Thanks for this.

I hope there's a considerable amount featured in the programme about the ideas and design of it. Plus the early days of the venue being more of a venue for live music.

Whenever anyone talks about the Haç, it invariably focusses on the acid house movement, which isn't something that particularly interests me.
I might be alone in this though.

I went once around 1990-1, just before the club shut down for the first time.

But, like you, I’d trade that in a heartbeat to see the band in December ‘85 (or any of the other gigs).

One of the nights we made it to the Hacienda was a week or so before Italia 90.Last track of the night was the Carabinireri mix of World In Motion, first time i'd heard the mix and a great moment on the Hac dancefloor.A perfect moment i always recall.Excitement was building for the 1990 World Cup and to hear that mix to top off and end the night was just the fricking bollocks.Think it was our second visit to the club a week or two later i bizarrely bumped into an ex girlfriend from my home town Rugby.Turned out she was at Manc Uni.One of the nights , exiting the toilets i passed a random, though very cooly dressed, 30 something guy.On second glance i realised it was none other than Bernard Sumner.Later on i passed him on the stairs and said are you Bernard? He replied no it's just my hair, makes me look like him.At the end of one of the nights i remember spotting Tony Wilson, walking in the door in his long coat and glasses and surveying the raving throng with pride.I also saw on one of the nights, er, Mick bloody Hucknall, all curly ginger hair and leather trousers.

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BBC Radio 2 9pm tonight has a Hacienda show.Old classics etc.

Not often you see an interview these days with Alan Erasmus but a new one here with him talking about the Hacienda

https://www.manchestereveningnew...hacienda-should-23978018

Having now listened to all 4 hours of the two Hac shows from Ana Matronic, I still agree with myself(!) that the second show (29th May) is the better one. The final half hour has a cracking mix from Greame Park. He surprised me with some of his "deep cut" choices where I had to actually check the BBC tracklisting.

Hooky pops up at 1hr05, just after Shellshock and he blathers on -between tracks- until about 1hr25.
Ana praises his Hac book, and yes JET gets a quick mention but doesn't get played (as it should be).
Lots of Factory artists at the top of this show too (inc BM 88).