Live Soul & Funk Music in Soho, Central London
The soul classics — and the funk to match — live in the heart of London
There’s a difference between hearing a soul anthem through a speaker and being in the room when a live band drops it. The horns. The vocal. That moment the whole floor recognises the song in the first two bars. That’s our night — one Sunday a month, downstairs at the legendary Spice of Life in Soho. Tickets from £9 + a small booking fee.
No DJ sets. No backing tracks. Just live bands playing the soul, Motown and funk songs you already love — the ones you can’t not dance to.
The songs you'll actually hear
This isn’t a purist’s rare-groove night — it’s the soul everyone knows, played live and played loud, with the funk classics that share its DNA.
Expect Motown and classic soul :
Get Ready · My Girl · Higher and Higher · Signed Sealed Delivered · Move On Up · Don’t Leave Me This Way · Lovely Day · Proud Mary · Hold On · Treat Her Right · Hard to Handle
Locked in tight with floor-filling funk:
Superstition · Play That Funky Music · Car Wash · I Feel Good · Disco Inferno · Long Train Runnin’. Soul and funk, back to back, with no quiet patches.
If you grew up on these songs, you’ll know every word. If you just want to dance, you won’t sit down.
The Bands
The Funk & Soul Collective is a not-for-profit union of London bands. Each brings their own take on the soul and funk songbook:
Soulfunks
Three female vocalists trading lines over tight rhythm and driving horns. Motown and soul anthems — Love Train, Get Ready, Higher and Higher, Move On Up — with funk and reggae woven through.
The Unfunkables
An eight-piece with two dynamic singers and a full horn section. Soul and funk covers from Treat Her Right and Hard to Handle to funk floor-fillers like Superstition and Long Train Runnin’.
The Right Note
A six-piece groove machine: two female vocalists, smooth rhythm section. Dance-friendly soul, funk, Motown, R&B and a hint of disco, ’60s to now.
Interfunk
over a decade of getting London dancing. My Girl, Lovely Day, Ain’t Nobody, I Feel Good and more — classic soul and high-energy funk in equal measure.
Why Soho? Because Soho is everyone's London
Most of London’s soul and funk nights are tucked into one corner of the city — Brixton, Camden, Shoreditch — brilliant if you live nearby. We took the opposite view. Soho is Central London. Every Tube line meets here. Wherever you are in the city, you can get to us and get home again.
And it’s soul and funk at pub prices, not West End prices — £10 in advance, £12 on the door. A legendary Soho music venue, two live bands, for less than a couple of drinks cost up the road.
Soul & funk nights coming up
All Sundays at the Spice of Life, doors 7:30pm, music from 8pm, finishes 10:30pm:
Sun 28 June 2026 — Soulfunks + The Unfunkables
Sun 23 Aug 2026 — Interfunk + Soulfunks
Sun 20 Sep 2026 — The Unfunkables + Interfunk
Sun 18 Oct 2026 — line-up TBC
Sun 22 Nov 2026 — line-up TBC
Sign up for information on future gigs
If you are a Funk and Soul Band, email us at admin@funk-music-live.london and we will add you to the Funk & Soul Collective and invite you to play with other Funk and Soul Bands.