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Ideas, observations and occasional nonsense from Mick Armstrong.
CAN ANDY BURNHAM TURN BRITAIN INTO A NORTHERN POWERHOUSE?
UNCOMMON THOUGHT #003 – Mick Armstrong And what happens when Manchester meets Mar-a-Lago Writing about Tony Wilson got me thinking about Manchester. Which is dangerous. Because one minute I’m writing about Factory Records, the Haçienda and why sometimes you’ve got to ignore sensible people, and twenty minutes later I’m wondering whether Andy Burnham can change…
TONY WILSON WAS A SHIT BUSINESSMAN.
Thank God nobody stopped him. UNCOMMON THOUGHT #002 Last month marked 19 years since Tony Wilson died. Nineteen years. That’s one of those numbers that doesn’t seem right. I grew up watching Tony Wilson on Granada television. Long before I understood Factory Records, FAC numbers, Peter Saville or any of the mythology that eventually grew…
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A WRITER. I JUST DIDN’T ALWAYS CALL MYSELF ONE.
Uncommon Thought #001 — Mick Armstrong “This is why events unnerve me…” – Ceremony, New Order. I’ve decided I’m a writer. There you go. Only took me 56 years. Although that’s not quite true. I’ve always written. I just never thought I was allowed to call myself a writer. There seemed to be rules. Writers…
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