Andy Spinoza

Andy Spinoza arrived in Manchester, England, as an 18-year-old student in 1979 with a head full of music and politics, and never went back to London.

He founded alternative magazine City Life in 1983, before ten years as gossip columnist at the Manchester Evening News. An early member of the Hacienda nightclub, he also reported on it and the city's vibrant music scene for New Musical Express and The Face.

Andy promoted the new, dynamic post-industrial Manchester after setting up as a publicist in 1998, working with Factory Records legends Tony Wilson, Peter Hook and Peter Saville and public figures including Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola.

He has had a front row seat for over forty years on how pop culture, property development and politics converge in the UK's fastest-growing urban centre.

In 2022, the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library acquired his collection of print and memorabilia as part of its launch of the British Pop Archive.

Andy is married with three grown-up children and lives in Stockport, Greater Manchester, with his wife Lynne.