Description
About the Image
Johnny Marr photographed by Peter J Walsh backstage at Cities In The Park, Heaton Park, Manchester, 1991.
The portrait was taken shortly before Electronic’s first UK live performance. Formed by Johnny Marr of The Smiths and Bernard Sumner of New Order, Electronic appeared at the two day festival alongside a Factory Records-heavy line-up that included Happy Mondays, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Revenge and others.
Cities In The Park took place in August 1991 in memory of Factory Records producer Martin Hannett, who passed away earlier that year. Walsh’s portrait captures Marr at a significant moment between the legacy of The Smiths and the emergence of Electronic as one of the defining collaborations of the period.
About the Photographer
Peter J Walsh photographed Manchester’s music and club culture during the late 1980s and 1990s while working for City Life magazine and the NME. Embedded within the city’s acid house and rave scenes, he documented the people, fashions, and atmosphere of the The Haçienda at a moment of rapid cultural change.
Alongside his work on the dancefloor, Walsh photographed bands emerging from the same scene, including Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, and 808 State. His photographs offer a direct, first-hand record of a defining period in Manchester’s cultural history.
Framing
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