Taking place on Saturday 3rd March at 4pm at Manchester Town Hall, Manchester District Music Archive, in association with Manchester Histories Festival, will be hosting a panel discussing the history and legacy of Manchester’s alternative music publications. The discussion will be chaired by Dave (‘Debris’) Haslam. On the panel will be Mike Don from ‘Mole Express’ (legendary early 1970s local underground paper), plus Liz Naylor (of post-punk ‘City Fun’ fame), Bob Dickinson (a contributor to the likes of ‘New Manchester Review’, and ‘City Fun’), and Dan Russell (from the contemporary fanzine ‘Things Happen’). 

The panelists will:

 -  recount tales of Manchester’s music scene

 -  celebrate fanzines and analyse their relationship to the music scene, to the political underground, and to other independent and/or marginalised cultural activity in past eras

 -  discuss the significance of fanzines and other self-published/alternative publications in an era of blogs, digital technology and social media

The panel event is free admission. But attendance should be confirmed by registering here:

There may be some unregistered availability on the day but this can’t be guaranteed.

http://www.manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk/