https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/14-fab-pictures-northern-soul-22800066

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Used to work for Mirrorpix, that said I rememeber seeing these stills, and film,  in David Redfern's Library, that would be in 1998 or there about... probably dupes... was there doing work experience for free...

Edited January 20, 20223 yr by Mal C

A few smokers back then....

1975...a year before my entry into NS...glad the platforms had gone by then.

Winstanley looks happy. I wonder if he chose "the few".

High waister checked breeks....can only remember plain colours myself. Must have been made to measure.

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Was this a nighter or just staged for the press? It looks wrong with people just stood watching others in the middle of the floor, the fashions sported by the watchers look very mainstream too, (weren't granny sandals the rage for girls in 75 ?) 

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Could just be me of course !!!!

Edited January 20, 20223 yr by Merve
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Not just you Merve.....it doesn't look right at all for me.

Definitely a Wednesday or Friday normal night. Chart soul early on then Northern later.

Not one beer towel tucked into a waistband. And not one person who looks to be 'out their tree'. Totally unfamiliar to me.

Good topic for a thread. I’ve seen these photos so often, I’m very familiar with them. On closer examination, there’s some with badges that weren’t around in 1975 perhaps? The scene is obviously staged, but this surely couldn’t happen  during an All Nighter? Some of the clothing looks spot-on for the 70’s but not exactly All Nighter wear.  Can anyone in the photos come forward and enlighten us?

Some of those badges look 'photo shopped'

So

Edited January 20, 20223 yr by Merve
Because I havent a clue what Im doing with the photo upload ! Sorry !!

2 hours ago, Frankie Crocker said:

Good topic for a thread. I’ve seen these photos so often, I’m very familiar with them. On closer examination, there’s some with badges that weren’t around in 1975 perhaps? The scene is obviously staged, but this surely couldn’t happen  during an All Nighter? Some of the clothing looks spot-on for the 70’s but not exactly All Nighter wear.  Can anyone in the photos come forward and enlighten us?

Agree. Its more 1975 night out at the local disco wear rather than nighter wear. I've seen a couple of these photos before but not all of them. It just looks staged & certainly not at a nighter.

32 minutes ago, Merve said:

Some of those badges look 'photo shopped'

So

Don’t recall too many patches stuck on trouser legs! This photo looks a bit like the cast of ‘Soul Boy’ mucking around between takes. Perhaps more disco-wear on show here than normally seen at an All Nighter.

Everything about it looks wrong....

There is no emotion showing - which doesn't sit right for a soul event. 

It looks like a cross between a teen disco and Stepford Wives. 

Promotion for 'Footsee' maybe? The guy looks like he is 'performing some moves' - but to something not very soulful judging by the numb look on the bystanders faces. 

 

8 hours ago, Merve said:

Some of those badges look 'photo shopped'

So

The lad with 2 badges on his trouser immediately behind the dancer looks like a mate from Ormskirk. He wasn't an allnighter goer at the time. He had attended once that I remember, but certainly regular at the Friday night sessions.

 

Paul

Allnighter people, or regular nighter people were a special breed. And their were a lot of us from up and down the land.

You've only got to look at the footwear to answer this ... 

Footwear and just about everything I reckon Woodbutcher.

i had stopped going by the time these photos were taken..........i didnt go to wigan after early 75..........x

I went  to Wigan from 75-79 Saturdays to start , and then the monthly Friday "Oldies" all nighter`s and I can honestly say I never saw or met any birds (Ooops ,Sorry girl`s) dressed like these at Wigan period , it was mainly flat sandals, white socks, flared 3/4 length skirts, T shirts and parallels or baggies . So a deffo staged night imo and probably around 73/74 looking at the garb they are all wearing.

Petesi......those were the days my friend.......and 79 just about saw the end of them. Quite like that anyway.

Any recommendations for films that are accurate representations of the northern soul scene? I wasn’t personally around so wouldn’t have known that these photos were staged.

Same old batch of photos. Midweek nights, makes the casino look like a youth club. 

On 21/01/2022 at 13:31, Ratt said:

Petesi......those were the days my friend.......and 79 just about saw the end of them. Quite like that anyway.

Sure were Ratt,  and that`s why I can never quite understand the posters that keep moaning that   "Todays scene is not what it was, and we need to move with the times to get more younger people interested in it"  Well I think most of the newbees and youngsters interested in real northern soul can still get a taste of what is was like at the right clubs and if you doubt me  just go and  have a night out any of the following ...The Grosvenor rooms, The Northern line, The Kings Hall,  St Ives reunions, Kingsway hall and plenty of others up and down that still capture the spirit of what it was like first time round because what`s old hat to many of us will be new and exciting to any newcomers to the scene

I don't know if the Pic's were staged or not, or mid-week or not...perhaps shortly after the doors opened at 12.30.

The badges aren't photo-shopped. These (most) same pics turn up advertising the 2nd Anniversary in 1975.

You surprise me Kenb. In that you might believe, even slightly, that this set of pictures with their dress code could have been from an allnighter. Even at opening time, I never saw the likes of it. I know that's no guarantee, but surely they are staged.....or from mid-week. Now that you have made your comment I am more and more interested to learn more. Maybe my memories are shot to pieces.

1 hour ago, Ratt said:

You surprise me Kenb. In that you might believe, even slightly, that this set of pictures with their dress code could have been from an allnighter. Even at opening time, I never saw the likes of it. I know that's no guarantee, but surely they are staged.....or from mid-week. Now that you have made your comment I am more and more interested to learn more. Maybe my memories are shot to pieces.

Hiya, I don't say they are from an all-nighter. I say they advertised the 2nd anniversary All-Nighter (1975).👍

Edited January 26, 20223 yr by Kenb