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The Northern Experience: Russ Winstanley

Nemone celebrates the Northern Dance Experience with Wigan Casino's Russ Winstanley providing a Northern soul playlist.

All through April, 大象传媒 Radio 6 Music Celebrates: Dance Culture and Nemone is breaking dance culture down into your experiences of the genre. This weekend it's the Northern Dance Experience.

Clubland settled very comfortably in the north of the UK. Wigan Casino was the home of northern soul, the Hacienda in Manchester became the home of the acid house experience, and then the superclubs arrived - Cream in Liverpool, Renaissance in Nottingham and Gatecrasher in Sheffield.

As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Hacienda, Nemone takes listeners back to the time before dance was massive, playing some of the music that united people in the clubs of the north. Russ Winstanley was one of the musical pioneers behind the Wigan Casino which, in 1978, was voted the world's best disco by Billboard magazine (while Russell himself was voted the No. 1 soul DJ!). The man behind the weekly Allnighters - who also booked top acts such as Jackie Wilson, Martha Reeves, Edwin Starr - shares his favourite tracks with you in Most Played.

Nemone also shares your experiences of being there and may even sneak in a few of her own tales of dancing and djing in Manchester.

3 hours

Last on

Sat 28 Apr 2012 07:00

Music Played

  • Happy Mondays

    Hallelujah [Club Mix]

  • Beach House

    Myth

  • SBTRKT

    Pharoahs

  • White Rabbits

    Temporary

  • The Stone Roses

    Going Down

  • Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

  • The Fall

    Theme For Sparta FC

  • Cornershop

    Brimful of Asha

  • Paul Weller

    When Your Garden's Overgrown

  • Amy Winehouse

    Stronger Than Me [6 Music Session]

  • Damon Albarn

    The Marvelous Dream

  • Jr. Walker & the All Stars

    Roadrunner

  • Sigur R贸s

    Hoppipola

  • RECORD OF THE WEEKEND

    • 笔辞濒颈莽补

      Dark Star

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Electricity

  • Spoonie Gee

    The Godfather

  • Russ Winstanley's MOST PLAYED (part 1)

    • Frank Wilson

      Do I Love You?

  • Alison Limerick

    Put Your Faith In Me [Cosa Nostra Mix]

  • Hannah Lou Clark

    A Handsome Stranger Called Death

  • Kate Bush

    Hounds of Love

  • Best Coast

    The Only Place

  • Russ Winstanley's MOST PLAYED (part 2)

    • Yvonne Baker

      You Didn't Say A Word

  • Richard Hawley

    Don't Stare At The Sun [6 Music Session]

  • Inner City

    Big Fun

  • The Selecter

    On My Radio

  • Moby

    Go

  • Jack White

    I'm Shakin'

  • Edwin Starr

    25 Miles

  • A Guy Called Gerald

    Voodoo ray

  • The Shins

    The Rifle's Spiral

  • Hot Chip

    Night And Day

  • Public Enemy

    Fight The Power

  • The Rapture

    Children

  • The Source

    You Got The Love (feat. Candi Staton)

  • Beck

    Lost Cause [6 Music Session]

  • Ladyhawke

    Sunday Drive

  • Baby D

    Let Me Be Your Fantasy

Broadcast

  • Sat 28 Apr 2012 07:00