There's some stuff on the early music policy/nights at the Hacienda written down in the '24hr party people - Tony H. Wilson' book...
It's quite fun to read about the student nights at the Hac going off like a rocket on cheap lager and indie music and the nights that Pickering was playing it was dead quiet with only 10 peeps around or so untill he picked up some records suchs as "no way back" and it slowley turned around.. The rest is history... Martijn (who's never been to the Hacienda or Manchester but did a project for school on the Madchester scene,,,hey, i was young:-) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:03 PM Subject: (313) bit more Hacienda info for Stewart > I have it on good authority that the first record of this nature to land in > Manchester was Chip E "Like This". > That was late '86. 4 copies apparently. > > The first 'house' record to blow the whole thing up in Manchester was > Adonis "No Way Back". > Apparently that's the one that kicked everything off. There were 6 copies > in Manchester at first and it took nearly 4 weeks to get some more, after > that they did around 300 copies out of one shop (on the black label press > fact fans)! > This was in '87. > > Apparently at this time they were still pretty much playing loads of > different stuff down there, the house music was interspersed with alot of > other stuff. Hip Hop etc. Mike Pickering started his 'new'night (didn't ask > if that was hot or nude or whatever) in '87 at some point. > > Also the kids wanting the house music early on were the Black kids > apparently. In search of a different sound more than anything I'm told, to > play with the other stuff big on that scene at the time. Think this came > from them all dancing down the Gallery and Legends... Predominantly Black > music clubs I'm told. > > I presume Greg Wilson was the dj at these joints. But don't know.... > > Also it's worth noting that alot of the original Chi stuff never really got > here. Persona stuff etc in particular. Don't know if anywhere in > London/Brum/Sheffield/Glasgow or anywhere like that was getting them. > > Back to my hideyhole. > > Alex > _________________________________________________________________ > > --------------------- End of message text -------------------- > > This e-mail is sent by the above named in their > individual, non-business capacity and is not on > behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers. > > PricewaterhouseCoopers may monitor outgoing and incoming > e-mails and other telecommunications on its e-mail and > telecommunications systems. By replying to this e-mail you > give your consent to such monitoring > > >
