Hinckley Working Men's Club

Hardly the most glamorous sounding of venues, Hinckley Working Men's Club has a secret. It houses a marvellous function room, now named The Hamilton Suite, which the Hinckley Soul Club used as a mid-week venue when demand was at its highest.

A quality dance floor, a raised stage and excellent facilities made this venue something special. Even though the Hinckley Soul Club only used the room for about six months, this was definitely my favorite venue.

The oldies revival continued here, with tracks like "I Go To Pieces" - Gerri Granger, "Supertime" - The Golden World Strings ("6 O'clock" - Total Eclipse as it is better known now), "Out Of My Mind" - Rain, "Stop" - Bobby Diamond, and "On A Magic Carpet Ride" - Kiki Dee being recognised as standards.

A few newer tracks started to be introduced, including "I'll Hold You" - Frankie and Johnny, "Look What I Got" - Gerri Thomas and "I Walked Away" - Bobby Paris, which soon became monster floorfillers.

It had become a matter of fact thing that Graham Evans and the Druids Roadshow would provide the decks and PA for all the Hinckley Soul Club events. In fact it became accepted that Graham would do most things, usually with the help of Horace (Brian Horobin). Graham and Horace would organise coaches to Wigan, Derby Assembly Rooms, Nottingham Palais, Birmingham Locarno, and anywhere else that was going.

I know it's not a difficult thing, but the fact was, they did. In a lot of cases, nobody would bother unless somebody else could be arsed to do it. That's what made the Hinckley Soul Club special. It made the effort. In fact, it was Graham and Horace who made the effort.