After the weekend’s Hungry Pigeon Festival there is Monday’s Dot to Dot Festival. The line-up is incredibly strong, and you will need an iron resolve to catch enough of the good stuff, but I have gone through the listings, which include utilising the Council Chambers as a venue, and put together a perfect schedule for [...]
Archive for May, 2010
The Perfect Dot to Dot Schedule
Posted in Going Out, Manchester, Music, tagged 80's matchbox, Academy, answering machine, beach house, blood red shoes, casiokids, chapman family, Club Academy, Council Chambers, Deaf Institute, doorly, dot to dot, dot to dot festival, egyptian hip-hop, eighties matchbox b-line disaster, FAC251, frazr king, gary coleman, goldheart assembly, heartbreaks, jakwob, lights, lonelady, los campesinos, Manchester, mystery jets, pocketknife, ruby suns, small black, team ghost, twisted wheel, wild beasts, wolf gang, Zane Lowe on May 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Return of the Hungry Pigeon
Posted in Going Out, Manchester, Music, tagged 1913, athlete, dot to dot, hungry pigeon, jessie rose, liam frost, longcut, the jessie rose trip on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Manchester is blessed with not one but two festivals this Bank Holiday Weekend, with the Hungry Pigeon entering into its 2nd year of taking over the Northern Quarter, and then on Monday the Dot to Dot Festival, there’s no need to preview anything else this weekend really. The festival is interesting because of the way [...]
Trafford MP becomes 1922 Committee Chairman
Posted in Manchester, Politics, tagged 1922 committee, altrincham, brady, conservative, david davis, graham brady, sale west, tory, trafford on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Altrincham and Sale West Mp Graham Brady has been elected as the chairman of the influential 1922 Committee in the Conservative Party, making him the mouthpiece of the Tory backbenchers. Mr Brady had been rising through the ranks of the party but left the Conservative front bench in 2007 over a row over grammar schools. [...]
I hate to say I told you so, Alright
Posted in Manchester, Politics, tagged civil liberties, Damian Green, ID Cards, jacqui smith, Manchester on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Several months ago I recorded a podcast on Id cards in Manchester (you can listen here), largely bemoaning their introduction by Labour. I said they were pointless for two reasons; firstly because they would be insufficient to perform the duty they were initially designed to do, would be an expensive waste of time that would [...]
Manchester’s Best Beer Gardens
Posted in Going Out, Manchester, tagged albert's shed, didsbury, dukes 92, hardy's well, screenfields, spiningfields, woodstock, woodstock tavern on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Temperatures soared to barbarous levels last weekend, and in light of this i thought it would be finally applicable to write about the best beer gardens in the city. unfortunately due to the metropolitan nature of our city i.e that there is no space for anything that can’t house an office or an Aleef’s, means [...]
A Tale of Two Cities
Posted in Manchester City, Manchester United, Sport, tagged alex ferguson, bellamy, benitez, cahill, chris smalling, citeh, city, david moyes, fergie, fernando torres, Man Utd, Manchester City, Manchester United, mancini, mark hughes, moyes, rafa, rafael benitez, roberto mancini, rooney, sir alex, steven gerrard, steven ireland, stevie g, tevez, tim cahill, torres, united, utd, Wayne Rooney on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A 2009-10 Season Review of football in Manchester and Liverpool History will not look kindly upon this season for England’s two most successful teams, and it didn’t go much better for their cross-town rivals. United saw their crown slip and their imperious swagger all but destroyed as Ancelotti’s Chelsea usurped them as the Premier League’s [...]
