Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
A Blue Note DJ and an empty dance-floor at The Blue Note Club Manchester. It’s just before the club opens. There are two mod girls in the cloak room to take the overcoats of the punters coming down the stairs. I put on a slow record onto one of the twin Garrard record decks: The … Read more
Ian Levine was the primary DJ at The Blackpool Mecca with Colin Curtis. The HIghland Room became a northern soul hub from 1967 to 1979. Later it became the Commonwealth Sporting Club. Blackpool Mecca – Wikipedia There is another Mecca dance hall that has held Northern Soul all-nighters The Mecca Manchester.
The venue that brought back Soul music all-nighters after the closure of other locations (primarily The Twisted Wheel in Manchester) was the Wigan Casino. It became the 1970’s epicentre for Northern Soul all night dance sessions. Richard Searling And Russ Winstanley were the most famous DJ’s at the venue and Russ was the guy who … Read more
THE BLUE NOTE CLUB Gore Street Manchester Second only to the Twisted Wheel, the Blue Note Club Manchester carried the torch for Soul music in the city from 1967 to 1970 (it did continue to 1971 but at that time it became more varied and more Jamaican music influenced). It was a typical cellar soul … 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
The Manchester Twisted Wheel Allnighter was the name given to the weekly soul event that every respectable mod would get to as often as body and soul could stand it. By far the most famous was held at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. They were held originally at the original Wheel in Brazennose Street and … Read more
The Bodega nightclub was one of the many bars and pubs in Manchester in the sixties. It was situated on Corporation Street further along from what is now Boots. At one point in the late fifties and sixties, Manchester spawned many nightclubs and gained the reputation of being a ‘swinging city’ before the chief constable … Read more
The CAROLINE LOUNGE in Bolton was nicknamed The Boneyard Club and this name stuck but don’t ask me why. Although it was not a cellar dive, you reached it by a set of stairs going up and over a musical instruments store, it was one of THE places to go to. The Boneyard was very … Read more