Woke up to hear Peter Hook on Radio 4’s Today this morning (!) talking about the Hacienda’s 30th Anniversary…….blimey! Doesn’t time fly. I was member 151 and fondly remember it as the empty Indie disco it was before the Chicago disco took over.
I wrote a ‘personal history’ article about Joy Division/New Order here after seeing New Order do a set of JD songs….26 years after first seeing JD…..
A 17 year old Mitsu, dressed in white, features at the front of this Smiths clip…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSXq6w6q7M
Our Smiths obsessed friend Bethany saw it and exclaimed “How did she get to the front?!”……….well, there were only a few dozen people there that’s why…..ah yes, the good old days…..
Bob the Chiropodist