The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter 'Hooky' Hook gives his unflinching account of the tumultuous fifteen-year stretch of The Haçienda - the Factory Records- and New Order-owned iconic Manchester nightclub which became one of the most celebrated venues in the history of clubbing. The central hub of the Manchester music scene throughout the Eighties and Nineties, The Haç saw legendary, early gigs by bands such as the Stone Roses, the Smiths, and Happy Mondays, gave birth to the 'Madchester' scene and became the cathedral for acid house during the second Summer of love.

Yet as 'Madchester' descended into 'Gunchester' in the early nineties, gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything that Factory Records and Joy Division/ New Order had created. The Haçienda - How Not To Run A Club is Hooky's indelibly personal memory of that era, and is far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger than anyone could ever imagine.

All the major characters and Mancunian mavericks are here - Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton, Barney Shaun Ryder. Hooky tells it uncompromisingly straight, as he remembers it a rollercoaster of success, money, debt, confusion and true faith.

'Had the Haçienda not been run by a bunch of Manchester chancers it wouldn't have been half the club it was, nor would Hook's account be half as riveting' Time Out

'A frank memoir of altruism, idealism and breathless incompetence' Uncut magazine 

'A born anecdotalist' Sunday Times