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Started by: pisolivadi (1812) 

Great nostalgic stuff, Tonyg , well done pal.

I was there too at the very first Casino allnighter, proud and excited in me Oxford bags; from memory my membership card number was 555, but me mam washed it in the pocket of my jeans.

Unlike yourself, I preferred Colin Curtis' stuff at the Highland Room at the time;and used to love gettin the train for the atmosphere on fridays at the tiny Pendulum Soul Club at MSG ,a cockstride from Victoria Station, then hitch-hiking back at some ridiculous hour. But there's no doubting those venues got dwarfed by the success of the what was going on in Wigan.

What tickles me a bit - is how a large chunk of Wigan's 1970's Councillors bad-mouthed the Cas early years regularly in the Observer, and did their level best to get it closed down. Whereas the contemporary bunch herald it as a rich vein of our popular culture and heritage.

The Aussie Northern Soul Scene sounds and looks in rude health just as it still is here in venues across the North West and beyond; Keep spreading the faith. Over the last year or so in Wigan there's an incredibly popular monthly Sunday N Soul All-Afternooner at Swinley Club. Full to the rafters.

Also, did you hear of the Radio 4 fictitious plays about the Casino, broadcast a week or two ago? Only heard one of them myself, written by Laura Barton, a young Guardian features writer, who I think hails from Wigan originally.

Thanks again for the three posts.

Replied: 4th May 2011 at 12:41

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