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Membership Card
The Hacienda
16th July 1983

The original paper membership “card” that was issued to members of the Hacienda. In order to sell membership, a free ticket to a New Order gig was given out.

If memory serves me correctly, it was the gig at which they blew the power within 2 minutes of coming on stage & continued to do so at regular intervals through what one could loosely call a “set”

This is the credit card type membership that was subsequently issued
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“This was actually a temporary measure issue. The credit cards had been misplaced. A box of unused blanks was found later by Rob Gretton when clearing out the stock rooms before closure. The first year issue was Yellow/Silver, the second was Yellow/Pink and heat sealed witha photo of the member (to prevent cards being passed on or stolen) I'll have to scan mine...”
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