HELP
Queer Noise is an online exhibition that aims to explore the story of Greater
Manchester’s gay music and club culture. It contains flyers, posters, mp3s, photos
and footage. There are oral histories on subjects including 1970s lesbian discos,
racial diversity on the current gay scene and political activism through live music.
The artefacts are in chronological order, beginning in the 60s and taking in the house
music boom of the early 90s; the later alt.queer nights such as Homo Electric; and
LGBT music-making through the eras. There is also an introduction and exclusive
essay by Jon Savage.
But there are still lots of gaps we’d like YOU to fill. We see this an ongoing project that will grow much in the way our main MDMArchive website has over the years.
If you have any artefacts you’d like to contribute to Queer Noise, just upload them to our main site in the usual way and we’ll add them to the exhibition for you:
http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/archive/addartefact.php
Please let us know at info@mdmarchive.co.uk if you experience any problems using Queer Noise.
Help Topics:
Browsers:
PLEASE NOTE, QUEER NOISE CANNOT BE VIEWED IN GOOGLE CHROME.
This is due to a known Flash/Chrome incompatibility issue that is beyond our control, but that we hope will be addressed soon by Google.
Timeline:
The exhibition may take a moment to load.
Use the slider at the foot of the page to scroll through the years.
Click on a thumbnail to enlarge it and read the description.
The artefacts with a pink arrow contain audio.
The artefacts with a pink camera contain footage.
Click ‘more’ to hear any audio, watch any YouTube clips, zoom in on the artefacts or visit related websites.
Main artefact view:
Audio can be controlled using the button in the right hand navigator.
Click the YouTube link to watch videos.
Click the arrows to go to the next or previous artefact. Use the ‘back’ button to return to the timeline.
Click ‘log-in’ to leave a comment on an artefact, using your log-in details for our main site.
Using the zoom:
Use the plus sign to enlarge and the minus sign to decrease the size of the image. This is very useful for press articles. To then scroll up or down, just place the cursor over the image and drag.
Artefacts Gallery:
Click on a thumbnail to enter the main artefact view.
Use the arrows at the bottom to move onto the next page of thumbnails.
The decade selector at the top of the page allows you to view artefacts from a chosen time period by moving both of the white sliders left or right.
The ‘artefact type’ buttons allow you to select certain kinds of artefacts to look at. Click to these turn on and off, or click several at once. There is an up and down slider which reveals more artefact types.
The ‘themes’ buttons work in the same way.
Main site:
The MDMArchive logo takes you back to our main site.
But there are still lots of gaps we’d like YOU to fill. We see this an ongoing project that will grow much in the way our main MDMArchive website has over the years.
If you have any artefacts you’d like to contribute to Queer Noise, just upload them to our main site in the usual way and we’ll add them to the exhibition for you:
http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/archive/addartefact.php
Please let us know at info@mdmarchive.co.uk if you experience any problems using Queer Noise.
Help Topics:
Browsers:
PLEASE NOTE, QUEER NOISE CANNOT BE VIEWED IN GOOGLE CHROME.
This is due to a known Flash/Chrome incompatibility issue that is beyond our control, but that we hope will be addressed soon by Google.
Timeline:
The exhibition may take a moment to load.
Use the slider at the foot of the page to scroll through the years.
Click on a thumbnail to enlarge it and read the description.
The artefacts with a pink arrow contain audio.
The artefacts with a pink camera contain footage.
Click ‘more’ to hear any audio, watch any YouTube clips, zoom in on the artefacts or visit related websites.
Main artefact view:
Audio can be controlled using the button in the right hand navigator.
Click the YouTube link to watch videos.
Click the arrows to go to the next or previous artefact. Use the ‘back’ button to return to the timeline.
Click ‘log-in’ to leave a comment on an artefact, using your log-in details for our main site.
Using the zoom:
Use the plus sign to enlarge and the minus sign to decrease the size of the image. This is very useful for press articles. To then scroll up or down, just place the cursor over the image and drag.
Artefacts Gallery:
Click on a thumbnail to enter the main artefact view.
Use the arrows at the bottom to move onto the next page of thumbnails.
The decade selector at the top of the page allows you to view artefacts from a chosen time period by moving both of the white sliders left or right.
The ‘artefact type’ buttons allow you to select certain kinds of artefacts to look at. Click to these turn on and off, or click several at once. There is an up and down slider which reveals more artefact types.
The ‘themes’ buttons work in the same way.
Main site:
The MDMArchive logo takes you back to our main site.
MDMArchive
Curated by
Abigail Ward
Thanks to
Kath McDermott
Ian Bushell
Claire Solanki
Al Baker
Rachel Adams
Philippa Jarman
Ste McCabe