Taking place on Saturday 3rd March at 4pm at Manchester Town Hall,
Manchester District Music Archive, in association with Manchester
Histories Festival, will be hosting a panel discussing the history and
legacy of Manchester’s alternative music publications. The discussion
will be chaired by Dave (‘Debris’) Haslam. On the panel will be Mike
Don from ‘Mole Express’ (legendary early 1970s local underground
paper), plus Liz Naylor (of post-punk ‘City Fun’ fame), Bob Dickinson
(a contributor to the likes of ‘New Manchester Review’, and ‘City
Fun’), and Dan Russell (from the contemporary fanzine ‘Things Happen’).
The panelists will:
- recount tales of Manchester’s music scene
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celebrate fanzines and analyse their relationship to the music scene,
to the political underground, and to other independent and/or
marginalised cultural activity in past eras
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discuss the significance of fanzines and other
self-published/alternative publications in an era of blogs, digital
technology and social media
The panel event is free admission. But attendance should be confirmed by registering here:
There may be some unregistered availability on the day but this can’t be guaranteed.
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