Gateway House Postcard Set & Post-Punk Mystery Mix CDR (Ltd)

Gateway House Postcard Set & Post-Punk Manchester Mystery Mix CDR 78-81 (Ltd signed & numbered 50 Copies Only) (CTRUE12) Gateway House Manchester & Manicured Noise - “Primitive funk learned by copying Chic singles played at 33 rpm” (Simon Reynolds-Rip it Up) That's what SR wrote of Manchester Post-Punk act Manicured Noise - In 2006 CTR created a compilation that gathered together their 2 singles for PRE Records, Peel show sessions & rare demos. “Faith” — a jubilant, sax-led, disco-rock thrasher of a pop song. (Popmatters 2007) The cover featured the iconic Manchester modernist building Gateway House, designed by Richard Seifert and Partners & opened in 1969. Since then the serpentine structure has dominated the Southern approach to Manchester, adjacent to Manchester Piccadilly railway station . The package includes a set of 4 previously unseen photographs of the building from 1969 both in construction & complete with an original architects diagram . These were kindly licenced from Tim Haxby-Farrow whose father worked with Richard Seifert & Partners on the build. Also included is an exclusive Manchester Mystery Mix Post-Punk CDR. No tracklisting .No Digital. Rare/deep cuts from 1978-81 taken from the CTR archive - a soundtrack for the iconic Gateway House .