Manchester Music

Let me take you back to the swinging 60’s, to Whitworth Street in central Manchester and Station Road in Wigan. Seemingly ordinary looking buildings from the outside, but within those walls, a movement was building. Something distinctly Northern, with Motown and American Soul providing the soundtrack!

I remember the first time I heard my home 'area' referred to in a song, I was 5 years old. It features in this list actually, I couldn't comprehend how these people on the radio knew someone that I did, how they knew the same places I did.

Their tracks, produced in bedrooms, youth clubs and small recording booths set up amongst friends, provided a soundtrack to a generation. Kids from inner city areas and council estates across Greater Manchester who finally had music that depicted our day to day lives, things we saw, things we experienced, tracks that described in detail people we knew.