Hi Blake, yip the Cricket Club was a great venue run by Paul Johnson I use to DJ their regular
along with guys like Butch, Ted Massey, Rob Marriot ect ect ect the music played was probally
the best in the country at the time and has for buying 45,s well one nite i bought Tommy Ridgley- My love
is getting stronger & George Pepp --The feeling is real off Clifford Camfield £450 the pair, one nite there
where 4 copies of Just a boys dream-Trudel for sale £200 each and if i remember
i got a Boys dream for 175 , those where the days, I remember one nite when i was dj,in Stuart Bennett
and Cliff Camfield where looking at my copy of Four Tracks--like my love for you just before i went on stage
when i came to play it the 45 was,nt in the sleeve i could,nt find it anywhere i went over to Stew & Cliff
asking them if they had seen it ..they had,nt i went back to the stage to look and inbetween the stage and wall was this little gap about 3 mm wide and there it was wedged down the bloody side just about visible
i managed to get it out with the aid of some small pinchers out of a first aid kit .One night when Rob Marriot was dj,in i asked him to play his George Jay- say that you love me he said never heard of it, i replied
you got it mate you play it regular covered up as the Volumes he took it out and peeled the label back
and said f--k me i wondered who that was by ...... Yes Westhoughton was defo the place to be to hear quality rare soul sadly missed when it finally closed...
Regards Ian Cunliffe