The Haçienda

byMat Smith
January 13, 2022

Ben Kelly, the designer of The Haçienda, talks us through the club’s iconic design aesthetic

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Mike Oldfield ‘Blue Peter’

byNeil Mason

The theme to BBC children’s show ‘Blue Peter’ is instantly recognisable, but did you know the version used from 1979 to 1989 was recorded by prog godhead Mike Oldfield?

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Pirate Radio Ads

byBen Willmott

We travel back to the good old days of pirate radio and meet Luke Owen, the man behind a new collection of quirky between-song adverts that used to fill our illegal airwaves

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‘Tomorrow’s World’

byMark Brend

At the back end of 1969, a new music making machine has its debut on British TV. The show, unsurprisingly, is ‘Tomorrow’s World’, the machine is the Moog Modular…

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The 1980s Madrid Electronic Music Scene

byDavid Pollock

In 1980s Madrid, La Movida Madrileña, a hedonistic counterculture movement emerged in the wake of Franco’s death. With it came a wave of electronic music that is seeing a reappraisal four decades on

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‘Decoder’ soundtrack

byBen Willmott

Featuring Einstürzende Neubauten, Genesis P-Orridge, William Burroughs, Dave Ball and Matt Johnson, the epic soundtrack to sci-fi dystopia flick ‘Decoder’ is unlike any other

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David Bowie

byJeremy Allen

For a few years during the 1990s, David Bowie was the Jeremy Paxman of art critics, compelling the rich and famous to justify their exhibition catalogue waffle

The Haçienda

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Mat Smith

Mike Oldfield ‘Blue Peter’

Pirate Radio Ads

‘Tomorrow’s World’

The 1980s Madrid Electronic Music Scene

‘Decoder’ soundtrack

David Bowie

Steve Hovington ‘Remembrance Day’

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Thomas Leer ‘Private Plane’

Vicky Clarke: Neural Pathways

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The Haçienda

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