January 26th, 2009
It seems every year, pretty much every band in the country (and around the world, no less) wants to play
In The City, the annual music convention that plays host to numerous industry panel discussions, live showcases, free bars (hooray) and most infamously, the unsigned band gigathon, where bands get to play in front of chequebook-waving A&R reps. In The City has played catalyst to the signing of
Coldplay, Doves, The Darkness, Elbow, The Raveonettes, and Muse, among others.
But in addition to the unsigned shindig, ITC – in its spiritual home of Manchester – is running this year with the theme “Retaking the World”. DiS not only previews some of the bands playing (coming on Monday!), but also speaks to the main man behind the event: Mr
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Welcome to the pleasuredome. Updated on 13 December 2020
By early 1985, Liverpool pop band Frankie Goes To Hollywood could do no wrong. Having just released the fourth cut from their debut album, Welcome To The Pleasuredome in March, and with a new album incoming, the future of this stylish and overtly sexual group seemed assured. While the world of videogames was grasping the promotional power of riding on another property s coat tails, a game focused on this most idiosyncratic of bands was hardly a natural fit. But that didn t appear to worry Manchester software house Ocean.
At this time, Ocean was still using its favoured developers, Denton Designs, for many of its projects. Forged from the fallout of the collapse of Imagine Software the previous year, Denton Designs was swiftly establishing a reputation for original and inventive games. Everybody knew the band, and working on the Spectrum version was veteran coder John Gibson.
Unfortunately I have been diagnosed with a serious illness and had no option other than to resign. The council had been running for a long time on a minimal number of councillors even though attempts had been made to co-opt new members. With my resignation and another councillor being unable to attend this left insufficient councillors to be quorate and so the meeting had to be cancelled leading to the current situation. Some residents had shown interest in becoming councillors but due to a long running dispute the council was involved in nobody, understandably, wished to grasp the poison chalice.