[Dancecult-l] violence // Haçienda

[hillegonda at zoo.co.uk]

Ah - sorry - I only just read this mail.

BEWARE: '24 Hour People' is a fun film - hilarious in it cartoon like 
exaggerations, but Manchester's Haçienda club was hardly the wild west 
... The management was so shocked by the sight of a drawn knife and the 
threat of a gun (no shooting, in singular nor plural!!) , they even 
decided to close for 3 months ... They stubbornly refused to employ any 
gang-member, unlike elsewhere in UK club land. Lack of effective police 
protection was one of the reasons that The Haç closed it doors finally 
in 97.


Gonnie
www.myspace.com/hillegonda




slightly muddy wrote:
> There was certainly a good deal of violence, including shootings, at the 
> Hacienda in Manchester in the late 80s. Most of this was, according to 
> the film "24 hour party people" related to drug deals and was solved but 
> taking the dealers on as security.
>
> p g-b
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