Latics
Football
Signs of life
So then, who would have taken four points from the next two at 1pm on Saturday afternoon? I know I would, and I suspect most of us would. Two performances from Latics that were good for different reasons saw us rise to the heady heights of 21st (but hey, it’s a start) and finally there […]
Have I missed anything?
There are podcast episodes that begin with a slick intro, a silky fade-in, and the unmistakable whiff of professionalism. This is not one of them. tPAN EP085 – “Did I miss anything?” opens in the rubble of a previous episode that apparently contained the best content ever recorded — except, crucially, it wasn’t recorded. So […]
Other Stuff
Blackpool calling
It’s New Year and that can only mean one thing, not a return to work not a set of un-assailable New Year resolutions but for me and over a thousand other people THE soul music event of the year. For the uninitiated let me set some context to this claim. Now in to a fourteenth […]
A very Soulful Christmas
In a Soulful Christmas Mood The Christmas song has been given a bad press in recent years, no doubt partly influenced by Simon Cowell and his legacy of X-Factor one week wonders that hijacked the Christmas number one for over a decade. Add in to that the various novelty Christmas songs and generic pop songs […]
Dancing with Ghosts…
As you wake up with the fear from your work’s do and head towards the chaos of Mad Friday, Tony Topping reminds us that, sometimes, you do want to remember those Christmas nights out. Dancing With The Ghosts Of Wigan Casino, 1973 The cold December wind cut through the hole in the window and its […]
Puffers to Pemps
On the fifth anniversary of the demolition of one iconic Wigan landmark, we take in some 2009 memories of the place from Tony Topping… This summer a legend passed away, loved by some and hated by many. If your thinking Michael Jackson think again dear friend, the legend was Barbara Calderbank. My association with Barbara, […]
The TNS archive
You Are My Sunshine
England was a troubled and turbulent place in 1942; the 2nd World War overshadowed everything, well nearly everything. Life went on as best it could around the terraced streets of Wigan. I dare say the children of the day would have been quite pleased that soap rationing meant that Mam could only use one bar […]
Playing catch up
Well you’d think a week off work would actually give more time to keep this up to date, but no. Between trips to the zoo (South Lakes – give it a go if you’re up there), the Farm (Farmer Ted’s – kick the kids off the go karts and have a race round yourselves), other […]
Manchester, so much to answer for
The notapatchon playlist #6 It’s been a while since the last notapatchon playlist predominately, as with most things around here, because I’m lazy. I was thinking about that after the little perm dragged me out of bed at way too early o’clock this morning when I was trying to put a plan of attack together […]
Print it.
It’s amazing what sort of images stick in the mind and I’ll go to my grave puzzled as to why one of my abiding memories of being a young Laticsmon is the sight of Peter Houghton playing (what seemed like) a whole season with a muddy patch on the back of his shorts. It’s strange […]