Just to flag this up, I went to the inaugural event last year and it was very good. Russell T Davies gave a talk about the state of modern TV, how he got started, commissioning, comedy etc. The place was heaving with writers, producers, BBC comedy-types etc - good schmoozy-boozy opportunities.
I'm going again this year - it's James Corden and Ruth Jones in the chair so promises to be a bit looser this year.
Anyway, highly-recommended if you can make it to Mancs on the 26th.
Quote: Griff @ November 6 2009, 12:08 PM GMTThat's a f**king big chair.
heh
Quote: Griff @ November 6 2009, 12:08 PM GMTThat's a f**king big chair.
Cheers for this Lee. I will definitely be there, though I would much rather I was at the Russel T Davies one.
If it's a lecture in memory of Tony Wilson, then surely it should be about how to f**k up your business and short-change the artists you work with?
As well as helping to showcase some of the greatest music ever heard and dying a legend.
Quote: Ronnie Anderson @ November 6 2009, 12:28 PM GMTAs well as helping to showcase some of the greatest music ever heard and dying a legend.
Very debatable. Joy Division are revered despite being dreadful (as are New Order. And Wilson didn't "get" The Smiths when they were unsigned. Lucky Smiths. The Happy Mondays were alright, I suppose, in small doses.
I can't seem to find anything about this on the RTS website. Has it been cancelled?
I doubt it. Maybe they haven't put it on the site yet, I am trying to find out how to get a ticket.
Tim, how miserable and cynical. Tony wilson might have been flawed, but at least he had a go. He was an idealist more than a businessman and the bands he represented have only got themselves to blame.
Have a drink and smile.
This is the 24 Hour Party People guy?
He's dead?
Quote: YesNo @ November 6 2009, 1:05 PM GMTTim, how miserable and cynical. Tony wilson might have been flawed, but at least he had a go. He was an idealist more than a businessman and the bands he represented have only got themselves to blame.
Just stating some facts, as I see them. The world was generally a better place for having him around and he was undoubtedly a real character. Just don't think he was the centre of the world during the period, nor we he always a force for good, which he and some others seemed to portray as gospel. The whole "Madchester" thing is massively over-played in terms of all the exciting stuff that was happening throughout the country, much of it completely separate from Manchester. A lot of music history is always re-written to suit a particular type of sentimentalist urban poet.
Quote: YesNo @ November 6 2009, 1:05 PM GMTHave a drink and smile.
I'll smile, but I won't have a drink, thanks. 
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ November 6 2009, 1:07 PM GMTThis is the 24 Hour Party People guy?
24 Hour Party People was notably described by Peter Hook as "the biggest c**t in Manchester playing the second biggest c**t in Manchester".
Fair enough. I do agree with you on the hype and legend building.
Are some of you are still bitter because you failed to win your Remote Control Slippers?
"Hey you get off of my show"
Quote: Ronnie Anderson @ November 6 2009, 12:48 PM GMTI doubt it. Maybe they haven't put it on the site yet, I am trying to find out how to get a ticket.
Maybe call The Midland hotel where it's being staged and ask them about tickets? Dunno, I blagged mine.