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Manchester District Music Archive

3 Sep 2009

Manchester District Music Archive (MDM Archive) is an online, user-led resource celebrating the music of Manchester. Its creators want as many people as possible to contribute, and are aiming for it to become the world's biggest historical archive of items from the Greater Manchester music scene ever assembled. And they need your help!

MDM Archive is a not-for-profit organisation run by volunteers, and since it was set up in 2005, users have uploaded thousands of scanned music artefacts, photos and other mementos, adding to the ever-growing archive. If you look it up, you'll find the people's story of Manchester music, told through flyers, posters, tickets, photos of gigs, clubs and venues, fanzines, badges and press cuttings.

It already includes memorabilia that would turn many a collector green with envy: a pencil-written Happy Mondays set list, a Stone Roses flyer for the Hacienda, a back stage pass for New Order, as well as rare records, photos and posters. But MDM Archive wants items connected to every single band, busker and blues artist from the area whether anyone's heard of them or not. 

Anyone can join MDM Archive's quest and no-one is being asked to part with any of the items donated. All that's needed is a scan of the item, which is then exhibited at the online archive with its story attached, preserved in cyberspace forever.

Full details of how to donate are on the site at www.mdmarchive.co.uk

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