Here's A Challenge

[Citizen P]

In the face of the never-ending onslaught of requests to BANG A WIGAN TUNE ON!!!!,

(Mostly by people who never went).

How many tunes, including those we'd rather not mention, d'ye reckon actually saw the light of day(night) at The Casino.

More than 2000? or less than 50 as some would have you believe.

Go on, it's only a bit of Fun.

Tony

[Gert Mark]

Too many.

Lets face it, it was pants.

[Mak]

Too many.

Lets face it, it was pants.

Which begs the question did you ever go ?

[Citizen P]

Too many.

Lets face it, it was pants.

Sorry, but that statement is totally incorrect.

When it was good, it was fcukin' brilliant.

So There

Tony

[TOAD]

NOT VERY GOOD AT MATHS BUT

8 HOURS x 500 ALLNIGHTERS APPROX

20 SIXTYS AN HOUR OR LES IF THEY WHERE MODERN

[Gert Mark]

Which begs the question did you ever go ?

No

[Gert Mark]

Sorry, but that statement is totally incorrect.

When it was good, it was fcukin' brilliant.

So There

Tony

Me told.

[Citizen P]

NOT VERY GOOD AT MATHS BUT

8 HOURS x 500 ALLNIGHTERS APPROX

20 SIXTYS AN HOUR OR LES IF THEY WHERE MODERN

Your calculation is slightly flawed, in the first few years of it's life the doors didn't open until 2, so there was approx 150 x 6 hours.

Any way---- I meant different tunes not the grand total

Tony

[Ste Henderson]

Wigan Casino IMVHO was the most important venue past and present on our scene, ok the purists might say that a lot of "pop tunes" were played out at the latter part of the seventies, but it was groundbreaking in its music policy at the time, how many venues nowadays are open week in week out and have attendances which on a bad day was over a thousand?

There was so many sounds broken at Wigan(far too many to mention) if the casino never opened its doors our scene would not be as it is today.

But I also think it fair to mention other venues after the casino which were also as important, Stafford and the 100 club....

Steve

[TOAD]

A MYTH IT WAS NEVER FULL LATER YEARS 500ISH

ONE NIGHT I REAMBER A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE EVEN SEARLING DIDNT TURN UP

TOLD YOU I WASNT ANY GOOD AT MATHS

[oldsteve woomble]

Here's a Wigan tune.

""Twice at home by Hull KR!

Twice at ho-ome by Hull KR!.............."

Hmmm. I s'pose you had to be there...................

[Mak]

No

I admire your honesty , but I must say in part you are right . The later days by all accounts were a bit dire . I stopped going in 75 because of all the shite the ''top''DJ's tried to spin under the quise of Northern , you know the stuff Joe frigging 90 etc etc etc

[Citizen P]

I'm shocked.

When there are some on here who know playlists off by heart, I thought I would have got the defniitive count within 5 minutes.

Tony

[Guest Bearsy]

21,379 i know cos i counted every single one of them and i have them listed in the correct order too

[Citizen P]

Please forward the very same forthwith.

I can then test the tw*ts that mither me.

Tony

[Guest in town Mikey]

In the face of the never-ending onslaught of requests to BANG A WIGAN TUNE ON!!!!,

(Mostly by people who never went).

How many tunes, including those we'd rather not mention, d'ye reckon actually saw the light of day(night) at The Casino.

More than 2000? or less than 50 as some would have you believe.

Go on, it's only a bit of Fun.

Tony

Didnt Wigan just plunder the best tunes already played at the Torch, Wheel, Cleethorpes, Yate and for a while the Mecca?

And like my brother. No I didnt go either, but when has that ever stopped me having an opinion

[Guest moggy]

Didnt Wigan just plunder the best tunes already played at the Torch, Wheel, Cleethorpes, Yate and for a while the Mecca?

And like my brother. No I didnt go either, but when has that ever stopped me having an opinion

Reading the previous posts, some valid points, towards the end attendences were at around half the norm, some may say it was shite, I thought it was excellent, yes sometimes they did play some absoloute dross , but they still played plenty of top tunes also

As my real first allnighter I attended, I have to say until Stafford came along, most of my purchases were due fully to what I heard at Wigan, whether they were plundered from elsewhere I wouldnt realy know, but what I do know, and see is that tunes like The Majestics, Seven Souls, Sam Ward, Sam Williams,Ray Pollard, the list goes on & on, were first time for me, listened to at Wigan, and they seem to be as big and as collectable as they were back then

Although the other venues you mention are all well known and are an established part of the Northern soul scene history, Wigan was IMO the place that bought it to the masses and a lot of us who were there back then are still here know, so thats the impact it had on me, and to sort of answer your question I reckon a lot of records were fist broken at Wigan, but I have no doubt some of the more knowledgable out there will put me right, just wish some folk would stop bashing it all the time, you wont please all the people all of the time thats a fact, but for me it was choofing great.

[Tomangoes]

Like all venues Wigan would have had its 'peak time' when it was the place to be, probably 1974/5.

I only went half a dozen times, and all those were after 1977, and it was OK.

Dont forget when some of the shiite was played, it filled the floors, so it must have got a few punters happy. Our mob went to Cleethorpes coz it was easy to go by train, and thinking back we loved the likes of Rain- Out of my mind, Peggy March - If you loved me, and Jeanette Harper - Pick me up, so I think no venue was totally 'pop free', maybe just that Wigan made more of it with the spin offs etc.

Event Promoters dont only do promoting for the love of the music, never have and even today never will.

Remember the Fife Piper/Scratchy/and Little Queenie all got played at the start of the so called Northern Soul Scene, before Wigan was opened and they are PONY in terms of sweet Detroit influenced soul music.

I would agree that Wigan brought more people into this scene than any other, before or after.

Ed

[Guest in town Mikey]

I was only having a giggle Moggy.

Richard S is/was/will always be, one of the most influential people on the scene. Especially to those with an ear for Soul throughout the decades.

[Guest Glynn Jones]

Rant!

Managed to get to last 2 years of the casino and I don't remember having much room on dancefloor.

Yes pap was played but how many tracks actually cleared the floor?

A lot of people say they stopped going mid-seventies because of pop records.

Does that mean the 2 years you went were better than the 2 years I went?

By the time I was going most of the "plastic soulies" had got bored and gone back to the local night club leaving the rest of us to enjoy "our" music.

Oh and before Stafford we had Rotherham andCleethorpes playing "upfront" sounds.

Rant over.

Sorry'bout that