The Hacienda
How Not to Run a Club
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Peter Hook
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Peter Hook
About this listen
Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for 30 years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created.
This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined. As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write Hacienda. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.
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- Alex Burman
- 22-08-19
Hilarious and shocking
Peter Hook is a scream telling his stories of the Haçienda 'glory' days. Works extremely well as an autonarrative audiobook, no one else could have done it justice the way he does.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-11-21
Absolute Quality
Total pleasure to listen to. Had me hanging on to every word. Brilliantly narrated by Peter Hook. Highly recommend.
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- mark R steel
- 20-09-17
Another great story
An eye opener for anyone thinking about opening a club . Very entertaining stright from the Horse's Mouth. Well worth a listen.
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- Paul Cottingham
- 20-09-15
Short but insightful
Amazing what you would never know until someone is honest enough to tell it how they saw it. Again it goes to show what a rip off the business surrounding bands and music is. great delivery , great story, good job.
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- Yorkyneil
- 01-11-24
A great behind the scenes exposure
Really enjoyed the story and the musical interludes took me back to the best days of clubbing.
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- Simon Andrew
- 08-08-18
hooky should narrate all his books. top delivery
relaxed. conversational. funny. comes alive off the page. hooky needs to do them all. fab. please note it is heavily abridged.
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- Aidan Shortall
- 03-08-24
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Was great to hear Hooky weave his way around this amazing story, art and culture - “And on the sixth day, God created Manchester”
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- jordan
- 04-10-17
The capital of cool
It's short but pure class this and well worth it. Works as a brilliant companion to 24 hour party people.
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- Rozielou 85
- 14-07-21
Very entertaining listen
Peter Hook is hilarious and gives a compelling account of life running the Hacienda. Highly recommend to anyone with an interest in Manchester music scene or New Order.
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- Steve
- 10-07-22
Punchy memoir of a defining club
Hooky delivers his book well. It’s more light-hearted and pacier than other Factory-era material. Not without light and shade, and evokes the era well.
I can vividly remember where I was when I heard of the collapse of Factory… Kurt Cobain tried to steal that thunder.
I enjoyed this book; it doesn’t get bogged-down in details or raking through the ashes. A good look back at the club that had it all.
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