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Sounds like a good weekend skegsoul Even better if it was a bank holiday then you could also do either bailys Sheffield or Matlock bath dayers

The palais was my first alldayer cica76 went there with Gray weaver mona doz Rob Chris n Andy and all the rest of the chesterfield 70s soul crew! That revolving dance floor !!!! Could be a bit tricky especially if you'd been sammmys Friday Wigan Saturday the on to the Pallas for the alldayer. Can't remember many lads n lasses names from notts n Mansfield but we used yo have a great time with you lot then ! One name sticks though Mandy ?? From notts??? Also used to meet at the britt oh happy days Spike

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Is that John Vincent your on about?? He and a few more lads used to come into a record shop were me and me mates hung out and helped in when I was 16 I was scared shitless by him n HHS long leather coat wearing mates!!!

Is that John Vincent your on about??

Sammanthas february 1976 I'd been going allnighters for about a month. Been taking gear fir about 3 weeks!! Dancing in the "newies" room to tunes like the flasher ???(Kin ell we rearly did!) summer in the parks Zola I'm yo pimp all fast shuffle stomper types. At one point a blond woman who looked in her twenties high heeled shoes +handbag seemed to be taking some intest in me and my dancing (I was 16 at the time thought I'd trapped!) How do you keep dancing so fast and how do you manage to keep going for so long? she asked seductivly between tunes Before I could answere I was bungled away by two of my older mates told fxxck off and hide in the oldies room for an hour??? She's squad you divvy twxt they told me!!! Her and two of her big beefy mates later cornered me in the cafe area sat me down and warned me about the dangers of taking speed did not search me but I sat there shaking wondering if they could arrest me and take me for a urine test I'm sure that they knew I was off my case think they wanted to scare the shite outta me it worked cos a couple of weeks after that I stopped going sammmys went to Wigan for the next 4 years never got caught with gear got stopped n searched plenty of times but it made me weary of people who just did not seem to fit in at nighters!! Spike

Visit twisted wheel forum not only is there a list of tunes but you can also play them! better still last friday of the month 9.30 /2.30 Second Sunday of the month 3pm/8pm Visit the twisted wheel in Manchester 6 whitworth street The original site playing 100% pure soul Spike

best five mins either the first time i walked on to the balcony at wigan marcch 1976 buzzzin like a beee or after 30 years away from the scene going down the steps into that dark mystical stageroom at the twisted wheel standing on the edge of the dancefloor and thinking ive not done this for thirty years little queenie get on that floor spike it was like id never been away buzzin like a beee again but this time without gear keep on keepin on folks

most saturday nights from march 1976 to sometime in 1979 but dropped the saturdays in favour of the once amonth oldies nghter got married moved away from the scene i was a naughty lad back then now ive been back for just over two years and attend the twisted wheel sunday soul sessions enjoy dancin even more than i did back in the seventies think its cos i can remember what ive been doing spike ktf

what you suggest bring I.D.? look im over 50 just dance enjoy and try to burn the others off simple spike

you mean get dave evisson in and call it a mr m's revivall? i think i'll leave with you! spike

what are you opinions on the use of two dance floors at the wheel? i personally think it is great. spike

twisted wheel manchester only plays sounds that were origonally playe d at the wheel before it closed in 1971. look on events for dates well worth going if you like old sixties soul and there is a friendly atmostphere with all ages atending from 18 to sixty plus all having a great time spike chesterfield

thats interesting because john vincent used to come to the record shop where i and my mates "helped out " instead of going to school he used to come saturday mornings with loads of other older guys after they had been to sammanthas in sheffield or cleethorpes perhaps thats where and when i heared it i dont know how i aquired the copy but its got me thinking that before the floppy disc one of us had it on a cassette spike

dont know if this should be on look in your box but here goes circa 1974/5 i am sure that i had a promotional one sided floppy style vinyl of the gordens gin advert theme tune as i was only 15/16 at the time it was pre my allnighter days. One of the older guys who i knew said it wa played at wigan i never heared it played there but i did not go to wigan until the summer of 1976. can any one shed any light on this for me? i cannot even remember how the tune goes! its just that someone on soul source mentioned it and it got me thinking thanks spike

twisted wheel 3-8 second sunday of the month special one off this sunday the 5th 3-10 the twisted wheel whitworth street go on taste that atmostphere spike

not heard it for years zola used to get me to work a sweat up mind you most tunes do nowdays spike

i noticed a few people videoing the dance floor at last sundays (8th march) soul session at the wheel has anyone posted them on utube or on soulsource? spike

would like to contact vinne of layland anyone know of him spike

chucked my membership when the casino invited the tv cameras in more divs and dickeheads in that night than ever i only went for thre years almost every saturday and friday allnighters making a 150 mile round trip as for badgers well! spike

that was the thing just dance. but my favourite who i and most of the chesterfield crowd tried to copy was jethro so smooth and in time with the beat and he was a realy nice guy to talk. to first saw him dance when i was 16 at wigan 1976 never forget his moves, but i still think i agree just dance who cares not me i am still trying at the twisted wheel manchester spike

wigan 3rd anniversary what was the name of the live act? all i remember is that they killed the atmostpher on the big floor! and was it the exciters at the 4th annivesary? spike

went to wigan 1976 -1979 most weeks cannot remember many scoooters in the car park coulkd have been some but i dont remember any. asthe late 1970s was the second coming of the mods most them that i knew were into ska i think you have to go back to the twisted wheel manchester in the sixties to see loads of scooters parked outside an allnighter visit twisted wheel .net or better still go to the wheel its open twice a month its fantastic spike (49)