There was a brief discussion about the Black experience at Northern Soul clubs, including at Wigan Casino, on Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 at just after 09.00 this morning.  It was part of a discussion with journalist Lanre Bakare, whose book We Were There: How Black Culture, Resistance and Community Shaped Modern Britain, has just been published.

The whole programme is worth a listen, but Lanre's discussion starts at about 31 minutes and 30 seconds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002c2c1

Lots of blacks from London & Darnsouf never got into the northern scene at all but had their own genres going -- funk nights, two step nights, Brit-funk, Chris Hill discos, Pete Tong nights, etc. Some of the black DJ's were even suspicious of the Northern scene & what it entailed.

My memory may be playing tricks on me but I think I remember that TREVOR NELSON came along to a Cleethorpes Soul Weekender to check it out (around 15 years ago). I seem to recall Ady telling me that he really enjoyed himself while there.