Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to carry out particular DJ set in Ancoats

Higher Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is ready to DJ at a particular present within the metropolis subsequent month.

Burnham will hit the decks on the Ramona venue in Ancoats on Wednesday, August 3 as a part of its five-week ‘Ramona Radio’ collection.

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The Mayor and former Labour MP for Leigh might be spinning “a number of New Order, Manchester classics and 90s summer season jams”, in response to an official announcement.

“He swings in for pizza fairly a bit so we requested him if he fancied Djing, He stated…He’d completely like to,” the put up reads.

Burnham’s set is because of start at 8pm BST, and it will also be airing live on Mixcloud (through Mixmag). You may try the announcement put up under.

Again in 2020, Andy Burnham participated in a charity DJ battle towards Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram. All proceeds from the occasion went in direction of funding group teams and different organisations that’d been affected by the COVID-enforced lockdown.

In early 2021, the Higher Manchester Mayor instructed that the “massive gamers” of the music business ought to pay a levy to assist grassroots music venues via the pandemic as a result of “that’s the place the expertise comes via”.

He’d beforehand vowed to do “all the pieces [he] probably [could]” to avoid wasting Manchester’s beloved small venues from closure.

Final Could, Burnham gave a shout-out to the town’s indie legends The Courteeners in his victory speech after successful a second time period.

Earlier this yr, Andy Burnham chaired a particular speak and panel on suicide prevention within the Speaker’s Home in Parliament. The occasion featured New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris.

Sumner opened on behalf of the band by discussing Ian Curtis’ ultimate years and the way laborious it may be to identify the indicators of despair.