Tag: Hacienda
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Factory Records – a business, a partnership, a joke
I’d never seen this – New Order making a documentary about themselves for Channel 4 in 1984 about Factory Records. Interesting interviews, and highlights that the story of Factory Records and Tony Wilson was as much a construct as anything, e.g. evil label boss vs disaffected band members which although constantly moaning still stayed with…
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Acid House will NEVER DIE!
Hacienda as pictured in ’24 Hour Party People’ – great film btw …and the Hacienda, and piano house in general. I’m sure at some point acid house devotees will become annoying as punk bores, but with piano house on the rebound a and late 80’s house references on the come back (see Hercules and Love…
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Radio Clash 127: Tony Wilson
Tribute to the influential, vociferous, and showmanlike Tony Wilson, who died on Friday. He ran Factory Records, started the Hacienda, Dry Bar and In the City, all in Manchester. I’ve only got record shops left: (70Mb, 88mins) https://www.radioclash.com/show-archive/rc_127.mp3 String Tribute to Joy Division and New Order – Love Will Tear Us Apart (original FAC 23)…
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Parkade Returneth!
Somehow I’ve become co-owner of the Parkade club in Second Life- previously run by Andy Asylum, he decided to resign last week, I played the last night. A group of the DJs got together and decided to keep the place going, rebuild it and redesign it, so DJNoNo Ulysses along with Amanda Shinji and Topher…