The Haçienda

How Not to Run a Club

Peter Hook

• Publisher: It Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780062307958
• eBook ISBN:
  9780062307965
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of England's most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order—a story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for the first time in the United States.

During the 1980s, The Hacienda would become one of the most famous venues in the history of clubbing—a celebrated cultural watershed alongside Studio 54, CBGBS, and The Whiskey—until its tragic demise.

Founded by New Order and Factory Records, The Hacienda hosted gigs by such legendary acts as the Stone Roses, the Smiths, Bauhaus, Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, and Happy Mondays; gave birth to the "Madchester" scene; became the cathedral for acid house; and laid the tracks for rave culture and today's electronic dance music. But over the course of its fifteen-year run, "Madchester" descended into "Gunchester" as gangs, drugs, greed, and a hostile police force decimated the dream.

Told in Hook's uproarious and uncompromising voice, The Hacienda is a funny, horrifying, and outlandish story of success, idealism, naïveté, and greed—of an incredible time and place that would change the face and sound of modern music.

The Hacienda includes 32 photographs in 16-page four-color insert. 

Index

ABC, 41, 58

Academy, 181

A Certain Ratio, 17, 21, 25, 28, 38, 40, 43, 224

acid house, xi–xii, 27, 33, 126, 127, 138, 145–47, 148–49, 151–58, 161, 170, 176, 178–79, 181, 190, 217, 233, 281, 314

Adonis, 114, 125

Ainscoe, Carol, 273

Airdri, 275, 294, 295

Albert (boa constrictor), 277–78

Allan, Stu, 60–61

Allen, Fiona, 54, 239

Allen, Keith, 233

Allen, Theresa, 239

Amanda (at Dry), 282

Ames, Roger, 239

Amnesia, 137, 145

Anderton, James, 176–77

Andy (at Dry), 282

Aphex Twin, 295

Appiani family, 15

Apple, 24

Area, 19, 27, 239

Ari, 145

Astoria,146

Atencio, Tom, 99, 151

Atomic, 85

Ayers, Roy, 40

B-52s, 218

Back to the Future, 176

Baker, Arthur, 28, 62, 78, 85, 213

Bambaataa, Afrika, 59, 62

Barker, Eric, 310

Bauhaus, 52, 65

Beatles, 16, 24, 169

Bellingham, Paul, 313

Bellingham, Twinny, 2, 3, 6, 8, 151–52, 234, 313

Benitez, John “Jellybean,” 28, 78

Ben Kelly Design, 22

Berry, Andrew (“Marc”), 85, 114

Bessy, Claude, 42–43, 126

Beswick, Jim, 3, 175

Bez, 237

Bicknell, Ed, 273

Bill, 152

Birthday Party, 65–66

Black Box, 154, 155, 178, 224

Black Grape, 61

Blackwell, Chris, 273

Block, Brandon, 138

Bloxham, Tom, 253, 264, 273, 280

Boon, Richard, 34

Booth, Dave, 16

Boulton, Rebecca, 223

Bowie, David, 16

Bowser, 173, 313, 314

Bow Wow Wow, 42, 66

Branson, Richard, 263, 273

Brassiere Saint Pierre, 283

Brierley, John, 11, 84

Broken Glass Crew, 61, 77

Brotherdale, Steve, 12

Brown, Ian, 34

Buckley, 263

Burke, Peter, 282

Burroughs, William, 52, 190

Bush, Kate, 36

Buzzcocks, 10, 13, 17, 34

Cabaret Voltaire, 10, 38, 39–40

Cale, John, 64

Callari, Frank, 98

Cargo Studios, 11, 84

Carman, George, 195–96, 299

Carroll, Bernard, 314–15

Carroll, Paul, 1, 4, 5, 214–15, 217, 234, 236, 300, 313

Caulfield, Corky, 37

Cavanagh, David, 93, 161

Cave, Nick, 66, 137

Cavern club, 169

Charlatans, 191

Cheerleaders, 234, 280

Chemical Brothers, 191

Chicago House Party Tour, 125

Chop (backstage security), 65

Christian, Terry, 236

Chtcheglov, Ivan, 22

Church pub, 9

Clarke, Hewan, 17, 38–39, 40–41, 77, 82, 85, 93

Clary, Julian, 127

Clash, 27

Clegg, Mr., 273

Cocteau Twins, 123

Communards, 94

Companies House, 300–301

Cons, Paul, 75, 91, 94, 114, 153, 155–56, 212, 220, 221–22, 223, 253, 272, 274, 281, 296

Conservatory, 258

Considine, Paddy, 312

Cook, Paul, 22

Cooper-Clarke, John, 177

Cormac, 3, 6, 234, 277–78, 313

Court Acoustics, 39

Cox, Carl, 62

Cream, 277, 309–10

Creamfields, 178

Creation Records, 161

Crocker, Frankie, 29, 40

Crosby Homes, 311

Culture Club, 42, 58

Cummins, Kevin, 75

Curtis, Debbie, 20

Curtis, Ian, 2, 10, 12, 13, 16

death of, 14–15, 19, 21, 79

NME cover of, 15

wake of, xi

Danceteria, 19, 23, 27–28, 38, 59, 60, 123, 190

DaSilva, Jon, 149, 167, 168, 170, 198, 210, 302

Deconstruction, 302

Desperately Seeking Susan, 28

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Table of contents

• Dedication
• Contents
• The Guilty Parties
• Foreword
• Prologue
• 1980
• 1981
• 1982
• 1983
• 1984
• 1985
• 1986
• 1987
• 1988
• 1989
• 1990
• 1991
• 1992
• 1993
• 1994–1996
• 1997
• Epilogue
• Postscript to the paperback edition
• Photograph Inserts
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author
• Praise for The Haçienda
• Credits
• Also by Peter Hook
• Copyright
• About the Publisher