The Billions of Dollars and Billions of Pounds
so feeding every child in the world for ten years = global pharmaceutical market for one year.
4 billion spent on erectile dysfunction meds...
Canadians are most giving in response to Haiti's Earthquake!
(From the wonderful Information is Beautiful)
Some music, you say?
The musical literacy level of your average Mancunian must rival the top music town's denizen mean... It's just unfortunate how the best acts- local and international- sell-out instantaneously. Truly though, what else to expect in the city that raised The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Stone Roses, The Verve and, yes, Oasis? Of course Take That and The Bee Gees is implied in any statement of musical genius. I did manage to get to some Miike Snow before they sold out. You know an act is good when there's nothing you'd rather be doing than standing in a gym squashed against four scruffy short dudes taking video with their iphones in front of your face.
Yeasayer, Local Natives and possibly Magnetic Fields coming up signals a need for a preemptive strike. Free fags, booze, Smiths bootlegs, and lensless glasses in the Northern Quarter. Scatter now.
