| Main Performers | Peter Hook,
Graeme Park,
Mike Pickering - DJs |
| Secondary Performers | Bez,
Rae Hall,
Yvonne Shelton,
Rowetta - vocals,
MC Tunes |
| Orchestra or Band | Manchester Camerata Orchestra |
| Set List | Speech (Peter Hook),
'Silouans Song', Arvo Pärt (Orchestra),
'Anthem',
'Do You Want it Right Now?',
'Chime',
'To Be of Not to Be',
'Lack of Love',
'Pump Up Chicago',
'This is Acid',
'I Need a Rhythm',
'Weekend',
'Free' (with Rae Hall),
'Show Me Love',
'Dreams of Sanata Anna',
'Shaker Song',
'You Want My Love',
'It's Alright',
'Needin' You',
'Everybody',
'Big Fun',
'Yeke Yeke',
'Blue Monday' (with Bez),
'Strings of Life',
'What U Need',
'Peace (in the Valley)' (with Yvonne Shelton),
'2 Hype',
'Ride on Time'
ENCORE
'Where Love Lives',
'I Need Somebody'
SECOND ENCORE
'You Got the Love' (with Rowetta) |
| Performance Notes | After 2016s unforgettable sell-out gig, Haçienda Classical is returning to the Royal Albert Hall with a brand new set.
Moving into its second year, Graeme Park and Mike Pickering, the DJs who shaped the Haçienda sound, return to the Royal Albert Hall with a new inspirational night.
Together with classical accompaniment from the Manchester Camerata and special guests, the seminal tracks that defined a generation at the original club will be recreated, as this historic venue is transformed once more into Londons biggest nightclub.
A free post show party celebrating the music of the Hacienda, with live DJs and a late night bar took place in the North Circle Bar at the Royal Albert Hall from 22:00-01:00.
The event was filmed by the promoter for archive use.
Poignant moment at the start of the main show, orchestra performed a piece in memory of those who lost their lives in Manchester after the bomb attach at Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017.
"Haçienda Classical - It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This - A poignant, powerful performance that weaves together club classics with a live orchestra.
The Royal Albert Hall is rammed to the rafters with aged ravers and a loved up in-the-know younger crowd ready to start throwing shapes - but when Peter Hook takes the stage and delivers a moving tribute to the Manchester Arena atrocity its as if someone has flicked a switch.
The crowd goes respectfully silent. And then the Manchester Camerata perform Arvo Pärts 'Silouans Song' a moving, orchestral piece which brings many in the venue to tears. Others hold each other closer together. Many close their eyes in respect. Its a poignant, heartfelt moment which will stay with me forever. As the final notes fade out the silence is broken by a huge primal roar - and we are transported away from the horrors of the present back to the happier times of the Haç.
And what a set this is. Drawing on the success of last years sold out concerts, Hooky, DJs Graeme Park and Mike Pickering, and Camerata conductor Tim Crooks have taken the show to another level, weaving an orchestral score together with club classics to create the ultimate hybrid.
Bez makes an (inevitable) appearance with that dance that defined a generation and Hooky shoulders his bass and sings 'Blue Monday'. Its a perfect evening, an inspirational antidote to the helplessness of the week before, and Rowettas soaring, goose pimpling 'You Got The Love' sends us out into the night with a smile on our faces. It doesnt get much better than this."
(The Independent, 31 May 2017) |
| Related Archival Material | Digital Setlist,
Autographs (RAHE/8/1/10) |