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The Wigan Pier, or just The Pier was a nightclub in Wigan, where Greg Wilson held a 4 night/week residency in the early eighties.

Greg Wilson says:

Throughout the 70's Scandinavia (and other parts of Europe) was full of English DJ's working for agencies like IDEA and Europa. There were some top drawer DJ's out there, including two whom I had the good fortune to meet while I was working in Norway at a town called Skien. These were Nicky Flavell (from Tring in Herts) and Paul Rae (from Preston), two seasoned 'international DJ's' who really knew their stuff. Nicky would end up as resident at Wigan Pier (on a contract for Bacchus, who installed the sound and lighting at the Pier - Bacchus looked after discotheques worldwide, including those built in the Hilton Hotels). It was through Nicky that I heard about the Pier, and when he went to open the companies new venue in Manchester, which was Legend, I took over the residency at the Pier (Paul Rae joined me as light controller, for a while, before taking over at Legend when Nicky returned abroad).




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