The Wigan Casino is the colloquial name for the nightclub the Casino Club, that operated in Wigan between Friday, August 27 1965 (with Shirley Bassey...
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fashions quickly spread to other dancehalls and nightclubs like the Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca (the Highland Room), and Golden Torch (Stoke-on-Trent)...
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Wigan (/ˈwɪɡən/ WIG-ən) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, 16 miles...
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week at the Wigan Casino. The single reached number 38 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1975. Wigan Casino's spin-off record label Casino Classics re-released...
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was shot in Stoke on Trent following initial discussions with former Wigan Casino DJ Kev Roberts. The film is set in Stoke-on-Trent in 1974. Joe McCain...
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releases in 1978–79 following their popularity at northern soul nightclub Wigan Casino. The singles, some of which were rare, were originally released on the...
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record that was played at the last Northern soul all-nighter at the Wigan Casino. Anastasi was born to Italian and Spanish parents and was raised in Little...
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Wigan, Lancashire.[citation needed] He attended Wigan Grammar School. He is best known for his championing of Northern Soul music at the Wigan Casino...
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The Ritz, an Art Moderne cinema open from 1968-1997, Wigan Central railway station and Wigan Casino, a nightclub which operated between 1973 and 1981 and...
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Wigan Warriors are an English professional rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club competes in the Super League, the top tier of...
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Manchester's Twisted Wheel Club, the Blackpool Mecca, Cleethorpes Pier, and the Wigan Casino, known for the acrobatic dancing of its clubgoers; each of these clubs...
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of the Wigan Casino, and there followed success on the northern soul scene. Hunt was approached by Russ Winstanley and Mike Walker of the Casino, and released...
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venues on the Northern soul scene. Unlike similar clubs such as the Wigan Casino and the Golden Torch, these events were not "all-nighters" and ran from...
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| Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. "Russ Winstanley and Wigan Casino memories". BBC Sheffield. Retrieved June 14, 2011. Nowell, David (1999)...
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"Stunning pictures show 70s dance offs at Wigan Casino all nighter". Liverpool Echo. "A brief history of Wigan Casino – Clubs – The Skinny". Theskinny.co.uk...
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Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest town, Wigan but covers a far larger...
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commemorates the club on Hose Street. The closure paved the way for the Wigan Casino, now without any real rivals, to become internationally famous as the...
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B-side. The record was exported to England and it was picked up by DJs at Wigan Casino, a major nightclub in the northern soul music scene. Soon, "What" became...
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including both new songs and re-recordings of older material. In 2000, Wigan Casino DJ Kev Roberts, compiled The Northern Soul Top 500, which was based on...
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Human Zoo was a staple on the Northern Soul scene at Blackpool Mecca and Wigan Casino with dancers back flipping spinning and hand clapping to the beat. The...
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Skiing in the Snow (redirect from Wigan's Ovation)
described as 'the night that Wigan Casino died'). Soon after the release of this record, attendance at the Wigan Casino rapidly increased forcing the...
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Before Eight", played at the conclusion of every all-nighter at the Wigan Casino club, and has since featured on several anthologies of Northern soul...
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Footsee (redirect from Wigan's Chosen Few)
By late 1974, the Northern soul music and dance scene centered on the Wigan Casino club in Lancashire, England, was attracting increasing attention from...
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"Torch", which was quickly shut down but was the fore runner of the Wigan Casino events, which Levine opened. Working with fellow DJ Colin Curtis, the...
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song in Northern soul clubs in Britain, such as the Blackpool Mecca and Wigan Casino, R. Dean Taylor's record was reissued on EMI's Tamla Motown label with...
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empty floors of dour neighbourhood youth clubs to the throng of the Wigan Casino with urgent ease. Steve Coogan and Ricky Tomlinson add sly cameo support...
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UK, including portions of footage from the 1977 Tony Palmer film The Wigan Casino. It starts with the disco scene of the 1970s, touches upon the Northern...
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Northern Soul classic: "Send Him Back" (Atlantic 45 2893). Concentrated at Wigan Casino around 1973–1974, Northern soul was an underground music scene comprising...
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at the Wayback Machine The Daily Voice, April 30, 2008. "Chris Hunt - Wigan Casino". Chrishunt.biz. Retrieved September 29, 2018. allmusic: Brown-eyed Soul...
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Did Me", also became popular on the Northern soul scene, especially at Wigan Casino Soul Allnighters. Vernee also recorded some material with The Elgins...
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