1: love don't you go through no changes. 2: Surprise party for baby 3: Exus trek 4: Too late 5: I really love you. The artists: 2: Vibrating vibrations, 3: Luther Ingram orchestra, 4: Larry Williams + Johnny Watson, 5: The To mangoes


A truly memorable list of the best northern soul records you will come across . Available free to listen to anyway. All of the records like the Twisted wheel records before them are filled with atmosphere and style. 

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The records that became the trademark of the "Torch". Remain to this day some of the best northern soul records ever played. Exus trek + Surprise party for baby both featured above for visitors to listen to them. The feeling that was in the rather small venue the club was held in. Must of been electric I myself never experienced the Torch as I was 11 or 12 at the time. But having spoken to many over time who did the club was nothing less than awesome. The only bad thing was the short time it was open never reaching the level it should of reached. Many of the regulars I spoke to about the major Lance night there. Said it was an great night. But in there opinion the night Ibanez + Charlie Fox appeared at the Torch was the best night they had there.
            Sounds that all  came from the Golden Torch

 The Torch and the records that became it's trademark. Are still very well received every time there played still at events in 2010. 

 

 

  The golden Torch or just the Torch as it was commonly known as. Started life as a church, a ice skating rink, the Regent cinema. Before Christopher Burton and Russ Winstanley (Wigan casino founder). Converted it into a mods club it opened January 30 1965. The opening act was Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas. From talking to people who attended the Torch the best live act that appeared there was Inez and Charlie Fox according to many who went to both the major Lance and Inez + Charlie Fox allnighters.          
Amongst the Torch dj's was Peter Stringfellow who held a residency as a DJ in 1967 at the Torch. After the performance by Inez and Charlie Fox and the closure of the Twisted wheel in 1971. The Torch became the no1 venue for holding northern soul allnighters the first being staged on the 11 March 1972. The Torch run as a allnighter but did'nt last very long and was closed and converted into a camping supplier after a fire the building was destroyed. For sure the Torch was never to reach it's full potential. It also had a major amphetamine using clientele as this was a inherited fact of allnighters at the time.
 The allnighters back then should in retrospect not be remembered for taking illegal drugs. This was only done for 1 specific reason to enable themselves to dance allnight. The only harm that was done was to themselves not others ok it was breaking the law. A thing I would'nt try to justify at all.