Cool Music Database
1964 saw the first ever FANZINE for Blues and Soul music and its artists. Started by Roger Eagle, with a little help from his friends. Roger was the eclectic DJ at Manchester’s Twisted Wheel club: the epicentre in the North […]
The Music Firsts of MANCHESTER The roots of NORTHERN SOUL began in Manchester At The twisted Wheel (primarily) and also at The Blue Note Club. SOULCITY Manchester’s youth, the Soul Mods started the appreciation of Black American music in the […]
Complete and almost unbelievable here is the complete listing of all the acts that appeared at the Twisted Wheel. Select a year and see all the listings: ARTIST THAT APPEARED AT THE TWISTED WHEEL 1963 – 1964 – 1965 – 1966 – 1967 – 1968 – 1969 – 1970+ The TWISTED WHEEL DJays
The first night at the very first Twisted Wheel had The Karl Denver Trio performing “Wimohwey”. The club would become FAMOUS as the place that started off the Tradition of NORTHERN SOUL. By early 64′ with its new DJ Roger […]
Granada TV Manchester 3 Scene At Six Thirty This was a local news and entertainment show in the 1960's. It had many of today's programme presenters in what was the start of their careers on TV –Â Michael Parkinson, Anne Robinson's […]
The Nags Head and The Rising Sun were both close to the Brazennose Street Twisted Wheel and many people would get a pass out (an ink stamp on your wrist) to go out for a pint during early Saturday night […]
Palace Theatre, Manchester The Spring of 1967 saw the arrival in Manchester of the STAX/ VOLT European tour. Held at the Palace Theatre Oxford Road Manchester, the line up was:- Booker T & The MG’s The Memphis Horns (Mar-Keys) Sharon […]
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 […]
Matchstick figures, dirt and grim, black, black buildings, smoking chimneys and more smoking chimneys, and two football teams, the Reds and the Blues. John Mayall was living in Cheetham Hill, soon he would have Alexis Korner staying with him whilst […]
Northern Soul as it is termed now began here in Manchester in the mid nineteen sixties at clubs such as the Twisted Wheel and Blue Note. The Jigsaw, Rowntrees and Bolton’s Boneyard etc in fact most ‘Beat’ Clubs favoured soul […]