is this factual
did musicians ever used to actually take all these drugs
shareIn true fact. What you see in 24H.P.P is just the tip of the Ice berg. As a man coming from manchester I know the tru grittyness of the whole story, alot of it is mostly positive in terms of the exstacy that created this crazy euphoric vibe in Manchester, while some bits in terms of the crack Cocaine only created rubbish and sour effects. In almost every scene of the film you pritty much see some sort of drug object. Aka like a spliff. This was, and still is Manchester. A whole drug influenced city.
See that as you will, in my personaly opinion its what makes this great city so creative while also so very violent aswell.
thanks for the lowdown
shareFurther to that, back in the day a member (no names for obvious reasons) of one of the more famous Manchester bands not featured in the film lived next door to a friend of mine (yeah, I know how many people are going to call bullsquirt on this, but I was there and you weren't) and would regualy bob round to scrounge a joint after it all imploded and they fell on hard times (no prizes for guessing where all their money went!). When he went solo and started to get some dollar to play with again, he repayed the favour and called us all round to get blazed a few times.
There is one instance that I can recall. Green was more my thing, but there was a pile of fet as big as I have ever seen on his coffee table and a sandwich bag with what I'm guessing to be around 50-100 numbers in it, along with quite a 'respectable' amount of ching. He was dropping bombs and Dysoning lines like it was going out of fashion. I'm not one for class A's, but have dabbled in the past (yes I know, it wasn't big or clever) and am pretty familiar with the effects. All I can say is the way he was dropping it, the rumours of the drugs these bands went through were waaaaaaay off the mark. Like the above poster said, the film doesn't even begin to scratch the tip of the iceberg.
Anyone who used to frequent the Hacienda and was lucky enough to see the boys of the day will tell you pretty much the same thing...they were hardly disceet about it!
"You're a sad, ignorant, pathetic donkey...baby!"
James Stannage, the voice of Manchester