Madchester - The Sound of the North (part 1 of 8)

Cheers for posting this - I had a copy of this video from back in the day - have not seen it for around 18 years!

Tony Wilson and Martin Hannett invented all of you-fuckin southerners are full of it. What was your closest attempt at the Hac???

we had the M25 illegal rave you soppy manc twat

ha ha yeah legendary, did they write a book about it? er no. did they make a film about it? er no. Was the Hac already going years before your M25 rave? er yes. Should you shut up? I think you know the answer...

Well they didnt have PR spin merchants like Tony Wilson & John Peel making them out to be the epic centers of UK music but then for all the hype the Hac was still just a glorified nightclub... it was TOTP with pills.
The real underground cool shit was going on elsewhere

Its epicentre mate not epic centre but anyway. Yeah there was cool underground shit going on everywhere, north and south, thats not the point, the point is our little northern TOTP with pills kind of started and led the scene in the UK and without it, nothing would have been the same, not clubs, not raves and not DJs. Anyway peace man one thing is for sure its no where near as exciting now as it was then...

don't you mean buy it, long passed its sell-by date

As for Cantona - he did mention that the seagulls comment was in jest as he did not know what to say in the press conference really. :)

I don't think Manc music owes that great deal to London personally.

Imho, Mancunians take their music way too seriously to be inspired by just the one band. To me the near religiousness of music appreciation there has more to do with the resulting explosion than just the pistols.

And I think that the target of much of the ridicule was the london press, not the bands per se.