reopen Hacianda?

Its a shame the Hacianda club started by NO went bust because of poor management. If it was still open I would like to see a worldwide chain, like have one in New York, in Paris, Moscow, or Toronto (near where I live) and so on. And would host gigs for artist like the original one in Manchester.

Leave it closed unless you want to do E in people's homes :p

if you have got the capital to fund this idea... go for it

it's hard to run a club like a real business and survive... how many clubs can last a decade with the same ownership and without any major problems?! i think 3 years is a long time for a dance club in the US

Re-open where exactly? The site's been demolished and replaced by apartments - Hooky even manned the first bulldozer.

The Hac was a monument of the times, a cradle of acid house, an icon of early dance culture. Times have changed, there simply isn't the same energy and buzz about dance music any more. Let it rest.

I made a pilgrimage to the place but arrived there a few months too late in 1997. Gutted. Like the building.

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so leave it in the past?

All chains are pale imitations of the real thing. It's an immutable law of nature.

The Planet Hollywood of nightclubs.

Owned in a triumvirate between Bernard Sumner, Shaun Ryder, and err, Tony Wilson? With no one but Raw-T and Young Offenders Institute and Vini Reilly playing live every other night? I'd give it about six months.

Would be a neat place for all these neo-new wave artsty alsorans to perform under shitey conditions though.

No way, they turned the Hacianda into apartments? Just like they did with the Hacienda?

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I have unseen self filmed footage of Hooky starting up the first digger and then smashing into the stage, abot 5 mins long. I'll try to find a way of posting it up on here.