Manchester international festival: music gives it some fight

Manchester luminaries gave us a tour of the city's music scene, while upstarts Egyptian Hip Hop, Plank! and Lonelady showcased the local talent of the futureHas today's music lost its fight, its mystery, its ideology? That's what Stockport-born journalist and Late Review luminary Paul Morley reckons. Rock'n'roll isn't supposed to be about "wearing the right clothes and feeling groovy", he argued, but about "knowing who the enemy is, and fighting back with the imagination".Speaking at one of Manc...

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