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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Author
- Sacha Lord
- Narrator
- Sacha Lord
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 11 April 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project.
Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter.
Over the past three decades, Sacha Lord has hosted countless iconic parties, booked legendary DJs, and shaped an underground scene that influenced a generation. Working with iconic acts including the Prodigy, New Order, the Chemical Brothers, Snoop Dogg, Fat Boy Slim, Andrew Weatherall, Aphex Twin, Four Tet, the Gallagher brothers and Jamie XX, he has thrown some of the biggest parties that the UK has ever seen.
But it wasn’t an easy road to get there. As this no-holds-barred account makes clear, Manchester’s music revolution was fuelled by raw energy, creativity, enterprise and a number of other unidentified substances. From drive-by shootings to gang turf wars and nights out that never ended, Sacha Lord reveals, at 130bpm, the highs – and lows – of life bringing some of the planet’s biggest stars to the world’s greatest city.
Featuring makeshift helipads, oysters with Grace Jones and more drugged-up rats than you could shake a big stick at, Tales From the Dance Floor is an absolute banger of a book.
Critics Review
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'Sacha Lord is the man who transformed Manchester's nightlife.' Rolling Stone
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'Rip-roaring … What separates Lord’s book from the clichés about gurners in bucket hats is its focus on the darker period.' The Times
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'Enjoyable … The tracklists at the end really endure.' Observer
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'Runs from the dirty and criminal 1990s to the contemporary superclub scene.' Telegraph
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'This book proves anything's possible in Manchester.' Aitch
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'Sacha keeps the flame of the Manchester scene alight.' Ian Brown
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'Might fill in a few blanks.' Shaun Ryder
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Details
- Author
- Sacha Lord
- Narrator
- Sacha Lord
- Duration
- 7 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 April 2024
- ISBN
- 9780008656348
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: business and industry, Electronic music, Social and cultural history, Popular culture, History of music
Synopsis
The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter. Over the past three decades, Sacha Lord has hosted countless iconic parties, booked legendary DJs, and shaped an underground scene that influenced a generation. Working with iconic acts including the Prodigy, New Order, the Chemical Brothers, Snoop Dogg, Fat Boy Slim, Andrew Weatherall, Aphex Twin, Four Tet, the Gallagher brothers and Jamie XX, he has thrown some of the biggest parties that the UK has ever seen. But it wasn’t an easy road to get there. As this no-holds-barred account makes clear, Manchester’s music revolution was fuelled by raw energy, creativity, enterprise and a number of other unidentified substances. From drive-by shootings to gang turf wars and nights out that never ended, Sacha Lord reveals, at 130bpm, the highs – and lows – of life bringing some of the planet’s biggest stars to the world’s greatest city. Featuring makeshift helipads, oysters with Grace Jones and more drugged-up rats than you could shake a big stick at, Tales From the Dance Floor is an absolute banger of a book.
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