Author: Andy Murray
Keeping Rosy: Christine Bottomley gives Northern Soul the low-down
On Portland Street in Manchester city centre, sandwiched between Chinatown and the coach station, there’s a large disused office block.
Avenue Q
In America during the Great Depression there was a huge underground market for so-called ‘Tijuana bibles’, small bootleg comics which depicted the family-friendly cartoon stars of the day – Popeye, Dick Tracy – getting up all sorts of rude, adult and not at all family-friendly things.
Viva Vini Reilly
In St Ninian’s United Reformed Church in Chorlton, there’s a stained glass window high above the altar bearing the legend ‘I am the Resurrection and I am the Life’.
Frank
Throughout the 80s there was a constant buzz about a proposed movie featuring 2000 AD‘s helmeted future lawman Judge Dredd.
Dum Dum Girls
The fact that Dum Dum Girls are playing the Roadhouse in Manchester is simultaneously absolutely perfect and completely wrong.
Delia Derbyshire Day
From a former ice rink in west London, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop created bespoke music and sounds for the TV and radio.
Lucy Porter: a northern soul?
Lucy Porter has come far since the days when she lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy and worked for Granada on This Morning with Richard and Judy.
Scooby-Doo, where are you?
It’s a scene repeated endlessly the world over: a child in a shop wants to buy the book/magazine/toy/bedspread with their favourite character emblazoned on it
Have you heard of Timperley?
Leicester, Autumn 1991. This writer was a first year student living in a university hall of residence.
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