Photo of the Week | The Factory (Kevin Cummings) Hulme MANCHESTER

(Photo by Kevin Cummins)

 

The Factory / The Russell Club in Royce Road, Hulme, Manchester, also known as The Factory on club nights run by Factory Records founders Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, 22nd August 1979. 

Where my parents came from; Mum remembered Hulme vividly and painted a somewhat different picture!

Manchester North Of England - A Story Of Independent Music Greater Manchester 1977 - 1993 (7CD BOX) Various Artists

MANCHESTER - NORTH OF ENGLAND - URBANASPIRINES

Now my ancestral roots are in Manchester, despite my being born on Merseyside, my parents were both born in Manchester so it holds sway over me in a way that is peculiar to folk oop North!  I feel it whenever I go back there . . . . . . . 

Kostas says "Manchester's music scene produced successful bands in the 1960s including the Hollies, the Bee Gees and Herman's Hermits. After the punk rock era, Manchester produced popular bands including Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths and Simply Red. In the late 1980s, the ecstasy-fuelled dance club scene played a part in the rise of Madchester with bands like the Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets and Happy Mondays. In the 1990s, Manchester saw the rise of Britpop bands, notably Oasis. 

Taking the Industrial Revolution as its model, Factory Records played upon Manchester's traditions, invoking at once apparently incongruous images of the industrial north and the glamorous pop art world of Andy Warhol. While label mates A Certain Ratio and the Durutti Column each forged their own sound, it was Factory's Joy Division who were the most prominent."

New Order

Ian Curtis of Joy Division

James

Durutti Column

Oasis

Seven (7 ?!) discs of it!

MANCHESTER

22 people dead and 59 reported injured at the Manchester Arena last night at 10.30pm attending an Ariana Grande concert 

so mostly very young people many in her demographic noted as 6-12 years old and young teens in particular.

Ariana touchingly tweeted as she had finished the concert "broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words." which summarised many responses including my own in response to this senseless, cowardly attack upon our most innocent of youngsters going to a music concert. It is believed by the authorities that a lone suicide bomber was responsible and they were or are known to the authorities but as the investigation carries it relentless way forward, we spend today and the next days sending all our love and thoughts out to those who have lost loved ones, the families and injured still recovering and to those still searching for missing loved ones who still remain unaccounted for. 

A word goes out also to those who helped the staggering professionalism of our emergency services, fire, police and ambulance men and women,  nurses, doctors in the eight hospitals involved in caring for the injured [there being such a surge of staff rushing in to help that they had to be asked to go home as they would be needed later spread and organised across shift later in the days and weeks ahead] but also the taxi drivers charged with carrying people through the city of Manchester for no charge, to the hoteliers and house owners who threw open their doors for those stuck or in need of a place to rest overnight. This is the British way and I would say, especially although I was born on Merseyside my parent's were both Mancunian, and thus typically northern.

Our thoughts and love go out to all touched by this monstrous act.