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Published today by
@ManchesterUP
Manchester Unspun: How a City Got High on Music by Andy Spinoza – from Cottonopolis to Manc-hattan
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Gary Neville at Lab Party fundraiser with Keir Starmer: “If Rishi Sunak was a footballer he’d be playing for Tottenham. He looks good but when the going gets tough he does one.”
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London pays attention to Manchester shock…the first national review of Manchester Unspun in the Financial Times yesterday. It says I write “with a vividness that might elude a conventional historian.” Which means: it’s a right good read. And it’s a very nice review.
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The Los Angeles Review of Books didn't just review my book Manchester Unspun. They sent reporter Chandler Dandridge here to walk the city streets with me. This is how LA views Manchester, and me.
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No. 1 with a bullet! Move over Hollywood celebs. I’m not sure how Jeff Bezos does his algorithms but today’s Amazon best sellers chart of Biographies Based on Essays, Journals and Letters has rather cheered up a crap, cold Monday morning.
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I woke up to today’s review in
@ObserverUK
of Manchester Unspun. Reckon I can just about live with it 😏
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Strange unpredictable things are happening to Manchester: Aviva international, Soho House, Chanel, English National Opera. You can hear me chatting about the city’s changes to
@chris_hawkins
on
@BBC6Music
between 6.30-7am tomorrow. Or afterwards on BBC I Player.
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How did we get from Factory Records gigs in a bus drivers social club in Hulme, to the £210m Factory International? Could a city really get high on music? Manchester unspun gets under the skin, and behind the spin, of Manctopia.
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Front cover design for the paperback edition of 'Manchester unspun: how a city got high on music.' Publication date November 8. Now on pre-order.
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24 yrs ago
@itsmorrissey
replied to my request for an interview for Manchester Evening News....here it is.
#morrissey
http://t.co/RXs9Tckgtc
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Manchester: a city that thinks a table is for dancing on. And at
@WaterstonesMCR
that a table is for putting books on.
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Super-proud to see my collection of City Life magazine 1983-97 included in the new British Pop Archive led by Prof
@JonSavage1966
alongside Curtis, Gretton,
@KCMANC
etc. John Rylands Library on Deansgate was pure Hogwarts meets the Hacienda last night!
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Today is the birthday of late Manc novelist/legend
@anthonyburgess
, I interviewed him a lot for
@MENnewsdesk
in late 80s. Pic by
@MoTakesPhotos
at a Midland Hotel dinner must be 30 yrs old; he was always keen to talk to me about the philosopher Spinoza.
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and here’s mine - the city centre in the shallow, wonky bowl that Manchester lies in, seen from Charlesworth, Derbyshire.
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Bloody fab to shoot the breeze today with
@paulunger
over a fine Sicilian fish stew at Manchester’s
@SC_Ciccheti
. Pandemic be damned - long live lunch.
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🙏🏽 to
@MichaelLCrick
and
@ManchesterUP
for last night’s launch of Manchester Unspun (“a serious book with jokes”) in the handsome Brindley Room at Dukes 92. Sold a pile of books, had a lot of fun.
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It’s so great when a complete stranger does this sort of thing … 🙏🏽. For a first-time author, it makes it all worthwhile.
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This is the wisest thing anyone has said about
@bbcglasto
- how about it BBC? Get in the music critics to discuss the sets seriously, rather than treating it like fun-for-all-the family fodder?
I support
@lordmaccrington
's idea that the BBC's
#Glastonbury
festival presenters should lose the wide-eyed every-set-is-HISTORIC hyperbole and act more like analytical football pundits who don't care about being liked. Where is the Roy Keane of the Pyramid Stage?
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In the week my book is published in the US, the stateside magazine Jacobin has interviewed me about the deceptive, contradictory politics of Manchester, and the origins of its current property boom.
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Thank you to Phil Trow for such an in depth and interesting interview on
@BBCRadioManc
this lunchtime about my book Manchester Unpsun.
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Bought this zeitgiesty original Tony Husband cartoon from his recent Oldham Gallery show. What a talent he is.
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Well chuffed that
@StuartMaconie
will be 'In Conversation' with me to launch the paperback of 'Manchester unspun' on November 10.
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@promanchester
property lunch
@thelowryhotel
-
@jkaonline
&
@Bruntwood_UK
CEO specially good on China &
@northernpowerhs
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Well, this is encouraging. My book Manchester Unspun is at No. 8 in the Amazon Best Sellers chart for Biographies based on essays, Journals and Letters. Watch out Alan Rickman and Richard E Grant!
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If you go to Budapest, don’t go to this restaurant. The food is bloody awful.
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Castlefield catch up with hard news legend ‘Killer’ Keeling
@NealkeelingMEN
Swapped tabloid tales, his about cops & villains, mine about celebs & music. His are better.
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Here’s our late dad David doing Barbara Windsor’s hair in a newspaper report from 1964. The stuff you find when rummaging...
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Great fun showing
@ColinGPaterson
round the British Pop Archive at the John Rylands Library for
@BBCBreakfast
. Always happy to blether on about music and Mcr.
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Chanel. The English National Opera. What next - a Boden catalogue shoot at Hough End? Fortnum and Mason to open on Oldham Street?
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Bling alert! Clash of the chains at Thursdays
@MancCamerata
@HOME_mcr
. 👏 to Jane Sorrell &
@LordMayorOfMcr
!
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This amazing 1968 film about the Manchester Evening News shows how reporting the news was such an industrial process...now, you just press 'send.'
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Sublime civic engineering meets culture...Wonderful view of
@bdp_com
Ordsall Chord from MOSI thanks to
@MIFestival
sponsor event last night.
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In good company in the music section of
@WaterstonesMCR
- though I think the New History section would be just as fitting.
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Wonderful! Legend Philip Glass joins Phelim McDermott for the finale of Tao of Glass at
@MIFestival
- poignant, personal and powerful.
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We got sodding well soaked on the way in but it’s great to be finally be
@bluedotfestival
#leftthetentathome
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Great fun to be quizzed by
@IanKingSky
on
@SkyNews
today about Manchester Unspun. Interview at 47.20.
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We did it! Cycling rite of passage:Malausennes to Mont Ventoux, conquering the peak, inner demons & dodgy knees. 👍😎😪
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How Manchester got high on music: the emerging city from Beetham Tower's 'sky bar'...accompanied by the sagacious
@ManchesterUP
editor Matthew Frost - my thanks to him for commissoning my book Manchester Unspun, launching this week.
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The Times cartoon using the city’s icon building G-MEX (sorry, Manchester Central) to make its HS2 point today.
@central_mcr
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There is an extra reason to buy
@bigissuenorth
this week, thanks to
@TagueMedia
and
@kevingopal
- a 4 page spread on Manchester and me. Though that pic could be smaller!
@ManchesterUP
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Full house! Great fun in the capital with Manc exiles. Thanks to Mark Hart and Rock & Roll Book Club collaborators for a groovy evening.
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A chunky, in-depth, wide-ranging piece by
@NealkeelingMEN
about the dilemmas of modern Manchester - despite the crude, out of context headline.
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Well that was fun. Thx to
@StuartMaconie
for teeing up the questions and
@WaterstonesMCR
for letting me blether on about Manchester….
Thank you so much everyone who attended this evening’s event,
@WaterstonesMCR
for having us and
@StuartMaconie
for chairing.
Manchester unspun by
@andyspin
is out now in paperback and available for all good bookshops! Would make a great Christmas present too 🎁
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Nowt better to do than practice my lockdown keepy uppies...who can do more than 36? (no proper footballers allowed).
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We’ve had Take Back Control, Get Brexit Done, Stay Safe Protect the NHS and Eat Out to Help Out. The government’s new concise slogan should be: Confused? You Will Be.
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I must have media-launched 50 restaurants, bars etc.
@FazendaGroup
are the most warm-spirited and hard-working of them all. And, tellingly, the most successful.
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What a first-class piece of reporting: serious questions, a compelling read: Simon Martin is Manchester’s best chef. Is he its worst boss?, by
@ManchesterMill
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Lovely rare interview with hacienda founder Alan Erasmus - Manchester Evening News
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Old and new Manchester. I used to have a drink in that pub before crossing to the Hacienda….well it is almost 40 years since the Hac opened. From ghost town to Manctopia.
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Tee hee. Some uncomfortable truths about city centre life in
@mcrconfidential
Code of Conduct: how to behave in... Spinningfields
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To paraphrase Morrissey, some reviews are bigger than others…thank you
@GroomB
for your thumbs up for Manchester Unspun
@ManchesterUP
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Look at their faces...
Richard Penniman was an outrage in 1956 - nothing like him had been seen before. He was black, had been a drag queen and was extremely flamboyant. Tutti Frutti broke before Heartbreak Hotel in the US. Here he is, total punk in 1956
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With Sir John Timpson
@BBCBreakfast
on reviving our town centres starting with National Perfect Day today for
@AltrinchamBID
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I’ve been travelling up and down the A6 for 40+ years, and Levy has stubbornly resisted “gentrification”, until now. So enjoyed this excellent account of its changing character…,
My return to Levenshulme - and the rise of Manchester's former townships
@PhilGriffinMcr
explores the neighbourhood where he grew up.
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Engrossing. Meticulous. Sprawling. Fascinating. Romantic…
@joshi
adjectives for Manchester Unspun in his
@ManchesterMill
review.
“Factory Records and the Haçienda, I submit, gave the kiss of life to a dying city, and sparked a chain of reaction of hubris, scandal, money and power politics still playing out today.” -
@andyspin
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Thanks to
@Sacha_Lord
for my Q and A last night at the
@savoyheatonmoor
for Manchester Unspun. A full house for a rocking Monday night in the Moor!
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Celebhaunt bar that 'changed the Manchester scene'
Interesting feature by
@diannebourne
on the “game changing” success of Reform restaurant, oddly no mention of the PR who launched it. Could have given her some cracking stories too…
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an especially good line about the hand of history...
The Saturday Economist out now ... The Referendum nears ... IMF issues warning
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Always ahead of the game, Bowie was an early adopter of Zoom...
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How the inspiration for Peter Saville’s FAC 1 poster design was stolen from Cornerhouse forty years ago: The Observer previews one of the many untold stories in my new book Manchester Unspun, published on Feb 8th.
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A pleasure to be interviewed by
@PhilWilliams
on
@BBCRadioManc
for their Manchester People slot - every day this week at 3.30. Some great memories and tall tales from the media world. What could possibly compete?
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The Eagle has landed! Checking the family tent for
@bluedotfestival
it occurs to me it resembles the Apollo 13 module...*Ignore washing on line*
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“The definitive book on the city’s post-punk legacy”…says
@louderthanwar
- you’d better believe it! Manchester unspun book review
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Those crazy Amazon algorithms are at it again…’Most Wished For’ 💪👌😂
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40 years ago as a first year student, I was mainly playing this.
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Very fine feature today articulating the dilemmas, contradictions and potential in
@mifestival
It's vast, it's beautiful — but does anyone know what Manchester's £210m venue is actually for?
Aviva Studios is the biggest cultural investment this country has made in decades. But so far, its aims appear vague, writes
@SophEAtkinson
.
#MIF23
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The
@7beckham07
brand Netflix doc will grant precious little insight. Time was when a reporter could front up celebs and take a few quotes down: Exclusive! - 'Becks doesnt really need specs, they're just for effect.' Spinoza meets the poser, mid-late 90s, pic by Eamonn Clarke.
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The final par of ‘Manchester unspun’ review in this week’s Times Literary Supp is one to cherish:
'An energetic and highly readable account of how Manchester went from being a “post-industrial disaster zone” to “a mini-Manhattan”...'
Manchester Unspun by
@andyspin
reviewed in the latest
@TheTLS
- read it here:
#bookreview
#manchester
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Oh? the irony. 1,000 negotiators needed to haggle new trade deals may have to come from outside the UK.
Bank of England holds rates - one MPC member votes for rate cut! Don't miss The Saturday Economist this week ...
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Tony Wilson said nostalgia is a disease, but what the hell...me and the Mrs at the Hacienda, 1990, thanks to that lovely chap . I hear those spex are coming back into style...🙂
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Congrats
@PeterMJenkins
of
@bdp_com
- pure design + major civ eng project = first Ordsall Chord train journey.
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@catskill37
@glastonbury
I’m no class warrior but sick of youth culture being monopolised by the ruling class. Once the super rich just snorted backstage with the Stones. Now they’re on the stage and we’re supposed to believe they are ‘authentic.’
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Now available in all good record stores…
Ace to have
@andyspin
in to sign copies of his book, Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property and Power In The Original Modern City’ out now via
@ManchesterUP
-
Arriving in MCR in 1979, he went on to start
@CityLifeManc
before working for the
@MENnewsdesk
)
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One day like this a year will see me right, as the man sang: fab 40 mile ride up Pendle Hill and around with cycling guru Trevor Ward today. Beaut weather and post-ride fish & chips at the Spreadeagle, Sawley. Yes that road sign shows a 14% climb we’ve just done 😬
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'His light shone brightly for all to see and through the legacy of his art, it will never go out' - artist Harold Riley dies aged 88 - Manchester Evening News
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