The Hacienda - The Club That Shook The World - Sat BBC2 10.15pm - featuring me

[m7mcfc]

i went twice...at it's peak...and it was shite. And I'm assuming it was shite on the nights I didn't go. Which were many.
Completely over rated both as a venue and as a cultural catalyst.


someone had to say it.

I went clubbing all over the place in the early 90's and totally agree with you that it was over rated.
Never stayed longer than a hour before I would leave and go to one of the umpteen better places in town at that time.

 

[davyhulme blue]

Did I hear somewhere she was paid £200 for the gig? which was shown on the Tube. Or maybe the Tube was from the Hac that week?

Unsure on the money , think it was on the tube ( google ) but she can’t remember !

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Thank God for the Brick House

 

[Innsbruckblue]

The Boardwalk was far superior

 

[Didsbury Dave]

By the way, I love it how loads of posters who I get on with on this forum were also from the same scene, and probably shared dance floors and bottles of water with, and I never even knew until this thread.

 

[01282]

Fun fact. That was the first ever gig she did in the UK

Fun fact. She was supporting ACR.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

That was what it was about. Thursday nights were decent but if you went on a Saturday you’d wonder what all the fuss was about. Fridays were what mattered, and really we are talking 88-91.
Fridays 88,89 and 90 were the most special for music and atmosphere.

At that time for example Park wasn’t just playing the house/vocal house stuff he veered to afterwards - in those 88-90 years they’d also include harder stuff like Liaison D, Derrick May and Reese alongside classics like Ride On Time and the rest when they were upfront, underground tunes.

Those nights when you found yourself on the edge of the stage throwing ridiculous shapes for tune after tune will never leave me.

Before going there I was used to going into clubs, seeing it quiet, have a couple of drinks and maybe hit the dancefloor later on. But on a Friday when you got in there, you walked in and everyone was fucking mental from the off and it wasn’t even 10pm.

Totally agree mate. I really didn’t like that handbag, garage, soulful stuff that Park was playing on Saturdays from about 1991. A big group from my town went every Saturday at that time, maybe 91-92, and I went a lot and the Hac felt soulless and posy by then. At that time I had moved to London and they had a Progressive House scene with the likes of Darren Emerson, Leftfield, Underworld, Guerilla records etc and that was a lot more cutting edge.

By 1990 we were mainly regulars at Konspiracy and whilst edgy, that played the proper cutting edge music from all around the scenes the sort of stuff you heard on the 808 show in sunset radio. The hacienda’s heyday was 88-89.

 

[Barcon]

I went two or three times on my trips back home. Not sure what years it would have been but it was brand new and nothing like what was happening in Canada...................... yet.

 

[m7mcfc]

I get that.... it's I'm a lyric and guitar man - some tub thumping beat on repeat is just too monotonous for me......
I'm sure had I dropped an E I'd have danced my tits off to it but never did.

You will love and hate this at the same time then

 

[mr t]

When is this on?