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Following Peter Hook's recent media blitz, it's hard to look at Manchester as forward thinking. Do new acts stand a chance? Or shall we just keep on banging on about the bloody Hacienda?Peter Hook, as you might have heard, has written a book about the Hacienda. You might recognise the story from the film 24 Hour Party People; at least two exhibitions at Manchester's Urbis; or any one of the hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles that, over the last five years, have rehashed the same facts. ...

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