‘I’m a storyteller more than an artist’ Pete McKee talks to Northern Soul
“Ey up!” shouts Pete McKee as I pick my way through boxes and wires at...
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‘a poetic approach to the sediment of memory’ Author Jeff Young talks to Northern Soul
There’s a man running full pelt down Winslow Street in Walton, a cardboard shoebox held out in...
Read More“I’m still the same person I was back then.” Altered Images singer Clare Grogan talks to Northern Soul
If Channel 5’s Friday music documentaries are to be believed, the 80s was the best decade for music. Many from the class of ’81 to ’84 are particularly feted, and few more so than Clare Grogan. In 1981, she was everywhere: in...
Read More“Was it a deliberate act to remove women from history?” Artist Jane Fairhurst talks to Northern Soul
Artist Jane Fairhurst has been making art, exhibiting and curating exhibitions for more than three decades. She attended Liverpool School of Art at 18 and later gained a Master’s degree at Liverpool John Moores University in...
Read More“It was a story I needed to tell.” Portico Prize-winning author Sally J Morgan on gender inequality, friendship and the North
A staple of Manchester’s cultural and literary life, The Portico Library is situated above The Bank pub on Mosley Street. The 19th century library houses more than 25,000 books and is filled with archives covering 450...
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