#manchester

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester. ↗

— Dave Mason

#after #city #coming #england #favourite

I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still open, shoals of brightly-dressed clubber, the beeping taxis and the greasy, savoury smell of meat and onions from the burger vans. ↗

— Mhairi McFarlane

#music

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#anytime #bands #english #i #i can

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#dead #exciting #first #go #happening

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#carefully #century #dalton #destroyed #during

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#hard #i #leaving #manchester #manchester united

We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#been #catch #getting #ground #had

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester. ↗

— John Thaw

#baker #couple #did #fruit #i

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#because #broke #economy #entire #industrial

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. ↗

— Peter Hook

#sarcasm #trait