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Written while Liz Naylor and Cath Carroll ran City Fun, this informative article is steeped in scepticism. Factory is viewed as corporate and highly suspect; men with lots…
In 2006, the Boddingtons Brewery building, across from the MEN Arena, was due to be demolished and The Warehouse Project hosted a 12 week series of events there,…
Danny the Dancer is an unsung hero of the Manchester club scene; he’s been an inspiration on club dance-floors for decades, although he doesn’t go clubbing much these…
Includes Text from ‘The New York Dolls’ by Morrissey (1981) Manchester & New York are very different cities but they have certain striking similarities: nineteenth-century architecture and infra-structure;…
Contains City Life Magazine Manchester Club Guide 1984 (Updated January 2014) In 1982, when Carol Morley was, no doubt, already a regular at the recently opened Hacienda, I…
1986-87 In September 1986, about 4 months after Temperance Club started on Thursdays at the Hacienda, Dave Haslam took over the Saturday night with Dean Johnson, a soul…
A review of the website www.fac51thehacienda.com. A good friend of mine suffered a psychotic episode in the late 1980s, during which he would ring up The Hacienda on…
Thursday Night @ The Hacienda during the late ’80s Dave Haslam scored a success at The Hacienda in Spring 1986 with The Temperance Club, a Thursday night disco…
In 1988, the Hacienda queue draped around the curve of the building several nights a week… even when there was hardly anyone inside. The management used the punters…
Wednesday Night @ The Hacienda during the late ’80s Zumbar filled the Wednesday night void which appeared when Hewan Clarke stopped doing Black Rhythms at the Poly Union…
By Geraldine Hot Nights were probably the most exciting club nights I have ever been to. Starting in the second half of 1988, these Ibiza style Wednesdays at…
The House Sound of Chicago was an album released in 1986 by London Records. I first noticed tracks from this album at the Black Rhythms night at the…