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"Twenty Four Hour Party People" is the book for the film by the sadly missed Tony Wilson. It is drawing to a close and The Haçienda is beseiged by tooled up drug runners selling "E" and the police are not interested, apart from trying to stop drugged up punters dancing, but shooting is OK. I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish…
"Twenty Four Hour Party People" is the book for the film by the sadly missed Tony Wilson. Contues and now The Happy Mondays have turned up, and Martin Hannett returns as their producer. Tony Wilson reckons that Shaun Ryder is the greatest lyricist ever, and should be Poet Laureate. The initial producer for the Mondays was New Order's Bernard Sumner, who Tony Wilson reckons was the greatest since…
"Twenty Four Hour Party People" is the book for the film by the sadly missed Tony Wilson. Tony lost is job with World in Action after a bust up with Keith Joseph, but after lots of setbacks t he Haçienda Opensl I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it, which is good The music is "Blue Monday" by New Order…
"Twenty Four Hour Party People" is the book for the film by the sadly missed Tony Wilson. We've hit the part where they find a run-down club in Hulme and call it The Factory, which will become the label. We see the genesis of Joy Division via Warsaw and The Durutti Column as well. This is where it starts. I was thinking I was doing too many posts on this blog, this is my sixth and it is only the…
"Twenty Four Hour Party People" the book for the film by the sadly missed Tony Wilson. This is a novelisation of the film script by Tony. I thought he had written a few books, as I have a few in by libraray, but thi sis his only book, the others I have are about him. But I think all the music I feature in this sequence will be probaly Factory Records or Tony Wilson related I am still reading…
"Mills, Muck and Methodists. 200 Years of the Methodist Church in Lune Street, Preston" by Maureen Abson has been very interesting but finished with a list of pators and preacher of the Lune Street Church. Next up is "Twenty Four Hour Party People" the book for the film by the sadly missed Tony Wilson. I love the film, so I know revisiting the book will be great fun. I have hust read the double…
"Mills, Muck and Methodists. 200 Years of the Methodist Church in Lune Street, Preston" by Maureen Abson has been very interesting. We have been through two World Wars, and the effect it had on the church, and are now in the nineties, though I found that Tom Finney had done some of the renovations. This will probaly be my penultimate post about the book, but, as I say it has been most interesting.…
"Mills, Muck and Methodists. 200 Years of the Methodist Church in Lune Street, Preston" by Maureen Abson is both interesting and an easy read. I am already halfway through the book. The mill owners were absolutely awful, and Preston was so bad that Dickens used it as a model for "Coketown" in "Hard Times", and after the various shootings in the name of the businessmen, Karl Marx reported on the…
"Mills, Muck and Methodists. 200 years of the Methodist Church in Lune Street, Preston" by Maureen Abson. It is very interesting, maybe because I am a Prestonian and I visit the church that is the subject of this book for coffee and cake. I discovered Preston was the fiftieth place to be granted city status in the British Isles, and I have just gone through the founding of the Temperance Movement.…
"Notes On A Nervous Planet" by Matt Haig is now finished although I will be reading it again. It is a wonderful book and I would recommend that you get yourself a copy. Next up is "Mills, Muck and Methodists. 200 years of the Methodist Church in Lune Street, Preston" by Maureen Abson. I often visit the Olive Grove in the Church for coffee and toast on my visits to Preston. I bought the book as…
