Through a chain of events that no one could have imagined, the ex-boat showroom on Whitworth Street West, Manchester that became The Haçienda and the scene it gave birth to, went on to have one of the biggest impacts on youth culture since the punk movement and is one that is still reverberating today.Through the combination of legendary nights and DJ’s it changed clubbing from simply a night out to an intense experience. It was the heady mixture of new music, new ideas,cutting edge design and even new designer drugs that pushed the venue into overdrive and inspired DJ’s from Sasha to The Chemical Brothers to Laurent Garnier.

“The Haçienda shone like a beacon rewriting the rulebook of what a clubbing experience was all about and inspired hundreds of thousands”.