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  • Think Am Haveing A Flash Back!!!!! ,DJ(UNITE)MC - MADCHESTER - UK.

  • Yeah, if I won a gazillion on the Lottery I would rebuild the Hacienda. Pay off all the people who live there, get it back up with the original intention in place; club, live venue, art space, theatre. cafe, bar....It was a crime such an influential space was taken down. And, purely cynically, it would be a tourist attraction- although you would want tourists to experience a real Hac version as opposed to a retro one..and as for 32 longyeras...he's right; all clubs have knobs, all have bad days.

  • Hacienda was all about great DJ's who played great music, ruined by small minded thugs, drug dealers and bad mismanagement. 88 was the time to be there, by 91 onwards it was a hell hole infiltrated by the gangsters of salford and cheetham hill.

    A sweet dream that turned sour.

  • Very cool. Thanks for posting!

  • Wow, this film brings back memories! I used to go there a lot. My band played there a few times too - on that very stage.

    One time in particular was the finals of Tony Wilson's Battle of the Bands'. We actually won!!! I recall on that evening The Happy Mondays came last.

    My Mum (age 68) mentioned a few months ago, that she'd been to The Hacienda - I said " no way!! You must be mistaken." But she insisted. I had totally forgotten that she was in the audience at the Battle of the Bands event.

  • I was there at it's beginning ..... & for many years after ....saw Madonna when she was a nobody .... am glad to not have been there at the end RIP. Long live Manchester

  • nice one williab2 good clip i enjoyed it . i wentto the hacienda 89 90 and it was fucking dynamite. i dont know what 32 longyears problem is dosy cunt . he must have had a bad experiance or may be just a natural moanig whining twat . people who knew fuck all ,not what i found ,but may be were more laid back than mr longyears . people like him create problems went there isnt any .any way good luck williab2 nd ignore idiots like him .

  • great camera work lol

  • this is to 32longyears ok so you're saying it was full of knobs and drugs and the place was a shit hole......but......you went yourself so that makes you a knob doesn't it you gob shite and whats wrong with what williab2 has done this man clearly has a passion for house music and is fasonated by the place just like me so good on him and thank you for the good footage williab2 ignor that ego boosted prick

  • top vid

  • 32longyears...what a c@ck go f@ck yourself....this place means so much to so many people you tw@t...respect williab2

  • dry 201 then to the hac wow them wher the days im from huddersfield just over the pennines used to travel in a convoy of about 20 cars every weekend then we used to go to birch services on the motorway afterwards....things just aint the same now

  • those that weren't there "in the day" haven't a clue.

    what nights we had!!!

  • Oh so many happy times in there absolutly wasted had so much fun Getting past the doormen in the early days was a task in its self. Just like to say Had some of the best Friday and Saturday nights of my life Not forgetting the warm up in The Canal bar up the road or Dry a little further away

  • I was lucky enough to work there 89 -91.. in the Cafeteria.. we called our boss Avaline.; cos everytime we wne t to work.; she said.; should we 'ave a line xxxx

  • Thanks for this video. I remember the 15th Birthday in 97 and then the place closed just after that. Sad times, great club.

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  • Heart breaking to see it in such a state. Thanks for sharing the video.

  • I ahve a DRY BAR 1989 poster and a tenth year hac anniversary T-shirt, happy memories? Oh yeah.

  • Oh happy memorieS, Tony Wilson RIPx

  • Brings a tear to me eye........

  • Fucking Appts now!!! grrrrrrrrr

    The Hacienda must be RE built

  • I swear to god, the moment those appartments go on sale again i am going to start a Hacienda:FAC51 fund, where fans can all pledge money to buy it! The people will own the former Madchester revolutionary super club and it will be all about the music again! If you or anyone hears of it going up for sale before i do then let me know! Let the fun begin!!

  • agree with you mate, this is history in the making for clubbers!

  • Funny, I had exactly the same idea myself. I have sent you a private message.

  • @scoop909 - But what's the point, they knocked the old site down. Not like we can get the old building back :(

  • @scoop909 Im in for that!!! :) BRING IT BACK!!!

  • happy memories......

    Brings a tear to me eyes....

  • bl""dy hell, thats nuts, i remember the bit behind the dj box you would always find someone selling or havin a crafty spliff up there. would of bin amazing to walk around there in the day. so many memories i wish i could go back just one last time. hot, void or a nude night

  • very interesting i have never been

  • you wont get this if you are a toffy nosed art snob...knob off back to the home counties and stop slumming it.

  • eh..such negative things to say to each other.

    besides.."what the hell did I just watch?" lol

  • Manchester ONE LOVE THIS IS THE ONE xM.U.F.C.X

  • Using the title professor to ad corpus to an arguement based on bigotted opinions with partisan elucidations of facts is a rather sad affair. This kind of tenet is symptomatic of a deranged mind. Mr Right if you want to do some right, go and help children in cities like Sao Paulo where this does happen on a daily basis, rather than offending Mancunians to push your hidden agenda (Birmingham)

  • prof right nob. fuck off and die. your existence is sickening

  • its full of fun and sarcasm, thats why you dont fit in, you none funny twerp

  • I think, as any and ALL readers of this thread will concur, we are without doubt your intellectual superior, younger, healthier, with oodles more life ahead of us and we all have bigger genitalia than you. You're a 57 year old with Youtube 'friends' old enough to be your grandchildren --17 year old girls. You're immoral.

  • Is it the puerile stench of your stagnant existence that fills your tiny mind with hate or is it that you were abused by family members? Were you going to answer? Oh, please don't we're bored of you as it is... oh, go on then you sad old man with children as friends. Their father's have been informed.

  • Prodda-nob-shite: Is it the puerile stench of your stagnant existence that fills your tiny mind with hate or is it that you were abused by family members? Were you going to answer? Oh, please don't we're bored of you as it is... oh, go on then you sad old man with children as friends. Their father's have been informed.

  • I think, as any and ALL readers of this thread will concur, we are without doubt your intellectual superior, younger, healthier, with oodles more life ahead of us and we all have bigger genitalia than you. You're a 57 year old with Youtube 'friends' old enough to be your grandchildren --17 year old girls. You're immoral.

  • Your wrong Prof.55 people (not just chidren) have been fatal victims of gun crime in Manchester since 1999.Not every month.

    I think you will find Hull tops most polls as the worst place to live in England.

    Manchester was built on rain because it was ideal for the cotton industry.Which leads on to what Manchester has given the world.The Industrial Revolution.The Trade Union Movement.The Communist Manifesto.The Computer.What has London given the world Chaz and Dave.

  • if it weren't for manchester 90% of the bands that u hear 2day wouldn't exist the smiths invented indie and it was because of them bein frm manchester that influenced the music so u can keep all ur shit commercial so called indie the womats the pigeon detectives razorlight there all shit and it the idiot youth of today being influenced by gangster rap htat the gun problem has came around remember it not just manchester it places like nottingham 2

  • Shut the fuck up you stupid ill informed moron. What is your point? What are you aiming to achieve by posting these moronic ramblings that have nothing to do with the a video that is celebrating part of popular culture. You're a complete tosser.

  • since you like facts so much: manchester has as much rainfall as milan. and we like the rain anyway:)

    look up Alan Turing, PLEASE! and the industrial revolution, go on, google away.

    i cant find this 'worst' poll you keep going on about, unless you're mistaking salford for manchester.

    oh and 2nd city & 3rd city arnt official, its personal opinion, fuckwit. must mean you're a brummie:)

  • ya know what, you know a hell of a lot about a place you hate so much, tosspot.

    the funny thing is, Tony wouldnt give a shit about you. he'd laugh at all this. he'd leave you alone because you're not worth thinking about. that makes me smile. you're like a living reason for everything this city has achieved. We're better than you.

  • Cunts like PofessorRobRight deserve kidney cancer , same age as Tony was when he died , Tony did'nt sit on youtube all day mockin other cities so he obviously had achived more in his life than you ! Get a Job , a bird , something to keep you off here you vile bastard , stop dancing on cunts graves you obviously envy !And amaze us all by telling us where you are from and what your city has achived thats so fuckin great !

  • ProfessorRobRight ! More like ProfessorGobShite , what a fuckin twat , have you nothin better to do than mock the dead ? Obviously not bacause you have done nothing but search for every video involving him and post abuse uder them , I'll prove you wrong right now , the whole country does'nt hate Manchester , I'm Glaswegian and I love it and the people from it not to mention the music scene , for someone who hated Tony so much you seen to have an infatuation for his videos

  • we dont care if you hate us! we know we live in a great city and we dont need people to agree to be ok with it. and as for simple research, fuckin do some. better yet visit manchester and see for yourself.

    plus, why the fuck are you watching videos about Manchester if you think its so crap? you got nothing better to do? Do we annoy you so much you cant think about anything else but Manchester?

    wherever shit hole you live in, go critize videos about your own damn city.

  • Quoting the great man himself:

    "In the north west, it rains and it rains and it rains, yet it managed to produce, the industrial revolution, the trade union movment, the communist mannifesto and even the godamn computer. And down south where the sun never sets,you took all our money and what did you produce? Chaz and fuckin Dave."

  • Funny that coz i love living here ! ps the first working canal, the first public library, the first computer with a stored memory, the first split atom, the first test tube baby... Manchester did them all first...etc etc.. get an education yourself ya moron !

  • if you want proof of manchesters history, visit it. the first ever train station, the first computer, the canals, the steam engines. they're all still there. these arent facts in text books, they're part of our city. We build on and around our history, we dont build over it. Except for of course the piece in the above video....

  • ProfessorRobright (fuckin imbecile !) Take it your from bland Birmingham with your sly digs !!? Manchester home to the Industrial revoloution ! The first Computer ! Splitting of the atom ! The enigma machine that won WW2 ! Oh yeh and the most influential bands of the modern generation.. Thankyou to Tony Wilson RIP, I love my home city too ! Peace x

  • hacienda PUMP IT UP...r.i.p TONY WILSON

  • All good things must come to an end.

    RIP Tony

  • 32 long years. get a grip man. when the hac started there was no violence. it was all about the music and hell yeah the ECSTASY ravers. love peace unity. the scum bags only ruined it towards the end as they runi everything good. nice one williab2. 32 long years. get your facts right before you go posting shite like that. rip tony wilson.

  • Gutted about it been shut would love to of gone.

  • I was a regular at the Hacienda around 89to98. Like any nightclub it attracted undesirables (name a nightclub that doesn't) but the club inspired a generation of music.

    Manchester discovered more music than most cities: the smiths, stone roses, new order, happy mondays, buzzcocks, oasis, inspiral carpets, doves & so on

    Why is Manchester refer to in the Lonley Planet as having everything but a beach and you wouldnt be on YouTube now, as the 1st computer in the world was designed and built there

  • Right on with that... :)

  • Wow! I just thought I could contribute to the glory of the place. Calm down a little.

  • Obviously your hobby of chasing parked cars has played a detremental effect on your negative attitude following the abuse your receiving on your bad looks.

    Get a better paper round...

  • Er.... did I say I thought gun crime and drug related culture or crime was good or was totally influenced by the Hacienda, I think not!

  • what you know about manchester ete? you sheep shagger get a life.

  • To say your 35 years old according to your profile, you don't seem very mature calling peoeple sheep shaggers, your the one who needs to calm down, and don't tell me to get a life, I have never endorsed drug use at all, just fuck off.

  • What about studio 54 and the Viper Room, to name two of many?

    They have similar cult status and were known for their drugs, especially as River Phoenix died after partying in the Viper Room... Get a grip, drug culture is everywhere, it just so happens that it goes hand in hand with music, where ever there are great clubs that play music you will find drugs. Whether the majority or the minority take them, they will be there.

  • I guess you never did anything that is why you do not understand get a grip

  • The term 'get a grip' is slang for stop being so irrational, to calm down and stop being so melodramatic....

    Incase YOU do not understand what get a grip means.

  • Shame it's shut....

  • was right off my tits there enuff times . . mad memories

    didn't show scally corner either . . now it's all Yuppie flats

  • Yep, that was a very special place. Thank you so much for posting this. I've got to go and lie down now

  • Wow, my head's spinnin' that was the best nostalgia trip I've had for ages, I thought I'd see John De Silva and Pickering walking past to drop some tunes, nice one our kid...

  • 39phoenix the last band to play the hac

  • nope, the last band to play were spiritualized

  • Thanks for that film williab2!! i had the best times of my life in that place all through end '88-'89. The Hacienda has a dear place in my heart forever...

  • I used to stand on that balcony!! Great footage - you should upload the whole thing! Sad story but the set of stairs you go up at the end (to the DJ booths)I saw Mick Hucknall stulking about there one night - for some reason he gave me the creeps so i ran off - I was only 21 at the time so thats my excuse.

  • great clip, brings back memories

  • that place was fuc*ing legend! brings a tear to my eye just looking at the place and remembering the best days of my life/youth soent there on a saturday nigh...

  • would love to see all the vid...

  • I never realised just how high the ceiling was in that place..come to think, I never looked. thanks for the footage.

  • Bloody hell all the memories come flooding back. Best 8 years of my life!

  • The apartments suck, there was no need. Also, if it weren't for the gangs round here then the Hac would still be going....

  • I was there, but 9 years after, a luxury apartments was built there, in this beutifull corner.

    From Chile.

  • as usual the plastic gangsters fucked it up for everyone....

  • the hacienda must be rebuilt!

  • The Hacienda has already been rebuilt. The entire city centre has become the Hacienda. Now that's what you call a legacy.

    Shame about the yuppie flats mocking the name though.

  • Rare footage ! ! Brings it all back !

  • that "fac 51" plaque outside still gives me goosebumps!

    shame its all snotty appartments now.wankers!

  • Thanks for this post-

  • lovely to see the old place again - nowhere quite like it before or since...

  • great footage be great to see it all. certainly the best times of my life in the hacienda

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