Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
The CD called Modernists has a picture of some ‘Mods’outside the Cona Coffee Bar on Tib Street Manchester. Whether this is a spontaneous photograph or (as we suspect) a posed ‘scene’, is open to debate. The Cona Coffee Bar was a Mod hangout for Manchester Soul Mods. My one recollection concerning the Cona was going … Read more
Mods and Soul went together like peaches and cream. Mods were a youth fashion and style movement that started in the 1960s in London England: the Mods adopted SOUL music as their own music. In those days Soul was underground and this had great appeal to Mods who were arrogant and had real attitude when … Read more
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The Chitlin Circuit was the name given to a series of venues in the USA deep South States in the 1950s and 60s. These locations were often cotton bale warehouses that were emptied of the bales and could hold thousands, usually black people only. The artists would tour between these in small towns. More often … 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
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