Joy Winder - Cultural Associations

Cultural Associations

The poet Jane Crewdson lived for part of her life in Whalley Range. The writer Dodie Smith spent part of her early life at Claremont, Wood Road, as she records in her autobiography Look Back With Love (1974).

The district also has a number of musical associations, including:

  • Whalley Range is home to Extraordinary Rendition Manchester Musicians' Collective (aka EXR) which is based at the Carlton Club, Carlton Road, Whalley Range, Manchester M16 8BE. EXR comprises upwards of 100 Manchester bands and acoustic performers. EXR records, established during 2007 released its first compilation album in December 2007.
  • Steve Hopkins, record producer and keyboardist of John Cooper Clarke, Nico, The Invisible Girls, and the Archangel Orchestra, lived in Whalley Range and has an art studio there.
  • The Smiths' eponymous album referenced Whalley Range in the song Miserable Lie, with the lyrics "What do we get for our trouble and pain? Just a rented room in Whalley Range".

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