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Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property and Power in the Original Modern City: How a City Got High on Music

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Manchester Unspun is a remarkable record of the city’s emergence from industrial decline over the past fifty years. He moved to the city as a student from the south, while I came from Birmingham, both of us falling in love with the place and becoming adopted Northerners. He would leave the practice not long after, and his fellow directors, Stephen O’Malley, Julian Broster and Paul Morris rebranded as Civic Engineers. Manchester unspun is an account from punk to the pandemic of how the 1982 opening of the Hacienda gave the kiss of life to a dying city centre, and of the chain reaction it began leading to today’s dynamic international city. As books about Manchester go, there are plenty to choose from, but there are few as well sourced, well written and expansive as this one.

There's so much in this book to savour, that I can honestly see scholars of history and architecture studying it in decades to come. Together, these case studies and the theoretical framework proposed in the book’s Introduction offer a more nuanced, cross-cultural appreciation of the role of rules in moral life than those currently prevalent in both the anthropology of ethics and the history of morality. Manchester unspun begins in the post-industrial gloom of a city still bearing the scars of the Second World War and ends among the shiny towers of an aspiring twenty-first-century metropolis.I bought this for a Mancunian music-mad friend of the right age to appreciate this, and it's had glowing reviews here. We'd like to send you details on events, news, homes and workspaces you might be interested in from Urban Splash and our partners. years after the legendary Hacienda’s launch, this new, exciting book by Andy Spinoza explains how Manchester’s leaders harnessed its founders’ radical anarchic visions to create the nation’s fastest-growing city. Today the city is an international destination for culture and sport, and one of the fastest-growing urban regions in Europe.

As an ex-reporter turned PR, the author lays out the story in an accessible, informative and entertaining manner - no mean feat given this is a weighty, in-depth historical account, yet it’s never dry.Spinoza’s engaging thesis is that the quixotic cultural revolution led by the co-founder of Factory Records in the 1980s paved the way for an economic renaissance. Andy Spinoza has lived in Manchester since 1979, as a student, entrepreneur, publisher, journalist, gossip columnist and PR supremo. Spinoza has had a front row seat and been witness to many of the innovations brought about by visionaries, icons and sometimes pantomime villains. Andy will be in conversation with Stuart Maconie at Waterstone’s Deansgate on November 10, tickets available here.

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