> >us the whole > >warehouse/summer of love/rave/acid house/Orbital parties call it what you > >like scene bloomed over here first before the rest of the world caught on > > Hacienda!? > Blackburn?! same summer.
You know Ive always wondered about the whole early Manchester (or Madchester as the crap Tee shirts told us) scene. I was going to warehouse parties as early as 89, but I always imagined the Hacienda and Manchester thing to be slightly different. I never hooked onto the whole Mondays/Stone Roses/New Order thing and never really felt that it had anything to do with what I was getting into. Have never really made any effort to extended my knowledge of the Manchester scene in those days (Having never ever even ventured further North than to the Eclipse in Coventry a few times! I'm Southern through and through!) other than what I've read in Techno Rebels and some other cool book on the history of rave culture, but even then I still thought that it all sounded a bit different to what I remember of those early heady days. I mean we were all wearing 30 inch flairs, baggy hooded tops with 'freaky' patterns on, Kickers, wallabies and floppy hats as well, but I dont remember ever hearing a Manchester track played at a single party I ever went to.
