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 .