A taste of Northern Soul is coming to Edmonton this week as The Edwin Starr band aka The Team featuring Angelo Starr, will be re-living all Edwin’s Motown hits at The Millfield Theatre.

Best known for his protest classic, War, in 1970, Edwin was a “legend” on England’s Northern Soul circuit, and continued to perform right up to his death at the age of 61 in 2003.

Formed in 1982, eight piece band The Team have performed countless live shows with Edwin at the helm. Since Edwin’s death, the band have been fronted by Edwin’s younger brother, Angelo. Singer, multi-instrumentalist and original member of The Team, his credits include Alexander O’Neil, The Funk Brothers and more recently Lemar.

The Team’s “intimate” relationship with soul music has seen many legendary artists perform with the including The Temptations, Ben E. King and The Four Tops.

Since they have been on the road, they have performed at V Festival, as well as at midnight in a London hotel for the royal family, in session for Capital Radio and The Jonathan Ross Show and their mantra is always the same: “We came here to party for whoever, whenever, wherever.”

Together with Edwin they have been presented with awards by Blues and Soul Magazine, whose readership for two consecutive years voted them “UK Live Act of the Year” and alongside James Brown and Billy Paul, they have twice been honoured at the European Diamond Awards of live music.

During the show at The Millfield, there will be a special guest performance by Northern Soul “diva” Lorraine Silver. In 1965, aged just 13, she was signed by PYE records after recording a version of Bryan Hyland’s Sealed with a Kiss in a “do-it-yourself” booth in a branch of Woolworths on Oxford Street, London.

Chart success beckoned when her debut single – a cover of Shelley Fabres’ Lost Summer Love was released but if failed to make it into the charts, as well as follow-up single The Happy Faces and Lorraine found herself back at school without a recording contract.

However, a few years later, without her knowledge, Lost Summer Love became a huge dancefloor favourite at the Northern Soul venue The Wigan Casino. Still a massive record today on the Northern Soul and scooter scene original copies often sell for hundreds of pounds. Since then she’s appeared at numerous events on the Northern Soul and scooter scene - her name now synonymous with the scene.

Northern Soul Live, Millfield Arts Centre, Silver St, Edmonton, N18 1PJ, Saturday, June 24, 7.45pm, details: millfieldtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/northern-soul-live-the-edwin-starr-band/