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February 01, 2008

Peter Hook writing Hacienda book: 'like a really weird cross between having a nightmare and reliving it all'

“I am just doing the Hacienda book so I am grateful for the diversion,” he chuckled.
“It is like a really weird cross between having a nightmare and reliving it all. It’s quite entertaining.”

The book could round off an unofficial trilogy that began with the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, which centred on the late Anthony Wilson’s running of Factory records, the label that launched the careers of bands such as Joy Division and Happy Mondays.

Director Anton Corbijn’s film Control dealt expertly with the life and death of Joy Division’s legendary frontman Ian Curtis and Peter now believes he can add a third dimension to the story of how Madchester grew out of the club and venue which opened its doors in 1982 and survived on his band New Order’s record sales.

Known as Fac 51 to disciples of the legendary indie label, the Hacienda was associated with the rise of acid house and rave and is depicted in 24 Hour Party People as a place where dealers of the drug ecstasy roamed with impunity.

But Hook knows there is a lot more to be told and a movie spin-off in the making if he can just remember half the things people got up to during that hazy decade and a half.