I was there time after time in the 1970's, Maurice. Motorway from Birmingham. Still have the Blues and Soul copies from those years too. Time will (not) pass us by....
Daily Telegraph
DVD Review
by Sukhdev Sandhu:
THE WIGAN CASINO
The best British music film ever made? Tony Palmer's 1977 documentary is a fabulously evocative portrait of the legendary Northern Soul club that championed a forgotten strand of African-American soul music.
There, in a city of struggling foundries, thousands of young men and women, breaking out proto-breakdance moves, sustained by a kind of religious-revivalist joy, paved the way for today's ubiquitous club culture.
I was there time after time in the 1970's, Maurice. Motorway from Birmingham. Still have the Blues and Soul copies from those years too. Time will (not) pass us by....