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BERNADETTE 30-06-2008 11:56
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Playing in Gatty Park is one of my favourite memories. Those were the days:D

katex 30-06-2008 12:43
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Originally Posted by beechy (Post 598670)
St Johns school friday night dances
dancing to Rubber ball ..Poetry emotion..
wild days :thankya:
I used to go to those too Beechy, and remember dancing to the above numbers you mentioned ... you probably sat opposite me across the dance floor, chairs lined up down both sides ... :D Weren't they only once a month though ?

Wynonie: You would have enjoyed the play I went to see couple of weeks ago with three other members. Was based around Wigan casino .. plot was standard (boy meets girl, etc), but some lovely dancing, and they had a Northern Soul group which played constantly throughout the show. Sure it brought memories back to many people.

jaysay 30-06-2008 16:59
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Originally Posted by katex (Post 600321)
I used to go to those too Beechy, and remember dancing to the above numbers you mentioned ... you probably sat opposite me across the dance floor, chairs lined up down both sides ... :D Weren't they only once a month though ?

Wynonie: You would have enjoyed the play I went to see couple of weeks ago with three other members. Was based around Wigan casino .. plot was standard (boy meets girl, etc), but some lovely dancing, and they had a Northern Soul group which played constantly throughout the show. Sure it brought memories back to many people.
Where was that kate

Wynonie Harris 30-06-2008 20:39
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Kate, I remember reading about that somewhere. As Jaysay says, please tell us more!

katex 30-06-2008 21:55
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 600607)
Kate, I remember reading about that somewhere. As Jaysay says, please tell us more!
It was at the Octagon Bolton, Wynonie. Forgot to get a programme (Garinda has one I think). The singer was great, as were the two girls in the band, one of them doing a solo number ... excellent stuff. Seven piece band .. all brilliant musicians.

Only four in the actual cast, but sure one of them could have been your goodself in those days ... :D One of the girls was supposed to have come from Burnley.:eek:

http://www.octagonbolton.co.uk/WiganLive.asp

cashman 30-06-2008 22:15
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damn, completely forgot about that, n as it finished on sat 28th, thanks fer rubbing it in kate.:D;)

Wynonie Harris 01-07-2008 07:24
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Cheers, Kate, sounds great. Sorry I missed it now.

Alan Gilmartin 01-07-2008 09:24
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Was it called Once Up on a Time in Wigan. Read something about it a while ago.

Wynonie Harris 01-07-2008 09:50
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There's also a CD to tie in with it.

http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content....9&release=1080

jaysay 01-07-2008 10:20
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 600838)
There's also a CD to tie in with it.

http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content....9&release=1080
Some great tracks on that CD Wynonie it cost £11.99p on Amazon
there are also another couple of discs for sale
The Twisted Wheel (which was the name of a soul club in Carlisle in the mid 70s) used copy at £4.98 and Northern Soul Connoisseurs used copy £2.98, ight just give them a whirl

Wynonie Harris 01-07-2008 10:47
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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 600849)
The Twisted Wheel (which was the name of a soul club in Carlisle in the mid 70s)
The Twisted Wheel which they're talking about was the one in Whitworth Street, Manchester which ran from 1963-1971. Was originally a blues/R&B club, then became a mainstream soul club and finally, one of the birthplaces of northern soul, towards the end of its life.

beechy 01-07-2008 11:01
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 600858)
The Twisted Wheel which they're talking about was the one in Whitworth Street, Manchester which ran from 1963-1971. Was originally a blues/R&B club, then became a mainstream soul club and finally, one of the birthplaces of northern soul, towards the end of its life.
spent many all nighter saturdays at the wheel
you had to go out and come back in again for
the night sessions if i remember correctly :theband:

Wynonie Harris 01-07-2008 11:52
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That's right, Beechy, there was the regular evening session, then the all-nighter session which started around midnight, with separate admission charges for both. Some great live acts appeared at the Wheel, both blues and soul - John Lee Hooker, Little Walter, T-Bone Walker, Ike & Tina Turner, Junior Walker, Ben E. King, Edwin Starr and many, many more.

beechy 01-07-2008 12:24
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 600876)
That's right, Beechy, there was the regular evening session, then the all-nighter session which started around midnight, with separate admission charges for both. Some great live acts appeared at the Wheel, both blues and soul - John Lee Hooker, Little Walter, T-Bone Walker, Ike & Tina Turner, Junior Walker, Ben E. King, Edwin Starr and many, many more.
and the it was the first bus back to accrington
sunday morning shattered and elated
im shattered just thinking about em nowadays
but you were always cool and in if you went to the wheel :dflam:

cashman 01-07-2008 12:29
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only did the wheel a couple of times, Heaven @ Hell a few more, talk about put yer lights out, no-way could do it now.:D


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