The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
- Apr 19, 2016
- 1 min read
★★★★☆
Peter Hook's cheeky account of the infamous Haçienda club is part wild, debauched ride, part cautionary tale, and part completist companion. Reading How Not to Run a Club was fun as hell—except when it wasn't. When it wasn't, that's probably because I'm a business owner myself (I'm a partner and creative and marketing director of a three-year-old winery and brewery), and while I know that Peter Hook and his New Order bandmates, their manager Rob Gretton, and Factory Record’s Tony Wilson had no business running a club (let alone another bar, Dry, at the same time), some of the things they did weren't completely crazy but the results were (spoiler alert) almost always shit. I could imagine my partners and I making decisions that seemed reasonable now that in 30 years we'd look back on as utterly stupid. Still, even as it was all crashing down (and the club, even at it's best, was still a nearly—or completely—uncontrollable disaster), Peter Hook's wry, self-depricating style, never loses sight of the humor to be found in it all.
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