We've earned our yellow & black stripes
Manchester Evening News|November 12, 2024
GLOBAL PLAYERS EMBRACING OUR PAST
DIANNE BOURNE
We've earned our yellow & black stripes

AS THE world's press assembled alongside hundreds of VIPs, music fans and music icons for the MTV EMAs at Co-op Live arena on Sunday night, it was the familiar, throbbing bassline of Blue Monday by New Order punctuating the night.

The stage was set, in the unmistakable black and yellow stripes synonymous with the Hacienda, Manchester's famous nightclub of the 80s and 90s.

For those who know their Manchester music and cultural history so yep, that's all Mancs the references were clear. This was MTV's way of celebrating their chosen host city, and showcasManchester to the ing watching world.

The fact that symbols of the Hacienda were so striking on stage was not welcomed by all though. As soon as I shared some of the pictures of the MTV stage onto my X account noting the 'Hacienda vibes, the gripes soon started rolling in.

One follower shared the image and said: "Perhaps someone should tell the rest of the world the Hacienda shut in 1997 and got replaced by a block of flats like so many other things in Manchester" Another added: "We do things differently. Again and again and again and...

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