Inspired by the Haçienda in the early 1990s, Sacha Lord set up the Warehouse Project, running club nights in disused buildings, and later the Parklife Festival. His biography describes how he made an impact on the Manchester scene from unpromising beginnings, and his encounters with the leading figures of the house, techno and indie music scene along the way.
The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Hacienda 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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