Mancunians: Where Do We Start, Where Do I Begin?

By David Scott and David Scott

Book Overview

In the late 1990s, Manchester was a city in upheaval. The devastation of the IRA bomb and the closure of the notorious Ha ienda nightclub were seismic events that rocked the city's confidence at a time when identikit bands were flooding its clubs and bars, fuelled on anthemic guitar rock and swagger. Stereotypes were everywhere, while the spirit of Manchester was silently suffocating.

Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the story of those who didn't fit the typecast: the musicians of colour, the football fans alienated by rampant commercialism, frustrated public figures, optimistic developers and ambitious artists.

Through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known Mancunians such as Guy Garvey, Tunde Babalola, Sylvia Tella, Badly Drawn Boy and Stan Chow, David Scott portrays the city at the turn of the century in a way never seen before.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526161508
• ISBN13: 9781526161505
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.9"