Made in Manc-hattan: How music built a city

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Manchester’s music scene is famous the world over – but did Joy Division, the Haçienda and Factory Records really lead to a real estate boom that transformed the city? Journalist and adopted Mancunian Andy Spinoza tells Andrew Harrison how Tony Wilson’s empire triggered a boom that transformed the city’s skyline and more – as charted in his book Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property And Power In The Original Modern City. BOOK ORDER LINK: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Andy-Spinoza/Manchester-Unspun--Pop-Property-and-Power-in-the-Original-Modern-City/27859796 “Those leaders in Manchester didn’t dismiss the music as just a bunch of kids larking around. They could see this was the way economies were changing.” “All cities should give space to the artists to create their authentic homegrown culture and that should be away from officialdom and away from corporate interests.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: Chris Jones. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Andrew Harrison.
1:07.0	In 1980 Manchester was summed up in people's minds as Kevin Cummins' picture of Joy Division in Hume looking miserable bleak
1:15.2	around half-collapsed buildings. There's been a complete overturning of what
1:19.0	Manchester means to young people, now investment decision-makers around the world and people under 40
1:24.7	want a lifestyle which they are priced out of in London. That's today's guest
1:29.1	the writer and journalist Andy Spinoza in the Manchester Evening News
1:32.4	earlier this month talking about his book
1:34.8	Manchester Unspun, Pop, Property and Power in the original modern city.
1:40.6	This is unusually the story of how the resurrection of a dying industrial city was triggered not by development corporations or property speculators, but by pop culture and pop music.
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