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Stockport Music Story An illustrated journey through Stockport's illustrious musical history from The Beatles to Blossoms.
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21/10/2026

Please watch our short film about the amazing ‘Art In The Underpass’ at Stockport Station. 🎥

This project has been incredible to work on as it has brought together six amazing Stockport artists and graphic designers - and Joe Barratt.

This film features comments from Lisa Musgrave - Stockport Station Manager , Gillian Renshaw - Community Rail Officer, Vivian Lally - featured artist and musicians Joe Beard from The Purple Gang, Dee Christopholus from Wimple Winch and Pete Maclaine from Pete Maclaine and The Clan. Massive thanks to Dave Richardson from Rich TV for filming the whole experience.

This project has been made possible through the great collaborative work between Stockport Station and the South East Manchester and Crewe to Manchester Community Rail Partnerships.

It’s had an amazing impact brightening the underpass and bringing back so many memories to Stockport commuters every day.

If you haven’t seen it, please walk through and tell us what you think!

It was a pleasure to host a special Walking Tour of the ‘Art In The Underpass’ at Stockport Station today for the group ...
20/10/2026

It was a pleasure to host a special Walking Tour of the ‘Art In The Underpass’ at Stockport Station today for the group members at Age UK Stockport.

We met at the Age UK Headquarters in Edgeley and walked down to the Underpass taking in all the brilliant artwork on the station wall.

Inside the underpass, John conducted a tour of the artworks sharing the stories depicted in the beautiful work illustrated by our amazing Stockport artists Viv Lally Emily Flanagan and

It was lovely to hear the stories and memories evoked by the artwork. When we got back to The Hub, there was a lovely lunch followed by listening to some Stockport music and more memories.

Thank you to Avanti West Coast and South East Manchester and Crewe to Manchester Community Rail Partnerships for their kind support which has made these walking tours possible. 🙏

We are excited to announce our Smiths Walking Tour and Joe Moss Plaque Unveiling on Sunday 1st November. This is 43 year...
20/10/2026

We are excited to announce our Smiths Walking Tour and Joe Moss Plaque Unveiling on Sunday 1st November.

This is 43 years and one day since the release of ‘This Charming Man’, the second single by The Smiths which entered the Top 30 in November 1983.

Joe Moss was a Stockport fashion entrepreneur, the founder of the iconic Crazy Face clothing company and the original manager of The Smiths. Joe guided the band to their early success and was a life long mentor to guitarist Johnny Marr.

Our ticketed walking tour starts at Stockport station at 11am and takes in some sites of musical significance in the Smiths’ story including Strawberry Studios. 🍓

The tour will then make its way to the Plaque Unveiling for Joe, which takes place at midday at 11 Lower Hillgate beneath the Crazy Face sign.

Afterwards, we will gather in The Underbank bar to share stories and listen to a specially curated playlist from DJ Jason Boardman, who worked at Crazy Face from being a young teenager and was a close friend of Joe’s. Everyone is welcome.

Tickets for the Walking Tour are priced £5 plus booking fee on Skiddle, see below for link. All ticket proceeds go to The Christie charity in honour of Joe.

Our huge thanks to Avanti West Coast and the South East Manchester and Crewe to Manchester Community Rail Partnerships for their kind support making these tours possible. Heartfelt thanks also to The Moss Family for all their help and support curating the plaque for Joe and to Vivian Lally Art for her amazing artwork.

Please join us either on the ticketed Walking Tour meeting at 11am at the station or at the Crazy Face sign on Lower Hillgate at midday where we celebrate Joe’s contribution to the development of one of the most important and influential bands in Britain.



https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Stockport/Stockport-Station/The-Smiths-Walking-Tour-and-Joe-Moss-Plaque-Unveiling/43044554/

Look out for our tribute to Crazy Face clothing on the side of 11-13 Lower Hillgate. The legendary Stockport fashion bra...
08/10/2026

Look out for our tribute to Crazy Face clothing on the side of 11-13 Lower Hillgate. The legendary Stockport fashion brand was founded by Joe Moss, original manager of The Smiths Official and mentor to

Massive thanks to the expert work of Damian Whyatt and the support of GRIT STUDIOS CIC for making this possible and for including it in their Move A Mile project.

Huge thanks also to Steven and Paul Cook for all their support and for allowing us to use the side of their building. 🙏

We'll be unveiling our commemorative record plaque honouring Joe Moss very soon. 👀

We were honoured to be invited by to give a presentation at International Day of Older People at John spoke about our p...
01/10/2026

We were honoured to be invited by to give a presentation at International Day of Older People at

John spoke about our project celebrating Stockport’s music history and how it helps to bring people together to remember significant moments for our town and invokes so many great memories.

It was great to chat with the Mayor of Stockport about his own musical memories and chat to the audience about their Stockport music stories. 🎶

With our art exhibition in Stockport Station Underpass, we are currently hosting a series of walking tours and talks kindly supported by Avanti West Coast South East Manchester CRP and Crewe to Manchester CRP and free tours for Stockport community groups.

! 🖼️ Thank you to everyone who came to our artwork reveal, walking tour and talk at Stockport Station. 🚉 This was the...
27/09/2026

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Thank you to everyone who came to our artwork reveal, walking tour and talk at Stockport Station. 🚉

This was the first in a series of tours and talks based at Stockport railway station with proceeds from ticket sales going to mentell - the men’s mental health charity.

Huge thanks to our amazing supporters who have made this possible - Gill Renshaw from South East Manchester CRP and Lisa Musgrave and the team from and Stockport Station who have been so amazingly accommodating by allowing us to use their Conference Room for our talk and providing complimentary refreshments. 🙏

Huge thanks to Viv Lally the brilliant Stockport artist who created the 10cc artwork and Dr Peter Wadsworth the curator of the archive for an absolutely brilliant talk about 10cc who treated the audience to some exclusive previously unheard 10cc audio from his archive of tapes.

We’ve also got to hear from Strawberry Studios’ founder Peter Tattersall who addressed the auduence on the phone as he wasn’t able to join us.

Thank you to the wonderful audience who were so engaged and stayed to ask questions.

Please pop down to see the artwork in Stockport Station Underpass and keep a look out for our future events - our next artwork unveiling coming soon which will be in honour of

You can check out the artwork featured in Stockport Underpass at our website. Link in bio.

What an amazing day we had at the Merch Market in Massive thanks to and his team for making this such a spectacular ev...
21/09/2026

What an amazing day we had at the Merch Market in

Massive thanks to and his team for making this such a spectacular event! Paul has worked so hard to facilitate such a great opportunity for so many young bands and artists and it was a huge triumph. 👏

Lovely to see so many friendly music fans under one roof and we had many great chats with visitors who had supported so many of the bands and musicians by snapping up their merch. 🛍️

Great to catch up with our dear friend who signed our copy of his brilliant book The Manchester Chronicles. Fantastic to see it was a family affair with .boon_bass and Cassius Boon! 🌟

Thank you to everyone who came and bought from us - we now have less than twenty copies of left in the world! 🌎

Also we were selling our amazing music art prints many of which have been hand painted by the phenomenal who was at the next stall to us!

We love doing market events as we get a chance to meet so many beautiful people and this has been a stand out event. 💯

Looking forward to the rest of the Festival and of course on Friday! 🎉

Happy 79th Birthday to the youngest member of 10cc, Lol Crème! 🥳 Lol was the lead falsetto vocal on the 10cc debut singl...
19/09/2026

Happy 79th Birthday to the youngest member of 10cc, Lol Crème! 🥳

Lol was the lead falsetto vocal on the 10cc debut single ‘Donna’ that got to number two in the charts in 1972. Kevin Godley sang the lower vocal and the pair co-wrote the song together which kickstarted the band's amazing career with a strong of hit singles and albums.

The 10cc legacy is as strong as ever with the imminent release of The Stockport Shuffle on Cherry Red Records.

This six CD box set is a unique collection of 10cc recordings for Jonathan King’s UK Records label 1972-1974 featuring previously unissued alternative versions, album session highlights, out-takes, rehearsals and BBC recordings. It also includes a bonus DVD/Blu-ray Disc with live TV performances and Surround Sound mixes. 📺

The Stockport Shuffle is a heavily expanded overview of the first two widely acclaimed albums ‘10cc’ and ‘Sheet Music’ with a 40-page booklet and featuring rare photos, band quotes and a new 7000 word essay on their time at UK Records.

This definitive document of 10cc’s early years when they created some of the sharpest, wittiest and most intelligent pop music ever made. Pre order at Cherry Red Records for release on 20th November.

We still have a few tickets left for our 10cc artwork reveal, walking tour and talk at Stockport Station on Sunday 27th September. Strawberry Studios' archivistPeter Wadsworth will be playing some never-hear-before studio outtakes and showing some exclusive photographs of the band from the Strawberry archive.

See link below, tickets from Skiddle

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Stockport/Stockport-Station/Art-in-the-Underpass-10cc-Artwork-Reveal-Walking-Tour--Talk/42728890/

We spent a lovely evening on a Walking Tour of our commemorative record plaques with the good people of Fairhurst Buckle...
18/09/2026

We spent a lovely evening on a Walking Tour of our commemorative record plaques with the good people of Fairhurst Buckley

As well as visiting the important sites of musical interest in Stockport, we also made time for pit stops in some of the town’s fab independent venues.

We gathered at The Apple Core on Middle Hillgate for our first drink. From there we took in our plaques at , The Tabernacle and Yellow 2 on Bamford Street.

From there we walked back down Middle Hillgate to see the Eric Haydock plaque on The Red Bull, Stockport

With a quick stop to take in Lowry’s famous Crowther Street, we headed up High Street to see the mural and plaque to the Girls Aloud singer who became an honorary Stopfordian

We walked down the steps at Coopers Brow past Bohemian Salon to Lower Hillgate to admire the new units at 11-13 home of new clothing store Herd Store

The light was fading which added to the atmosphere of Royal Oak Yard, where we took in the plaque for The Sinking Ship, the subterranean ‘60s club where Jimi Hendrix played in 1967.

Another pit stop in The Underbank before admiring the impressive Joy Division Official mural above the venue with commemorative plaque to Unknown Pleasures, the seminal album produced in Stockport.

Our final stage took in the plaque for Inter-City Studios, next to the historic Underbank Hall, the first home for Strawberry Studios. 🍓

Then it was a stretch up the hill to the Market Place to see the final plaque of the evening Hologram Studios on Park Street where Mick Hucknall first recorded ‘Holding Back The Years’ in 1982.

Our tour ended at Thread | Belgium Bar🇧🇪 where the Mercury Climbing launch party was in full swing with The Lottery Winners Thom Rylance on the DJ decks

If your company would like a specially curated tour of Stockport’s musical history with pit stops in the town’s amazing venues, please get in touch!

We are super excited to be part of Mercury Climbing Festival at The Stockport Market this Sunday with so many amazing...
16/09/2026

We are super excited to be part of Mercury Climbing Festival at The Stockport Market this Sunday with so many amazing bands and musicians. 🎸 🥁 🎤

We’ll have some limited edition merch including the last copies of our Forever red vinyl album, T-shirts, signed books and tote bags and our range of Stockport Music Story art prints by amazing local artists Viv Lally Emily Flanagan as seen at our art exhibition in the Stockport Station Underpass. 🖼️

There’s loads of live music happening throughout the day and in the evening we’ll be heading down to stmaryschurchview for Jazzy and Badly Drawn Boy

The Merch Market is completely free to attend so come on down to enjoy a great day in Stockport Old Town.

We can’t wait for this year’s Mercury Climbing Festival which launches tomorrow evening with a party at Thread | Belgium Bar🇧🇪 including a DJ set from Thom Rylance from The Lottery Winners

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