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City Fun In 1981 wasn’t just a fanzine to me, it was a window into the world I wanted to be in as a green kid of 16. Liz Naylor and Cath Carroll were the names behind the title and to me they could do no wrong. They awoke my fascination in Manchester, a place I could only be part of when I escaped my home town, Leigh. It may seem strange to some but Manchester was exotic to me. A place where only the coolest people lived and where music was the highest art. Anyone who shares my love affair with Manchester and City Fun can show me stuff by going to my Facebook page ‘Teach me about Manchester music’. Thanks .Check out my about.me profile!

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Leigh Festival ’79

This is a great story. 

A story about a woman called Joan Miller who simply wanted to raise some money for a glue sniffing and drug addiction drop-in centre.

So together with a small group of friends she planned a 3 day festival which would culminate on the bank holiday Monday of 27th August 1979.

The line up for that day reads like a who’s who of Manchester and Liverpool post punk.

10,000 were hoped for, a few hundred turned up.

There’s much more to this story, (to be told later), but the most important thing is how this apparently disastrous event put Leigh into the the modern music history books.

More to come.