Friday 3 June 2022

   

How's this for a fun story I recently read: 
The headline was "The Hacienda rises again: The Manchester nightclub raves on after 40 years"Hundreds of middle-aged ravers attempted to recapture the glory days of the Hacienda at a 40th anniversary party on Saturday - in the car park of the flats that now stand on the site. The venue opened in 1982, and within five years had became the spiritual home of the acid house movement and the ecstasy-fuelled epicentre of British youth culture. Around 1,000 clubbers relived the Hacienda's halcyon days on Saturday, with old-school ravers joined by younger clubbers who were not alive when it shut in 1997. It couldn't be exactly like old times, though. The former yacht warehouse that housed the Hacienda was demolished in 2002, and the Hacienda Apartments built in its place.
So Saturday's event was staged in the block's underground car park, with its concrete pillars painted in the club's trademark yellow and black diagonal stripes.
Echoes very much the lyrics to the Kinks 'Come Dancing' - "They put a parking lot on a piece of land…." > full lyrics here.   

The Hacienda Club - opened in 1982 with the band New Order performing. 
Moving on from that time and their 'Temptation' and 'Blue Monday' tracks to 1987 and their 'True Faith' - a song about addition that those old-school ravers would relate to, but I've chosen for no better reason than I like this very Silly Video:
(The opening puts me in mind of the 'Fish Slapping Dance' from Monty Python > see this clip link  and for the curious the music is: 'Merrymakers Dance' by Edward German). Fun and Silly   


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