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Manc 77: Andy Spinoza - The Human Pinball of Manchester
“I came here with a blank page to be written on”
PR mogul Andy Spinoza came to Manchester from London in 1979, drawn by the city’s radical history, its growing music scene and the urge to find a place to “fit”.
Lisa Morton finds out how he tried and failed to interview Tony Wilson in a front room in Rusholme’s Moon Grove, what it was like to launch the alternative magazine “City Life” and why he described himself as “Manchester’s human pinball” during his time working as the diary columnist for The Manchester Evening News.
Andy started his own PR firm SKV Communications in the late 90s and had a hand in the architectural regeneration of Mancher’s city centre, working on the likes of the launch of Beetham Tower in the mid-2000s
So, what drove him to recently call time on his PR business and instead chronicle 40 years of musical, social, and architectural transformation in the city that made him?
Andy’s new Book “Manchester Unspun” captures a moment in Manchester's rich cultural history and encapsulates a city in artistic and political flux.
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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.
To celebrate the 26 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.
Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:
Via our website
On Instagram
On Twitter
On Spotify
Connect with Andy
Buy his book
On Instagram
On Twitter
Mentioned in this episode:
We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University
On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.
Wherever your business wants to be, Manchester Met is there to help you go further.
Visit https://www.mmu.ac.uk/business or follow Business at Manchester Met on LinkedIn, to find out more.
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“I came here with a blank page to be written on”
PR mogul Andy Spinoza came to Manchester from London in 1979, drawn by the city’s radical history, its growing music scene and the urge to find a place to “fit”.
Lisa Morton finds out how he tried and failed to interview Tony Wilson in a front room in Rusholme’s Moon Grove, what it was like to launch the alternative magazine “City Life” and why he described himself as “Manchester’s human pinball” during his time working as the diary columnist for The Manchester Evening News.
Andy started his own PR firm SKV Communications in the late 90s and had a hand in the architectural regeneration of Mancher’s city centre, working on the likes of the launch of Beetham Tower in the mid-2000s
So, what drove him to recently call time on his PR business and instead chronicle 40 years of musical, social, and architectural transformation in the city that made him?
Andy’s new Book “Manchester Unspun” captures a moment in Manchester's rich cultural history and encapsulates a city in artistic and political flux.
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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.
To celebrate the 26 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.
Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:
Via our website
On Instagram
On Twitter
On Spotify
Connect with Andy
Buy his book
On Instagram
On Twitter
Mentioned in this episode:
We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University
On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.
Wherever your business wants to be, Manchester Met is there to help you go further.
Visit https://www.mmu.ac.uk/business or follow Business at Manchester Met on LinkedIn, to find out more.
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