{"id":17179,"date":"2015-08-29T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17179"},"modified":"2020-10-01T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:25:13","slug":"the-cramps-at-the-hacienda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/08\/29\/the-cramps-at-the-hacienda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cramps at the Ha\u00e7ienda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At last: something that has no connection with HP Lovecraft… This was one of several design jobs during a very busy summer, a long-delayed DVD release by Savoy of the Cramps playing Manchester’s trendiest club of the 1980s, the Ha\u00e7ienda. The posthumous reputation of the Hac (as it was locally known) has been inflated in recent years; you’ll hear much about its thriving dance nights but little about the early days when the huge and often chilly space was seldom even half full. The Cramps played there twice in 1984, and like many bands with a cult following, managed to fill the floor with eager fans; Savoy’s video captures the second performance on May 23rd. It was standard policy at the Ha\u00e7ienda to film every event, and some of the more popular performances\u2014William Burroughs’ reading<\/a>, a concert by The Birthday Party\u2014were later released by Ikon, the video wing of Factory Records. Two cameras on either side of the Ha\u00e7ienda balcony covered the stage but on the night of the Cramps’ performance none of the Ikon staff wanted to assist Linda Dutton in filming the gig. So this recording is a rudimentary one\u2014a single U-matic camera and mono sound\u2014but Linda captured a tremendous hour-long concert with an outstanding Iggy Pop-like performance from Lux Interior.<\/p>\n

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For my design I wanted to avoid Goth clich\u00e9s and create something in keeping with the band’s trashy rock’n’roll aesthetic. All the portraits are by Kris Guidio from the comic strips he was producing in the early 1980s for Lindsay Hutton’s Next Big Thing<\/em> zine; the lurid headlines are lifted from film posters found in back issues of Psychotronic Video<\/em> magazine. The DVD has an 8-page booklet and an interface which I also designed although this is merely functional, nothing like the elaborate animated affair I created for The Mindscape of Alan Moore<\/em><\/a>. When concerts such as this are routinely put onto YouTube for free it hardly seems worth going to all this trouble, but for Savoy it provides another connection to a favourite band. The PAL DVD is priced at \u00a310, and may be ordered\u00a0direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Ha\u00e7ienda ephemera<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lux Interior, 1946\u20132009<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Final Academy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last: something that has no connection with HP Lovecraft… This was one of several design jobs during a very busy summer, a long-delayed DVD release by Savoy of the Cramps playing Manchester’s trendiest club of the 1980s, the Ha\u00e7ienda. The posthumous reputation of the Hac (as it was locally known) has been inflated in … Continue reading “The Cramps at the Ha\u00e7ienda”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,3,23],"tags":[3876,2005,7568,7567,9157,151,213,7569],"class_list":["post-17179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-film","category-music","category-work","tag-hacienda","tag-kris-guidio","tag-linda-dutton","tag-lux-interior","tag-psychotronic-video","tag-savoy-books","tag-the-cramps","tag-the-hacienda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4t5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}