[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the difference between those estates/areas, and say, Didsbury (4 miles away
> from the afore mentioned places), (and where Factory had their first
> office), is something akin to the difference between Beverly Hills and
> South Central L.A.
>
> does that help to explain?
So, to use a similar analogy, would you say that "N.W.A. achieved a lot
you know, coming from 'round Compton"?
I wouldn't. Their *immediate 'hood* might be a horrifically depressed
ghetto (like the East Side of Detroit), but the fact is, they were from an
area that surrounded them which is one of the biggest music megalopolistic
cities in the world, so it was much easier for them to get their music out
to the rest of the world from (t)here than it would've have been if they
were just 5 Niggas from Mississippi.
I assert that the same thing is true of being from anywhere near
Madchester. Maybe the Mondays are from a horrifically part of that
area, but there's still the fact that Manchester is England's 2nd biggest
musical megalopolis (as seem from the outside world, anyway - though I
suppose some Scousers may disagree :-) ), so it was a lot easier for
them to go far than if they'd been from East Buttfunk, miles away from
Manchester or London or Liverpool.
</end OT mini-rant>
- Greg
