Tag: Man Alive Club
Henry Holland and Agyness Deyn famously left the Manchester area at the earliest possible opportunity… but their roots are still evident occasionally. Here, Henry’s knitwear references the Man…
When I moved to Acomb Street in 1986, my friend Joe, a Cowesby Street native, made me swear on my life that I would never go into the…
To be honest, I can’t remember exactly when the Pure nights started – 1990 or 1991 – but I remember the idea behind the project, which was to…
FunkyMutha was named after the Prince track ‘Sexy MF’, 1992. The picture below is of Dale, Alf and Winston in the Man Alive DJ box: Alf already DJ’d…
By Geraldine The Wilde Club ran for several months at the Man Alive in 1985 and was set up by members of the band Big Flame. Some weeks…
CarWash was a club night named after the track by Rose Royce from 1976; it was an antidote to the acid house nights which dominated Manchester in 1989…
Brazil and Breeze were similar small independent club nights, begun in 1988. They were small outcrops of dance-music-diversity, poking up through the tidal wave of house. (Tsunamis didn’t…
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 ..."