Tune in from 9pm every Sunday on Tameside Radio 103.6FM to catch up with Michael Taylor and Neil Summers. Here's their latest column for the Tameside Reporter...

If there's one constant that binds mine and Neil's love of music, it’s a real appreciation of the whole look and style that comes with it, writes Michael Taylor.

Although slightly different in age, we both come from that era where the look and style of music had a real bearing on the clothes you wore too.

Neil works with a lot of clothing brands that really tap into this. None more so than Pretty Green, the label started by Liam Gallagher and named after a Jam song.

Their latest campaign, with a nod to the Manchester scene in the early ‘90s is called Shall We Take A Trip? named after the brilliant track by Northside, a young Manchester signed to Factory records and who never really hit the heights they deserved to.

The whole campaign is about kindling a moment of nostalgia. It’s as much about your bedroom and the things you’d collect, the trinkets you’d pick up along the way.

Properly heading back inside your mind to revisit those magical times when you first caught the musical bug.

Whether it was that favourite item of clothing you wore to your first ever festival, an album you played so much it wore the grooves out or an instrument that kickstarted a promising music career.

Delving deep into some of their earliest memories Pretty Green will be talking to some of our favourite musicians about those pivotal moments in their formative years and how they would go on to shape and influence their careers.

Already Neil has done some terrific interviews where he’s found out what some of the faces from the scenes gone by were wearing, who they were listening to and just exactly what it was that made them decide to go out there and make their own impression on the musical map.

One of the interviewees is Dermo from Northside who tells the tale of him grabbing the microphone at a gig and belting out New Order’s Ceremony, before getting himself chucked out.

Days later he was on that same stage singing Shall We Take A Trip?

To celebrate the launch of our ‘Shall We Take A Trip?’ campaign Pretty Green are asking music fans to share musical memories.

They want to hear all about those first outfits you put together, the special moment of seeing your heroes on stage for the first time and what these memories mean to you.

Each week they’ll be choosing the best one and giving the winner an equally memorable £100 gift voucher.

Just check out the Pretty Green website.

Mine, for what it’s worth, is donning a pair of combat trousers and a leather jacket and dying my hair burgundy red to go and see Teardrop Explodes at Lancaster University, ditching the punkier uniform most of my contemporaries were into.

I hung around for the soundcheck and met Julian Cope and felt far more in tune and at home with this space cadet would-be druid than I ever did with the punks of the time.

It was a moment, a definition of my own individual style and at the time it meant everything.   

You can listen to Michael Taylor and Neil Summers on Music Therapy on Tameside Radio 103.6FM on Sunday evenings from 9pm to 11pm. Click here to subscribe and catch up on previous shows.

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