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My Peterloo [2/11/18]

The avant garde is in power now: culture and fascism at Manchester’s Club Big cabaret [24/2/17]

 

Books

Mary Barton [Elizabeth Gaskell], The Manchester Man [Isabella Banks], Magnolia Street [Louis Golding], Fame Is The Spur [Howard Spring], Hell Is A City [Maurice Procter], Passing Time [Michel Butor], Lord Horror [David Britton], The Emigrants [WG Sebald], Vurt [Jeff Noon], Manchester Slingback [Nicholas Blincoe], The Mighty Walzer [Howard Jacobson], Cold Water [Gwendoline Riley]

 

Cinema

Birth of a Nation, Man With a Movie Camera, L’Atalante, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Sunset Boulevard, Tokyo Story, Calamity Jane, Gojira, Bob Le Flambeur, Nights of Cabiria, Sweet Smell of Success, Lift To The Scaffold, Pickpocket, The Apu Trilogy, Eyes Without A Face, Hell Is A City, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Last Year at Marienbad, Peeping Tom, The Exterminating Angel, Persona, The Battle of Algiers, Point Blank, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Flesh, Carry on Camping, The Last Picture Show, Kiki’s Delivery Service

 

Music

Food For Thought-UB40, Ku Klux Klan-Steel Pulse, Rivers of Babylon-Melodians, Vietnam-Jimmy Cliff, Do The Reggay-Maytals, Take It Easy-Hopeton Lewis, My Boy Lollipop-Millie Small, Rise Jamaica-Al T Joe, Lonesome Lover-Laurel Aitken, One Cup of Coffee-Bob Marley, Danny, Dane & Lorraine-Prince Buster, No More Doggin’-Rosco Gordon

 

Football

Manchester City 3-0 Chelsea [Etihad, Premiership, 16/8/15]  // Manchester City 2-0 Southampton [Etihad, Premiership, 24/5/15]  //  Manchester United 1-1 Arsenal [Old Trafford, Premiership, 17/5/15]  // FC United 1-0 Stourbridge [Tameside Stadium, NPL Premier Division, 21/4/15]  // Barcelona 1-0 Manchester City [Camp Nou, Champions League Round of 16 second leg, 21/4/15]  // Ilkeston FC 3-1 FC United [New Manor Ground, NPL Premier Division, 18/10/14]  // Manchester City 3-2 Queens Park Rangers [Etihad, Premiership, 13/5/12]