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Post your questions for Michael Winterbottom
With us to mark the 24th anniversary of 24 Hour Party People, the director’s work includes everything from Cracker to A Cock and Bull Story, Wonderland to Welcome to Sarajevo. And, of course, The Trip Of course, the 90s couldn’t be any more in vogue at the minute – but the 90s couldn’t have happened without the 80s. And that’s where 24 Hour Party People comes in, Michael Winterbottom’s riotous 2002 film that charts Manchester’s music scene from the Sex Pistols’ legendary 1976 Lesser Free Trade Hall gig through Factory Records, Joy Division, New Order and into the Madchester era of Happy Mondays and the Haçienda. It’s the story of Manchester music before Oasis swaggered in and took over the world, and it stars Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Andy Serkis and John Simm – plus Steve Coogan as the late broadcaster and Factory Records boss Tony Wilson. After studying English at Oxford, Win
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With us to mark the 24th anniversary of 24 Hour Party People, the director’s work includes everything from Cracker to A Cock and Bull Story, Wonderland to Welcome to Sarajevo. And, of course, The Trip Of course, the 90s couldn’t be any more in vogue at the minute – but the 90s couldn’t have happened without the 80s. And that’s where 24 Hour Party People comes in, Michael Winterbottom’s riotous 2002 film that charts Manchester’s music scene from the Sex Pistols’ legendary 1976 Lesser Free Trade Hall gig through Factory Records, Joy Division, New Order and into the Madchester era of Happy Mondays and the Haçienda. It’s the story of Manchester music before Oasis swaggered in and took over the world, and it stars Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Andy Serkis and John Simm – plus Steve Coogan as the late broadcaster and Factory Records boss Tony Wilson. After studying English at Oxford, Win
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Post your questions for Michael Winterbottom, With us to mark the 24th anniversary of 24 Hour Party People, the director’s work includes everything from Cracker to A Cock and Bull Story, Wonderland to Welcome to Sarajevo. And, of course, The Trip Of course, the 90s couldn’t be any more in vogue at the minute – but the 90s couldn’t have happened without the 80s. And that’s where 24 Hour Party People comes in, Michael Winterbottom’s riotous 2002 film that charts Manchester’s music scene from the Sex Pistols’ legendary 1976 Lesser Free Trade Hall gig through Factory Records, Joy Division, New Order and into the Madchester era of Happy Mondays and the Haçienda. It’s the story of Manchester music before Oasis swaggered in and took over the world, and it stars Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Andy Serkis and John Simm – plus Steve Coogan as the late broadcaster and Factory Records boss Tony Wilson. After studying English at Oxford, Win
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