Unbelievably good photo-zine document of Manchester's MADCHESTER music scene (1989-91) where punk met rave and everything went baggy - includes A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, John Cooper Clark, Tony Wilson (Factory) and more!

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