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David Wilkinson SAYS -
"New York-Paris-Munich-Lucy St": a wry, ironic reference to a wry, ironic song - the 1979 New Wave hit 'Pop Muzik' by M. The joke is clearly the anti-glamour of City Fun's inner city Mancunian HQ as opposed to the cosmopolitan glitter evoked by the song. Manchester's "hip young menstruals", however, were actually far more globally wired than they might have thought, with comparable DIY scenes around the world at the time.
More countercultural continuity in the form of guest comic strips from Biff, a pair of cartoonists who rose with the underground press, whose work was stocked at Grassroots and Rough Trade and who like many other rebellious baby boomers, ended up contributing to the pages of the Guardian. The droll, bathetic love-hate relationship displayed in the comics with the avant-garde techniques on which they were based was in tune with City Fun's similarly tetchy descriptions of the music scene it facilitated, and its suspicion of pretension in all its forms. "'We are merely dialling tones in the phone booth of memory'...'must be that piss artist I met in Marienbad last year'".
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