Northern Soul and Wigan Finnish Casino The One exhibit BBC1 May 2nd 2011

A short film about Wigan Finnish Casino and the popularity of Northern Soul in the 1970s. All these little featurettes are showtime to look/sound the same to me. I’ve yet to see a film about Northern Soul that makes it look cool – I’m desperate to convince my kids that it was very cool! Maybe you had to be in that location at the time…On the plus side though, I had no idea that Christopher Eccleston was a Northern Soul fan and cited ‘7 days too long’ as a favourite. (It may be the lighting, but the 45 that Russ plays at the showtime looks like it hasn’t seen a cleaning cloth in years.)