The Making of 'Ghost Mechanic Nine' by inca babies - From 80s Hulme to 2024 - A short History.

Описание: This is a short film introducing and describing the making of ‘Ghost Mechanic Nine’. The 9th studio album by Manchester band, inca babies.

Your narrator is Harry Stafford, founder member and singer of inca babies. He has chosen to explain the early days of the band in Hulme, Manchester, up to their splitting up and reforming in 2006.

The band mostly lived in the deck access flats, especially the crescents of Hulme in the mid-1980s. They rehearsed in the Zion building - now Z Arts - and spent a lot of their time in The White Horse Pub and the Hacienda night club.

Hulme in the early 1980s attracted many students and artists because with cheap rents and council houses allowing people to come into the city and be creative, it made for a kind of bohemian scene that allowed music and art to flourish with impunity.

But they were never a long plan for the council to entertain.

The Hulme flats and crescents were eventually demolished in 1994.

Manchester is very different today, such a community could never exist in the contemporary letting market. That success has now priced its citizens out, with huge rents it has crushed the city’s creativity. (from a book by Isaac Rose; The Rentier City)
Members of the band: Harry, Bill, Alan, Julian and Mike all lived in Hulme where it offered cheap and sometimes no rent paid flats to young people who didn’t mind a basic roof over their head. And in this environment the band thrived.

The second half of the film explains the making of the Album ‘Ghost Mechanic Nine’ over two and a half years. Filmed in and around 6Db Recording studio belonging to Simon ‘Ding’ Archer, Harry talks about various tracks and how they were put together.

With the help of photographs by Richard Davies, Mick Peek, Harry Stafford, Lily Laina, Paul Brownridge, Katia Porter, fFitz, and images and poster art in Public Domain Library stock.

Also special thanks to Adam T. Burton and Mick Conefrey for the 1985 film of’ 'Opium Den’, and IKON Video for the Hacienda film of inca babies.

inca babies are; Harry Stafford, Rob Haynes, Jim Adama and Kevin G Davy.

https://incababies1.bandcamp.com/foll...

And thanks to Thanks to Shauna McLarnon at Shameless Promotions