Manchester

[TheSpade]

I used to live in Lower Broughton in Salford.
Nice place
Then I moved to Longsight, nicer place!

Big up the Kersal massive!

People get shot round 'ere

Longsight M13.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taoCYjc7hMI

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

longsight m13.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taocyjc7hmi

longsight was immortalised in song by local singer ian brown formerly of the stone roses on his album solarized. The song was titled 'longsight m13' reflecting the postcode of the area, which begins with m13. Graffiti appeared locally saying 'stone roses rip' when the band split up, and 'free ian brown' when he was jailed.[12] the song was written with brown's former roses bandmate, guitarist aziz ibrahim, who still lives in longsight.[13] brown also mentions the area in the stone roses song "daybreak" which contains the line "from atlanta, georgia, to longsight, manchester". In recent times[when?] longsight has suffered like surrounding south inner-city areas, with gangs, drugs and high profile shootings.

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[Myshkin]

Aye, Salford is it's own city.

I'd actually move back to Manchester, one of my good mates still lives there, i've forgotten which part she lives in , but it's one of the nicer areas. I'm gonna go visit her soon, be nice to see the city again.

M20. It's great! Either that or Chorlton, I'll wager.

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

M20. It's great! Either that or Chorlton, I'll wager.

Actually on the tip of my tongue but just can't remember. It's somewhere around that area anyway.

Got a mate lives in Chorlton too, nice place.

 

[ponch]

Which Pirate Picnic? The one summer 2009? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vCv_eQSVok&feature=related
Police in full riot gear!

That was the one with the full dog section arriving. Advertised it openly on myspace bulletins and had it in a public park, what did they expect! It was fun, for a while. Having to go piss in bushes RIGHT next to a main road cos the near by pubs refused to let us in got a bit tiresome though.

Gash are actually GASH!

The party they had in the world war two bunker was DANGEROUS as fuck too! A girl asked me did I have a lighter as her's wasn't working, I said 'It's not working love as there's not enough oxygen in here!' To be fair, it was a good party for a while , but FULL of sketchy people, including knife wielding gangs who mugged someone I was with.

There are other free party crews around the north west. I can't remember the name of one of them, something like mad hatters, they're from Preston. Aye I was right...

http://www.myspace.com/prestonmadhatters

No it was the 2010 one, was underneith a section of flyover incase it rained...

Not surprised about your friend getting mugged looking at some of the attendees, mugging someone that's off it is pretty fucking low

I used to live in Lower Broughton, what a place. The threat of random violence always keeps you on your toes, some students got pretty badly beaten around peel park when I was there between 06-08.

I live in M20 now, the burton road sort of area is such a nicer place to live. Quite a few decent pubs and bars in walking distance of each other and 24 hours a day buses to the city centre.

Sadly I think the kind of scene the OP is after died when Hulme got levelled.

 

[nomy]

Knutsford, Alderley Edge and Wilmslow's where it's at. Seriously hardcore. You really have to watch your cocktails there. One wrong choice and you get told off quite badly. Sometimes shouted at. Plenty of free parties, but you need a small briefcase of posh, and the pools can be heavy on the chlorine which can really sting your eyes. Like I say...real hardcore. You lot have no idea.

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

No it was the 2010 one, was underneith a section of flyover incase it rained...

Not surprised about your friend getting mugged looking at some of the attendees, mugging someone that's off it is pretty fucking low

I used to live in Lower Broughton, what a place. The threat of random violence always keeps you on your toes, some students got pretty badly beaten around peel park when I was there between 06-08.

I live in M20 now, the burton road sort of area is such a nicer place to live. Quite a few decent pubs and bars in walking distance of each other and 24 hours a day buses to the city centre.

Sadly I think the kind of scene the OP is after died when Hulme got levelled.

Ah I see, the 2009 one I'd gone to for my Birthday, as it was the day after. We just went home when the police turned up and took some nice MDMA and chilled there. Couldn't be arsed hanging around for violence.

Aye, mugged when tripping. Just what you want.

Aye, living in Lower Broughton really opened my eyes! Brand new estates, but all boarded up! I used to be pretty daft really, and go up to the booze shop that sold booze 24 hour at 2am , totally out of it on my own. We lived just near Albert Park. Would have been late 2007, then moved to Longsight. I've seen some sights aye. I live in what some people call 'the bad part' of Bristol now, but i've seen nowt like I did in the Ghetto areas of Manchester. There's no 'Anti gun crime' adverts at bus stops for one!

 

[ponch]

Heh, lived on cromwell road... pretty close. Small world

That boarded up estate is gone now... seems a bit of a waste, looked like perfectly good housing.

You were lucky wandering around at night on your own, one of my mates got pelted with bricks and paving stones by a group scallies on the way home one night

Yeah I saw some pretty crazy stuff when I lived there. People riding around on quad bikes wearing balaclavas, groups of kids kicking the crap out of people outside the offlicence if they refused to buy them booze. Pretty depressing really.

 

[Myshkin]

Try Openshaw or Clayton.

Lovely areas to spend your teens in. There was a family with three generations of junkies up the road. The buses to work in the mornings were often deserted.

I've related the lamp-post theft and male chisel-rape stories before, so I'll stop there.

Life was tough in the ghetto, y'know...

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

^^Nelson Street I was on.

Used to drink in the pubs that were just at the end towards the off licences and take aways. Proper old man boozers, but pints cheap as chips.

Ah memories.

Openshaw, no thanks!!! I thought Longsight was bad enough. I had the misfortune of having to once get a crisis loan giro from their job centre. Locked in a secure room with some lovely characters all fresh outta jail disucssing what they'd been in for.

 

[reptilian]

Try Openshaw or Clayton.

Or Newton Heath... or Newton Heath v's Clayton for that matter if its summer and the 2 litre bottles of cider are flowing well amongst the spotty yoofs. Guess you'll know what i mean if your from that area!

 

[Myshkin]

The Raids! A summer tradition. Local youths fighting pitched battles in Clayton Vale.

Really glad you reminded me of that.

Openshaw is traditionally where people fresh out of Strangeways go. Explains a lot.

 

[ponch]

^^Nelson Street I was on.

Used to drink in the pubs that were just at the end towards the off licences and take aways. Proper old man boozers, but pints cheap as chips.

Ah memories.

A friend of mine lived on Nelson street, being a student at the uni I had mates living on most of the streets round there so not that much of a coincidence I guess. I remember the first time I had to ring a bell to get in one of the pubs round there, lovely :D

Try Openshaw or Clayton.

Lovely areas to spend your teens in. There was a family with three generations of junkies up the road. The buses to work in the mornings were often deserted.

I've related the lamp-post theft and male chisel-rape stories before, so I'll stop there.

Life was tough in the ghetto, y'know...

My girlfriends nan lives in Clayton, lovely area. Looks even dodgier around there now there are hundreds of streets boarded up. It's due to the tram extension I think?

 

[Myshkin]

Aye; tram extension and futile attempts at semi-gentrification.

My mate took me for a drive round there recently. Much darker than I remember.

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

A friend of mine lived on Nelson street, being a student at the uni I had mates living on most of the streets round there so not that much of a coincidence I guess. I remember the first time I had to ring a bell to get in one of the pubs round there, lovely :D

Would be far to much of a coincidence if it was number 14 or close to? I remember a house full of students next door, we got pissed with them a couple of times. We had SO many people in our house. The landlord was breaking every single rule in the HMO licence.

Aye, they were the sort of pubs where if you weren't local or your face didn't fit you couldn't go in. 'Shameless' style!

 

[ponch]

Number 13 if I remember correctly, probably opposite or there abouts? It was a house full of girls. Next door to them used to have some kind of dolls house in the front garden.

I strangely miss the place, probably has more to do with memories than anything else though :D

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

I lived in Number 14. We had all sorts in that garden. Including a car that never moved. I hated that house, the landlord was a cunt, and the flatmates weren't that great either.

Far too much of a small world!!!!!!

 

[Treacle]

God, the poor guy comes here looking for a nice night out in Manchester, and he basically gets told it's a no-go zone, unless he wants his face smashing in with paving stones! Haha. GASH are, well, it's been said. I quite enjoyed the bunker party, even though the guy we were with got a kicking, he turned out to be a cunt anyway. I reckon if I'd have had more than a drink or five, I probably would have fallen down one of the many unsecured holes in the floor, or something equally as lovely. Not too big on health and safety, unfortunately, but what else can you expect at a last minute event? I'm sure you'll find something great to attend. There's loads of D&B, dubstep and hardcore club nights, if that's more your thing.

 

[Myshkin]

God, the poor guy comes here looking for a nice night out in Manchester, and he basically gets told it's a no-go zone, unless he wants his face smashing in with paving stones! Haha.

Yeah, it did go off-topic (in the darkest fashion), but then again the OP is very unlikely to end up in Openshaw or Clayton by accident; I imagine it'll be more of a central affair, in which case there should be no trouble whatsoever, providing the usual precautions for nights out in any city centre are taken.

Avoid the Deansgate / Castlefield locks area though - overrun by Ben-Sherman wearing, aggro-seeking incomers from the towns up in t'hills. Places like Rochdale, for example...

 

[mattnotrik]

Yeah, it did go off-topic (in the darkest fashion), but then again the OP is very unlikely to end up in Openshaw or Clayton by accident; I imagine it'll be more of a central affair, in which case there should be no trouble whatsoever, providing the usual precautions for nights out in any city centre are taken.

Avoid the Deansgate / Castlefield locks area though - overrun by Ben-Sherman wearing, aggro-seeking incomers from the towns up in t'hills. Places like Rochdale, for example...

You forgot to mention printworks