{"product_id":"the-hacienda-how-not-to-run-a-club","title":"The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy Division and New Order bassist Peter 'Hooky' Hook gives his \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eunflinching account of the tumultuous fifteen-year stretch of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Haçienda - the Factory Records- and New Order-owned \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eiconic Manchester nightclub which became one of the most celebrated venues in the history of clubbing. The central hub of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eManchester music scene throughout the Eighties and Nineties, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Haç saw legendary, early gigs by bands such as the Stone Roses, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe Smiths, and Happy Mondays, gave birth to the 'Madchester' scene \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand became the cathedral for acid house during the second \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSummer of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet as 'Madchester' descended into 'Gunchester' in the early \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enineties, gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeverything that Factory Records and Joy Division\/ New Order had \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecreated. \u003cem\u003eThe Haçienda - How Not To Run A Club\u003c\/em\u003e is Hooky's indelibly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epersonal memory of that era, and is far sadder, funnier, scarier \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eand stranger than anyone could ever imagine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll the major characters and Mancunian mavericks are here - \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTony Wilson, Rob Gretton, Barney Shaun Ryder. Hooky tells it uncompromisingly straight, as he remembers it a rollercoaster of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esuccess, money, debt, confusion and true faith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Had the Haçienda not been run by a bunch of Manchester \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003echancers it wouldn't have been half the club it was, nor would \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHook's account be half as riveting' \u003cstrong\u003eTime Out\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e'A frank memoir of altruism, idealism and breathless incompetence' \u003cstrong\u003eUncut magazine \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A born anecdotalist'\u003cstrong\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48486773522690,"sku":"BK-SAS-THHNRC-001-O","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_1499_0676a961-211d-4bb9-9c04-dfab95282cbc.jpg?v=1793804697","url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/products\/the-hacienda-how-not-to-run-a-club","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}