Madcaster night on BBC $
 

Just on BBC 4 right now a night of music from Manchester based bands..New Order, Smiths, The Fall been on already...next showing is a Docu on Factory Records.

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Watched it and it was great.

Saw the Smiths at the Hacienda, who I thought were rubbish at the time, but like now, and saw Madonna before she charted here, when she was being touted as the next big thing from the N.Y. clubs. She was rubbish and good at the same time.

Th whole era was great. I feel sorry for the young of today, as youth culture is soooooooooooo slow moving nowadays.

Never went to the Hacienda later in the eighties, as by then I was the door whore for the first clubs in London to be playing the new music from Chicago.

The second summer of love.

Happy days.

A white Indian Dhoti, with matching trousers. White faux fur kimono. White floral headpiece, think Diana's bridesmaids. Brogues, accessorised with a matching fifties handbag ('A haaaandbag?'), which very often contained a nice pork chop, brought out and nibbled later to much tittering, and a bag which positively rattled when I swung it, and straight to work the next morning, suited and booted and still grinning like the Cheshire cat.

Happy days.

Although I missed out on all the Madchester bit, I like to think I took a little bit of the madness south with me.

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It's still on and a good night...the Hacienda was the be all and end all in the early 80's but never got there myself..sounds great when you went Garinda but I think I would have left the handbag at home :d

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On the factory records programme,i was there at The clips of new order live @hac in 83 ,crushed and sweating near the front.also saw birthday party and cocteau twins there before all that dance **** started up.loved steve morris of new order impersonating rob gredon ' dooooo!! lets buy the building ' haaaaaa
great nights entertainment from bbc 4,well done .cheers :)

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I'd seen bits before but a great evening all round

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This morning i remembered the bit when pickering (the hac dj ) was talikg about the police helecopter coming over the hacienda in the early 90's and amazingly has he talking an actual helecopter came over,haaaa
I am sure a lot people that would have found this night interesting would have missed it with it being tucked away on bbc4. I think they should replay it on somewhere like bbc2 for wider viewing.
wonder if it might be bbc i player ??

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The clips from the acid house days in the late eighties did make me laugh.

Lines of floppy haired lads in beanies, robotically swaying side to side.

It looked just like a clip from Kevin and Perry Go Large.

:D

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seen it many times from the Stretford End lookin at the East Stand at Old Trafford when full of City fans.. times don't change that much.

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yea times dont change for them,at rovers today even as far away from our blackburn end i could spot similar citea ******* over in the away/darwen end still looking the same even now in 2009 :D