The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands

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Historically, English mayors have presided over urban settlements, all the way from the Mayor of Casterbridge to the Lord Mayor of London (and yes, I know that one of those is fictional, but it’s a good illustration of the point). It’s not unreasonable to extend that title to the elected heads of urban settlements, such as the Mayor of London or the Mayor of Liverpool – especially since we’ve imported this concept from the USA, where elected mayors of major (and smaller) cities are the norm. Going against the grain of Niven’s modernist claim that “as in so many other walks of contemporary life, it seems clear that only cities can save us,” Samuel wrote that “the pit villages threatened with extinction by the Coal Board” were “not an atavistic survival from the past.” In fact, by “merging a country setting with an urban sociability, uniting work and home,” they offered “a model of how we might live in the future.” Angel of the North Definitely, but MES was also interested in the US civil war, and so there's also obviously an allusion there too.

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For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. Said John: “As the wonderful Hunter S Thompson once said, ‘when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro…’With the North Will Rise Again we fulfil his prophetic words with aseries of live cast gigs that embracethe cultural, social and politicalaspects of the north of England and inspire, empower and entertain people across the world. Nonetheless, in terms of the economy I don’t see why you couldn’t have a more egalitarian one oriented around ecologically friendly forms of manufacturing, tech, the creative industries and so on. I don’t think all service industries are bad – it’s just the sense from the economic centre that the North can revive itself purely through things like tourism that I think is inadequate. Alex Niven. Main photo: Swan Hunter shipyard on TynesidePsiman I cannot believe I didn't note that, one of those things where it didn't jump out as necessary but of course now you say it that absolutely needs to be in there. Just to note the under-reported Southmead estate riots which took place a couple of days later in Bristol: Crucibles of the nation’s music industry, Manchester and Liverpool are uniting to host The North Will Rise Again, a live-streamed micro-festival featuring The Charlatans, The Lightning Seeds, Red Rum Club, Ist Ist, Zuzu and LIINES. Een paar maanden later braken de rellen in Liverpool en andere noordelijke steden uit. Een profetisch nummer. Mensen dachten dat het een grapje was. De mentaliteit van de jeugd is een centraal thema in dat nummer. De aanstichter van alles wordt door zijn zoon uitgelachen en aangeklaagd. Als het voorbij is wordt de vader in een kelder gestopt. The book also look at various attempts by people living in the North over the last few decades to revive, empower and inspire the region. What would you yourself like to see in the North’s future?

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You riff on North East musicians from Alan Hull to Bryan Ferry to the Unthanks. Is there a coherent regional sound or temperament? And has the music of the North East been overlooked because Ferry and Sting, in particular, have suppressed their origins? from "The Prestwich Horror and Other Strange Stories", interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds magazine, 31 January 1981: Given MES' and Kay Carroll's apparent interest in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe (see Muzorewa's Daughter), it's not unlikely the irony of the phrase might have appealed. Joe Totale, in the Totale mythos, is in indeed Roman Totale's son. He appears in sleevenotes etc post-Roman's death. Indeed, the lyric tells us who Joe is.By telling the story of the North in the last few decades, Alex goes in search of answers to some of the big questions at the forefront of British politics and society today, touching on live issues including the North/South divide, austerity, the impact of Brexit, the collapse of Labour's 'Red Wall', and calls for regional devolution. He concludes with a powerful argument for a revival of northern politics and society by way of what he calls 'radical regionalism'.

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These heady years were not to last, however. Smith’s reputation fell sharply from its ’60s zenith as the tide turned against those buildings perceived as “concrete monstrosities” that had been created by an out-of-touch technocratic elite. His ultimate downfall would come in 1974, in a kind of allegory for social democratic Britain, when he was arrested on corruption charges relating to the dodgy developer John Poulson. Smith spent the next six years in prison, before dying in relative poverty and obscurity in 1993. sorry to harp on about accidents of birth etc - but I'm a strict contemporary (geographically, too, though we never met) and sometimes odd details emerge as 'obvious' What about the Earl of Northumberland? And they should give them a castle or palace or something where they can hold receptions for potential investors as well as promoting synergy amongst local people. RT XVII" is later called "R. Totale." In the following lyrics tothe earliersong "2nd Dark Age," we learn thatTotale's first name is "Roman":The temporality of this section is, probably intentionally, very hard to follow. The speaker, Joe Totale, has not yet been born, and he is speaking of the future death of his father, R. Totale XVII. The younger Totale seems to drop out of the narrative at the point where Smith says "shift!" Not in 10,000 years" - this lyric is repeated once, like the lines right before it: Joe Totale saying (?) "The North will rise again / The North will rise again" I think "I told Totale" makes a LOT more sense, because there's a phone conversation going on. "Joe" makes no sense. Think of it like this: I think if there has been a classic North East temperament when it comes to music it has tended to be quite maximalist, “heavy” and, if you like, bent on being world-conquering. Partly there’s a heavy industry element here I think, whereas the North West, for example, has a slightly different culture more oriented around textiles. Sting is a really interesting example because his dad was a shipbuilder, and I think that if you look at the astonishingly dramatic pictures of ships being built in Wallsend in the industrial period, you can kind of see how that might have found its way into his music – if only in the sense of a massively far-reaching ambitiousness. The centrality of the blues – versus melody and psychedelia in Manchester and Liverpool – is another factor.

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The festival will be split across two days, with the 27 th March being live-streamed from Liverpool’s iconic Invisible Wind Factory. The Charlatans will headline, preceded by Red Rum Club and Zuzu. On 28th March, the festival will stream from Manchester’s recently-saved Gorilla, where The Lightning Seeds will top the bill, after performances by Ist Ist and LIINES. This modernist impulse reached its apogee in the 1950s and ’60s with the birth of what Niven, following Mark Fisher, calls “popular modernism,” when the avant-garde experiments of early-twentieth-century high culture crossed over into everyday forms of life. A cluster of mass forms developed in those modern, confident decades, from Pop Art, with its playful riffs on advertising and commercial design, to the sonic experiments of ’60s music, or the modernist sensibilities and aspirations to shape new forms of human activity that characterized postwar architecture. Brasilia on the Tyne It’s my 50th birthday in November, so I’d say 49 years! I never planned to write a biography about D… The watchwords for this new movement must be progress, hope, forward movement, anything that can break through the encrusted structures of traditional England. Niven’s new northern metaphor is one of progressive and modernizing change against the Tory southern elites. It must be forward looking, anti-nostalgic, modern. Many Scots and Irish men moved to England particularly London to find work as ground workers. They are the drunken highland men on the lash in Soho after a hard days graft.I think the English Scheme thing is MES doing irony. That song is based (possibly) on Greensleeves, so he reverses that in the lyric - Greensleeves, which is I guess a love song, is being played on the radio, and he's suggesting it's copied from English Scheme rather than the other way around. As for the trains, the Tyne and Wear Metro had its first passengers on August 11, 1980. The first service ,was from Haymarket to Tynemouth. Haymarket Metro station is situated 0,6 miles from what is now called the Tyne Theatre and Opera House, where The Fall played in Newcastle. Not inconceivable that MES could have seen the final stages of the construction (instead of having simply read about it)..