Cult Manchester
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Cult things happen in Manchester. https://www.cultmanchester.co.uk
Humanity! Available in #Oldham for a limited time… www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/i-like-...
‘Give people something to think about… without telling them what to think.’ Oldham-based artists Dylan Lisle.
Humanity! It's in short supply... but there's some available at Dylan Lisle's new exhibition in Oldham.
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‘Apart from outside The Haçienda in the 90s, who could ever say they saw a real sword fight in the centre of Manchester?’ A history of Mancunian strangeness… www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/let-us-...
‘Let us have a cult of Manchester…’
Sea monsters in Whalley Range... teenage Mancs with a language of their own. We've always been a cult city.
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800 releases. Zero compromises… Manchester’s German Shepherd Records. www.cultmanchester.co.uk/blog
Cult Things | Cult Manchester
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Painting the Ian Curtis section in Granada TV’s Wall of Fame show in 1998. Full story on the website @jd-central.bsky.social www.cultmanchester.co.uk/blog
Cult Things | Cult Manchester
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Cult thing of the month - Ian Curtis portrait commissioned by Granada TV @cultmanchester.bsky.social www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/cult-th...
Cult thing of the month - the Wall of Fame mural featuring Ian Curtis, commissioned by Granada TV.
Do you remember the giant mural in Castlefield that featured famous faces from 'Granadaland'? The people who worked on it do.
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Ian Curtis? Les Dawson? Gracie Fields? Only GranadaTV would make a show like this… www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/cult-th...
Cult thing of the month - the Wall of Fame mural featuring Ian Curtis, commissioned by Granada TV.
Do you remember the giant mural in Castlefield that featured famous faces from 'Granadaland'? The people who worked on it do.
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Joy Division OTD 1979: The Mayflower Manchester, with Foreign Press. Flyer: boredteenagers.co.uk/HOAXPAGE2.htm
Cult Manchester - it’s all Joy Division and Factory… wait, what? Girls Aloud? www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/there-i...
‘There I was trying to get Cheryl Cole into this drawer in a mortuary...’ Ghost Hunting with Girls Aloud - the inside story.
Something kinda boo happened when Girls Aloud went ghost hunting. TV producer Helen Tonge was there so see it all unfold...
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We’ve had a great week - only another scoop tommorow could top it…
Warmth. Very important in comedy… @stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social is our comedy pick of the month. www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/cult-co...
Cult comedy pick of the month: climate comedian Stuart Goldsmith comes to Manchester.
Climate comedy? Stuart Goldsmith is the ultimate warm-up man.
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OTD 1980: New Order’s van is stolen from outside the Iroquois Hotel on West 44th Street, New York. Cutting: Substance by Peter Hook amzn.to/33LAOUL
Pips. It was behind the cathedral but ahead of its time… www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/i-want-...
‘I want those human stories of what it meant to them… and how it changed their lives.’ The legendary Pips nightclub is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
Pips - the legendary nightclub that was 'behind the cathedral' in Manchester - never got the credit it deserved. Until now.
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Being an artist isn’t all openings and canapés - we talk to three women bound together by Salford’s 1838 Collective. www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/i-don-t...
‘I don’t think enough people talk about how much work happens around being an artist that has nothing to do with physically making art.’ Meet the 1838 Collective.
'Making a living? Honestly, I'm still working this one out...' Meet the women artists drawn together by the 1838 Collective.
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Manchester has a proud place in RNLI's history being the location for the charity's first street collection rnli.org/about-us/our...
1891: First street collection - Timeline - Our history - RNLI
After the Mexico disaster and the loss of 27 lifeboatmen, a small team organised an event in Manchester that changed the face of fundraising forever.
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In the year to September 1885 Manchester recorded 1,163 arrests for drunkenness. 111 of those arrested were recorded as ‘not bona fide residents’.
Dave Nolan embedded himself in the first of Funky Si's walking tours for Cult Manchester. What really went on there, we only have this ... etc
‘I can’t think of anyone better to show me around Manchester than Funky Si…’
Funky Si shows us the way with his walking tours of Manchester... but mind the cobbles.
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I swear Si was there… Funky Si’s first walking tour. We were there. Full report and pics coming soon.
Our man @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social joins the diggers and sifters for a day in the life of a cult record store… www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/if-real...
Free #oasis ticket on the website. Literally. www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/i-could...
‘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?
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