New Order Celebrate 25 Years Of The Hacienda

New Order’s Peter Hook and Ian Brown were among guests at a photo exhibition launched in Manchester yesterday (July 17th) celebrating twenty five years of the Hacienda club.

Although the club itself shut in 1997 and has since become apartments, the exhibition at Urbis in Manchester’s city centre marks the massive influence that the venue had on Manchester and Britain’s music culture.

New Order’s drummer, Stephen Morris who was also in attendance, highlighted that the financial input that his band had put into the venue in hindsight was "brave and probably stupid."

He added to the BBC, however: "Everyone there wanted to get a band going, it became the centre of the Manchester music scene.

"We paved the way for what came later, up until then clubs were dingy caverns. The Hacienda was a massive space unlike any club that had been before."

The Hacienda 25 exhibition will run until February 17th 2008.