If you’ve ever cared about Manchester and the people who made this fantastic City all that it is. If Manchester is more to you than just a word, then please donate to this cause. Ancoats Dispensary …

FC United of Manchester members have the opportunity to put their principles where their mouths are once again, when they can vote for the club to not be permitted to pay for SKY TV or any other pay-per-view television network. In essence, fans can decide there will be no SKY TV at their new home in Moston.

From The Guardian’s ‘Doing Things Differently’ series, published this week:
FC United of Manchester is a very different kind of football team – with an emphasis on the fans and the community, writes Patrick Kingsley…
When Manchester …

We joined the Bulgarian delegation that were being shown around 1 Angel Square…
The great thing about being part of the co-operative movement is that you can seem all right-on and egalitarian, but at no point does the Co-operative Society talk of equality.

Jazz and folk musician Terry Callier has died at the age of 67.
The Chicago-born singer-songwriter was found dead at his home in America on Sunday after suffering a long illness, according to reports.
Issue one …

I left the church deaf, what is not really the done thing..
The next thing I came across was the laughing yoga..

Cheetham Hill’s lovely Josephine Oniyama is doing alright. She performed at FC United’s Course You Can Malcolm event last season and is on Later with Jools Holland this week.

Packed menu of stupidity, intellectual endeavour, cake, live music, controversial ceremonial mastering and tater hash.
Burning from the Inside, the radiant Manchester band, will be playing their unique brand of fiery music.

On Friday 19th October CYCM regulars and FC Utd fans Revenge Of The Psychotronic Man will launch their brand new full length album ‘Shattered Dreams Parkway’.
The album follows up from the critically acclaimed 2009 album, ‘Make Pigs Smoke’

From the very good fleetstreetfox.com:
ALLOW me to tell you about a family of scroungers.
Brenda is the 86-year-old matriarch, and the only job she’s done which most of us would recognise as such lasted less than …

The allegorical Nun will probably make her second exclusive to Course You Can Malcolm appearance.
Discs will be gyrating orchestrated by the mighty Pace and any other vinyl wielding Malcolmses migrant.