The Manchester Wheelers is a new book out which tells much of the story of the Manchester Soul explosion of the sixties – written as a novel by someone who was there at the time. This isn’t a re-hashed version of well known episodes in the sixties but a warts and all authentic take on the soul scene in clubs such as the Twisted Wheel which laid down the roots of the Northern Soul movement as well as the eventual renaissance of talent that produced the Madchester phenomenon.
The secret story of the Twisted Wheel Club Manchester: where Northern Soul began.
This book is very different from anything that has been written about this scene before: focusing upon the amphetamine drug culture that fuelled the All-nighters.
It describes what went on and what it was really like to belong to an underground youth movement based on Mod culture that evolved into the 100% Soul Mod scene in the City. Most of the book is based at two clubs, the other one was being the Blue Note Club that initially had the legendary ex-Twisted Wheel D.J. Roger Eagle as its formative musical director.
The book is in the format of a novel, and tells it like it really was!
If you want to know what it was really like at the ‘epicentre‘ of the Mod Soul movement that began the phenomenon of Northern Soul: read The Manchester Wheelers.
