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King of the Slums

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MANCHESTER: that great north-west city with, in the words of an idol very much on an unfortunate downward curve these days, so much to answer for. It’s given us some of the most amazing acts and subcultures of the popular music age. But I’ll advance a theory here, if I may; there’s very much two …

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A FEW weeks ago Backseat Mafia had the pleasure to catch up with Charley Keigher, wordsmith of the rejuvenated King of the Slums. He revealed in the interview – which you can read in full, here – that they were due to “start mixing the new album in a few weeks; got two more albums …

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KING OF THE SLUMS came snarling out of inner-city Manchester in 1986, full of condensed vignettes of raw city living, distorted violins and a deep, dark vision. After a hiatus, they’re back, with current round-up of recent work, ‘Our Favourite Trainers’, available now – we caught up with creative kingpin Charley Keigher for a chat – he also gave us a couple of exclusive photographs. Do read on …

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THEY emerged from Hulme in 1986, breathing sour fire and an eagle eye for unfashionable detail. Second cousins of The Fall in the way they filtered and spat language to reach deeper, following the grimy thread of it back through 21st-century estates and the Industrial Revolution to a lost, almost medieval rural folk tongue, as …

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