Soulsmith

There is more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4uM_nNVhlU...feature=related

Hmm, thats weird (in a nice way) . Met my future wife at St Ives too.

Same copy. I didn't read the cover properly. I was in a hurry. In places its well written, but at times the book was more about the author than the subject matter. I suppose I just get irritated by people harping on about north-south divide, like its still the 70s. Its right up there with mother-in law jokes.

What do you call 3 pies on a skewer? A Wigan kebab.

Well I thought it deserved more than one sentence. And the one sentence he gave it was factually incorrect. So, no I wont be reading a chapter about NS in his other book. I'm still getting over this one.

Thanks for that. So there was no record shop called Russ & Richard's. I wonder how many other facts/storoes in the book have been made up?

I was at the airport, in a bit of a rush. Picked up a book by Stuart Maconie - Pies & Prejudice. It mentioned northern soul on the back cover. Well it contains sweet FA about northern soul. Maconie has a chip on his shoulder the size of the Pennine Way, the weight of which seems to be the cause of him reinventing some north - south divide. The section on Wigan was interesting though, apparently people from Wigan "really, really like pies" and Wigan contains one of the greatest night clubs in the country - Pemps! I think not. The only mention of Wigan Casino I've come across in the book relates to a record shop that Russ Winstanley & Richard Searling jointly owned in Market Street. Not that this 'fact' is important in the scale of things, but did said record shop exist?

There is a Supremes exhib at The V & A in London. I will ask the staff there, they are bound to know....