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'There was some sadness attached to those records...'
Kelvin Briggs on setting the record straight and Ian Curtis' record collection.
CULT THINGS HAPPEN IN MANCHESTER
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‘If real cool is achieved by not trying to be cool at all, Kingbee is really, effortlessly cool...’ Cult consumers - Kingbee Records, Chorlton.
John Coltrane? No problem. Van Dyke Parks? Easy. Brainticket? Step this way... a day in the life of Kingbee Records.
14 hours ago
‘I could see Patsy Kensit dancing away at the side of the stage.’ Cult thing of the month: free residents' ticket to see Oasis at Maine Road, 1996.
Imagine... a FREE Oasis ticket. Here's one from 1996. What's the story?
3 days ago
‘When you tell people the story it still sounds unreal…’
The return of Joanna - you couldn't make it up, as they say.
5 days ago
Cult Things
‘If real cool is achieved by not trying to be cool at all, Kingbee is really, effortlessly cool...’ Cult consumers - Kingbee Records, Chorlton.
John Coltrane? No problem. Van Dyke Parks? Easy. Brainticket? Step this way... a day in the life of Kingbee Records.
14 hours ago
‘I could see Patsy Kensit dancing away at the side of the stage.’ Cult thing of the month: free residents' ticket to see Oasis at Maine Road, 1996.
Imagine... a FREE Oasis ticket. Here's one from 1996. What's the story?
3 days ago
‘When you tell people the story it still sounds unreal…’
The return of Joanna - you couldn't make it up, as they say.
5 days ago
Cult gig of the month. Mahogany at Café Blah, Wilmslow Road, Manchester.
US duo Mahogany are now a trio - so that's 33.3 per cent more Mahogany for your money at their upcoming gig.
6 days ago
Cult comedy pick of the month: Sam Nicoresti - XS Malarkey, Manchester.
'I used to worry more about being accessible, but then I realised accessibility is defined in relation to straightness.'
7 days ago
Hallé-lujah! Hanley on the Free Trade Hall.
'The very ground the Free Trade Hall is built on is woven into the fabric of Manchester history.' Paul Hanley on the Free Trade Hall.
7 days ago
Cult book event of the month - David Gedge in conversation with Iain Key at Fountain Records, Stretford.
David Nolan talks to Iain Key about talking to David Gedge talking about his book...
Sep 1
'Do you know how hard it is to be yourself?'
Graham Fellows: 'It's so easy to be John...'
Aug 30
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Cult Manchester exclusive: ‘There was some sadness attached to those records…’
Looking though Ian Curtis’ record collection with Kelvin Briggs.
‘Mark and Una - in matching mascara - were exploring Manchester's cultural underbelly and heading elsewhere…’
A profile of co-founder of The Fall Una Baines. Plus a nice bit of breakfast.
‘Johnny Rotten wiped his nose on the curtains…’ Exclusive: the Pistols at Piccadilly in pictures.
Sex Pistols unseen! The day the band came to Piccadilly Radio by the people who swear they were there.
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