE Party We have teamed up with Shakedown and Blastchamber this year to give Northampton the hottest NYE party ever. This year we will be combining The Buzz and our new club night Ballroom Blitz in the main hall to give you the finest musical feast ever. Main Hall: The Buzz & BALLROOM BLITZBar One: THE SHAKEDOWN Bar Two: THE BLASTCHAMBERTickets are £8 adv (available from the roadmender box office or on 01604 60 40 20) and the night will run from 10pm - 4am.http://www.purplehaus.com The Moons to Play The Buzz, finally! Andy Crofts new musical project The Moons are to make their first public appearance at The Buzz on the 14th December.The band will be on stage at 11:15pm in the green room.James & Gary from Retrobeat will then take over musical duties in that room and spin Brit Pop, Madchester & classic & new Indie.The Buzz DJ's will play the usual classic soul, funk, Hammond Groove, ska and pop anthems. Friday 14th DecemberThe Soundhaus, Great Russell St, Northampton.£4 b4 11pm - £5.50 b4 midnight - £6 after. Check out The Moons myspace page for more information:http://www.myspace.com/moonsuk