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Oct 23Liked by Simon Warner

Excellent read. As someone who also arrived in Manchester in 1989, I really tapped into this. Hacienda days!

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Well, Leon, I'd been born Manchester and had been been living around the city for two decades by the time that period arrived, but I remember the glory years of the Hacienda with some affection. A remarkable era on several musical fronts!

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Oct 19Liked by Simon Warner

Madchester. Happy Mondays The Hacienda. The summer of Hate. So Artaud. Different generational convergences &THE BIG BEAT GENETICALLY LINKED.

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Cool connections across the continents!

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