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<description>Locations around Manchester with musical significance, either historically or personally.</description>
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<title>Duke of Wellington Statue, Piccadilly</title>
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        This statue provided the backdrop for the cover of the Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP from 1977. This was the first independent, do-it-yourself, UK punk record. It included the classic punk track 'Boredom'. The EP showed that Manchester could go its own way.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 00:10:11.216673+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Roadhouse</title>
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        An independent venue on Newton Street which has provided a platform for new talent for just over a decade. Local bands Elbow and Longview line up alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics as bands who have cut their performance teeth in this basement club. Spot the next big thing with the talent scouts at the 'In The City' music convention.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 00:12:39.772975+00:00</dc:date>
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        Night & Day
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        Night & Day is in the heart of Manchester's 'Northern Quarter'. Live gigs take place virtually every night of the week. Outside on the pavements find metal panels with cryptic references to some of the great Manchester music acts.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 00:15:03.883818+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Manchester Town Hall</title>
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        This grade one listed building is home to Manchester City Council, and where you will find the Tourist Information Centre. This is the location of the farewell party where the city said its tearful goodbyes to Take That. Voted the greatest boy band in history by Smash Hits readers in 2003, Gary Barlow continued with a successful song writing career writing for world artists such as Mariah Carey, Blue and Donny Osmond. The prodigal son, Robbie Williams started loving angels instead.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/52597">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 06:53:16.328542+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Free Trade Hall</title>
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        Now converted to the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, this was for almost 150 years the key musical destination for classical and popular music. In 1966 Bob Dylan was booed and called "Judas" by a Folk Music audience for returning for the second half of his set with rock and roll music. In July 1976, the Sex Pistols appeared twice in the smaller room here, invited by the Buzzcocks who supported them in the second concert. The audience was as remarkable as the Pistol's performance. Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Tony Wilson, Morrissey and Linda Mulvey witnessed the raw power of Punk. Manchester's musical history was about to be re-written.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 06:55:40.173124+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>G-Mex</title>
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        The former Central Station, now the Greater Manchester Exhibition Centre, hosted many of the city's biggest concerts from the mid-80s until the MEN Arena took over in the late 90s. It was here in 1986 that the "Festival of the Tenth Summer"- headlined by New Order and The Smiths- was held 10 years on from the Sex Pistols concerts at the Free Trade Hall. James also famously requested that the world "Sit Down" at this venue.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 06:58:02.270825+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Cornerhouse</title>
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        Manchester's original art house with two cinemas showcasing international films and a well frequented bar and cafe. A popular haunt for city luminaries and philosophers (including Eric Cantona, when he is in town). Manchester musicians and cinema continue to receive rave reviews with Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) writing the music to accompany Hugh Grant in "About A Boy". Former Magazine and Bad Seeds band member Barry Adamson is credited with the soundtracks to The Beach and Scream 3.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:05:34.004179+00:00</dc:date>
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        Music Box provides some of the most progressive and interesting club nights in Manchester, hosting the twin legends that are Mr. Scruff's "Keep It Unreal" and The Unabomber's "Electric Chair" nights. It's neighbour, Rockworld, is home to the legendary Friday all-nighters. This site formerly hosted the nightclubs Rafters and Fagins. The latter was the venue where Joy Division, playing as Warsaw in 1977, were picked up by Factory Records.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/52609">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:07:04.957887+00:00</dc:date>
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        This Swan Street club is one of the oldest in the city with music played at this point for over 200 years. One of Manchester's most prolific bands, The Fall, have graced its stage on occasion. Music writer and lecturer C P Lee has also appeared as a member of the unforgettable Albertos Y Los Trios Paranoias. A range of jazz, funk and soul nights make this one of Manchester's most diverse attractions.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:09:32.051788+00:00</dc:date>
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        A stunning new addition to Manchester's skyline in 2002. This is a a museum "of the city". It's worth keeping an eye on this space as 2004's offerings have featured a retrospective of influential Factory designer Peter Saville's work and an exhibition on the music of Detroit and Manchester.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:11:28.625325+00:00</dc:date>
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        This is Europe's largest indoor arena with 20,000 seats. The busiest concert venue on the planet with 823,000 paying guests in 2003. Every major artist in the world from Justin Timberlake and Kylie Minogue to REM play this venue. The arena marked Morrisey's first return to Manchester after an absence of 12 years with his new album "You are the Quarry".<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/52612">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:13:04.52601+00:00</dc:date>
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        Tucked away at the back of South King Street this venue has changed its face from Bernards Bar to Stuffed Olives to Bar K but is now home to the popular "Rock and Roll Bar" on a Friday night. Haven to Manchester's shoegazing community, a Mancunian male voice choir belting out "I am the Resurrection" can be heard from three blocks away.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/52613">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:14:37.542807+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Granada</title>
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        The country's premier independent TV company is famous for dramas such as "Prime Suspect" and "Cold Feet", but best known for the soap "Coronation Street". It has played a significant role in the city's musical history, with the Beatles making their first TV performance here on 7 October 1962. Anthony Wilson presented the influential music programme "So It Goes" and premiered the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK" on this show.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:16:55.813172+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Afflecks Palace</title>
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        Affleck's Palace hosts a four storey bazaar of everything quirky, kitsch and original. Check out the mosaics around the building by Mark Kennedy for more Mancunian referencing. 'Panic' in Afflecks Arcade sells a fantastic range of Smiths, Morrissey and other cult band posters. The Tib Street Horn by David Kemp underlines the presence of more than 15 independent record shops here-abouts. This is the Northern Quarter!

Affleck's was threatened with closure in 2008 but was rescued at the last minute in a deal where the building's owners took over from its management team.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 06:51:08.827698+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Hacienda</title>
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        The globally famous name of this influential club has been retained by new apartments which now occupy the site. Opened by Factory Records and subsidised by the success of New Order, the Hacienda (1982-1997) brought "house" music to Europe and made it a worldwide phenomena. The club and the character of Anthony H Wilson played a starring role in "24 Hour Party People", the 2002 Michael Winterbottom movie. Mike Pickering, Dave Haslam, Graeme Park and Jon Da Silva were the world famous Djs and inspirational floor fillers for a generation of clubbers.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:00:25.304568+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Ritz</title>
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        The longest continuously running club in the city by a stretch. This not only provided a backdrop for the classic Mancunian movie "A Taste of Honey" from 1961 but was also the scene of The Smiths first concert in 1982. the Ritz was immortalised in verse by punk poet John Cooper Clarke in "Salomey Maloney". Local bands Doves and A Certain Ratio still play here. A tribute concert to Rob Gretton, manager of Joy Division and New Order and pivotal figure on the Manchester music scene was held on the 5th anniversary of his death in May 2004.

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<dc:date>2006-04-06 07:03:53.276775+00:00</dc:date>
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        For ten years DPercussion was a free music highlight of the year.  2007 was the last DPercussion.  Hopefully something will come along to replace it.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2891822">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-03-11 06:06:35.427181+00:00</dc:date>
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        Manchester University's purpose built venue.  The Academy has been the location of a number of great gigs I've been to and one or two club nights.  Recently refurbished (a process that is ongoing despite its reopening at the end of 2007) the new look Academy promises to be energy efficient and ecologically friendly.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2891738">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-03-11 04:56:25.661642+00:00</dc:date>
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