
Three years to the day, on Friday 10 August 2007, the great city of Manchester was hit by two earthquakes. The first, around noon, rattled a few windows and that was about it. A more significant seismic shock to Manchester, its creative industries and the media world wide was to come in the early evening with the premature and untimely passing of Factory Records, Granada TV, the Haçienda and In The City mainstay, Anthony H Wilson.