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"Hulme during the eighties was economically broken but socially mixed, and The Kitchen became its heart and its soul. Ravers, students, punks, artists, musicians, gangsters, men, women — gay and straight — they learned to disappear into the music together."
Noel: "When we used to go to the Haçienda in the eighties back in Manchester, afterwards there used to be, if you were brave enough to go, there used to be an afterhours kind of— what was it? ‘Cause they used to have DJs in there and it was very very shifty, y’know, and it would go on till seven-eight o’clock in the morning. And they would play kind of acid house music. But as the night would draw to a close, the older DJs would get on at like six o’clock in the morning and they’d start playing old, kind of soul stuff that you’d never heard. And I remember the sun coming up, and I was just stood beside a guy, and we were kinda dancing, and it was Mani from The Stone Roses, who I’d never met, but I was a massive fan! [...] That was the first night I met him, in 1988 at seven o’clock in the morning."
More on The Kitchen and Hulme Crescents:
Manchester Evening News (2022):
"You'd walk in and to the right there was like this half door to the kitchen, which is where the drinks were sold. It was dark, but it wasn't pitch black. There would be like a single pink lightbulb on, it wasn't a place that pandered to the consumer.
"It was like the last days of the Roman Empire.
"At the time there were all these areas in Manchester that were basically left un-policed and without public services.
"There were no police in Moss Side, the Gay Village, Hulme," he said.
"And when that happens places become their own kind of entities. People make up their own rules.
"So Hulme became this kind of commune, an anarchist haven. It was f***** fantastic. But you also needed to watch out for people taking your s***."
The Guardian (2023):
Constructed in 1972, the vast brutalist estate was the largest public housing development in Europe and could house up to 13,000 people. Intended as a futuristic blueprint for social housing, design and safety flaws became apparent within two years. In 1974, a child died falling from one of the easily climbable balconies. Cockroaches were plentiful, the heating system unaffordable, and residents were soon petitioning to be re-housed.
By the mid-1980s, the council wanted to demolish it but couldn’t afford to, so they stopped charging rent. It became a magnet for a disparate crew of squatters – students, travellers, punks, ravers, anarchists, artists and drug addicts all living in chaotic harmony – and a dilapidated incubator for Manchester’s future musical talents.
“It was a creative epicentre,” says Martin Moscrop of the post-punk funk outfit A Certain Ratio, who lived there. X Republic vocalist and resident Lily Laina Munster concurs: “It was a bringing together of minds through rebellion and music.” A Guy Called Gerald, the Smiths’ Mike Joyce, Ian Brown, Mick Hucknall and countless others also lived there, as did the film critic Mark Kermode and even Nico from the Velvet Underground. “Although I think she stayed for the cheap heroin,” says Una.
Late night blues parties had been run locally by the Black community for years, but by 1987, ecstasy and the burgeoning dance music scene brought an appetite for a different kind of early-hours do. So the Kitchen as a late night club was born.
Scrawled graffiti on the walls in the estate provided directions for party-goers to reach the top floor of Charles Barry Crescent, where a sound system pumped out funk, hip-hop and imported house and techno. “On the first night there were 500 people,” says Williams. “It was crazy.” Nicholson remembers “a jam room upstairs for musicians and then DJs downstairs.” Williams recalls the room functioning for other activities. “People used to do a lot of fucking up there,” he laughs.
Chris Jam and Tomlyn of the Jam MCs were brought in as in-house DJs. “The first time we walked in to Hulme it was like a scene from Mad Max,” recalls Jam. “It was lawless.”
This rent-free creative mecca for young people who shaped the future of Manchester sits in stark contrast to the city today, one which trades heavily off its own musical and cultural legacy but with a housing crisis that makes living there simply unattainable for many. “One of the reasons you get such incredible art, effervescent culture and creativity is because of a low or no rent situation,” Una says. “Rent is biblically expensive in Manchester and there are no areas where counterculture can be allowed to grow naturally and develop. Hulme was a haven for that.”
more sources:
DJ-mag: 24-hour party people: raving and rebelling in Manchester’s Hulme Crescents
VICE: Remembering Hulme: Manchester's Scruffy Squat Party Republic
Noel Gallagher talks about his admiration of fellow famous son of Manchester, painter LS Lowry.
Noel Gallagher might not be the first person you’d expect to see in a film about one of the 20th century’s most popular painters. But Looking for Lowry film-maker Margy Kinmonth made the connection when she saw the video for their song The Masterplan.
Inspired by LS Lowry’s paintings of crowds in scenes of the industrial north of the early 20th century, the animated video is a Lowry painting come to life. It even includes a swaggering Liam Gallagher, a character that fits seamlessly into the Lowry landscape.
The Masterplan music video, 2006, made with Lowry estate's permission.
“Everybody’s on the move [in his paintings] aren’t they,” says Noel. “There’s nobody standing still, everybody’s walking, all slightly hunched over aren’t they? I mean, they’re very brilliant.
“Only works in the rain though, don’t you find? You get great skies up in Manchester, real turbulent. Grey skies and tall buildings. And a little scraggy dog.”
For Noel the connection with and awareness of Lowry goes way back. “It’s like when they say ‘When’s the first time you heard The Beatles?’. It’s like, I don’t know, it’s just always been there for me, always.”
Both famous sons of Manchester with a deep connection with the city, Noel has always admired and related to how Lowry presented their hometown.
“I guess all the people that he ever met were all in there somehow,” he says. “Even though there are hundreds of people in those paintings, they’re all individuals in some way.
“There’s like a solace in them I think, you know. And you see them walking, they seem to be in their own little world. And I guess I was like that when I was younger. I was in my own little world and it was quite quiet, Manchester.
“It would be great to see what he could do with a northern town now because all the factories are dead. All those that haven’t been turned into cheap flats are just huge empty buildings that once housed all these people.
“All the houses around and all the people working there, the whole community was based around the factory. It’d be interesting to see how he would paint all these northern towns that are dead now that the textile industry has gone.”
A topic touched on in the film is the continuing issue of Lowry paintings not being considered worthy of serious art criticism. This has resulted in the Tate not displaying the many Lowry paintings the gallery owns. It’s something Noel is at a loss to understand.
“So [the paintings] aren’t considered Tate worthy? Or is it just because he was a northerner?” asks Noel. “Does anybody know why though? I mean, what’s the official line?
“I find it amazing that an artist that’s got that much of a strong identity is not accepted, because surely that’s what art is all about, you know. It’s reflecting real life and you know what it is when you see it.”
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Noel Gallagher took fans by surprise at three of his friend Paul Weller‘s UK tour dates last week when he strolled onstage and played short warm-up sets.
Unannounced each night, Noel played six songs on acoustic guitar at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on July 6, Bristol Colston Hall (7) and Plymouth Pavilion (9). He played songs by The Jam and The Beatles, as well as Oasis favourites. No new material was aired.
—Weller Gets Noel In To 'Jam' | NME July 1998
"But I've enjoyed doing it and it's been good for the fans more than anything else. It's been unannounced, so you should see their faces when I walk out, they all go 'Fucking hell, that looks like Liam Gallagher! Fuck no, it's Noel.'
—Total Guitar: Noel Gallagher Dec 1998
[photo of Noel from Plymouth Pavilions gig]
[music from Noel Gallagher - Supporting Paul Weller - Live in Wolverhampton, Civic Hall, 6/7/1998]
Noel says that the inspiration for the title Who Built the Moon? was taken from a chapter in a book of conspiracies that he read in the 90s.
While I couldn't find anything with that specific chapter title, I think it's likely that Noel read Jim Marrs' Alien Agenda that was published in 1997 and became hugely popular.
The first chapter in that book addresses the Spaceship/Hollow Moon theory.
Guy Pratt mentions Who Built the Moon? by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, but that book was published in 2005, so Noel may have seen or heard the title somewhere and gotten it mixed up. However, there are so many books on conspiracies it's entirely possible there is a book out there with a chapter titled Who Built the Moon?
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