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

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

They got me on because I went before and during the Acid House explosion and talked about how it changed and because I was into both guitar and electronic music. They filmed me going through my Factory record collection at one point.

Trust me, though, being E'd up when house exploded was a hundred times better than being beered on up on a Monday or Thursday night.

So when your cameo performance comes on, will your name be given as Dave / David......... or will we be in for a shock and it comes up as Simon Foster (or some other random name we weren't expecting?)

 

[Deleted member 77198]

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Saw several bands there, Icicle Works, Red Guitars, Hanoi Rocks, a totally pissed/stoned Johnny Thunders ... and he fell off his stool.
One thing united them all .... shite acoustics in there

Didn't know Johnny Thunders played there. Must have been the early years? I wonder if Steven from Stretford was there

 

[MCFCTrick]

Didn't know Johnny Thunders played there. Must have been the early years? I wonder if Steven from Stretford was there

1984 mate .... I would have expected him to be there.

 

[Kippax77]

Blackpool was fucking rocking in 1990/91. We used to go to Hacketts.

Loveshack.
Oh and the after club beach parties haha

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

One of my (many) claims to fame was putting the band All About Eve on their road to stardom outside The Hacienda......

I was a delivery driver for a printing firm in Sale and we did letter headed paper, business cards and envelopes etc for loads of businesses in town. One was above the Hacienda behind the glass windows on the curvy corner.
I parked outside the club one day and then a Volkswagon hippy van pulled up behind me and this tall, thin Gothic looking bloke gets out and asked me if I knew where The Boardwalk was. I happily gave the short directions and asked him what band he was in.
I'd never heard of them yet the following week they were on The Chart Show.
Within 4 months they had gone from The Boardwalk to both Internationals and The Apollo and had a hit single.
Just imagine had they never found The Boardwalk they may never have made it.....

 

[Kippax77]

I find with rave clubs when the mandy wears off you realise what a hell hole your in

By the time it had weared off was usually Monday morning and the hell hole would be my bedroom after a 30 hour wank

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Hippodrome or Thunderdome?

Hippos

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Hippos

Where was that?

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Where was that?

Middleton