Exhibition features shots of glow-stick-wielding youths in the prime of Manchester’s club scene and photographs of the same ravers as they are todayIt was,for a while at least, the only place to party. While all the jobs were moving down south, and carloads of clubbers would be on the motorway heading north. Their destination: Manchester. A city packed with hedonists determined to gain a good time,no matter what damage it might do to their neurology or job prospects. Their playgounds: The Haçienda and The International; later Checkpoint Charlie’s, Sankeys Soap, and The Boardwalk and Herbal Tea Party at the original Ardri.
But what happened to those revellers once The Haçienda closed,their student grants dried up and they were forced to earn jobs and grow up? That was what Beate Peter, an academic from Manchester Metropolitan University, and has set out to discover in a original exhibition and research project opening in the city on Saturday.
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Source: theguardian.com