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This to do in... Manchester / Hebden Bridge
I'm staying in Manchester for the next few days as I'm currently on the road with Ed Harcourt.
We're playing Hebden Bridge tomorrow. Anyone ever been there? Apparently Sylvia Plath's grave is there and it's the Lesbian capital of England, and that is literally all I can find out about it from the web.
Hopefully heading out for some drinks in Manchester tonight (there's talk of going to an EMO night at somewhere called Satan's Hollow!?). Feel like I've been to Manchester 10 times or more now for gigs and not really seen much more than the Northern Quarter. What should I do in a few spare hours today? Must be some of the city I should see. Not sure I can stomach getting a Salford Lads Club photo taken...
Sylvia Plath's grave is indeed there but fucked if we could find it
It's not actually in Hebden, you have to climb a bit of a hill to Heptonstall, which is really nice with a couple of tiny pubs and tea rooms etc. And then two churches one of which has her grave, somewhere. In amongst about 300 others.
Hebden Bridge is generally lovely though, if you get a chance try to catch a film at picture house. It's like 80 years old and you can get a proper brew in a mug in your seat while watching the film.
DoTs' Ma
In either place!
Oh no.
I didn't mean her bum or her fanny.
aye you did
Satans Hollow is a bit much pal.
I think Sean would love Satans Hollow
i went yesterday
it was alreet, played american nightmare
National Football Museum?
Definitely go to Satans Hollow
Come to Dulcimer in Chorlton tonight
That's where the cool kids be at yo
moousee said he'll buy you a drink
there's not really much to actually 'do' in hebden bridge
but it's nice to wonder about for a bit
I like to get a few pies from the pie shop and go walking on the moors nearby or down hardcastle crags maybe
the pies are really good
there's a really friendly wetherspoon's on deansgate that you should totally go to.
there's a lot of heroin in hebdon bridge and if neither you or harcourt are borderline paedos then i wouldn't bother with satan's hollow
heroin could be quite fun on a saturday night in hebdon bridge.
apparently there are more addicts there per hundred or whatever than anywhere else in the world. Or the uk. I don't know, let's go with the world.
Pretty sure the winner of that accolade is my hometown
Have you seen
Shed Your Tears And Walk Away?
Heard rumours it's the suicide capital of the UK
but the surrounding countryside is pretty lovely. Probably due to the heavy rain, being stuck in a valley which makes everything sunny in Leeds (and everything fucking awful where I come from!)
also the lesbian capital of the north
Comfortable shoes, pies, allotments and heroin. Hebden Bridge.
Stay out of Chorlton
printworks, its really good
you would love entourage
Satan's Hollow is OK
Another Manchester alternative club that seems smaller than it actually should be, but if you like emo/gothic/punky/metteley stuff then should be a fun night.