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For more than a decade a singular giant pin has pierced the life-size map of Manchester: the Beetham Tower, marking Deansgate’s south end and visible city-wide, guiding drivers…
I love them – the idea; the orange, black and silver; the way they pop up like computer game power-ups… but when I was faced with paying a…
My 2012 “roots” prediction about London-based fashion designer Henry Holland was accurate, if somewhat premature: in 2016 he collaborated with documentary photographer Martin Parr on the presentation of…
I think I trod on his plectrum. Was it heart-shaped? Was it damaged by my black patent Doc Marten shoe? I hope so. For symmetry’s sake. You see,…
A still-standing building for a change… although this one looks like it’s falling down! The staff assure me it isn’t. Apparently the owner’s best friend is a structural…
A room within the Imperial Hotel, on the site of the Malmaison Hotel, Piccadilly, was a Dolls’ Hospital during the 1980s, and doubtless for many years before that….
Another gone building. This one, I was fond of. Although it looked like a monument to industrial decline, this building actually bank-rolled Manchester’s grassroots creative community throughout the…
These buildings are gone now… knocked down during 2013 to make way for yet another hotel. (Apparently Manchester needs lots of hotels to accommodate visitors who want to…
What do you get if you take the corner out of Cornerhouse? House? No, Home apparently… and now with more space, less character and a massive adjoining garage….
I’ve lived my life in the shadow of the name Grosvenor. My first address was Grosvenor Place; I studied art in Grosvenor Building; I met my husband in…
I peroxided my hair for the first time a few weeks back, with one of those kits you can buy from the chemist for a fiver. I called…
Was Tony Wilson influenced by Situationism or was he just posing? (At the risk of harping on, this follows on from the previous post. Quotes are from The…
Phil Giblin
"All the Perry boys I knew were , without exception, either fully-fledged football ..."
Jinny Martin
"Mancky I like your post by the way, it’s not pretentious rubbish about ..."
Jinny Martin
"Added to the vibe??? Sheer buzz of the place?? Best nights ever??? I ..."
Jinny Martin
"I’m so glad to see this. People are so intent on seeing this ..."
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"I worked the lights on a jungle night there in 1995 and the ..."