A.D. Amorosi Just over 50 years ago, on the same day, June 16, 1972, two albums were released that changed the landscape of rock and its sartorial splendor: Roxy Music’s eponymously titled debut and David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.” While each album was conveniently tagged as part of the start of glam-rock and its slow movement from Britain to the U.S., “Roxy Music” was something that “Ziggy Stardust” was not, despite the latter’s grandeur: downright weird. Dressed in a mix of ’50s greaser leather, silver spacesuits and more feathers than a revival of “La Cage aux Folles,” warbling crooner Bryan Ferry, saxophonist/oboist Andy Mackay, psychedelic guitarist Phil Manzanera, tom-tom heavy drummer Paul Thompson and slippery synthesizer player Brian Eno made a driving, sinister, suave brand of noisy avant-rock and Dadaist lyric-filled music like no other.
'I've learned so much from the bird who's moved in next door to me'
29.08.2022 - 19:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
When you think of city living, what most people picture is excited yuppies sipping natural wine, wearing sunglasses, with some tapas -or a raucous rave in a basement below a warehouse in a soon-to-be-gentrified industrial estate. What they might not think of, however, is the simple joy a nesting bird can bring.
Cormorants are now widespread across Britain, and as a bird which eats fish, can be found on the coast or around inland water. At one point, due to fertiliser pollution, they were threatened — but numbers have bounced back in the last 40 years, particularly in areas which border the Irish Sea.
Now, Manchester is famous for having everything except a beach, as Ian Brown once quipped. But it does have plenty of inland water — which is where one cormorant chose to come.
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Kyle — as I christened him — arrived quietly last month. He landed and perched himself on a quay stone by the end of the Ashton Canal, just off New Islington Marina. He quickly made himself at home.
I can’t say that Kyle’s addition to the area wasn’t without its problems. For one, he insisted on marking his territory — usually in an unhygienic fashion — and then he also had a penchant for winding up the geese. Eventually, though, everyone started to get along.
Once they did, Kyle became a little star of the corner of Ancoats where I live. Perched on the wall next to a footbridge, he drew the attention of almost everyone who walked past.
There were the dogs who stopped for an inquisitive sniff, allowing their owners to get a quick photo for BeReal. Joggers, too, would stop and pause Strava so they could take a glance at our new cormorant
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