Tales from the Dancefloor

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780008656317
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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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.

Sacha Lord is synonymous with Manchester's nightlife. For over three decades, he has been at the centre of the city’s transformation, bringing international music events and festivals to its streets as co-founder of Sankeys and The Warehouse Project. In 2018, he was appointed Night-Time Economy Advisor for Greater Manchester by Andy Burnham. He lives in south Manchester with his wife and young son.

Luke Bainbridge is a bestselling author and journalist from Manchester. He has written for the Guardian and Observer for 25 years and was deputy editor of the award-winning Observer Music Monthly. Just like Sacha, he was at the centre of many of the music events recounted in Tales from the Dancefloor. He lives in London with his two daughters.