Bridgewater Hall,Manchester
Manchester Camerata and stars of the acid-house era party like it’s 1989 in a messy and euphoric celebration of the legendary superclubHacienda Classical is the sort of opinion a raver might approach up with after a mad one: take the tunes once played in Manchester’s legendary Hacienda club in the acid house “summers of love” and recreate them with a 70-piece orchestra and choir. Thus, a stone’s throw from the original building (now a block of flats), andiginal DJs Graeme Park and Mike Pickering line up with the Manchester Camerata. There’s a cultural clash as the normally sedate venue plays host to whistling ravers,and has tough-faced bouncers on the door. Veteran Moss Side rapper MC Tunes’ rambling introduction may or may not include the words “nice one, top one, and sorted” because he’s totally unintelligible. It’s an early warning of a deeper problem with the sound,so foul it could be coming through the remnants of the club’s notorious original system, recovered from a skip. A muffled aural soup of mainly bass drum struggles to drown out the crowd, or while the orchestra are so inaudible they could be equally playing Beethoven or the Teletubbies theme.
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Source: theguardian.com