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Tickets for a huge 40th anniversary rave celebrating the Hacienda on the site of the original Manc superclub are to go on sale to the general public. The party is to be held as a charity event in the basement car park of the apartment building that now sits on the Whitworth Street site.

New Order, first opened its doors in a former yacht warehouse on Whitworth Street West in May 1982. It closed in 1997, and was demolished in 2002 to make way for The Haçienda Apartments.As the Manchester Evening News reports, the 40th anniversary rave will take place in the apartments’ basement car park, where the original Haçienda’s dancefloor once stood.The MEN adds that residents of the Haçienda apartments have been invited to join the celebrations, which will take place on May 21.

A huge rave to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Manchester's legendary nightclub the Hacienda is being planned - in a basement car park at the site of where it all began. The party is being planned in the car park of the Hacienda apartments on Whitworth Street West, where the original club once stood.

announced it would be taking over Gorilla and The Deaf Institute.After the news was announced, Aaron Mellor, founder of Tokyo Industries, said: “These are extremely difficult times for all grassroots music venues around the UK."It's vital venues like Gorilla and The Deaf Institute are kept alive, the cultural fabric of our city centres depends on venues like these."Mr Mellor said he had been working with event promoters SSD Concerts and The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess on the rescue plans.The fund from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will go to 135 music venues across the country.Others to benefit include The Troubadour in London, The Jacaranda in Liverpool, and The Sunflower Lounge in Birmingham.Oliver Dowden, the