Northside: It's Dim Up North
Dele Fadele, NME, 11 May 1991
IN NOVEMBER 1989, Manchester's Free Trade Hall opened its doors to a host of spivs, reprobates, ecstasy-casualties, groovy people and businessmen, unwittingly becoming the focus of a new youth movement in the process.
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