Nude, Hacienda In 1986, DJ Mike Pickering started playing Chicago house records at the Manchester Hacienda’s Nude clubnights. Regulars included Shaun Ryder and Bez (pictured with Deborah Faulkner in July 1986) from Happy Mondays, and promoter Eric Barker. Barker remembers the transformation in the club when ecstasy arrived: ‘There must have been only about 15 of us at it at first, in our little corner. It was like a zoo and we were the exhibits. If you walked into the Haçienda, everyone else would look kind of normal, and then you’d look to the left and see about 15 of our lot going bananas”

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