Poster
Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses
26th October 1990

Flyer to go with last couple of uploads. I’ve had this poster up on my wall for many a year and was one of the first nights I had out in this town, down on the 34th parallel. You could have knocked me down with a feather when I first read it. “Spend a night in Manchester” when The Hacienda comes to Australia; well why not....
It was in a large sports hall in the now defunct Dome at what was the Sydney Showgrounds before Fox got hold of it , turned it into studios and all for the princely sum of a dollar a year or some such....
It wasn’t much of a night actually with ,unbelievably, peeps “shooting hoops” while others played pool on red and blue pool tables in the shape of “T”s and “L” s round the dancefloor; now that’s culture! Then there were the sporadic outbreaks of fisticuffs between mostly Samoans, built like brick shithouses and beating the proverbials out of each other ,; made me homesick for the Cyprus Tavern. Still it was nice to know a bit of the home town had spread its wings across the world.
Another thing, slightly along the same lines. Early on in the piece I was in a Kmart type store in Bondi Junction, a kind of giant Civic Centre, when I heard over the P.A. system something along the lines of “Narelle, please go to Manchester..”. Well I had to check myself before I wrecked myself because I thought I must be hearing things. Turns out in the Antipodes they generally call all bedding, curtains and the like “Manchester” ,presumably to do with King Cotton back in the olden days; they also call jerseys guernseys; strange people indeed...