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Manchester/This is the place Top 10 Playlist

Off the Cuff: A weekly gleaner of Internet sources and other media
Manchester
Manchester, birthplace of the modern world.


LONGFELLA
Poet Tony Walsh (aka  “Longfella”) reads his work, This Is The Place, at Manchester Vigil on May 23:  bit.ly/2rDqtcw.

AUTECHRE
Manchester electronic duo live in Vancouver, 1998: bit.ly/2qThSBi.

DUB SMUGGLERS 
Conscious vibe from Manchester Sound System on Reform Radio: bit.ly/2qg5ZH8.

ANTHONY BURGESS
Manchester writer saturated his material with musical references. He considered himself a musician who wrote novels: bit.ly/2qjNHAN and bit.ly/2qnRHiB.

THE FALL
“Telephone Thing” from Mark E. Smith’s lifelong Mancunian punk project: bit.ly/2rlqQsA.

24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE 
Michael Winterbottom’s brilliant docudrama about the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and ’90s: bit.ly/1rGiFlL.

IAN BROWN
“F.E.A.R.” from Stone Roses frontman’s solo album, Music of the Spheres, 2007: bit.ly/1uGWQ1Q.

JOY DIVISION
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” video filmed by the band themselves on April 28, 1980 during a rehearsal at T.J. Davidson’s studio on Little Peter Street in Manchester: bit.ly/1eyQqHM.

ARIANA GRANDE/THE WEEKND
“Love Me Harder” (Acoustic version): bit.ly/1tZJSkA.

OASIS
“Wonderwall” from (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995): bit.ly/1jbKbQV and Lydia Bernsmeier-Rullow singing “Don’t Look Back in Anger” in St. Anne’s Square on May 25: bit.ly/2rltoa4.