They still do Eddie!
Remember at Wigan when we used to hear (mainly) Alan Rhodes play things like The Bellboys, Chris Cerf, Fabulettes, Ellingtons, Camp, Baja Marimba Band, Lorraine Silver, Interplay - we'd heard of these records and knew these records were coming but Wigan hadn't got them yet, St Ives and Cleethorpes had them first, and it probably worked in the opposite direction too. I remembermy friend Paddy coming back from St Ives raving about Interplay and the next week asking Richard for it and Richard hadn't even heard it, 4 weeks later became one of his biggest records.
Having said that - I couldn't have faced going to St Ives, Cleethorpes or yate, I just couldn't have missed a week at Wigan!