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Freaky Dancing - The Complete Collection
The complete collection of The Hacienda's legendary unofficial acid house fanzine.
- GenresMusic
276 pages, Paperback
Published February 24, 2019
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January 20, 2022
Loved reading this. I was just a little too young to get to the '89/'90 heyday of the Haçienda - I *did* manage to get there afterwards in the brief reopening a couple of years later but, as you can track through the issues of this fanzine, the club was a very different place then.
As a piece of social history this is really funny, entertaining, and insightful into 'club culture' of the period. Cartoons show the mind-altering perception brought by the drugs of the period and the various scenarios the heroes of the strips get into provided some familiar nods on my part.
The overarching theme is one of youthful exuberance and a pride in the 'scene' Gill and Pickford became a part of. The cartoon reflections on each issue and the context provided gives a great sense of the time and the authors.
If you were there (or, like me, thereabouts) I'd highly recommend. Not least for the music reviews and the playlist you can create from it...
As a piece of social history this is really funny, entertaining, and insightful into 'club culture' of the period. Cartoons show the mind-altering perception brought by the drugs of the period and the various scenarios the heroes of the strips get into provided some familiar nods on my part.
The overarching theme is one of youthful exuberance and a pride in the 'scene' Gill and Pickford became a part of. The cartoon reflections on each issue and the context provided gives a great sense of the time and the authors.
If you were there (or, like me, thereabouts) I'd highly recommend. Not least for the music reviews and the playlist you can create from it...
July 2, 2019
This collection successfully archives a moment in British cultural history. It is a complete collection of the zine which was handed out to the queue for the Hacienda Club in Manchester in the late 80s & early 90s.
The comic strips, reviews etc are vibrant, youthful and obsessed with dancing and the drugs popular at the time - mostly ecstasy with some side orders of acid and dope. There is an editorial end-strip added to each of the reprints of the 11 editions of Freaky Dancing, written & drawn by the editors, Paul Gill and Ste Pickford recently. It’s really interesting to have their reminiscences of how the issues were put together and their current opinions of those times and the zines.
I wasn’t cool enough to go to the Hacienda or take E, but I recognise with fond nostalgia other details in the strips and prose sections. This is a unique book which is well worth taking a look at.
The comic strips, reviews etc are vibrant, youthful and obsessed with dancing and the drugs popular at the time - mostly ecstasy with some side orders of acid and dope. There is an editorial end-strip added to each of the reprints of the 11 editions of Freaky Dancing, written & drawn by the editors, Paul Gill and Ste Pickford recently. It’s really interesting to have their reminiscences of how the issues were put together and their current opinions of those times and the zines.
I wasn’t cool enough to go to the Hacienda or take E, but I recognise with fond nostalgia other details in the strips and prose sections. This is a unique book which is well worth taking a look at.
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