"This is Manchester, we do things differently here."

"Manchester is in the south of the north of England. Its spirit has a contrariness in it – a south and north bound up …"

"I had no idea that any of us could play as well as we did on Morning Glory. I hoped we could, but I didn’t know. The …"

"We like annoying people. It’s a Manchester thing. It’s a trait. We just like pissing people off."

"Manchester has pure life packed into its bare brick warehouses, ironically sunny-themed trams, and even its old railw…"

"Manchester’s got everything except a beach."

"Factory Records were not just made in the north. They were entirely, fundamentally, immanently of the north. They sou…"

"If it stopped banging on about its football teams and its bands and its shops and its attitude, Manchester has someth…"

"Manchester changed the world’s politics: from vegetarianism to feminism to trade unionism to communism, every upstart…"

"And on the sixth day God created Manchester"