Jamie, who has died aged 60, ran The Kitchen recording studio and after-hours club in Hulme Crescents
Jamie Nicholson had just moved into a four-bed flat on the top floor of Hulme 's Charles Barry Crescent. It was a big place for someone living on their own.Without asking permission, Jamie, who died earlier this month aged 60, knocked down the wall to the adjoining flat and The Kitchen recording studio - and a key part of counter-culture Manchester - was born.
Music-obsessed and fiercely independent, he had begun recording bands while still a teenager. At university he's said to have lived on a diet of lentils so that almost every penny of his student grant could be spent on musical equipment. "The studio was so cramped and full of stuff you couldn't get in," Jamie's former partner and long-time friend Lily Laina Munster, singer with the band X Republic, said. "There was a hole in the door that you had to crawl through on all-fours."
The Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and New Order were regular faces, Sasha, Mike Pickering and Graeme Park played DJ sets. Hip hop legends Run DMC and Public Enemy are said to turned up one night after playing a gig in town. The following year demolition of The Crescents began. Jamie stuck around in Manchester until 1999 when he began splitting his time between Surrey and Hulme, where he kept a flat on the Red Bricks estate.
"But he was also fiercely counter-cultural and extremely intolerant of any kind of authority. If I had a criticism of Jamie it was that making money was right at the bottom of a long list of things he wanted to achieve.
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