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Blue Orchids, Happy Mondays, John Cooper Clarke, The Stone Roses, Elbow, Doves, Badly Drawn Boy, Peter Hook, Jimi Goodwin
2020

Next week sees the iTunes release of the documentary Dennis & Lois.
If you don't know their story and you're on this site, I can pretty much guarantee you'll love this film!
Dennis & Lois met in the mid 1970s and apart from 1 night have spent every day since with each other. A love of music and collecting helps keep them together - their house on the outskirts of New York is a shrine to pop culture. They count Manchester as their second home, and among their good Manchester-based friends are John Cooper Clarke, Marc Riley, Doves, Stone Roses, Peter Hook, Elbow and of course the Happy Mondays, who named a song after them. But they are close to loads of other bands, old and new including the Ramones who they toured with selling merchandise.
This film is the first full-length documentary about the couple who think nothing of driving a 500 mile round trip to watch a band they love, or take a couple of months off work to follow a tour around the USA. They even flew to the UK once to watch a gig before flying back the next day. Their 20s were spent hanging out in CBGBs and in fact you can see them stood mesmerised, watching the performers in many of the famous 1976/77 era photographs of CBGBs. The film is full of amazing stories and the perfect antidote to lockdown boredom. And Manchester is in it throughout...