Music in Manchester

Music in Manchester

Listen to Ella talking about Manchester, a city in the north of England with a very exciting music scene.

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Preparation

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Interviewer: Hi, Ella!

Ella: Hello!

Interviewer: Thanks for talking to me today. What do you want to talk about?

Ella: Well, I love music. So I'd like to talk about music.

Interviewer: Fantastic.

Ella: As you might be able to tell, my accent isn't from the UK. I was born in Canada but I live in Manchester now and I'm so happy that I do because I love the music scene there. It's really interesting: the history that's come from the acid house movement through bands like the Happy Mondays, the Dillons, through the culture of clubbing that came from the Hacienda has now left this really cool community of artists of all different genres who still gig and perform there in Manchester. It's really cool hanging out in the Northern Quarter. It's an area that used to be mills back in the industrial era of Manchester but now it's turned into coffee shops and clubs and restaurants.

Interviewer: Cool! And do you make music yourself?

Ella: Yes. I play guitar and piano and I sing. And getting to play with the other musicians there has introduced me to playing a lot more electronic instruments as well, like drum sequencers, playing with Ableton and playing with DJs. What's really interesting about Manchester is the musicians in Manchester focus a lot more on what they love to make than, in my opinion, musicians in London. Musicians in Manchester really like to focus in on the time they spend in the studio and the time they spend creating, forming smaller and smaller communities to hone into a weird or specific sound, whereas in London people are a lot more out and about, and they like performing and socialising and being around each other.

Interviewer: Mmm. Do you think you'll stay living in Manchester for a long time or are you planning to go back to Canada?

Ella: I really like Manchester. I think I'll stay there because the smaller population has meant that the community is a lot more connected and we see each other by circumstance a lot more frequently. So, yes, I would like to stay in Manchester!

Interviewer: Great. Thank you very much for talking to us.

Ella: Yes – thank  you.

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is a name for a place, in spanish the meaning for hacienda is where you will find a building inside a huge area, the hacienda is autosustainable.
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Submitted by Ahmed K on Sun, 26/04/2020 - 14:01

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i like music very much . it gives me alot of power that make me encouraged here in egypt we got quiet alot of different kinds of music but the most famous ones are the folk music . here it has started to take a new innovative path especially during latest years after the widesprad of the internet and youtube channels which is like a big platform for the folk musicians to show their talents in writing and composing their songs also i love to listen to english bands like "rise against , imagine dragon, ....etc "

Submitted by raxmatovdilmurod on Thu, 23/04/2020 - 16:24

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I really like the music. I used to listen the music everyday. I would like to listen to the english music and my favoriete singers are Lana Del Rey, Sia, Ed shereen and Sam Simith and also Adele. In my country musicians usually sing the folk music.
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Submitted by javierbl on Fri, 13/03/2020 - 21:44

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Submitted by Uche_Blessing on Mon, 24/02/2020 - 19:09

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Yes I do...very much, I suppose. Music brings calmness of mind and soul. It's my way of getting psychological relief..or should I say, healing? Where i live, people play POP, Rap etc music...I've never been good at identifying music genres anyway. I just personally love anything slow, serene, gentle, soothing etc. So i guess that should be RnB...Blues etc.

Submitted by saied tarek on Wed, 19/02/2020 - 17:02

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music is the best thing ever i prefer many genres as edm or pop and trap

Submitted by orianadanuta on Tue, 18/02/2020 - 04:11

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Amazing these exercises! you can record a lot of vocabulary and