Have had this idea for a while and think we did something similar a while ago / years back on old forums but I was thinking each week we pick a different town or city, and share great music from there.
Kicking off with Manchester as it’s a city that is often buried by a few stale male acts from forever ago and this blah playlist by Noel Gallagher was so dull I decided to start making a playlist of acts from Manchester (and a few from surrounding area or who are synonymous with the city).
Here’s what I’ve got so far
Share a track or three from Manchester that you love below — especially lesser known acts more DiSsers might be into
Here’s two. Think there’s a strong correlation between them. The Stone Roses are obviously one of the “stale male” acts referred to, but I would argue that’s a revisionist attitude rather than what they set out to do in the first place
It was the Noel Gallagher list I was referring to rather than yours - just think a lot of the time the Stone Roses get lumped into ‘lad’ culture these days which is completely understandable, but at the time that culture didn’t really exist and they’ve been co-opted into it it that makes sense
Oh yeah - I’m no great fan of what he’s become at all, but I’ve got a lot of time for the first Stone Roses album. Just find it quite odd that they became embraced by the ‘lads’, in the same way that Ride did after Andy Bell joined Oasis. Neither of them seemed that laddy at the time
