Calling all mancs of the Manchester Movement

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Calling all mancs of the Madchester Movement

Right so I've just watched 24 Hour Party People for the first time in ages. Upon viewing it shortly after its release, I was quite surprised at its quality both in entertainment and the seemingly accurate portrayal of the Manchester scene. I was a Joy Division fanatic from an early age and still rate Ian Curtis and the lads as one of the most telling bands of modern days. Obviously, I was disappointed the film focused on the Mondays as they were complete wank. But what I'm wondering is, for those of you that were there, was the scene all I imagined it was back then? I hate rave/dance culture and X is one of the few mind altering substances I've avoided, mind. But surely there was more rock & roll to it than the film leads us to believe.
 
Better I started that thread than another on that night.

But moving on and such...
 
to be honest, i used to go to the hacienda before it was known as a dance/rave club and even though thursday nights were a bit more light hearted and fun, the other nights it was open playing things like joy division, it was a fecking dour and miserable place, everyone dressed in grey and wearing long overcoats looking like fecking undertakers and also with the same sense of humour as undertakers, dont get me wrong, you could tell something special was happening but feck me it was grim.
Even when the hac had live music on, there was just no sense of fun about the place and the same could be said about the whole of manchester at that point.
However much you dislike the whole dance culture/rave scene thing, it didn´t half bring a sense of fun to the north west of england, and some much needed colour and excitement.
 
Can't say I'm surprised to hear that as the early days of the New Wave movement were more to do with punk than synth pop. But didn't the Hacienda open up after Curtis' death? Did you bump around any of the pubs when all that was going on?
 
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