Tag: New Order
In January 1984, the second issue of City Life proclaimed the four great hopes of the Manchester music scene to be Carmel, The Smiths, The Fall and New…
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…
Way back in June 1987, New Order did a gig at The Hacienda to raise money for the club. The ticket price was relatively high (about £10 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…
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…
By Geraldine I came across The Exit on Wood Street, off Deansgate, at some point on a trip into Manchester in the early eighties: it looked so exciting…
I thought I went to the Festival of the Tenth Summer but I didn’t; I went to the ‘Tenth Event of the Festival of the Tenth Summer’, which…
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"Apparently, the stories of guns being discharged in appreciation of jungle tunes are ..."
James Lacey
"HI again, I dont think it was a question of consciously looking inferior ..."
shirley davis
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""[I]n their case [The Smiths], the football parallels were probably co-incidental." That's probably correct. ..."
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"A minor point, but it's a mistake I see made over and over: ..."