A Manchester thread for all things Manc

[AnnO'Neemus]

ACORN Manchester asking for people to help stop an eviction tomorrow:

They've been asking people to sign up for four-hour shifts, but I imagine they presumably won't be turning people away who can't commit to that?

Also, crossposting from the gig thread, strike fundraiser gig/clubnight on Thursday:

MMU UNISON - Strike Fundraiser Club Night! Thurs 15th December at Peer Hat

Come and support striking MMU workers at our fundraising club night! Live bands, DJs, and a chance to directly support us this winter!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

I'd hazard a guess that they wanted to make sure there would be minimum viable eviction resistance crew available for 12-24 hours. No good if two dozen people turn up in response to initial call-out, but then everyone drifts off a couple of hours later to go to work, uni, appointments, etc, leaving insufficient support.

My experience of eviction resistance was that any reinforcements were welcome, the more the merrier, but you needed to have a baseline number of people to be effective, which I guess it what that rota was trying to ensure.

 

[hitmouse]

I saw the singing film ages ago - kind of enjoyed it, but found the claim that sacred harp singing is a traditional folk song of east lancashire a bit of a stretch - how far back do shape note singing traditions go in east lancs? the 1990s?

Having asked around, I am reassured that no-one would claim a continuous unbroken Lancashire sacred harp tradition, but apparently it was a thing back in the 18th century or something, apparently Israel Holroyd was important, although looking him up he appears to be from Halifax?

 

[killer b]

Having asked around, I am reassured that no-one would claim a continuous unbroken Lancashire sacred harp tradition, but apparently it was a thing back in the 18th century or something, apparently Israel Holroyd was important, although looking him up he appears to be from Halifax?

Having a look at this today, and it looks like there was an english congregational singing tradition called West Gallery Music which has some relation to the Sacred Harp, but died out in the 19th century - will have to check out the Maddy Prior LP referenced.

The Hardy novel sounds interesting too:

Furthermore, the old church bands were often difficult for a vicar to control, while influence over an organist was a much easier task. Such an ousting of the band by an organist is given a fictional treatment in Thomas Hardy’s early novel Under the Greenwood Tree, which reflected actual events at Hardy’s church at Stinsford.

 

[hitmouse]

Having a look at this today, and it looks like there was an english congregational singing tradition called West Gallery Music which has some relation to the Sacred Harp, but died out in the 19th century - will have to check out the Maddy Prior LP referenced.

The Hardy novel sounds interesting too:

Furthermore, the old church bands were often difficult for a vicar to control, while influence over an organist was a much easier task. Such an ousting of the band by an organist is given a fictional treatment in Thomas Hardy’s early novel Under the Greenwood Tree, which reflected actual events at Hardy’s church at Stinsford.

My ma apparently reckons that George Eliot wrote better West Gallery novels, fwiw.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Some Lower Moseley Street photos from the Manchester Evening News

Unearthed 1970s photos show how Manchester city centre street has transformed

Lower Mosley Street is barely recognisable

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[Puddy_Tat]

via tweeter

Co-operative Heritage Trust have done a blog post about the CIS Tower

 

[Puddy_Tat]

and from their tweeter

 

[hitmouse]

£60 seems a bit steep for this, but maybe I'm just tightfisted. Anyway, if anyone's up for doing an online Manchester history course:

Online History course: Episodes in the History of Radical Manchester in the C19th, February to April 2023

Sarah Parker Remond I will be teaching 10 week course on Episodes in the History of Radical Manchester, starting on the evening of Tuesday 14th February, conducted via Zoom. This course wil…

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[Joe Chi Min]

Security guard at your Harvey Nic’s store seems like a nice bloke

 

[hitmouse]

Security guard at your Harvey Nic’s store seems like a nice bloke

Can't be arsed watching that video, but just checked to see if the uploader is who I thought it was going to be and indeed it is, Veitch is a proper cunt. I'd have critical but unconditional support for any security guard who batters him.

 

[Joe Chi Min]

Can't be arsed watching that video, but just checked to see if the uploader is who I thought it was going to be and indeed it is, Veitch is a proper cunt. I'd have critical but unconditional support for any security guard who batters him.

Veitch is an absolute cretin, yes. But as with a thread I started earlier tonight, don’t just fucking dismiss something without even giving it the minimum of a read/watch/listen; it’s just arrogance

 

[hitmouse]

Veitch is an absolute cretin, yes. But as with a thread I started earlier tonight, don’t just fucking dismiss something without even giving it the minimum of a read/watch/listen; it’s just arrogance

Is there any particular reason I should watch this video of a dedicated clickbait windup merchant getting into an argument with a security guard? What will I be missing out on?

 

[Joe Chi Min]

Is there any particular reason I should watch this video of a dedicated clickbait windup merchant getting into an argument with a security guard? What will I be missing out on?

Now when you frame it like that, nothing except an appalling misogynist attempting to use his position as building security to threaten an appalling ‘you-tuber’ and being shut-down

 

[Joe Chi Min]

Spoiler: Nasty Misogyny

There’s our boy the security guard singing about how women’s vaginas don’t please him to smell , maybe this is one for the misogyny thread

 

[Joe Chi Min]

There’s our boy the security guard singing about how women’s vaginas don’t please him to smell , maybe this is one for the misogyny thread

11,000 people liked it

 

[Joe Chi Min]

There’s our boy the security guard singing about how women’s vaginas don’t please him to smell , maybe this is one for the misogyny thread

How do I put that behind a spoiler? It’s fucking awful

Eta: done

 

[Joe Chi Min]

I'd have critical but unconditional support for any security guard who batters him.

You still supporting him now?

 

[hitmouse]

Still not really clear on what it is that I'm missing by not watching a video of two arseholes shouting at each other?

 

[Joe Chi Min]

Maybe revise your title

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Part 2]

An exhibition of Shirley Baker's work at The Working Class Movement Library.

Shirley Baker exhibition at the Working Class Movement Library - Shirley Baker photographer

This new exhibition currently showing in Salford called Capturing the Modern Backdrop: Shirley Baker Photographing Salford was developed by the University of Salford and displays a selection of the artist’s works. The exhibition will focus on the way in which … Continued

shirleybakerphotography.com

 

[nosos]

Can't be arsed watching that video, but just checked to see if the uploader is who I thought it was going to be and indeed it is, Veitch is a proper cunt. I'd have critical but unconditional support for any security guard who batters him.

Fucking hell, that was a rabbit hole and a half. What a scum bag.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Joe Chi Min]

Fucking hell, that was a rabbit hole and a half. What a scum bag.

Yeah he’s an appalling human being

 

[Joe Chi Min]

I first saw snow on the hallowed pavements of Eastford Square:

Ghost town shopping parade set to be demolished within months

The demolition of the 'eyesore' building has been welcomed

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

This was many a child’s climbing frame:

 

[PR1Berske]

Grub has been slapped around the face, and have spelled out the financial consequences

 

[Part 2]

Grub has been slapped around the face, and have spelled out the financial consequences

My friend lives at Kampus. £2k/month I think someone told me.

 

[hitmouse]

Zoomed in on the picture to see the food menu:


Disappointing, you'd think they could at least have themed names like "A Beans To An End", "Heart and Sole", "Day of the Cheese Boards" etc.

 

[Raheem]

Zoomed in on the picture to see the food menu:
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Disappointing, you'd think they could at least have themed names like "A Beans To An End", "Heart and Sole", "Day of the Cheese Boards" etc.

It's a fitting tribute to serve only food he would never have heard of, though.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

£60 seems a bit steep for this, but maybe I'm just tightfisted. Anyway, if anyone's up for doing an online Manchester history course:

Online History course: Episodes in the History of Radical Manchester in the C19th, February to April 2023

Sarah Parker Remond I will be teaching 10 week course on Episodes in the History of Radical Manchester, starting on the evening of Tuesday 14th February, conducted via Zoom. This course wil…

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I'd stay well clear of this prat, he's a massive transphobe.