“A report that the Hacienda is about to open. All must have been forgiven between Wilson and Naylor, since Liz was given the first numbered membership card for free. Old wounds were soon bloodily re-opened, however, with the Hacienda as battleground. In November 1982 Ludus headlined at the Hacienda. Linder, roused to feminist fury at the club playing soft porn "casually and interminably", enlisted the 'Crone Management' of Liz and Cath to aid her in a hysterical and splendidly grotesque piece of performance art. Before the set, the crones decorated the high end club interior with paper plates featuring a reddened tampon and a stubbed cigarette, handing out chicken gizzards wrapped in porn and handkerchiefs symbolising gay sexual fetishes. Linder, a vegetarian "prepared to be bloodied for protest", took to the stage in a dress made of meat (eat your heart out Lady Gaga) which she whipped back to reveal a dildo that she and Liz had purchased earlier before going for a cup of tea at Kendals. Ludus and Magazine keyboard player Dave Formula recalls Tony Wilson going "completely bananas."”
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