Featuring: ACR, Emergency, The Fall, Vibrant Thigh, Spherical Objects
Contributors: Andy Zero, Martin X, Martin Carver, M. Hartley, Dave Ward
Offices: Russell Club, Royce Road, Hulme, Manchester
David Wilkinson SAYS –
Interesting description of The Fall: Those bastions of intellectualism for anti-intellectuals. It captures very well the tension between bands that drew on their experience of art school or higher education (Buzzcocks, Magazine, Ludus, Gang of Four, The Raincoats and so on) and those that were self-taught after leaving secondary school. Education was one of the many terrains on which arguments about class, authenticity and politics were fought out within punk and post-punk, including in Manchester (e.g. Slaughter and the Dogs, Factory Records, The Worst, The Fall, New Hormones and Richard Boon, Linder and Howard Devoto)
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