MANCHESTER has always carried itself with a swagger: shaggy hair, baggy attitude, two fingers up at the world.
Can’t deal with London record labels? Let’s start our own. No decent clubs? Then we’ll build one (both, by the way, pet projects of one Anthony H. Wilson).
The latest recipient of Manchester’s distended two fingers is cancer, in the form of the charity concert Manchester Versus Cancer - the city’s response encapsulated in the very shape of that V.
Saturday saw the fourth installment, with bands like Codeine Velvet Club, Kid British, The Twang and Puressence go toe-to-toe with the disease before Northern Ireland’s Snow Patrol and Manc heroes Happy Mondays and James take their turn to put the boot in.
See www.citylife.co.uk for the full review of the gig, and click on 'View gallery' for more pictures
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Scott Game, Watford (14/12/2009 at 09:20)
Hands of Stone, Southside (14/12/2009 at 12:34)
tiggerluc, somewhere in shaw (14/12/2009 at 12:51)
Unless some one can show me otherwise?
Lovin' Manchester (14/12/2009 at 14:31)
Shaun Ryder is an embarrassment, he needs to retire. It was painful to watch and listen.
James however sounded beautiful. It would have been lovely to hear Snow Patrol with the orchestra.
silver-fox, Chorlton (14/12/2009 at 23:09)
Sparky was the best ever (15/12/2009 at 04:56)