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Designed by Ben Kelly , the Haçienda opened in 1982 and survived until 1997 , despite considerable and persistent financial troubles. During much of this time the club was mainly supported by record sales from New Order. It once served as a venue for Madonna on her first tour of the United Kingdom . In 1986, it became one of the first clubs outside the US to start playing House Music , with DJs Mike Pickering and Little Martin (later with Graeme Park ) hosting the ''Nude'' night on Fridays. This night quickly became legendary, and helped to turn around the reputation and fortunes of the Haçienda, which went from making a consistent loss to being full every night of the week by early 1987. The growth of the Madchester scene was boosted by the success of the Haçienda's pioneering Ibiza nights in the summer of 1988 and the launch of the ''Hot'' acid house night (hosted by Pickering and Jon Da Silva ) in November. Although peaking in popularity during the rise of the Rave era, most of the money ended up circulating to drug dealers and the Haçienda itself saw very little of the nightly expenditure. Luxury apartments, also named The Haçienda, have now been built on the site. By the time the Hacienda had closed in the mid 90s, the term "superclub" had been coined for its well marketed and managed sucessors such as Cream , Ministry Of Sound and Gatecrasher . Michael Winterbottom 's 2002 film '' 24 Hour Party People '' starring Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson, tells the story of the Haçienda. The movie was filmed in 2001 , and required reconstructing the Haçienda in a Manchester warehouse - the reconstruction was itself then briefly used as a nightclub. EXTERNAL LINKS
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