For many clubbers, Thursday nights are when the weekend really begins
Discerning clubbers will know that some of the best nights out happen just before the weekend officially starts.
Celebrated DJ Greg Wilson, who was the club's resident mid-week jazz-funk DJ from 1981 to 1983, said it was "undoubtedly the greatest club I have ever worked in". The venue later played host to the likes of Mike Pickering, A Guy Called Gerald and Paul Oakenfold in the nascent rave era. While we often associate this era in Manchester with ravers and the acid house music scene, it was also an era when other subcultures thrived. With venues like Legend, Pips, De Ville's, The Ritz, The Banshee and Berlin there was something to please the goth, rock, post-punk, and new romantic crowds every night of the week.
Much like The Banshee, it was a place where people were encouraged to dress as they pleased without the fear of being turned away at the door.Although the club was called Legend it was better known as Legends. Barry Stewart and his friend Stewart Grieve were Thursday night regulars there in the 1980s.
His fellow Scottish goth, Stewart, said: "Legends was a regular Thursday night for me and my flat mate. Barry Stewart and I had grown up together and when I moved down to Manchester when I was 18 - I told him how good the clubs were and it wasn't long before he followed me down. The M.E.N. asked members of the Facebook group Legends In The 80s to tell us their favourite memories of those Thursday nights.
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