A quick one with RICHARD SEARLING
For the many that visited the legendary venues, including Wigan Casino as probably the epicentre of the then underground Northern Soul scene in the UK, one person more than any other was responsible for much of that soundtrack. Over an eight-year period and beyond, Richard Searling became the leading DJ there and on the scene, bar none.
Starting his career as a rare soul DJ at the short-lived, but revered and influential VaVa allnighters in Bolton, Richard was invited to join the rosta of a then new Wigan allnighter within its first month, a position he occupied for almost the entire eight years that the Wigan Casino ran as an allnighter. He had initally worked in the music industry for Manchester's Global Records, and later as northwest promotional man for RCA, via which, along with Soul Bowl Records’s John Anderson, Grapevine Records were founded. Further down the line, with John Anderson, he set up Expansion Records. While
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