tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post5458799075705288489..comments2023-06-09T11:22:23.475+01:00Comments on FUC51: Manchester versus GlasgowFUC51http://www.blogger.com/profile/12650288108399791591noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-73137663033894287782010-07-12T20:17:26.512+01:002010-07-12T20:17:26.512+01:00dunno man, have played a fuckton of Manchester hou...dunno man, have played a fuckton of Manchester house party/basement/abandoned building gigs. they exist.D. Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629124673589292567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-27005083066126202182010-07-04T22:09:40.068+01:002010-07-04T22:09:40.068+01:00But isn't that exactly what did happen? Not De...But isn't that exactly what did happen? Not Deacon Blue, but certainly Aztec camera, Orange Juice, Josef K etc were frequently lumped together by the press as a scene they called "The Sound Of Young Scotland". And I remember when Franz et al emerged in the early 00s the national (by which I mean, largely, English) music press often referenced this "scene" of 20 years earlier when writing about them. maybe we're not that different after all...<br /><br />Cath @ manchestermusic whose blogger account seems to be broken (but it is me, promise)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-64958531770711643342010-07-04T20:16:14.573+01:002010-07-04T20:16:14.573+01:00I think Glasgow also has a smaller crowd... The tw...I think Glasgow also has a smaller crowd... The two cities aren't that different in size, but the crowd that can come to Manchester is larger, and there's always been a tradition of buses in for various scenes. People get buses in to Glasgow too, sure, but there are only six million folk in Scotland to start with. <br />A bigger crowd means you can more easily have 'scenes', and more importantly, it's worth a magazine's time covering them, because they will sell a bunch of copies.<br /><br />So yeah, I think it's easier for journalists, but I think only because a Manchester based music journalist could more easily write an article of interest to 1000 people than one could in Glasgow.<br /><br />On a tangent, Glasgow needs some good illegal fucking parties again. All the ones I've seen recently have been a bit shit.<br /><br />Any good ones in Manchester these days?Dalai Dahmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02846698904232654897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-14990601728680028512010-07-04T12:06:02.273+01:002010-07-04T12:06:02.273+01:00we're stuck, aren't we? Even new Mancunian...we're stuck, aren't we? Even new Mancunian bands have to frame themselves in context of the city's history, regardless of whether they're in keeping with it or not, favour it or don't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-48742993815654420962010-07-04T02:42:05.685+01:002010-07-04T02:42:05.685+01:00Agree mate - nice post. Maybe it's the thing t...Agree mate - nice post. Maybe it's the thing that a journo has to work a load harder to lump in the Glasgow bands - Deacon Blue, Orange Juice and Aztec Camera, anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-5761917349453768322010-07-02T20:25:54.392+01:002010-07-02T20:25:54.392+01:00not tl did r.
nice mr niallist. nice.
fuck tha h...not tl did r.<br /><br />nice mr niallist. nice.<br /><br />fuck tha hataz man it was worth the read.<br /><br />these crazy kids and their short attentions spans wouldn't know a good post if they OH LOOK THERE'S A MAN IN A HAT OVER THEREAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-28821150618637011982010-07-02T16:49:03.531+01:002010-07-02T16:49:03.531+01:00Ok so I read (most of) your post and I agree with ...Ok so I read (most of) your post and I agree with your impression of things in Manchester being run on a rather 'professional' level. When I moved here from Leipzig in east Germany a couple of years ago, I had quite a bit of a culture shock.<br /><br />In Leipzig people seemed to turn every basement / empty shop / garage / hole in the ground into a live venue, club or bar, selling beer for supermarket prices and going on on having stupidly illegal parties and gigs until they had to stop due to police / flooding / floor caving in... I suppose this is rooted in the general East German (ex-DDR) DIY attitude, as in "if there are no commercial or council funded venues, we just have to start one ourselves".<br /><br />In Manchester it feels like everything is either highly official (Arts Council blowing cash up everyone's bums, sorry...) or completely commercially oriented (see Warehouse Project), which is a huge buzz killer to me.<br /><br />Perhaps people in Manchester have seen how successful bands, venues and bars here can get and try to emulate this, start the next Oasis, the next Hacienda.<br /><br />I'm too much a fan of masochist DIY self exploitation I suppose. Ah well.Samhttp://www.mightaswell.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-55292410611578836842010-07-02T15:38:07.733+01:002010-07-02T15:38:07.733+01:00see: http://www.fairfieldauction.com/highlights/5n...see: http://www.fairfieldauction.com/highlights/5november/5b005.jpgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5715778029485971130.post-3882172384826885632010-07-01T22:42:57.508+01:002010-07-01T22:42:57.508+01:00tl;drtl;drAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com