Wigan Casino - A Lifestyle Of Northern Soul

[Dancingjenni121]

Sad ... watchin old footses.... fat arl fellas an old women .. now it just looks like the jivers* ... lolol

[tattoogeorge]

like break dancers in the 80's, posers imao.........i'f one wasn't good at footie and rugby he turned soulboy.........look like ballet dancers

[cudaneil1]

@tattoogeorge So i gather then that you could not dance then fella !

Maybe you should have tried eh ? It wasnt that hard to pick up and very enjoyable once you got the hang of it. And we are not gay ballet dancers either mr tattoo !

[tattoogeorge]

@cudaneil1

was just taking the piss a wee bit, no offense m8, i do have a nice selection of northern myself, i'm just more into heavier stuff these days.....:O)

[77okeh]

There's a picture of a girl dancing with a full cirlce skirt spinning in this video. Does anyone know what year the picture was taken because I think it was me!

[d3mrp0]

I grew up in the North but was too young to experience it (Wigan), but I heard older kids rave on about it all the time. And then when I was old enough to go it was gone! So my scene was the 80s music. Everyone has their scene I suppose. But I remember kids in the local nightclubs outside of Wigan dancing in this style and it was, I must say, rather a flamboyant and almost exotic sight in a wet dreary grey-sky and supremely grimy Northern town.

[merlin3156]

Super!

[PERIZ99]

Great stuff..!

[Toyboy789]

Not sure I could cut any of these moves now . . . Not at my age! But it's great to spot the action again after all these years!

[presencefm]

@saffibaffi yer but we had duramin

[sytojufoclk]

nolan porter, keep on keeping on

[libya16]

what's the song at 2:16 can anyone tell me...ta!

[lazyasp]

Loved the Casino at the time, for me it was 78 to the close. I cringe at some of the dancing, and it does look like a gay knees up at times. There were some great dancers but some rigid shit shufflers too! Filming didnt do it justice. The music is still class and hey some people were sadly listening to the glitter band, Punk later and wearing platforms around the time. We were at least a cool minority and i for one was glad to be there . I now keep the fat!!! Its easier than keeping faith

[valerier10]

Its not vernon spinning in this vid, its Gideon from Bolton.

[MrNigehall]

used to dance with vernon, he wasn't as good as me, i used to lie on the stage and let him take the credit, but credit due he won the dancing comp. I never entered so he was lucky, maybe the next life

[seyeeyes]

ARK OF THE HEART TEAR

[SkinheadxGirl1993]

gives me goosebumps <3

[dave2806]

anyone remenber colin hill from washington ?

[TARGETZEROO]

good seeing vernon spinning ;)

[theuk7yahoo]

at 0.42 Come lads where are the back flips?? lol

[MrNigehall]

wigan was great but i split myself between there and cleggy, preferred cleggy but reckon wigan was the heart, live in frankfurt now and still go to events here, ktf

[stevemetaloldie]

never went to Wigan but had some great nights at Doncaster Top Rank when I was at college there

[martinbrennan56]

Borrowed Soul Boy (I know!) got me nostalgic. Went to Casino most Sats between '74 - '76 and this track amongst favourites and played a lot in early days. Amazingly 2.04 into the piece I spotted picture of a guy, folded arms and stockier than the others; mate of mine at the time from Rammy, great lad who I went up with on a regular basis. Look back with mixed feelings; great times and, those that were truly within the scene will know, very bad times as well! Glad I was there though. KTF

[soulboy111]

the casino is still with me never forgotten, great times great music great people,just a massive familly, ktf

[djrico64]

I took some of these photos at the Casino ha ha

[Keffa999]

Class !!!!!!!!, gotta have been there, and still be there, today, to totally get this, :-)))))) love it mate. KTF.

[revshullfc1]

how it was then 

[braemage]

I love this vid Thanks for posting . Northern Soulers never die. And they still got the moves >>>

[mikris50]

Cameras were a no, no no!!!! The 'scene' was so cool it didn't need to be seen, the wonder of that was and renains; you get it or you don't end of - fucking divs geting a leg in on that they know fuck all about!!

[Bigrowler101]

@mikris50 I'm with you Mirkris. I was a Wheeler, never bothered with Wigan. A camera would not have been tolerated.  Still all these years on it's a good reminder of a very pleasant mispent youth. KTF. Danny, Crewe (now Jersey)

[17soulable]

scotland northern soul. come ahead. we will eat you you fucking ass holes.

[yackawolves]

wot u on bout jon-southerner-u know fuck all bout northern soul-lol !!

[JonWayneEastLondon]

lmaoooo this is the funniest thing ive ever seen in my life ha ha ha. ive saved it to my favourites its really funny. but one things for sure, even tho none of them can dance they all enjoyed themselves thats the main thing lol

[medicdeano]

It was ace here- nothin to match it _ ever!

[joneye1]

Yeah Ditto Debbie....your soo right mrbrittbradford...i dont think the Mecca was even half as good as the Casino...

[dubindaygo]

what song is that?

[Gazoor2004]

@dubindaygo song 1.The Vel-vets - I've Gotta Find Me Somebody - 20th Century records. If you want it on vinyl its been re-issued in the last few years or so on Beach Wood, or, you should be able to get a Pye "Disco Demand" UK,copy offa ebay etc. 2.N.F. Porter - Keep On Keepin' On - Lizard, also 2nd issued and booted on this label.

3. Donn Thomas - Come On Train - NUVJ, and booted/re-isued on NUVJ and V-J.

[mbrittbradford]

just a thought, but why is somebody looking at a vid of wigan when they don't know who the vel-vets are. and yeah the casino was a dump but it was OUR dump! yeah little england or whatever it was sort of ruined it,but it was still great for a young lad back then.everyone goes on about how great the mecca was, but come on there was some right shite played there as well, some of it nothing short of new york disco. if fact didn't the scene split then and the jazz funk thing was formed.

[cornishdeb]

@mbrittbradford well said my friend, debbie

[SuedeheadChed]

Wigan Casino was a dump (then again for those who actually went they will know that) Mr M's was a far better venue in the other room of the Casino club but like Geofflovett said in an earlier post The Torch was by far the best and was doing it way before with acts such as Major Lance performing there. If all those who claimed to have gone to Wigan Casino actually went, the place would needed to have been 10 times the size that it was.

[redsky106]

lovin that dancin with the old motown dancers keepin it real

[redsky106]

you never lose it

[geofflovett]

Hey Lets get one thing fucking straight.

Long before Wigan Casino ever opened(it was a bingo hall),Us real soul men went to the Wheel in Manchester,and the Iron door in Liverpool,the Mardi and the vic in Liverpool.

Keep the faith,but for fucks sake dont say it all started at Wigan Casino.

however the great of them all The ''Torch'' in Tunstall

[mepaul49]

so we arnt real then er? the rest of us then

[redsky106]

ladies and gentelman i give you the older , the fatter , wigan casino dancers lets hear it

[alanpervin]

top tunes top club, anybody remember the article they did in the Sun newspapper? about 78- 79, My mates brother and his mate are in it, Ray Marshall & Spud murphy from Loughborough, Spud was reported to be the fastest spinner at wigan. Remember listning to rays LP of Tommy Hunt live at the Casino on Sparks Label, those where the days. KTF

[lrijkaart]

Yes this is where Julie Brown from MTV got her start. I remember traveling down in a truck from the Highland room. I remember Frankie and the Classicals  and Love on the mountaintop. Paper Tiger and Dean Parish what a great time .

[maclad11]

used to stand at buss stop wishing i could go notts palie all dayers with my bro and wigan with me bro's mate mark mcCough 44 now and still dream about wigan any1 who went wish i was in your boots

[afcwils]

thanks spinning45's. I'm gonna get that track, superb.

[Phoenix8049]

You had to be there to realise what a fantastic atmosphere it was.The casino inside was a right dump really, but we did'nt care about that. it was home. Home to the best music ever to be put out on record.ktf.

[kazzybott]

amazing tune karyn redditch ktf

[Sheven718]

never made it to the casino unfortunately, i was a mod in the early sixties and went to the alnighters in the west end, the scene, the last chance saloon,flamingo, this was where it all started, they played gene chandler, maxine brown and all the early motown and atlantic stuff, northern soul dancing as good as it is, mainly variations on the mod dances like the boogaloo and the skate, brilliant stuff, and hey! how sweet it is ha ha

[dagwoodful]

50p bus ride from highland room blackpool aged 16 then walk home from wigan to lancaster belive me....

[afcwils]

what is that first track? it's superb! I know the second one is N.F.Porter, also a great choon

[spinning45s]

The Vel-Vets - "I Got To Find Me Somebody"

[spinning45s]

afcwils, it's The Vel-Vets - "I Got To Find Me Somebody"

[59lollipop]

just seen myself on this vid...brings back so many happy black bomber weekends.

still go to the odd northern nights but it feels like i'm just playin at it!!!Would rather listen at home!!

[rallyR1]

haha no fookin way thats me at 032 in the white shirt

[rentchart]

It was b4 my time,but it seems like a early acid house comunity and love in a chemical haze

[colinthomson2205]

if you are going to do it do it right. Wigan Casino R.I.P

[drwhatson]

Wigan Casino: The cast of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" on speed...

[donaldjohn1]

cool coment

[jonkino]

Just since one of our Oldham crew dancing in this. The small chick with White top ! That was really nice. But I ain't seen any of my crew from Oldham since I stopped going to Wigan and moved on in 1980 having gone to Wigan virtually non-stop since Nov 1973. But N. Soul as always stayed in my heart and I still got my old collection in the attic all these years. I would love to hook upwith my old freinds - of anyone from Oldham ever reads this pleaseget in touch.

[JOE4129]

Ive been stuck here since wigan has closed

does it still carry on that was my life

got shivers down my spine when i looked at this i was there

Joe

[dadswizz]

"i'm a riker liker". . .remember black bombers ? they kept you up all night without the amphetamine come down you got off street speed. . .

[jan12342]

Remember black bombers +green and clears perfcet. Lifetime ago.

[TheSoulbrother7]

Beachcomber boys Bombed it Duraphet Rikered Best ^ Smith Klien & French Danced Well in Green & Clear Dingley Dell !!!

MVPS & Tommangoes Sandwich's in Birch's .

Swearlin Searlin Glory Days !! Awesome Nights !!!

[dadswizz]

dexidren and chalky's eh !

[Nipplemuff]

Interesting... reading this book called "last night a dj saved my life" and there's a big chapter on this....

[warrenxschofield]

Who the hell's Frank Wilson?by Pete Mckenna

novel being made into a film.

[Muffin1969ShG]

Sweet

:D

<3

[stokey72]

DRY ANYTHING WOULD CRACK YOU UP you need lube tube

[deanosoul]

great vid thanks for posting ktf

[dragonmclaren]

proud to be a wiganer

[modmanmje]

yeah boy ledgendaryyyy

[ihateyoumateeeeee]

whats the second song on this video called? x

[BigChrisButler]

Keep on Keeping on by N.F. Porter

[BEok45tou]

OMG just seen myself danceing on this video thanks for the great memorys xxx

[busterjones]

Great tracks & vid, saw some face on there, that i hav'nt seen siince casino, the newton aycliffe crowd, nice one, KTF

[Dryfanny]

Lol this cracks me up is it the Darby and Joan disco.

[dfyzajvby]

What is that pills?

[judystreet]

Just illustrating a part of the scene...

[isobella50]

I know these guys/gals. great dancin

KTF see ya soon

xxxxx

[Dryfanny]

Lol thats funny with the pensioners trying to dance. Dance like ya dad lol

[judystreet]

I'm not surprised you name is dryfanny!

[skez67]

Thats even funnier, you trying to be funny like ya Grandad oh dear no wonder your trolling the internet looking for any one to slag off you sad person go get yourself re-hydrated and get out of the house.

Great homage to the scene where people are pro-active unlike our new found friend.

NOW I am sure we can come up with a new dance step for you should'nt be too hard cos: A - You would'nt have to move B - You would'nt be working up any kind of a sweat would you DRYFANNY

God love ya Darlin'

[acerwin50]

cool i use to have a mate named fiona we were both northern lovers we use to eat sleep and drink it lol... headon stuff thanks for sharing.

[vifferman]

great video. us Reading posse used to go to wigan on the coach that came from southampton to newbury and oxford. halcyon days

[sawbenchwarrior]

Remember Smoky from Wolverhampton? He could move!

[ste3437]

I was in the casino the night this was filmed .also am in one of the stills but this was another night .not seen these pals for thity years

[niteowl147]

The best quality footage from "This England" doc, i've seen. Thankyou!

[marka3262]

nolan porter classic,keep on keeping on,just had a spin around the laminate kids think iv gone mad....back to the good ole days

[FrancoZoli]

Im a southerner, but the northern soul scene lights my fire. Aways has, always will

[zantepete]

fantastic days,the hitching lifts to wigan were worth every minute,standing soaking in the rain at a motorway services with thumb out.but the end result was unreal arriving at the casino,the peaple the music,the memories.oh to turn back the clock for one night.pete from hemel ktf

[ken240256]

I was their in the 70's, what a great time, i miss it so much

[RonDon1389]

Keep The Faith.... todays kids just dont know what their missing. Simply the best times.

[lowflyer284]

great times , upstairs at mr ms listening to the oldies , keep the faith boys and girls , and as he says keep on keeping on ! from a 52 year old ex wigan veteran from newbury berks .(long coach trip but i would not have missed it for the world)

[tom9872]

Love the first song (Vel-Vets). Anybody ever make a longer or 12 inch version of it. Anyone know what label it's on so I can try to find it.

[keepthefaith57]

just great times,great music, phil of oxford

[twister5960]

Ten seconds in, the guy all in black with red hair was my best mate back then. Dusty, the greatest dancer from runcorn!

[zcadsf]

where is the wigan song they got out on record, footisee

[zcadsf]

just wish there was more northern soul night throw the north west

[adrianpeterjohn]

brilliant times tracks,nice 1,keep on keepin on!

[berserkr69]

notrhern soul keep the faith

[jago544643]

what is the last track please

[Lionboy2930]

come on train... by Don Thomas

[gazztw]

Hi FIONA gud vid an music I was lucky 2 b able 2 go 2 the birthplace of Northern The WHEEL.

[scottyrockstheshow]

i have a black friend brigade ahaha

[eggfrito]

Hi!

I love the first song, someone knows its title?

Thanks

[MrSpoon1965]

I Got To Find Me Somebody

Vel-Vets (The)

Nothern Soul Stompers Disc 4

[claireylovesyou]

big kenny mitch days theses sandy brown annete eastham she love the nothren soul always at the casion in wigan

[judystreet]

You're still into it too you old codger! And you don't look any older!

[kpthfaith]

Third track is Come on train by Don Thomas.

[kpthfaith]

The first track is I'm gonna find me somebody by the Velvets, Top tune

[rawlygal]

I think one of the tracks is 'Keep on keeping on' by Eddie Kendricks. JR

[djbrut33]

can anyone help with the artist/tracknames of the songs playing in this clip? cheers

[rawlygal]

I take that back!! Keep on keeping on is by NF Porter!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOrry!!! JR

[layorseniram]

I ONLY EVER WENT TO THE CASINO ONCE, ON THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY WE CAME UP FROM CORNWALL THERE WAS AN OLD LADY I THINK SHE WAS CALLED Mrs WOODS? SHE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND OUR CORNISH ACCENTS !!I CAN STILL REMEMBER THE DISTINCTIVE "AROMA"OF JOHNSONS BABY POWDER AND BRUT MIXED WITH SMOKE AND SWEAT AS FOR THE TOILETS!

I STILL HAVE MY 40''SOUL BAGS AND SHOES THAT I WORE THAT NIGHT/MORNING THE AMAZING THING IS THEY STILL FIT I AM HEADING FOR THE BIG 50 NOW BUT MY LOVE FOR THIS SCENE HAS NEVER GONE AWAY

[anotherblonde]

This takes me back..... at 2.13, top left of shot I am dancing in red waist coat! This was before mobile phones, and we travelled from south coast not knowing the cameras would be there.

[familiarfeeling]

'polkop', "the elderly", what are you talking about?

Brilliant upload, well done.

[polkop901]

great video. the eldely have still got it.

[judystreet]

Going by that comment, you've never had it! Us "elderly" would probably dance you off the floor!

[jandomenia]

Our Youth Club had a fab DJ called Pete Joul who was into all this stuff and Trojan, Mowtown etc.

[jandomenia]

Wow! I want to join you guys right now! Where are you? I only made it to Wigan Casino once but we used to dance to this stuff at our Youth Club. I love it. I love the fact that it's obscure sounds that never made it in the US. Fabulous stuff. Keep on keepin on!!

[TREBORRETTORT]

n.f.porter ~ keep on keeping on ! Fiona babes ~ I was there from the 2nd niter at Casino. Your heart is in the right place ~ loved yer track choices specially don thomas (was 1st in Pboro with it :) but you really shudda left the fat bald lads out of the vid! Gives the rest of us a bad name! :D

[austrorob]

Might be bald, might be fat but want give you a bad name out on the floor. This vid was taken at 9am in the morning at Central Coast Uni

Bald fat lad sliding on the talc.

Cheers

[jitjoe]

Agree, what is the 2nd track anyone please.

[garayd23]

Keep on keeping on

sorry forgot the artist

[NickOLarse999]

can any1 tell me what the 2nd track is?

[garayd23]

keep on keeping on

forgot the artist, maybe Joe tex

[ljfriel2]

Cheers, keep on keepin on by Nolan Porter, i'ts on Youtube.

[NickOLarse999]

Thanks. Gr8 track gr8 moves.

[keepingthefaith72]

wrong artiste .. mate its by N F Porter

on the Lizard label .. KTF...

[rawlygal]

NF Porter I think. JR

[NickOLarse999]

nice to see the old dudes still got the moves.

[tonydam]

Great stuff i am at 32 sec in the black and white picture above to the right of the circle skirt girl i had a v neck short T shirt on. pic actual taken on a newies saturday night,The lad at 10 secs spinning was Billy from Edinburgh. I am from Dewsbury and in 1984 i worked in Edinburgh and reconigsed the lads dance style in a pub in princes street Being soul bros i ,I said hello we hung out and went to a allnighter at glenrothes ,tonydam the taekwondo soulie see my stuff.KTF

[scott8902]

Loved Wigan lived there every weekend. Travelled from Airdrie. Good to see the moves once again. God wish I could still move like that. Keep The Faith.......

[spiresoul]

excellent just to see it all again steve chesterfield went wigan 1976 i was 16 till i was 21 friends vinny julie sandy plus many more who i cannot remember

[silver669]

been Northern fan for 35 years. I used to travel up from the midlands once a month (oldies night)with ginger,kenny,wags and many moor.

Keep the faith & keep on keeping on

Cheers Fiona

[alantyc]

Oooh.. nice.. I just discovered Northern Sould thru the new song "Mercy" from Duffy. There's Northern Soul dancing on her video. I'm 35 but i may actually try to learn some..

[Lionboy2930]

Excellent Fiona... well put together...x

[Par3536]

2 30am. Toothache,keeping me up. Top Vid, Oh happy days. Where has it all gone.

[BeyaFriend]

Brill Fiona I seen me on there too, lol. Jonn from SCOTLAND KTF

[soulspammer]

preferrred green and clears to the red and white ones

[Lamvesp]

This has just blown me away. I'm gone,,,,,,,

[playsforplaytime]

excellent fiona, excellent XX

[heartofsoul22]

excellent track, just trying to see if im there lol x Di, god i miss wigan

[zaziemania]

oh wow, makes me want to jump out of my bed and start dancing right away, great stuff... please keep posting these kind of things, I'll be a very grateful watcher

[fionanevin]

so glad you all love the video it was so much fun making the video and thanks to to all who helped put it together

Keep the faith Fiona x

[vigo101]

nice video!

Keep The Faith :)

[TooDarnSoulful]

Great vid - ktf :0) rinkley my ass lol

[NorthernsoulDJ]

top track ktf .. dave d

[chgosatrap]

Hi Fiona, I am just learning about soulies, and I am enjoying your video here. Greetings from a new chicago soulie!

[judystreet]

Some of us "rinkleys" are on the original footage too. And still dancing at 50.

[owenfe]

too right we are, i still cant pass talcum powder without thinking of those nights lol!

[agonyuncle]

talcum powder!!?sounds kinda perverted!

[owenfe]

LOl! no we used to put it on the floor to help us slide - watch the guy on the right (of the "older" dancers) see his feet slide.... betya its talcum powder (grin)

[agonyuncle]

oh right..gotcha lol

[stantheman52]

Cor rinkleys dancing