Engels, sugar cubes, and a baby elephant

My German adventure

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August 2025

Drug-taking writers, dinner parties, and Donald Trump

Archive interview with novelist Jay McInerney

Aug 27 • 

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Shelagh Delaney; Salford/Manchester 1965

Arthur Lowe, a story, a film, the Aaben cinema.

Aug 13 • 

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July 2025

Welcome to subscribers, old and new...

Some recommended reading

Jul 24 • 

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Joy Division ‘Closer’ – track by track

This is the way, step inside…

Jul 16 • 

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Teenage Perverts at the Hacienda

How I spent one Monday evening way back when…

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

Ghost Assembly, Colin Curtis, Transmission Towers

Promoting acts, staging events, curating shows.

Jun 17 • 

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The night twenty-three people were killed in a Manchester music hall

Life and death in the Victorian city.

Jun 5 • 

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May 2025

Music and Autism

A superb new book by John Harris

May 20 • 

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In praise of 7" vinyl

Rediscovering my first love...

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January 2025

News for Subscribers

I'm taking a short break

Jan 15 • 

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December 2024

Retracing Sylvia Plath’s visit to a Yorkshire pub

Christmas 1959.

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