Good For The Soul

What would you do if you could travel back in time? Assassinate Marilyn Monroe? Go on a date with Hitler? Obviously. But here’s what I’d do after that: grab all the modern technology I could find, take it to the late 70′s. Alex Varanese is a San Francisco based artist.

Over 20 years before the the launch of the iPod, the must have music device was the Walkman. A personal cassette player capable of holding 2 hours of tunes, that is if you had a C120 tape, 60 minutes of musical pleasure on each side.

Friend of the site, Matthew Comer, is going to be the first ever Illinois Route 66 Ambassador. Well there was a competition with over 100 nominees, whittled down to 5, Matthew won.

DJ Gareth Brooks started his radio career whilst living in Cyprus, since then he has become a much loved DJ in Manchester and plays regularly at some of the cities best clubs.

Million Dollar Disco has been around for a long time, initially as a record label, then a website, hosting mixes from some of the world’s most respected DJs and record collectors.

Second up in our interviews via Twitter is Manchester photographer Matthew Comer

Fast forward to 1980 and the year I got my first pair of Adidas trainers, the end of no name pumps and copy Adidas 5 stripes from Asda, I had hit the big time.