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Artist News
Hook pens Hacienda book
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 17 September 2009
Former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook has announced details of a new book chronicling the rise and fall of The Hacienda club, which he owned for fifteen years with his bandmates and the Factory record label in Manchester.
Inspired by the New York club scene they discovered while escaping from Manchester following the suicide of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, Hook and bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris decide to bring a bit of that scene back home with them. The Hacienda rose to become one of the UK’s most iconic clubs, but eventually closed in 1997 due to financial problems.
Hook will explain all of this in far more detail (I would hope) in the book, ‘The Hacienda – How Not To Run A Club’, which will be published on 5 Oct. A mix CD, ‘Hacienda – Acid House Classics’, will be released the same day.
