Tag: Jazz Defektors
Breakout has got to be one of the most perfect pop records to come out of Manchester… but because Swing Out Sister didn’t gig, I had no idea…
Written while Liz Naylor and Cath Carroll ran City Fun, this informative article is steeped in scepticism. Factory is viewed as corporate and highly suspect; men with lots…
Rafters was a basement club in St James’ Buildings, Oxford Road (later called The Music Box.) The Rafters jazz-funk nights, DJ’d by Colin Curtis and John Grant from…
Danny the Dancer is an unsung hero of the Manchester club scene; he’s been an inspiration on club dance-floors for decades, although he doesn’t go clubbing much these…
I don’t remember if this club night had a name! It was Hewan Clarke and Colin Curtis playing jazz-dance and soul, and when I discovered the night in…
Accidental Musical Education @ Manchester Polytechnic Black Rhythms & Soul night at Manchester Poly in the mid-80s was a musically amazing club night, with a weird name which…
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"Apparently, the stories of guns being discharged in appreciation of jungle tunes are ..."
James Lacey
"HI again, I dont think it was a question of consciously looking inferior ..."
shirley davis
"Please help my adored giant troll sawa has a damaged leg and finger ..."
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""[I]n their case [The Smiths], the football parallels were probably co-incidental." That's probably correct. ..."
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"A minor point, but it's a mistake I see made over and over: ..."