Live Wigan Tape Date And Deejays?

[Wiggyflat]

Dug this tape out to upload....a live Wigan tape.....can anybody date it...more commercial sounds earlier on and later in the tape it sounds like Brian Rae deejaying.....I'm Getting Ready For Love by Paintbox gets an airing....and scratchy sounds bizarre!!

Edited January 27, 2013 by wiggyflat

[Chalky]

Any chance if putting these on mixcloud? Can't always view these on YouTube when on a mobile device.

[Pete S]

That's an oldies allnighter so more or less impossible to date...

[Zed1]

That's an oldies allnighter so more or less impossible to date...

I thought that Pete, but wasn't 'The Jades' a later normal night play?..

[Wiggyflat]

Will mixcloud it.The Carstairs gets played at the end and the tape stops.....still can't get over Paintbox ...that must have been a Torch sound

[Pete S]

I thought that Pete, but wasn't 'The Jades' a later normal night play?..

Yeah Jades was played 75 - 76. I only listened to the first 3 tracks but could see they were from different era's so definitely an oldies nighter.

[macca]

Definitely an oldies allnighter. Seems strange, looking back, to see how 'commercial' tunes like Dance To The Music and Uptight were being lapped up. My Weakness Is You sounds bloody good though. :-)

[Wiggyflat]

Just heard Brian Rae say biggest sound of 1975 Bits n Pieces...Mixcloud here

https://www.mixcloud.com/kevin-johansen/live-wigan-casino-tape/

[Gerry H]

it sounds like its about 78 or 79 the atmosphere handclaping like whips that was there before faded a bit i just given calvin lee about 80 tapes ok maby 60 he maby glad to sell a couple from 76 to end me an my m8 always had tape going he`s only 17 so i gave them to him to get the feel of what it was like between the walls of the the hallowed halls he`s on my friends list some are quite clear if i remember some of the cover ups etc

[Wiganer1]

paintbox also A big mms spin.....ref steve whittle..

[Goldsoul]

Paintbox was a near chart hit in 1971. Most youth clubs were playing it. It followed the pop rock mix into Soul. A typical playlist back then would have included She's Alright- McKenna Mendoldson Mainline, Too Busy Thinking About My Baby- Gene Latter, Paintbox mixed with Brooks and Jerry and Johnny Wyatt. Perfectly acceptable back then.

Vanda and Young of the Easybeats produced the Paintbox session for Young Blood.

[Guest jkw]

Doesn't The Superlatives sound good!!!

[Wiganer1]

Just heard Brian Rae say biggest sound of 1975 Bits n Pieces...Mixcloud here

https://www.mixcloud.com/kevin-johansen/live-wigan-casino-tape/

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can this be copied from mixcloud to a memory stick so u can play in a car,,??

[Guest Krissii]

Definitely an oldies allnighter. Seems strange, looking back, to see how 'commercial' tunes like Dance To The Music and Uptight were being lapped up. My Weakness Is You sounds bloody good though. :-)

Dance to the Music is one of the best stompers ever !!!!!

Great classic floorfiller

[macca]

I agree with you, a great record, but it was a big chart hit which they even performed live on prime time TV in the US at the time of its release. My point was that that NS venues at the time, especially Wigan, were not usually given to playing stuff like that for being considered too commercial and in conflict with the rare and obscure ethos of the scene. The oldies allnighters that started up around 76 (?) undermined that, I think. Otherwise we definitely wouldn't have heard Sam Cooke's Another Saturday Night or even Nowhere To Run by Martha & The Vandellas at an all-nighter.