We celebrate our second anniversary with another 3-room Soul All Nighter at the splendid Blackpool Winter Gardens on Saturday February 9th 2013. The All Nighter starts at 9pm and runs through until 6am and as usual we have our Northern Soul, Motown and Modern Soul rooms featuring a top line up of DJS: In the [...]
August 20, 2012
In the first-ever national phone-in on Northern Soul, myself and Pete Roberts from Manchester’s “Twisted Wheel” were delighted to be part of a ground-breaking programme which went out between 01.30 and 3.30 am on Monday August 20th. If you missed it, over the next seven days , you can go to the Radio 5 Live [...]
August 13, 2012
Hard to know where time goes, but it only seems like yesterday that we were planning this major reunion of one of the scene’s best-loved venues. Loads of Pendulum regulars will be down at the Club Moho Live, Tib Street , Manchester this Friday August the 17th , dancing and reminiscing to great Pendulum anthems [...]
July 18, 2012
Just to let everyone know that I ll be guesting tonight Wednesday July 18th on Pete Robert’s excellent “Twisted Wheel” radio programme on North Manchester FM. Joining me in the studio will be original Pendulum DJ Barry Tasker and we will be looking back to the great days of that iconic venue and looking forward [...]
March 3, 2012
More news as we get it, but I ve just had it confirmed that one of the all-time great venues , The Pendulum Club in Manchester, is to hold an annual re-union event in a very special city centre location in August. Original DJs Barry Tasker and myself, plus from the Twisted Wheel, Pete Roberts. [...]
February 7, 2012
All roads lead to Lowton this coming Friday night, February 10th 2012, when the NWSC celebrate the 16th anniversary of the Lowton Soul night. TWO ROOMS of top nothch Northern and Modern Soul…. Guest DJ this month is Pete Roberts and he’ll be treating us to many of the delights of the “Twisted Wheel” in [...]
December 30, 2011
Thanks to everyone who has regularly visited my blog during 2011 , and attended the various events with which I ve been involved. I wish each and every one of you a Happy New Year – let’s hope 2012 is a good one for us all. On the soul events side, I ve been particularly [...]
February 23, 2011
UPDATE: Unfortunately the online broadcast was not played out last night as scheduled. For anyone wanting to hear the programme, it goes out again this coming Sunday at 6pm-8pm ————————————————————————– Playing right now , Pete Robert’s excellent 2 hour weekly Northern Soul show on North Manchester 106.6FM You can listen online as well, and the [...]
January 9, 2013
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