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  • Tales from the Dancefloor

  • Manchester, The Warehouse Project, Parklife, Sankeys, The Haçienda
  • By: Sacha Lord
  • Narrated by: Sacha Lord
  • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Tales from the Dancefloor

By: Sacha Lord
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Publisher's summary

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.

©2025 Sacha Lord (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
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Critic reviews

'Sacha keeps the flame of the Manchester scene alight.' – Ian Brown

'Might fill in a few blanks.' – Shaun Ryder

'This book proves anything's possible in Manchester.' – Aitch

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Like a trip down memory lane

Really good especially if you had any involvement or are from Manchester. Gets a bit like “then we do this, and then we did that” after a while but overall really interesting and some great stories.

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Manchester Dance Scene Uncovered.

Gripping tale well told.
Makes me wish I'd spent more time partying.and a lot less time in church

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