{"title":"Manchester","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFew cities have shaped contemporary culture as loudly as Manchester. This collection follows the city’s story through its music, its clubs, its photographers and the people who made it happen, from the bleak beauty of Joy Division to the chaos of the Haçienda, the swagger of the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, and the long road from Madchester to Britpop.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"shaun-ryder-wrote-for-luck-selected-lyrics","title":"Shaun Ryder: Wrote For Luck (Selected Lyrics)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Chief protagonist was Shaun Ryder, a man whose lyrical street swagger in songs like Kinky Afro, 24 Hour Party People and Performance, would come to define a generation. Here, collected and edited for the first time, are his unforgettable lyrics with commentary by the man himself and an introduction by his literary collaborator, Luke Bainbridge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith characteristic understatement, Tony Wilson once compared Shaun William Ryder's lyrics to the poetry of W. B. Yeats. That is, if W. B. Yeats had been an inveterate drug-taker and occasional dealer, a compatriot of criminals and crazies, an aficionado of low life and high times; if he had painted artful sketches of endless parties and urban blight, of chancers, dead beats, fanatics and, always, an endless stream of pharmaceuticals; if W. B. Yeats had composed fractured, hilarious, grubby and shrewdly observed anthems for the Madchester generation. That W. B. 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With selected images from the last eight iconic Festivals, the book showcases the extraordinarily ambitious work that has made MIF a landmark cultural event and will continue to do so at its new permanent home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach image is accompanied by a reflection from an artist, a participant, a supporter or audience member capturing a unique voice and personal meditation on that moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unicorn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45836541198594,"sku":"BK-UNI-ETHMIF-001-L","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_6429_6a7f4ba6-f50e-4c72-aab8-8d350d2df163.jpg?v=1791266038"},{"product_id":"feeling-supersonic-from-madchester-to-britpop","title":"Feeling Supersonic: From Madchester to Britpop","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAvailable in two editions, with cover photographs by Jill Furmanovsky and Roger Sargent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFeeling Supersonic is a compendium, a celebration and a roadmap to the remarkable career of Oasis: including never-before-seen coverage of Britain’s most notable band of the past three decades. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a love letter to Oasis and the bands, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eparties, clothes and city that made them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book is split into two parts. Act I covers the Madchester \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escene that defined them. It features contributions from lan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrown, New Order, Reni, Happy Mondays, Pulp, Primal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScream, The Farm, John Squire, and many more. There is an e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003early encounter with Oasis in 1994, appearances from lesser \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eknown but equally loved names such as Rob Gretton, Paris \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAngels, Intastella and World Of Twist, and exclusive writings \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon Manchester's undisputed number one street fashion label, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGioGoi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAct II reconnects with the same scene following the epic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereformation of The Stone Roses, culminating with Liam and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNoel as never seen before. Liam is captured on these pages \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estellified in the white-hot heat of Knebworth 1996. Noel talks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexclusively, about his spiritual awakening during the early 90s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcid House club and rave scene in Manchester.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlease don't put your life in the hands of a rock 'n' roll band? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToo late for that now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"No-one's been brave enough to write the real story \" \u003cstrong\u003eNoel Gallagher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCover Photographers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJill Furmanovsky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn October 2024, Noel Gallagher presented Jill Furmanovsky with the Abbey Road Music Photography Icon Award. Furmanovsky's subjects include everyone from Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan to Blondie, Kate Bush and Billie Eilish. She started working with Oasis in the 1990s and continued to photograph the band over the years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger Sergeant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoger Sergeant was awarded the outstanding contribution to music photography prize at the 2007 Record of the Day Awards for Music Journalism and PR. The Guardian described him as \"the UK's most important music photographer\". 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It is a masterful insider account of the Hacienda, the rise of Madchester and birth of the rave era, and how music has sound-tracked a life and a generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late 1970s Dave Haslam was a teenage John Peel listener and Joy Division fan, his face pressed against a 'window', looking in at a world of music, books and ideas. Four decades later, he finds himself in the middle of that world, collaborating with New Order on a series of five shows in Manchester. Into the story of those intervening decades, Haslam weaves a definitive portrait of Manchester as a music city and the impact of a number of life-changing events, such as the nightmare of the Yorkshire Ripper to the shock of the Manchester Arena terror attack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cast of Haslam's life reads like a who's who of '70s, '80s and '90s popular culture: Tony Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Terry Hall, Neneh Cherry, Tracey Thorn, John Lydon, Johnny Marr, Ian Brown, Laurent Garnier and David Byrne. From having Morrissey to tea and meeting writers such as Raymond Carver and Jonathan Franzen to discussing masturbation with Viv Albertine and ecstasy with Roisin Murphy, via having a gun pulled on him at the Hacienda and a drug dealer threatening to slit his throat, this is not your usual memoir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Beautifully judged account of the Manchester scene . . . There is something of the fairy tale about Dave Haslam's sage joyful testament to the kind of life that nobody could ever plan, a happy aligning of a cultural moment and a young man who instinctively knew that it was his once upon a time' \u003cstrong\u003eVictoria Segal, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Witty, sometimes dark, revealing, insightful, everything one could hope for from one of those folk without whom independent music simply wouldn't exist' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eClassic Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eExhilarating . . . 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