The Haçienda How Not To Run A Club by Peter Hook

Simon & Schuster – Hardback – 288pp – 16 colour photographs – £18.99 – 5th October 2009

Peter Hook tells the amazing true story – the music, the madness and the meltdown – of Manchester’s most iconic nightclub

 An eye-opening, jaw-dropping, no-holds-barred account of the pioneering vision, the quixotic ambition and the decadent mayhem that defined The Haçienda’s spectacular success ... ensured its legendary status ... and sowed the seeds for its dramatic demise

 As a founder member of hugely successful bands Joy Division and New Order and co- owner of The Haçienda, Peter Hook writes from the epicentre of the Baggy, Madchester and Acid House music scenes, offering significant new insights into a pivotal moment in popular music history

 Illustrated throughout with previously un-published photograph’s from the author’s personal archives and narrated with a compelling honesty, THE HAÇIENDA stands as classic work of music biography

Legendary musician Peter ‘Hooky’ Hook tells the tale of Manchester’s most iconic nightclub, The Haçienda – the high times, the groundbreaking music, the immense loss of money and the enduring legacy.

As co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, Hooky has had a thirty-year career in the music business which has seen him become a well-loved rock and roll icon whose innovative and genre-defining bass playing has driven classics such as ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’, ‘Blue Monday’ (the bestselling 12-inch single ever), ‘Thieves Like Us’, ‘Regret’ and ‘Crystal’. Peter Hook was also co-owner of Manchester’s Haçienda, from its opening in 1982 to the rise of acid house in the late eighties and beyond, and saw first-hand the tumultuous set of circumstances that shaped the club and made it one of the most famous clubs in the world.

Yes paradise never comes cheap and in the 1990s Hooky suffered greatly as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything that Factory Records and Joy Division/New Order had created.

The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club is his indelibly personal memory of that era, and is far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger than anyone could ever have imagined.

‘Chiming perfectly with the nation’s twin fears of urban violence and monetary collapse, How Not To Run A Club should become a cautionary tale of modern times’ Mojo