The 3 Before 8 1981

Just close your eyes and be taken back to the last three records to be played at the Wigan Casino's last all-niter 1981
Jimmy Radcliff - Long After Tonight Is All Over, Tobi Legend - Time Will Pass You By, Dean Parish - I'm On My Way

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Wigan
• Casino
• Northern
• Soul

[twostrokedowse]

Billboard magazine voted Wigan Casino the best 'Disco' in the world ahead of Studio 54 in New York....How good is that???

[beebandloz]

I'm only 17 so obviously I wasn't even a twinkle in my parent's eyes when this was happening but I was I had been there. My mum went to the Wigan Casino and she got me into this fantastic music. They just don't make music like this now. Thanks for posting.

[bks458]

Memories saving all my pennies for ages and paid £30 for Helen Shapiro STOP and you will become Aware.

Got it home put it straight on the Turntable vol to the max played it.

And my Mother came in the room singing along knowing all the lyrics n everything I was proper gutted for at least the chorus.

WHAT A TUNE STILL!!!!

[Janetw1956]

OMG! What a wonderful recording, I never made the last night as I was emigrating to South Africa at the time with my family. I have tears in my eyes listening to this, brings back so many wonderful memories of the Casino, there will never be another place like it again, I;m so glad I have the memories in my heart until I die. KTF!! xxx

[littleandy77]

@twostrokedowse it was the working class version. We were very,very lucky.

[scarthogirl]

tears

[angelamackenzie1]

i was there on the last night and hearing this video brings back the goose bumps

[kladdno]

@maclad11 I´m from Sweden, born ´68. I got into Lambrettas and northern soul 1984. We had kind of a revival scene in the late nineties. Sold the scooters, but not the records. This is truly the best dance music ever made. It´s a shame that there is no better film documentation from the seventies. Wow, if I had been there!!! KEEP ON KEEPIN´ ON .

[maclad11]

i was just old enough to remeber my brother going northern dues in the 70's and i grew up through the dance sceen ive allways been a wigan fan the wheel was great and i live 3 miles from the torch in stoke but my heart belongs to wigan music, even though i wasnt quite old enough to go, all of u that were old enough ........ well robinsons jam comes to mind wish i was old enough u jammy sods and ktf

[Keffa999]

sat on the train station, screwing our eyes up (cos it was daylight) and saying goodbye. getting on the train, with a brick in our heart, Why !!!!, cos the place we loved, the place where we met up with all our mates, was closing. Gone but never forgotten, KTF,

[surreytownsoulie]

Jimmy Radcliffe was the first ever " chill out " track ever played at any club....was just right for the moment....especially if you had a 200 mile trek home !

[zantepete]

well it must have been some night an era had passed.i used to travel to the casino from 72 to 77 and what great nights they were.its a shame we only have our memories but what memories we have.

pete from hemel.time has nearly passed me by ktf