Recent Posts Tagged With 'manchester'

• Feature: The Band on the Wall, reborn

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 02:20 in music, features, manchester, jah wobble, a certain ratio, expletive undeleted, the big issue in the north, graham massey, martin moscrop, the band on the wall

  THERE are plenty of venues in Manchester that are bigger than the Band on the Wall, and there may even be a few with a higher profile – but none of them can boast the same kind of musical pedigree. A tavern, pub and venue which, in one form or ...

• Hyperbole: Back to the Phuture

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 15:28 in manchester, hyperbole, procession, the durutti column, jeremy deller, vini reilly, expletive undeleted, gavin watson, anthony wilson, a paen to wilson, high on hope, manchester international festival 2009

  IT TAKES me a couple of seconds to realise that the Third Davyhulme Scout & Guide Marching Band are playing Hit The North as they turn onto Deansgate in front of us. Somehow their spirited instrumental rendition of Mark E Smith’s tale of us...

• Interview: Shaun Ryder*1

  Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 14:59 in music, interview, manchester, interviews, 2003, shaun ryder, expletive undeleted, the big issue in the north, the happy mondays, amateur night in the big top

  WHEN Shaun Ryder – erstwhile actor, author, newspaper columnist, Salfordian crooner, lyrical genius and a man who was banned from Channel Four for saying the fuck-word at tea time – sits you down in his living room and says that he wants to t...

• Hip Replacement: Grotesque: After The Gramme by The Fall (Rough Trade)

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 10:06 in music, manchester, 1980, the fall, hip replacement, rough trade, old records, grotesque: after the gramme

  “‘GROTESQUE’ is the new LP by The Fall .. The Fall are the group who keep being brought up and slagged by other insecure bands – this automatically invokes a curse on them which usually takes its toll. This is true. Most people who like The F...

• Hyperbole: Sweet dreams

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 19:08 in 2008, manchester, hyperbole, roisin murphy, expletive undeleted, michelle odugu, shirlaine, street dreams

  HOLY verbosity, scream insanity! All you ever gonna be is another great fan of me .. posting twice in the same week. Yes, it’s a veritable shit-storm of uninformed opinion, reckless conjecture and outright lies. What can I say? Buy an umbrella. Me ...

• Feature: The vinyl countdown

  Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 12:56 in 2008, features, manchester, old records, vinyl revival, expletive undeleted, kingbee records, secondhand record shops, sifters, the smithfield exchange, vinyl exchange, vox pop records

  FOURTEEN years after he was name-checked in Shakermaker, Peter Howard - alias Mr Sifter - still gets fans turning up at the shop he runs on Fog Lane in the Manchester suburb of Didsbury. “We get them coming from all over, and they say, where else i...

• Feature: How not to interview the Butthole Surfers

  Posted on Tuesday August 5th, 2008 at 19:22 in features, manchester, live review, butthole surfers, expletive undeleted, paul green school of rock

  I FIND out about the gig just two days beforehand, by chance. The Butthole Surfers are playing in Manchester on Saturday night. The Buttholes! Manchester! Saturday night! What the fuck? As far as I can make out, the band (the same line-up I interview...

• Feature: The Tony Wilson Experience

  Posted on Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 18:32 in features, manchester, factory records, the north of england, expletive undeleted, manchester confidential, tony wilson experience

  AS WE approach the first anniversary of Tony Wilson’s death, I thought this might be an appropriate time to publish a longer version of a piece I wrote about the Tony Wilson Experience, a ‘24-hour conversation’ organised in Wilson&#...