Nick Brooks-Sykes, the director of tourism at Manchester Marketing, says: “It’s a really good time to visit Manchester, with plenty of new things to do and discover, but as always we would suggest any international visitor to use Manchester as a gateway to the north of England; to explore the city and maybe some of the emerging boroughs and neighbourhood in and around Greater Manchester, then see some of the other fantastic destinations on our doorstep across the North.”
With direct flights from New York’s JFK, Atlanta and Las Vegas, Americans can bypass London and spend more time in places like RHS Bridgewater, Jodrell Bank, Salford and Macclesfield.
As for new music, any American visiting Manchester this year will find gigs every night of the week in pubs, small venues and medium-sized concert halls like Band on the Wall and New Century – both of which reopened in 2022.
In The New York Times entry championing Manchester songsmiths, Walsh segues “from Joy Division and the Stone Roses to Oasis and, now, Harry Styles”. It’s easy to be sniffy – but she’s probably on the right track. Joy Division ended with Ian Curtis’s suicide in 1980. “Madchester” was pretty much over by 1990. Harry Styles, raised in leafy Holmes Chapel and nurtured not at Factory Records but on X-Factor, is more representative of modern Manchester than any of the legendary miserabilists. He’s also massive in America.
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Publish date : 2024-01-25 03:00:00
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