The Manchester Blog Awards 2008
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20/08/2008
As if in response to Julie’s recent plea for the city’s bloggers to emerge from the woodwork, Kate over at the vacationing Manchizzle has just announced details of the third annual Manchester Blog Awards.
The event’s format has worked well (I would say that, wouldn’t i?) but this year Kate’s refreshing things a bit by dropping [...]
The Manchester Blog Awards 2008
Beck’s Fusions at Castlefield Arena
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18/08/2008
Beck’s Fusions isn’t Manchester’s first corporate-sponsored arts festival, nor will it be the last. But this one is notable for the line-up the mediocre lager brand has assembled. Headlined by Massive Attack, the Bristol trip-hoppers who haven’t played in Manchester since 2003, other highlights include New York’s Hercules and Love Affair (minus Anthony ‘and the [...]
Beck’s Fusions at Castlefield Arena
Arriverdeci Marple
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15/08/2008
Right we're off on our jollies. Here are ten things I'm happy not to have to worry about for two weeks.
The start of the football season
The rain
Bitchy comments on message boards
The TIF debate
Rose Hill trains getting cancelled
Waking up to the Olympics on Radio 5 Live
Dan Bank road works
Worrying about the kids in holiday clubs
The price of fuel
The credit crunch
See you in September
Arriverdeci Marple
Press release of the week
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15/08/2008
From our Insider Daily today:
Press release of the week. They don’t come much more PR-hungry than Stockport floorer Resin Surfaces and this week’s press release was a corker. The company has “solved a long-standing bathroom problem for global energy giant BP” by installing a special resin floor on an oil tanker permanently moored off Shetland. The tone was tactful, pointi
Press release of the week
Congestion conversation
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15/08/2008
I chaired a debate on Manchester controversial transport plans today at the Lowry Hotel, in a special event organised by pro.Manchester. I have to say Chris Oglesby from United City and Andrew Simpson from the GMMG both delivered barnstorming presentations.
Here's the nub: Oglesby says public transport in Manchester is "crap". Yet this bid is designed to get more people to use that "crap" service. To most people what's on offer is more cr
Congestion conversation
Once again...
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14/08/2008
It was difficult to know where to start with the Policy Exchange report on regeneration.
The Liverpool edition of our Insider Daily email had this to say today:
Among the avalanche of criticism heaped on the authors of the Policy Exchange’s Cities Unlimited report, Insider’s favourite comments came from Professor Michael Parkinson of the European Institute for Urban Affairs at Liverpool John Moores University. Parkinson dismissed the observ
Once again...
In praise of BOSSmag
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14/08/2008
I grew reading tall tales and mad lists in fanzines. I wrote about that here. Just picked up BOSSMag following one of Taguey's raids to Liverpool and liked it.
It's far from perfect, but it made me laugh and it's certainly good to see the young lads keeping the faith and telling it like it is. More than anything it was refreshing to read fanzines written by peop
In praise of BOSSmag
So where have all the Manchester bloggers gone?
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14/08/2008
That’s the question posed by Julie Delvaux over at her Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia blog. A year or two ago there were semi-regular events organised by and for Manchester’s blogging community - but in 2008 not even a quiet pint in a dingy pub (the Castle has shut down, after all).
Julie wants to [...]
So where have all the Manchester bloggers gone?
Overboard review
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14/08/2008
Delighted that Overboard got a nice review in the Scotsman. If you are in Edinburgh, do go and see it.
Overboard review