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I
first
heard
about
Acid
House
from
a
good
friend
of
mine
in
Darwen.
There was
a
gang
of
us
who’d
been
into
Electro
music
and
Hip-Hop
and
we
kind
of
got
out
of
that
around
late
1985
and
he
can…
he
got
into
a
thing
called
Jazz
Fusion
and
they
used
to
go
to
a
lot
of
all
dayers
and
I
remember
him
telling
me
that
he
was
into
House
music
and
saying
there’s
this
new
new
type
of
house
music
called
Acid
House.
And
I
thought
that’s
odd
because
I’d
heard
I knew
what
acid
was
and
I
knew
what
House
music
was
but
I
thought
what
an
odd
combination
and
…
then
probably
a
few
months
after
that
that
would
have
been
kind
of
early
1988
a
few
months
after…
that
would
have
been
August
1988
I
was
in
a
bar
in
Blackburn.
It
was
called
Blakey’s
I
don’t
know
if
was
called
Blakey’s
at
that
point
and
it
was back of
King
George’s
Hall
and
a
lad
I
knew
called
Bucky…
bless
his
soul.
He’s
no
longer
with
us.
Came
rushing
in
there
with
a
massively
oversized
t-shirt
with
a
big
smiley
face
on
the
front
and
he
looked
like
he
was
out
of
breath
and
I
thought..
what’s
going
on
here?
And
then
a
few
days
after
seeing
Bucky
in
there
because
he
was
like…
you
know
…
you’ve
got
to
get
into
Acid
House.
You’ve
got
to
get
into
Acid
House
and
I
was
like…
what’s
this?
What’s
going
on
here?
And I
moved
to
Manchester
I
think
it
would
have
been
within
a
matter
of
days
after
bumping
into
him
in
Blackburn.
I
moved
to
Manchester
August
1988
to
go
over
there
to
study
fashion
design
and
I
got
a
part-time
job
in
a
clothes
shop
in
Bridge
Street
in
Manchester
called
Carl
Twigg
and
two
girls
worked
in
that
shop
with
me
one
was
called
Fiona…
one was
called
Rebecca.
Fiona
did
the
door
of
the
Hacienda
and
Rebecca
was
on
the
staff
of
the
Hacienda.
Rebecca’s
a
girl
who’s
got
short
dark
hair
and who
Shaun
Ryder
dances
with
in
the
Wrote
For
Luck
video.
Happy
Monday’s
Wrote
For
Luck
video.
And
I
used
to
have
a
laugh
with
them
in
the
shop.
And
you
know…
they
just
thought
I was
some
cheeky
Scally
from
Darwen
and
I
didn’t
last
very
long
in
that
job
because
what
happened
was…
they
invited
me
to
the
Hacienda
and
I
started
to
go
to
the
Hacienda
and
I
remember
going
to
Hacienda
with…
I
met
a lad
from
Middlesbrough
who
was
at
college
as
well.
And
he
used
to
go
to
the
Hacienda
and
I
met
his
kind
of
crowd
of
mates
and
they
were
from
all
over…
you
know…
they’re
from
Nottingham
London
you
know
and
they’d
all
gone
to
Manchester
to
go
to
college.
And
so
I
started
to
go
to
the
Hacienda…
it
would
have
been
the
end
of
August ’88
and
when
I
was
in
the
Hacienda
with
my
new
kind
of
group
of
mates
I’ve
met
in
Manchester
I
bumped
into
some
of
the
older
crowd
from
Blackburn
who
were
from…
predominantly
from
the
Mill Hill
area of
Blackburn
and
I
knew
a
few
of
them
from
err
cos’
they used
to come up
Caz’s bar
in
Darwen
and…
and
I
started
to
stand
with
them
in
the
Hacienda.
We
used
to
stand…
there
were…
there
were
like
alcoves
under
the
balcony
of
the
Hacienda.
The
first
alcove
eventually
became
known
as
Salford
corner.
And
that’s
where
people
like
Shaun
Ryder
and
Andy
Rourke
from
The
Smiths
used
to
sit
along
with
a
lot
of
kind
of
pretty
moody
Manchester
characters…
but
they
were
you
know
there
were
some
colorful
characters
who
used
to
stand
in
there.
And
then
the
next
section
along
was
where
everybody
from
Blackburn
used
to
stand
say
Blackburn.
Blackburn
and
Darwen.
And
erm..
there
was
a
group
of
us
in
there.
And
then
I
think
it
would
have
been
a
week
or
so
after
that
…
the
first
Acid
House
night
happened
in
Blackburn
at
C’est La Vie’s
on a
Thursday
night.
And
so
I
was
kind
of
I
was
between
Manchester
and
Blackburn
for
much
of
the
next
kind
of
twelve
to
eighteen
months
really
and
so
I
sort
of
saw
both
sides
of
it.
I
was
I
was
a
regular
in
the
Hacienda
on
the
Wednesday
night
and
a
Friday
night.
And
then
I
would
generally
come
up
to
Blackburn
on
a
Saturday.
Once
the
Blackburn
Acid
House
nights
moved
on
to
Saturdays
when
it
started
to
go
to
Crackers
and
then
later
to
the
Sett
End.
So
yeah
it
was
a
really.
It
was
just
a
phenomenal
time.
It’s
just
right…
it’s
just
the…
being
in
the
right
place
at
the
right
time
and
what
I
saw
happen
was
nothing
short
of
transformative
really
because
being
from
Darwen
and
hanging
around
with
a
multi-racial
gang
of kids.
We’d
spent
much
of
the
mid-80s
going
over
to
Bolton…
Farnworth…
Manchester…
Bury…
and
just
avoiding
Blackburn
because
there
was
so
much
violence
in
Blackburn
and
there
was
so
much
racism.
Blackburn
and
every
area
of
Blackburn
had
it’s own
gang
and one
one
thing
all
those
gangs
in
Blackburn
had
in
common
was
they
all
hated
kids
from
Darwen
and
I
remember
when
I
went
to
art
college
in
Blackburn
i’d
have
been
seventeen
years
old
in
1987
I
used
to
go
to
walk to
college
with
a
bat
in
my
bag
because
it
was
dangerous
to…
it
was
like
running
the
gauntlet
…
walking
through
Blackburn
for
a
Darwen…
for
a
Darwen
kid
at
that
age.
It
was..
it
was…
it
was
volatile
and
it
was
rough
and
it
was
ruthless.
And
so
you
had
to
watch
your
back
and
it
was…
the
interesting
thing
was
you
know…
I
knew
a
lot
of
lads
from
Blackburn
from
different
areas
of
Blackburn
and
lived with
a
few
lads
from
Mill
Hill…
a
few
lads
from
Little
Harwood
erm…
i’d
been
to
Prestatyn
on
holiday…
a
few
years
earlier.
I
met
a
lot
of
them and
I
got
on with
one
particular
lad
from
Blackburn who
moved
up
to
Darwen
and
I
became
very
good
friends
with
him.
And
so
it
was…
yeah
it
was…
it
was
really
really
dangerous
for…
for
us
going
in
to
Blackburn
at
that
time.
for
us
lads
from
Darwen
and…
and
then
when
Acid
House
came
along
that
night at
C’est La Vie’s…
it
literally
changed
overnight.
It
just…
it
just
stopped
years
worth
of
gang
violence
between
different
areas.
It
just
stopped
and
I
remember
feeling
slightly
uneasy
at
that
first
night
in
C’est La Vie’s
because
it
just
seemed
bizarre.
But
all
these
lads
from
different
areas
of
Blackburn
and
Darwen
were
all
under
the
same
roof.
It’s
like
you
if
you’d
gone
to
anything
like
that
prior to that
you
were
almost
waiting
for
that
moment.
When
the
music
would
stop
and
there’d
be
like
a
fight
on
the
dance
floor
and
chairs
would
be
getting
thrown.
Then
bottles
would
be
getting
thrown.
It
was…
it
just…
it
just
stopped
overnight
and…
which
was
great
you
know.
It
was
great
and
you
know…
and
we
all
kind
of
knew
each
other
and
it
was
almost
like
it
was
just
like
overnight
there
was
like
this
ceasefire
and
it
was…
yeah
it
was
phenomenal.
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I
first
heard
about
Acid
House
from
a
good
friend
of
mine
in
Darwen.
There was
a
gang
of
us
who’d
been
into
Electro
music
and
Hip-Hop
and
we
kind
of
got
out
of
that
around
late
1985
and
he
can…
he
got
into
a
thing
called
Jazz
Fusion
and
they
used
to
go
to
a
lot
of
all
dayers
and
I
remember
him
telling
me
that
he
was
into
House
music
and
saying
there’s
this
new
new
type
of
house
music
called
Acid
House.
And
I
thought
that’s
odd
because
I’d
heard
I knew
what
acid
was
and
I
knew
what
House
music
was
but
I
thought
what
an
odd
combination
and
…
then
probably
a
few
months
after
that
that
would
have
been
kind
of
early
1988
a
few
months
after…
that
would
have
been
August
1988
I
was
in
a
bar
in
Blackburn.
It
was
called
Blakey’s
I
don’t
know
if
was
called
Blakey’s
at
that
point
and
it
was back of
King
George’s
Hall
and
a
lad
I
knew
called
Bucky…
bless
his
soul.
He’s
no
longer
with
us.
Came
rushing
in
there
with
a
massively
oversized
t-shirt
with
a
big
smiley
face
on
the
front
and
he
looked
like
he
was
out
of
breath
and
I
thought..
what’s
going
on
here?
And
then
a
few
days
after
seeing
Bucky
in
there
because
he
was
like…
you
know
…
you’ve
got
to
get
into
Acid
House.
You’ve
got
to
get
into
Acid
House
and
I
was
like…
what’s
this?
What’s
going
on
here?
And I
moved
to
Manchester
I
think
it
would
have
been
within
a
matter
of
days
after
bumping
into
him
in
Blackburn.
I
moved
to
Manchester
August
1988
to
go
over
there
to
study
fashion
design
and
I
got
a
part-time
job
in
a
clothes
shop
in
Bridge
Street
in
Manchester
called
Carl
Twigg
and
two
girls
worked
in
that
shop
with
me
one
was
called
Fiona…
one was
called
Rebecca.
Fiona
did
the
door
of
the
Hacienda
and
Rebecca
was
on
the
staff
of
the
Hacienda.
Rebecca’s
a
girl
who’s
got
short
dark
hair
and who
Shaun
Ryder
dances
with
in
the
Wrote
For
Luck
video.
Happy
Monday’s
Wrote
For
Luck
video.
And
I
used
to
have
a
laugh
with
them
in
the
shop.
And
you
know…
they
just
thought
I was
some
cheeky
Scally
from
Darwen
and
I
didn’t
last
very
long
in
that
job
because
what
happened
was…
they
invited
me
to
the
Hacienda
and
I
started
to
go
to
the
Hacienda
and
I
remember
going
to
Hacienda
with…
I
met
a lad
from
Middlesbrough
who
was
at
college
as
well.
And
he
used
to
go
to
the
Hacienda
and
I
met
his
kind
of
crowd
of
mates
and
they
were
from
all
over…
you
know…
they’re
from
Nottingham
London
you
know
and
they’d
all
gone
to
Manchester
to
go
to
college.
And
so
I
started
to
go
to
the
Hacienda…
it
would
have
been
the
end
of
August ’88
and
when
I
was
in
the
Hacienda
with
my
new
kind
of
group
of
mates
I’ve
met
in
Manchester
I
bumped
into
some
of
the
older
crowd
from
Blackburn
who
were
from…
predominantly
from
the
Mill Hill
area of
Blackburn
and
I
knew
a
few
of
them
from
err
cos’
they used
to come up
Caz’s bar
in
Darwen
and…
and
I
started
to
stand
with
them
in
the
Hacienda.
We
used
to
stand…
there
were…
there
were
like
alcoves
under
the
balcony
of
the
Hacienda.
The
first
alcove
eventually
became
known
as
Salford
corner.
And
that’s
where
people
like
Shaun
Ryder
and
Andy
Rourke
from
The
Smiths
used
to
sit
along
with
a
lot
of
kind
of
pretty
moody
Manchester
characters…
but
they
were
you
know
there
were
some
colorful
characters
who
used
to
stand
in
there.
And
then
the
next
section
along
was
where
everybody
from
Blackburn
used
to
stand
say
Blackburn.
Blackburn
and
Darwen.
And
erm..
there
was
a
group
of
us
in
there.
And
then
I
think
it
would
have
been
a
week
or
so
after
that
…
the
first
Acid
House
night
happened
in
Blackburn
at
C’est La Vie’s
on a
Thursday
night.
And
so
I
was
kind
of
I
was
between
Manchester
and
Blackburn
for
much
of
the
next
kind
of
twelve
to
eighteen
months
really
and
so
I
sort
of
saw
both
sides
of
it.
I
was
I
was
a
regular
in
the
Hacienda
on
the
Wednesday
night
and
a
Friday
night.
And
then
I
would
generally
come
up
to
Blackburn
on
a
Saturday.
Once
the
Blackburn
Acid
House
nights
moved
on
to
Saturdays
when
it
started
to
go
to
Crackers
and
then
later
to
the
Sett
End.
So
yeah
it
was
a
really.
It
was
just
a
phenomenal
time.
It’s
just
right…
it’s
just
the…
being
in
the
right
place
at
the
right
time
and
what
I
saw
happen
was
nothing
short
of
transformative
really
because
being
from
Darwen
and
hanging
around
with
a
multi-racial
gang
of kids.
We’d
spent
much
of
the
mid-80s
going
over
to
Bolton…
Farnworth…
Manchester…
Bury…
and
just
avoiding
Blackburn
because
there
was
so
much
violence
in
Blackburn
and
there
was
so
much
racism.
Blackburn
and
every
area
of
Blackburn
had
it’s own
gang
and one
one
thing
all
those
gangs
in
Blackburn
had
in
common
was
they
all
hated
kids
from
Darwen
and
I
remember
when
I
went
to
art
college
in
Blackburn
i’d
have
been
seventeen
years
old
in
1987
I
used
to
go
to
walk to
college
with
a
bat
in
my
bag
because
it
was
dangerous
to…
it
was
like
running
the
gauntlet
…
walking
through
Blackburn
for
a
Darwen…
for
a
Darwen
kid
at
that
age.
It
was..
it
was…
it
was
volatile
and
it
was
rough
and
it
was
ruthless.
And
so
you
had
to
watch
your
back
and
it
was…
the
interesting
thing
was
you
know…
I
knew
a
lot
of
lads
from
Blackburn
from
different
areas
of
Blackburn
and
lived with
a
few
lads
from
Mill
Hill…
a
few
lads
from
Little
Harwood
erm…
i’d
been
to
Prestatyn
on
holiday…
a
few
years
earlier.
I
met
a
lot
of
them and
I
got
on with
one
particular
lad
from
Blackburn who
moved
up
to
Darwen
and
I
became
very
good
friends
with
him.
And
so
it
was…
yeah
it
was…
it
was
really
really
dangerous
for…
for
us
going
in
to
Blackburn
at
that
time.
for
us
lads
from
Darwen
and…
and
then
when
Acid
House
came
along
that
night at
C’est La Vie’s…
it
literally
changed
overnight.
It
just…
it
just
stopped
years
worth
of
gang
violence
between
different
areas.
It
just
stopped
and
I
remember
feeling
slightly
uneasy
at
that
first
night
in
C’est La Vie’s
because
it
just
seemed
bizarre.
But
all
these
lads
from
different
areas
of
Blackburn
and
Darwen
were
all
under
the
same
roof.
It’s
like
you
if
you’d
gone
to
anything
like
that
prior to that
you
were
almost
waiting
for
that
moment.
When
the
music
would
stop
and
there’d
be
like
a
fight
on
the
dance
floor
and
chairs
would
be
getting
thrown.
Then
bottles
would
be
getting
thrown.
It
was…
it
just…
it
just
stopped
overnight
and…
which
was
great
you
know.
It
was
great
and
you
know…
and
we
all
kind
of
knew
each
other
and
it
was
almost
like
it
was
just
like
overnight
there
was
like
this
ceasefire
and
it
was…
yeah
it
was
phenomenal.