Music
Madchester: Tales of Rock n Roll Excess
Next event is a FREE talk: Thursday 8 June 2023, 7pm. Meet: inside Altrincham Library. Booking: Please book with Trafford Libraries. Come and drink in a cocktail of excess and revelry drunk by those overdosing on their own egos and out to lunch in their own lifetimes on this irreverent, Rabelasian, rabble-rousing tour. Here are …
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MANCHESTER MUSIC COACH TOUR
You’ve heard the songs, seen the groups, played the records…now visit the sights and hear the stories where Manchester music history was made on a music bus tour …
Our set list includes most of the following:
* The Hacienda * Salford Lads’ Club * The Ritz * The Cemetery Gates
* The Boardwalk * Free Trade Hall * The Church of the Holy Name
* Sifter’s record shop * The house where the Smiths were born * The original Factory Records HQ
* This is a 3-hour tour, starting from Albert Square opposite the Town Hall.
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* Sun 14 Jan, 11am.
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Tony Wilson’s Manchester
Tony Wilson never wrote a song, sang one or played an instrument. Yet he created the modern Manchester music scene. He made things happen; he cajoled people into doing important things. He harried, encouraged, pushed, promoted. It might be fair to say without him Manchester’s music history might have stopped with Sad Café.
As part of the Manchester Heroes and Heroines weekend in April, Fri 20– Sun 22 we honour one of the most popular figures in recent Manchester history: a vainglorious, proud, arrogant, infuriating but genius impresario.
* 11.30am, HOME Arts Centre. No need to book.
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Manchester in 10 Songs
As Ian Curtis sang: “I’ve been waiting for a guide…” Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square, time tbc. Booking: Private tour: Please contact New Manchester Walks The sounds of the city, courtesy of the Smiths, the Fall, Elbow, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, John Cooper Clarke… We will walk in search …
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The Beatles’ Liverpool
Next walking tour: No dates yet. Meet: Ken Dodd statue, Lime Street station. Booking: Soon! Join the North’s most prolific tour guide, Ed Glinert, former Mojo Production editor and author of Fodor’s Rock ’n’ Roll Traveller books, on this “Beatles’ Liverpool” tour. It’s been a long time. Now we’re coming back home, to… * The …
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Mastercard Priceless Tours: The Beatles’ Liverpool & Manchester Music City
We are delighted to announce that New Manchester Walks and our Merseyside branch, New Liverpool Walks, we will be working with Mastercard’s Priceless.com outlet to run a series of exclusive Beatles’ Liverpool tours and Manchester Music tours this autumn and winter. The tours will cost £15 (inc. booking fee) with a maximum of 15 people …
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Control – Ian Curtis’s Manchester
Next public tour: No dates yet. Meet: Outside Mercure Hotel, Portland St/Piccadilly Gdns. Booking: Private Tours: Please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Calling all Ian Curtis/Joy Division fans. We meet hundreds of you every year aimlessly wandering around Manchester city centre looking for relevant locations: the Hacienda, Rafter’s, the Briton’s Protection …. If you came on our tour, …
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The Smiths’ Manchester
Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Piccadilly Gardens/Portland Street. Booking: Where we go: • The Hacienda, vilified in his the Smiths’ most famous song. • HOME cinema to recall The Smiths’ cinematic links. • The building where Moz actually had a job!, which inspired… • Central Station and its role …
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Mr Halle’s Band
Next public tour: No dates set yet. Private tours: We recently took a group of choristers from the Home Counties on this walk – with great success. To follow in their footsteps, please contact New Manchester Walks. The Halle is Britain’s first and oldest professional symphony orchestra (and the fourth oldest in the world). It …
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Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years
Official Manchester Music Tours The tours have been organised by Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian and long-time music writer, co-author of Fodor’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Traveller books, and launch production editor for Mojo. Next tour: Saturday 28 October 2023. Meet: Outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, 2pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. …
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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