Hacienda Revisited
As part of a sweep with fliers the Post Office wouldn't deliver in the City centre I get to the Hacienda apartments.
Interesting chat with the concierge. I tell him I've not been in since a club stood on the site. He says he's heard it was bad. I say that towards the end there was some gangster stuff. He offers to show me the list of bands. Madonna is on it. I think I was there when she played in a Tube recording. And I tell him I've promoted a few shows here and managed a few bands.
He hands me a copy of City Life. I tell him I was one of the founders.
This is New City Life, not Old City Life as founded in 1983. Way back then we carried news and news features. And a good deal of political gossip. Probably contributing to the onset of successful municipal socialism and the rout of the Tory rump.
Some of the Lib Dems now were dramatis personae then also. With one of the more memorable characters their councillor who seemed quite proud of his track record dropping living animals into wet concrete. Beats pulling the legs off crane flies.
I wonder whether a proper independent news mag in Manchester would help keep some of the clowns (mainly Lib Dem clowns that is) out of the Town Hall.
City Life is now owned by the Guardian / Evening News and carries no hard news.
Interesting chat with the concierge. I tell him I've not been in since a club stood on the site. He says he's heard it was bad. I say that towards the end there was some gangster stuff. He offers to show me the list of bands. Madonna is on it. I think I was there when she played in a Tube recording. And I tell him I've promoted a few shows here and managed a few bands.
He hands me a copy of City Life. I tell him I was one of the founders.
This is New City Life, not Old City Life as founded in 1983. Way back then we carried news and news features. And a good deal of political gossip. Probably contributing to the onset of successful municipal socialism and the rout of the Tory rump.
Some of the Lib Dems now were dramatis personae then also. With one of the more memorable characters their councillor who seemed quite proud of his track record dropping living animals into wet concrete. Beats pulling the legs off crane flies.
I wonder whether a proper independent news mag in Manchester would help keep some of the clowns (mainly Lib Dem clowns that is) out of the Town Hall.
City Life is now owned by the Guardian / Evening News and carries no hard news.
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