MIKEW-UK
04-19-2011, 06:42 PM
http://www.radio4bore.co.uk/posts/2011/04/pens-pick-afternoon-reading-tales-from-the-casino/
Pen’s Pick – Afternoon Reading [[Tales from the Casino)
Posted on April 19, 2011 by Penny
Anyone remotely interested in Northern Soul, Wigan Casino or popular culture in general, should listen to this one. *According to Radio 4:
“David’s mate Batty converted him to Northern Soul: lending him obscure records, teaching him dance moves and describing the legendary club. The plan is to hitch-hike to Wigan to experience the Casino for themselves.
Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way up the road.
The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with Russ Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three songs that became known as the Three Before Eight: “Time Will Pass You By” by Tobi Legend, “Long After Tonight Is Over” by Jimmy Radcliffe and “I’m On My Way” by Dean Parrish.
These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton [[herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was voted ‘Best Disco In the World’ by American Billboard Magazine.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010dp0z
Pen’s Pick – Afternoon Reading [[Tales from the Casino)
Posted on April 19, 2011 by Penny
Anyone remotely interested in Northern Soul, Wigan Casino or popular culture in general, should listen to this one. *According to Radio 4:
“David’s mate Batty converted him to Northern Soul: lending him obscure records, teaching him dance moves and describing the legendary club. The plan is to hitch-hike to Wigan to experience the Casino for themselves.
Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way up the road.
The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with Russ Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three songs that became known as the Three Before Eight: “Time Will Pass You By” by Tobi Legend, “Long After Tonight Is Over” by Jimmy Radcliffe and “I’m On My Way” by Dean Parrish.
These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton [[herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was voted ‘Best Disco In the World’ by American Billboard Magazine.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010dp0z