Mancunians - Scott, David
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'Witty and wise ... Mancunians is everything a book about Mancunians should be.' > 'A great read from one of Manchester's finest wordsmiths.' > 'An honest love letter to the city.' > 'A touching and brilliant balance of the personal and the popular, from a time when there was so much change in the city.' >In the late 1990s, Manchester was a city in upheaval. The devastation of the IRA bomb and the closure of the infamous Haçienda nightclub were seismic events that rocked the city's confidence at a time when identikit bands were flooding its clubs and bars, fuelled on anthemic guitar rock and…mehr

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'Witty and wise ... Mancunians is everything a book about Mancunians should be.' > 'A great read from one of Manchester's finest wordsmiths.' > 'An honest love letter to the city.' > 'A touching and brilliant balance of the personal and the popular, from a time when there was so much change in the city.' >In the late 1990s, Manchester was a city in upheaval. The devastation of the IRA bomb and the closure of the infamous Haçienda nightclub were seismic events that rocked the city's confidence at a time when identikit bands were flooding its clubs and bars, fuelled on anthemic guitar rock and swagger. Stereotypes were everywhere, while the spirit of Manchester was silently suffocating. Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the story of those who didn't fit the typecast: the musicians of colour, the football fans alienated by rampant commercialism, frustrated public figures, optimistic developers, and ambitious artists. Through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known Mancunians such as Guy Garvey, Tunde Babalola, Sylvia Tella, Badly Drawn Boy, and Stan Chow, David Scott portrays the city at the turn of the century in a way never seen before.
Autorenporträt
David Scott is a father, author, poet, musician and BBC presenter. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Politiken. He was born, raised and lives in Manchester.