by iNostalgia Admin | Jun 20, 2018 | Manchester, Music
Belle Vue basked in a golden age of popular music in the 1970s as almost every major band and artist made a beeline to play there. The Kings Hall was, quite simply, one of the biggest dates on the tour circuit. With more than 100,000 square feet of space and the...
by Malcolm Pheby | Jun 2, 2018 | Liverpool, Music
Forget about the Spice Girls and Sugababes – back in the 1960s two Merseyside bands blazed the trail for girl power! Their names may not be so familiar now, but the Vernons Girls and Three Bells aimed to be the All Saints and Atomic Kittens of their day! The...
by Malcolm Pheby | May 23, 2018 | 1950s, Manchester, Music
Nostalgia looks back on the remarkable life of Salford song-writer Ewan MacColl and the music of Manchester in the 1950s Who would have thought that one of the greatest love songs of all time would be shaped in the grimy streets of Salford during the Great Depression?...
by Malcolm Pheby | May 9, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Manchester, Music
Nostalgia remembers the heady mix of fashion, people, personalities and performers that made up the Madchester music scene. Forget London or Liverpool. When it came to music, there was only one place to be in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And that was Manchester!...
by Malcolm Pheby | Apr 27, 2018 | 1970s, Music
iNostalgia remembers a music phenomenon that took the North West by storm in the late 1970s – Northern Soul It’s odd to think that Northern Soul probably got its name from a record shop in London’s Covent Garden. Journalist Dave Godin coined the term to cater for...
by Malcolm Pheby | Apr 20, 2018 | Manchester, Music
iNostalgia looks back at how the Beatles and the Rolling Stones took Manchester by storm. There was one massive question dividing the music world throughout the Swinging 60s. Did you love the clean-cut Beatles with their matching suits and hair-cuts or the rebellious...
