In and around the northern quarters of Manchester have been many names associated with its cultural movements including Peter Hook, Mani, Tony Wilson, even John Cooper Clarke. Names that might not trip off the tongue as easily as the aforenoted…
Factory Records’ roads less travelled are explored in rare artefacts, books, film, music and more as Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum brings the label’s legacy home: USE HEARING PROTECTION: The Early Years of Factory Records Rarely and never-before-seen photographs, artwork…
London Records has announced the November 8th release of Happy Mondays‘s The Early EPs, collecting the band’s first four EPs. The Early EPs will be reissued as a 4×12″ Boxset New animated vide created by Pete Fowler (Super Furry Animals,…
Simon Spence has written books about Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stone Roses, Depeche Mode and the Donnelly Brothers . His new book, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas presents the band’s story in full for the first time. We caught up with him…