Tag: Manchester Digital Music Archive

  • Joe Strong (Manager at Dingwalls, Ministry of Sound and Home Nightclub) Q&A

    Tell us about how you got into music growing up and some of the sounds/ artists that helped shape your love of records? I was brought up on the outskirts of Wigan where there was an active and varied music scene that offered everything from Northern Soul to Pop and heavy rock, Wigan was actually…

  • Freaky Dancing Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Ste. Along with Paul Gill you started Freaky Dancing back in 1989 and it has now been republished by TQLC (an imprint of the Quietus). Tell us about the story behind how that happened? Paul arranged the publication of the book with The Quietus, so I’m not quite sure how that…

  • Kath McDermott Q&A

    Hello and welcome to Magazine Sixty, Kath. Let’s start by asking about your current involvement with BBC 6 Music. How you got there and why? I’ve enjoyed being involved in radio over the years first on community radio and then Dave Kendrick and I had a show on Kiss 102 called the Galaxy of Love…

  • Manchester North of England – 7CD Various Artists Boxset – Cherry Red Records

    As Buzzcocks once sang: Nostalgia. Dreams are afloat and you can dive headlong into this epic, expansive trip down memory lane. Beginning at the (almost) point of Punk Rock with Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP (still got mine) this selection co-hosted by the indispensable Manchester music archive MDMA gets seriously disorientating by the breadth of records…