In the lead-up to the 6 Music Festival in Greater Manchester, 6 Music and BBC Sounds bring listeners a new eight-part podcast, The Rise and Fall of Madchester, presented by Steve Lamacq and Alison Bell.
The series captures the iconic Manchester music movement of the 80s and early 90s, following the rise of Factory Records and the Haçienda, the emergence of The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and New Order, and the moment guitar music and club culture collided.
Drawing on the BBC’s extensive archive and featuring new interviews with artists, DJs and more, The Rise and Fall of Madchester celebrates the music of a city that reshaped British culture and still defines it.
We’ll hear new interviews from musician, DJ, songwriter and A&R Executive Mike Pickering, Haçienda manager and licensee Ang Matthews, musician, rapper and poet Kermit Leveridge, The Stones Roses’ tour manager Steve Atherton, Tim Booth of James, and designer and shop owner Leo B Stanley. Archive contributions come from Joy Division’s Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner; Happy Mondays’ Shaun Ryder and Bez; broadcaster, Factory Records co-founder and Haçienda founder-manager Tony Wilson; The Stone Roses bassist Mani; New Order’s Gillian Gilbert and more.
The series will also be broadcast on 6 Music on (Sunday into) Monday 23rd March, 12am-2am.
