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Propped against the Band on the Wall balcony and surveying the growing crowd, I contemplate the aesthetic banality of narratives of redemption – with the honourable exception of the death of Jesus Christ, of course, because of the whole sadomasochistic porn shtick those kinky Christians have got going on … Read on
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Winter tightens its white-knuckled grip on the city, turning the darkening ginnels of the Northern Quarter into a narrow latticework of freezing breezes and spearing rain. As we approach Kraak Gallery, hunched and clutching our collars, my companion recognises the drummer from headliners Iceage hanging about near a skip … Read on
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In the shadows of the Strangeways prison ventilation tower, just past the Central Gurdwara, opposite a derelict Victorian warehouse, there’s an ugly, windowless concrete building that squats in a wilderness of rubble, broken glass and burnt-out metal machines. It’s the only testament to the continuation of human life here: the … Read on
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