People on the street: Who deserves a Manchester mural?

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With former bassist for The Smiths, Andy Rourke set to be commemorated in a mural in Manchester in the coming months, we thought that now was the perfect chance to go into Manchester and ask people on the street who they thought deserved a mural.

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00:00Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people

00:03about murals and one of the reasons for that is because there's a new mural planned to

00:07go on the side of the Weak Sheaf pub celebrating the life of bassist Andy Rourke who died last

00:12year due to pancreatic cancer. This is a part of a fundraiser brought on by one of Rourke's

00:16old bandmates who's really keen to emphasise the impact that it's had on Manchester's life

00:21so we want to know today who people think should be celebrated in this way. As if Oasis

00:25need more murals, but that was my thought. There was that Ian Curtis mural that got

00:31taken down or painted over or whatever. I saw something that was meant to be putting

00:35it back up, if it hasn't been then I would say Ian Curtis. Other than that I think maybe

00:43Vinnie Riley from the Dirty Column is quite underappreciated and I think that'd be quite

00:47nice of him, he'd deserve that. In terms of that factory records scene and all them he's

00:52kind of one that looks a bit overlooked and I've also heard things about him struggling

00:56financially in recent times as well so I don't know if him having a mural would help him

01:02in that case but at least it'd just kind of give him a bit of respect. Liam and Noel Gallagher

01:07and all that, I just think that with them doing their, with them reuniting it's like

01:13such a, like Labour's back in and Oasis have got back together, it's like a re, what is

01:21it, cool Britannia. I feel like I can only hope that it gives like a sense of hope for

01:27me at least, you know, even if it sounds a bit silly I think, that they're sort of, kind

01:34of a beacon of Manchester. I think let's see how the Oasis gigs go next year and provided

01:41they're okay get one of the boys up there. Definitely Marcus Rattray, I think he's a

01:46great guy, he's done a lot to help people. Like with their position you know they're

01:49so famous that they can get a good like support and you know backing behind them so yeah definitely

01:57should be like commemorated for doing the right thing.

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