Coca Clarke is an 85-year-old Black Power activist and she is still an active member of the vibrant Moss Side community, a community that – despite its many laudable efforts – struggles to shred off the lazy stereotypes and assumptions placed on an entire community by the media since the ‘gang wars’ of the ‘80s and ‘90s. In this interview, Clarke tells her story and that of her sister Kath Locke, the activist to whom the medical and community centre in Moss Side is dedicated. Continue reading
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Labour Party Conference, Brighton 23-27 settembre 2017
Quest’anno il congresso del Partito laburista britannico si è tenuto a Brighton ed è stato inaugurato dalla giornata dedicata al Congresso Nazionale delle donne del partito, la Women’s Conference. Per la prima volta nella storia del Labour Party, la linea definita dalla Women’s Conference sarà parte integrante del programma del partito. Una giornata entusiasmante soprattutto … Continue reading
Manchester Pride 2017 (photos and video)
Commemoration of the Peterloo massacre, Manchester 20th August 2017
LIVE: INTERPOL / HEALTH 08/02/2015 THE ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER
Here’s my review for Silent Radio: http://www.silentradio.co.uk/02/10/live-interpol-health-08022015/ Continue reading
NEWS: Roxanne de Bastion’s new single ‘Run’ out on 17th November and forthcoming album ‘Heirlooms & Hearsay’ out in 2017
by Francesca Nottola For those of you who do not know Roxanne de Bastion yet, let me briefly introduce her to you. De Bastion is an eclectic singer and songwriter from Berlin, based in London since 2007. A favourite of BBC Radio6, BBC Introducing and XFM, she performed on the Glastonbury acoustic stage in 2016 and … Continue reading
DAL VIVO: Ezra Furman and The Boy-Friends, Circolo Magnolia, Milano 6.11.2016
di Francesca Nottola In molti impazziscono per Ezra Furman non appena lo vedono e lo ascoltano, e in molti affermano che è ‘il futuro del rock’n’roll’, anche se è difficile stabilire cosa significhi ‘rock’n’roll’ nel 2016 e se il rock’n’roll, in senso stretto, ha un futuro. Quasi tutti gli articoli su Ezra Furman si soffermano … Continue reading
LIVE: Ezra Furman and the Boy-Friends, The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge 25.08.2016
By Francesca Nottola Ezra Furman’s life has changed quite a bit since The Guardian’s Michael Hann decided in 2013 to let the world know that Ezra’s second solo album Day Of The Dog deserved 5 stars out of 5 and in 2015 he defined him ‘the most compelling act you can see right now’ . … Continue reading
INTERVIEW: Neil Calcutt, author of ‘Reader Meet Author’, a.k.a. the other Smiths DJ
By Francesca Nottola Who is Neil Calcutt and why am I interviewing him? Neil is mostly known in Manchester – so far – as the deputy Smiths DJ at the legendary Smiths and Morrissey Disco held every first Friday of the month at the alternative dandy/punk/metal venue Star & Garter. The other DJ, Dave, has been … Continue reading
LIVE: Emma Pollock & Band + Elle Mary, Soup Kitchen, Manchester 13/05/2016
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