Lowton Civic Celebration Alldayer

Looking forward to our first event of 2025 at CULCHETH and what an event it’s shaping up to be! We start the year as we’ve always done with our ‘homage’ to the venue that brought many of us together and continues to bond many of us, LOWTON CIVIC HALL.

This year, on SATURDAY FEB1st, we are celebrating the LOWTON ANNIVERSARY with a special ALL-DAYER! 12 hours of soulful sounds running from 1pm till 1am and featuring THREE ROOMS and 21 DJ’s!

ROOM 1, the main room, residents and guest dj’s will be featuring the records that made LOWTON a ‘Must-visit’ monthly venue for many years, so expect classics oldies, rarities and LOWTON favourites.

ROOM 2, a new addition to the proceedings this year and harking to the very popular back room at LOWTON, featuring rare and underplayed, 60’s and 70’s, with more than just a tip to the DDA, ROOM WITH A VIEW and BURY TOWN HALL KENWOOD SUITE

ROOM 3 the Modern Room, a monthly feature at CULCHETH and a room that became one of the most successful North-West modern rooms for many years at LOWTON, so taking its rightful place at the LOWTON Anniversary special.

Don’t Miss This Very Special Event! Check out the Lowton – Culcheth Soul Facebook group or the All-Dayer event on Soul Source for more details and updates

Can't wait for this one: Three Rooms of Fun and quality soul music rather than 7 Rooms Of Gloom anytime for me!

I'm gonna keep my eye on this thread for news of the various guest DJs mein host has got up his sleeve....never a dull moment at Culcheth and this episode especially as an all-dayer mixed in with the celebration of another Lowton Anniversary! 

What's not to like 

See you all there for the festival

On 05/01/2025 at 17:51, Eddiefoster said:

Can't wait for this one: Three Rooms of Fun and quality soul music rather than 7 Rooms Of Gloom anytime for me!

I'm gonna keep my eye on this thread for news of the various guest DJs mein host has got up his sleeve....never a dull moment at Culcheth and this episode especially as an all-dayer mixed in with the celebration of another Lowton Anniversary! 

What's not to like 

See you all there for the festival

Things shaping up nicely, more to follow...

Been asked for a list of hotels near Culcheth on Facebook for those wanting to travel, so I thought I'd share with fellow Soul Sourcers 

These are all within pretty much 10 mins by car from the venue, hope that helps

Travelodge Warrington Lowton
322 Newton Rd, Lowton, Warrington WA3 1HD•0871 559 1851
B&B HOTEL Warrington
Aston Ave, Risley, Warrington WA3 6ZN•01925 847050
Bay Horse Hotel
49-53 Warrington Rd, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan WN4 9PJ•01942 725032
The Kirkfield
2-4 Church St, Newton-le-Willows WA12 9SU•01925 222058
The Greyhound Hotel Leigh
Sporting Lodge Inns, Warrington Rd, Leigh WN7 3XQ•01942 671256
Holiday Inn Express Leigh - Sports Village, an IHG Hotel
Leigh Sports Village, Sale Wy, Leigh WN7 4JY•01942 366334
Premier Inn Haydock Park/M6 J23 hotel
Yew Tree Way, Lowton, Warrington WA3 3JD•0333 003 1699
Mercure Haydock Hotel
Penny Ln, Haydock, St Helens WA11 9SG•01942 559940
Village Hotel Warrington
110 Centre Park Square, Warrington WA1 1QA•01925 377540
Premier Inn Warrington (M6/J21) hotel
Manchester Rd, Woolston, Warrington WA1 4GB•0333 321 9124
 

This year sees the 8th anniversary of the closure of one of the North West's greatest ever venues, and one that hosted top quality soul nights for 21 years prior....one of the longest running in this part of the uk. Its main ballroom provided a spaceous and highly polished dancefloor, which was graced by thousands of enthusiastic dancers over those years. It goes without saying that, the country's leading djs and lot of unsung collectors, contributed in their own way, with a fantastic array of music, rarities, classic oldies, modern, rnb, latin boogaloo, Detroit.....right across the board....ever changing playlists and never ending queues at the front desk to be where the action really was....even the huge car park in the venues grounds, wasn't huge enough!, akin to car boots, people would have to park on the Civic's playing fields!.

Lowton set a precedent for a soul night ( as opposed to a niter ) with 3 rooms ongoing though, it also hosted some legendary all niters as well.

Culcheth Village Hall carries the mantle for this area of Lancs, being in close vacinity as it is, to the original site of Lowton Civic, it upholds its predecessors great tradition, and its musical ethic is in tempo with all that Lowton achieved over two decades.

This all dayer, undoubtedly, will be a great celebration of that era, faces old and new gathering in a superb setting to reminisce and put the shoe leather to the test on February 1st...the Spirit lives on!