City Life (magazine)
City Life was a Manchester-based listings magazine that was published between December 1983 and December 2005. It was a distinctive blend of radical politics and coverage of the increasingly exciting Manchester youth culture scene of the early 1980s, coinciding with the rise of Factory records and The Haçienda.
The magazine was started by a small group of Manchester University former and current students on a shoestring budget in rented offices in a run-down building South of the city centre. However, it developed rapidly in professionalism and grew in prominence and influence in Manchester and beyond.
In 1989, it was bought by the Guardian Media Group (GMG), publishers of The Guardian and The Manchester Evening News. GMG changed the style of the magazine, focusing more on listings and interviews, and branching out into publishing guide books and sponsoring events such as the City Life Food and Drink Festival and the City Life Comedian of the Year competition.
In November 2005 it was announced that City Life was to close, with the edition published on 7 December being the final one.
City Life formed a loose association in 1984/5 with some other regional listings magazines including among others Due South Magazine (Southampton), Venue (Bristol), Coaster (Bournemouth), and The List (Glasgow and Edinburgh). Of these only Venue and The List survive, having been continually published since 1982 and 1985 respectively.
Towards the end of 2008 the Manchester Evening News launched Citylife.co.uk[1] Greater Manchester’s definitive guide to what’s on. As well as the latest entertainment news, the new CityLife website allows users to read and write reviews on a number of categories including restaurants, bars, pubs & clubs around Greater Manchester, as well as uploading new events and venues people may not have heard of yet.
Not only does CityLife provide news and reviews on the latest happenings around the city, users can also search their wide database listings to find exactly what they are looking for around Greater Manchester.
Notable people associated with City Life
Writers:
- Mark Kermode
- Tony Wilson
- John Robb
- Daniel Brocklehurst
- Louise Rhodes
- Jon Ronson
- Henry Normal
- Melvin Burgess
External links
- Article on City Life's closure at Guardian Unlimited (requires registration)
Manchester Evening News[2]
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