Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
The first night at the very first Twisted Wheel had the Manchester pop group The Karl Denver Trio performing Wimohwey. The club would become famous as the place that started off the movement that became NORTHERN SOUL. By early 1964’with its new DJ Roger Eagle, it was all about the music. One track that was … Read more
The Top Ten Club was in the Elizabethan Ballroom at Belle Vue, the amusement park and Zoo in Manchester which was sadly demolished in the seventies. It was held every Sunday night from 1963 to 1967. Lots and Lots of Manchester Mods and Twisted Wheelers would round off the weekend by going here on a Sunday night. … Read more
Just about everyone who was anyone played here in the sixties – Soul, Blues and Mod Bands. London’s Marquee Club , the Flamingo, and the 100, were live performance venues for UK groups, Blues R n B and Soul and Pop artists in the 1960’s. In the early to mid 1960’s it was a very … Read more
The Limit Club Middleton was located at the bottom of Wood Street in Middleton, number 16 – upstairs above a row of shops. Wood Street went up the hill to Langley estate, a massive 1950’s Manchester ‘overspill’ housing estate. One of the club’s first groups was Herman and The Hermits. It was fairly typical of … Read more
STAXX Club Manchester – Jimmy Savile (UK / Radio Luxembourg DJ and a notorious paedophile), used to own a club in Fountain Street, Manchester called the Three Coins, later renamed The Beat Club. It was not successful and became derelict. About a year later the end of 1966/7? Roger Eagle the DJ at the Twisted … Read more
Stakis Nightclubs Manchester – Mr Stakis was a Greek entrepreneur who at one time had three clubs in Manchester as well as hotels. The Most popular became Rowntrees, at the Corn Exchange, where Sunday afternoon sessions after an AllNighter were popular with the walking dead from the Twisted Wheel. Of the other two, there was … Read more
The Ritz Ballroom – Manchester The Ritz Ballroom Manchester is a genuine relic of times gone by. An old-fashioned ballroom built in the 1920’s, it has reinvented itself many times. Looking at the exterior of the building, facing the railway arches of Oxford Road Station, it is not hard to imagine the superior uniforms of … Read more
Motown Review UK, 1965 The Motown Review 1965 came to the UK and was filmed for Ready Steady Go. The tour was backed by the Earl Van Dyke Orchestra (The Funk Brothers) and Georgie Fame, the only ‘support artist’. Then they came to Manchester and recorded as individual artists on Granada TV’s Scene At Six … Read more
Lloyd Street, Manchester beat club in the Sixties In the early 60’s Manchester had a warren of back alleys, interconnecting ‘ginals’ and side streets. The Oasis Club was between several. These connected the Twisted Wheel with favourite haunts such as the two pubs, the Nags Head and The Rising Sun. They were also at the … Read more
Mr Smiths was a Manchester 60’s Night Club that had live soul and blues artists amongst the acts that appeared. Ben E King, Edwin Starr, Clyde McPhatter, Georgie Fame, Champion Jack Dupree all appeared there. Unlike the Manchester soul clubs Mr Smiths was licensed and a genuine nightclub with the usual assortment of dodgy looking … Read more