as davidt has said in past articles, andy has aligned himself with peter hook of new order and mani of primal scream and they have a new company called "collective". the comapny will be putting out a compilation entitled "cohesion" that will feature many manchester bands and the proceeds will go to kosovo mine removal. uhm...www.worldinmotion.net (a new order site) had some information about this up in december of last year. if you go into their newsroom and look into the archive, the article is their, along with a couple of other related articles.
for you fellow new order fans out there who may not know, worldinmotion.net is probably the best new order site out there and covers all side projects related to the group as well as joy idvision stuff. check it out.

And since when were Mancunians NOT socially aware? Especially in comparison to other urban populations in the Western World (with the distinct exception of Seattle last year)!