The Haçienda Classics: World Are You Ready For Manchester!

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Get the latest What's On news - from food and drink to music and nightlife - straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. Haçienda Classical in the Castlefield Bowl is the highlight of my year and I’m thrilled to be performing for a seventh year to the best audience in the world,” conductor Tim Crooks said. “It’s always an unforgettable experience.”

These technologies are used for things like personalised ads, to limit how many times you see an ad, to understand usage via Google Analytics, to understand how you got to our web properties, to ensure that we understand the audience and can provide relevant ads It's about a five minute walk from Castlefield Bowl to the main line train station at Deansgate. At present, there hasn’t been any further rail strikes announced that may disrupt services.

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We hired The Hacienda Classics for our wedding reception and certainly weren't disappointed. They were able to learn a few songs for us with their set list which made the night really special. All our guests said how amazing you guys were. Would definitely recommend.”

Excellent performance. The band were brilliant, not only in their performance but also in the way that they conducted themselves prior to the event during set up.”This bongo-drum, saxaphone-laced song inspired body-popping and had it all - a banging chorus and sing a long chorus. Graeme Park said: “ Seven appearances at Castlefield Bowl? Really? This show is always very, very special and I really can’t wait to return for another epic evening in July.”

Alexis and Joe from Hot Chip not only DJ in their own right, but the band have carefully curated a series of quality remixes, using the likes of Erol Alkan, Fred Falke, Carl Craig, and Sasha (who stretched and twisted Hot Chip’s ‘Flutes’ into a synth-laden epic). Stage times are always approximate for gigs, but here's a guide to all the different acts and when they're expected to play on Friday night. The best advice is always to get there early to avoid disappointment. A hip hop-influenced crew, including Martin Price from the Eastern Bloc record shop, and two of his customers (and Hacienda regulars) – Gerald Simpson and Graham Massey – began making music as the Hit Squad.House music was still underground – there were some commercial hits, but outside of specialist shows the best music was still only being heard in a few clubs. 808 State weren’t eyeing the charts, they had a more specific aim; to get the record played at the club. It was the be-all and end-all. According to Graham Massey, ”If you didn’t get it on at the Hacienda, it was a disaster”. The Hacienda Classics are the ultimate party band, playing dance classics from the 70s, 80s and 90s right up to all your favourite present day hits. Here you can also access the Deansgate-Castlefield tram station where there are trams every 12 minutes connecting to all of the main tram routes in the Greater Manchester area. The NCP Manchester Central next to Bridgewater Hall car park is also nearby, with 643 spaces. For sat navs the postcode is M15 4PS.

By October 1987 he’d taught himself to DJ and had a Wednesday night residency at the Hacienda. His influence on music since – especially in France – is incalculable. This is the act's lowest available price for a local performance by their smallest line-up. It does not include any travel costs. Happy Mondays and their friends had a favourite corner of the club; under the balcony, to the right of where I was in the DJ box. It was in this corner that the earliest and most enthusiastic ecstasy users were to be found. In the first month or two of 1988 the drug spread from there, eventually taking over all parts of the Hacienda. We are looking at some decent weather for the return of the Hacienda Classical this year. Current forecasts are saying sunshine or cloud for most of Friday evening which is just what you'll want to hear if you're heading down to the open-air Castelfield Bowl.It was a sign of how fertile the Hacienda scene was that Elliot’s evolution from being a young Hacienda pot-collector to DJing and recording, culminated in him taking over DJ duties in the Hacienda’s main room in 1997. He was playing in the main room of the club on what turned out to be the last night – June 28th 1997. His last record was the Salt City Orchestra remix of ‘Post Modern Sleaze’ by Sneaker Pimps. We have compiled a list of our top 10 songs from the Hacienda days, but obviously there are many more, and that is where you come in.