Here is my submitted mix for 2025 revival night only 4 places hope to get 1 of them
wish me luck
have a read you may find it interesting:
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 nightclub's legend is as strong as ever, and its impact is still felt in Manchester.
Every weekend in the early 1990s, Ann Cooper would drive from Yorkshire to Manchester with her husband. They would park their van outside the Hacienda, go inside, then go back to the van to sleep.
"We couldn't afford to stay in a hotel," she recalls. "So I used to come every single week and sleep in a van."
On Saturday, Ms Cooper returned for the club's 40th birthday - although this time not staying in a van.
"The best times of my life were here, without a shadow of a doubt," she says. "It was the music, the atmosphere... it was just the place to be."
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.
Jane Ellis used to travel from London every weekend. "It was legendary all over the country. There was no place like it," she says.
"That's why you try to relive it, because you'll never get those times back again. And regardless of how old you are, those memories will never, ever fade."
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.
Who knows what Hacienda and Factory Records co-founder Tony Wilson would have made of it. Wilson, who died in 2007, opened the venue with the band New Order as a "cathedral" for Manchester's youth.
wish me luck
have a read you may find it interesting:
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 nightclub's legend is as strong as ever, and its impact is still felt in Manchester.
Every weekend in the early 1990s, Ann Cooper would drive from Yorkshire to Manchester with her husband. They would park their van outside the Hacienda, go inside, then go back to the van to sleep.
"We couldn't afford to stay in a hotel," she recalls. "So I used to come every single week and sleep in a van."
On Saturday, Ms Cooper returned for the club's 40th birthday - although this time not staying in a van.
"The best times of my life were here, without a shadow of a doubt," she says. "It was the music, the atmosphere... it was just the place to be."
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.
Jane Ellis used to travel from London every weekend. "It was legendary all over the country. There was no place like it," she says.
"That's why you try to relive it, because you'll never get those times back again. And regardless of how old you are, those memories will never, ever fade."
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.
Who knows what Hacienda and Factory Records co-founder Tony Wilson would have made of it. Wilson, who died in 2007, opened the venue with the band New Order as a "cathedral" for Manchester's youth.
great tunes