Music
Madchester: Tales of Rock n Roll Excess
Next tour: For now this tour has been subsumed into the other music tours. Please see relevant pages. Come 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 tales of million pound …
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MANCHESTER MUSIC COACH TOUR (on ZOOM)
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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Manchester in 12 Songs
As Ian Curtis sang: “I’ve been waiting for a guide…” Next walking tour: Sat 10 July 2021. Meeting point: Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. The sounds of the city, courtesy of the Smiths, the Fall, Elbow, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, John Cooper Clarke… We will walk in …
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The Beatles’ Liverpool
Next tour is on Zoom: Monday 17 May 2021, 5.30pm. Meet: on your computer, not outside the Cavern! Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Missing your ticket to ride around Liverpool? Has your day tripper been put on hold? Well now we’ve found you a driver and that’s a start. Join the North’s …
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Control – Ian Curtis’s Manchester
Next tour: Tuesday 18 May 2021. Meet: TfGM Travelshop, Piccadilly Gardens, 5.30pm. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. 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 …
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The Smiths’ Manchester
Next walking tour: Sunday 20 June, 2.30pm. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Piccadilly Gardens/Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Yes, he’s a difficult bugger. Yes, he’s a handful. Yes, he makes statements Dave Haslam doesn’t like. Yes, he hasn’t made a decent record since, well, a long time, but as Des Taverner …
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Mr Halle’s Band
Next public tour: No dates set yet. Private tours: we took a group of choristers from the Home Counties on this walk –with great success – last March. 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 Next tours (1): Saturday 24 July 2021, 2.30pm. Meet: HOME Arts Centre. Tour Guide?: As Ian Curtis sang: “I’ve been waiting for a guide…” Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Next tours (2): Saturday 7 August 2021, 11am. Meet: HOME Arts Centre. Tour Guide?: As Ian Curtis sang: …
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Control – Ian Curtis’s Manchester
Private tours: We have been inundated with requests. It’s been so enjoyable taking goods folk from San Francisco, London and all places in between on a custom-made tour, and there’s nothing like playing the right track at the right spot. For instance “Blue Monday” at the site of the Beach Club… Calling all Ian Curtis/Joy …
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The Beatles’ Manchester
For now, we’re not doing this one as we now do a Beatles’ Liverpool tour, natch.
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Manchester News
- 76 Years Since the Atom Bomb – the Manchester Connection
Here in Manchester, we’re appallingly served by the media. The country’s best magazines, such as The Spectator, are 99% London-oriented, and the local Manchester Evening News is obsessed with celebrity nonsense, violence and tat. Anyone who wants to read something interesting, fascinating and eye-opening on Manchester has barely anywhere to go – apart from New Manchester Walks.
I was hoping the new Mill would be receptive, but I’m not woke enough or young enough. Great stories are missed. Below is one of the greatest involving Manchester, and with global connotations.
The Manchester Evening News would not touch the centenary of the Balfour Declaration in 2017, the event that led to the creation of the State of Israel, which had huge connections with Manchester, something we explain on our Jewish Manchester walks. Their reasoning: “No one would read it,” one of the editors explained to me. This in the conurbation with Britain’s second biggest Jewish community. Shame on them.
Here’s another story they wouldn’t touch.
Seventy-five years ago, in August 1945, two atom bombs were dropped on Japan, killing more than…
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