Salford Star Magazine

It was with great sadness to learn of the passing of Vinny North, a good friend to the Salford Star, who wasn’t afraid to stand up for his rights and the rights of others despite many personal problems. The Star published his fights against Salford Council and his poems which sought to find a way through to a better life. Vinny was a proper Salford Star.
Vinny’s funeral will be on Monday 30th September at 11am St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Wardley Road Salford M28 2UJ. All welcome.

8 beautiful ex Salford Star lucky collection tins looking for a new home - free to a good cause!!!

New AR Salford Music Trail features Bury New Road Icons

Amazing Augmented Reality Salford Music Trail Features Bury New Road Icons Bury New Road icons, Mark E Smith and John Cooper Clarke, plus New Order, Joy Division and The Smiths are

Jamie Reid - mate, collaborator and creative inspiration over the years. He never sold out and his images spoke more than a thousand political words, appearing loads in the Salford Star. R.I.P. and let's F**k Forever!!!!

When Bury New Road was tangerine - Salford City FC Before the Class of '92 takeover...

Salford City FC Before The Class of ’92 Takeover The Unibond First Division North. Mention this league to anyone who’s only into Premier League football and they’ll be going

The one day free Bury New Road Festival noon-7pm Friday 15th July at the Broughton Hub -

Human rights solicitor, friend of Mary Burns Community Group, the Salford Star and supporter of the Bury New Road heritage project sadly passes away...

Pioneering Human Rights Solicitor, Mary Monson, Passes Away… Mary Monson, who founded Mary Monson Solicitors in 1979, died last Saturday after a short illness. A passionate defender of

From the makers of the Salford Star, the Bury New Road heritage website is now live and launched!!!

Home Welcome to the Bury New Road website A heritage project that seeks to point out the amazing people and events

Yay! The Bury New Road project has hit the Manchester Evening News today!

Bury New Road has changed the world in more ways than you can think of Neal Keeling looks at a project joining the dots that link Friedrich Engels, John Cooper Clarke, David Beckham, Bugzy Malone, The Smiths, the Jacobite Rebellion, The Chartists, and many more

Announcement: Huge Bury New Road heritage project to start this year, pointing out the magic of the A56 that links John Cooper Clarke, The Fall, The Smiths, 10CC, Bugzy Malone, Nico, New Order, Friedrich Engels, The Chartists, Strangeways Riots, the Jacobite Revolution, Railways Naturalists and loads more. Expect open community days, exhibitions, banners, a slang Yiddish dictionary, loads of portraits, films, trail booklets and more! Looking for volunteers for all sorts of stuff. Anyone wanting to get involved please PM us – Mary Burns Community Group or email [email protected]

Bury New Road’s Bugzy Malone, the King of the North has amassed over 100 million views on You Tube and plays to 20,000 people at a sold out AO Arena tonight. Last night he played a secret intimate gig at JD Sports in the Arndale Centre to launch his new range of Skeleton trainers and said playing the home town gig will be a ‘spiritual’ and ‘emotional’ experience...

“Breaking down doors” is how Bugzy Malone describes his mission. From Bury New Road to world domination, he’s already trashed the music biz, amassing zillions of views on YouTube, releasing mega selling albums and now in the midst of a sell out tour that lands at the AO Arena tonight.

“I feel that people who are fans of me are like connected to me” he told an intimate audience at a special appearance in the JD Sports store in the Arndale last night “So when I get to stand up and perform in front of pure people who are connected to me, it’s like a bit spiritual, it’s mad...It’s an emotional thing for me...a big deal for me....”

Grime...rap...call it what you want but Bugzy’s rich lyrics are pure brilliant psycho-sociology; of the journey from getting evicted from his home on Bury New Road, to becoming the ‘King of the North’, acknowledged by anyone under 25 and anyone older who gets a taste...

‘I say welcome to the hood, welcome to the hood
Where no-one teaches you to love because we’re all products of lust
We learn to tell a lie before we even learn to trust...
The person they call mental health is the person we call mum...’

It takes John Cooper Clarke’s Beasley Street - also coming from Bury New Road - to a new, now dimension. But where Johnny Clarke stuck to the literary world, with a bit of music chucked in, Bugzy is going all out in the film world – now on his second Guy Ritchie movie – and storming the world of fashion...

“I’m out here kicking down doors” he said in the on-stage Q&A session with Specs Gonzalez last night “When people started calling me King of the North I took it seriously because of what I’m trying to do...They never used to take Manchester seriously and then I started breaking records, making serious money...

“They take us seriously so therefore what I’m doing is breaking down doors in the clothing industry and the people behind me can come through and get taken seriously” he added “And the same things happening in the film industry; and it’s already happened in the music business.”

The Skeleton trainers, retailing at £110 and launched at the JD Sports pa, were, he said, “designed around the anatomy of a scorpion...When I was young and getting into bits of trouble there was a Nike jacket we used to wear that had a similar kind of design, so I decided to strip it back make them the Skeletons.”

It all makes a change from what’s currently rattling in the culture closet, where Manchester and Salford hasn’t been on the mega music map since Oasis, with the Mondays, Hacienda, Hookie and New Order still touring to keep the flame alive. Bugzy Malone, for the last few years has been re-establishing the place as ‘far from ordinary’...

“People underestimate Manchester as a talented place so there’s much more...waves and waves that will come through” he concluded.

And tonight feels like something very, very special happening at the start of Bury New Road...“It will be my honour to perform...”

Photos by Louise Garman

Ok, from the makers of Salford Star comes the Bury New Road project... ..So, does anyone think that Bury New Road - from Strangeways to the M60 Junction at Prestwich - should be the centre of a new heritage project given its incredible cultural and social history, from The Fall to The Chartists to John Cooper Clarke, Strangeways, the Jacobites, Fred Engels,10CC etc. If so, what sort of things should be covered?

I know the Salford Star has now closed but thought people might be interested to know the proposed boundary changes for constituencies that will see Broughton move back into Salford, and a new Worsley and Eccles constituency (all of Eccles plus Astley Mosley Common) while Walkden (North and South) and Little Hulton will move to the Bolton South and Walkden constituency

Salford Star closes after 15 years - with attitude and love # # # https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6355

Salford Star Closure: How Salford Council tried to block and discredit the Salford Star https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6354

Salford has 7 new coronavirus cases as restrictions eased today. This is the final coronavirus bulletin from the Salford Star - with a review of the pandemic to date including out of their depth politicians, a lack of information and community groups that saw the vulnerable through the crisis https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6353

Salford Star Closure: How Salford Council Tried to Stop the Star: a warning to those who follow doing real community journalism. Part 1. https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6352

Salford Star Closure: Guy Griffiths writes Part 2 on the human cost of regeneration in Higher Broughton https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6351

Salford has 14 new coronavirus cases as virus rates rise in Greater Manchester and people are being urged to be cautious when restrictions are eased tomorrow https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6350

Salford Star Closure: 8 happenings that encapsulate Salford Part 2 - Corbyn on Salford Precinct, Paul Massey Funeral, Salford City FC and the Boxing Day Flood https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6349

Salford Star Closure: 8 happenings that have encapsulated Salford over 15 years. Part 1 - Salford Uni, MediaCityUK, Cladding Crisis and the Riot https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6348

Salford Star Closure: What's been demolished, what's left and what's worth saving in Salford... https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6347

Salford has 6 new cases of coronavirus as Salford Public Health team urges caution when restrictions are lifted further on Monday https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6346

Salford Star closure: Guy Griffiths on the demolition of the Top Streets in Higher Broughton https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6345

Salford has 12 new coronavirus cases as MP Barbara Keeley pays Parliamentary quilt tribute to key workers and Public Health England states that vaccines have prevented 33,000 hospital admissions https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=6344