PIERS SANDERSON is a documentary filmmaker who has put together a feature-length film about the warehouse parties that took place in and around Blackburn in Lancashire from the end of the Eighties ...
Piers Sanderson: “The acid house scene was probably the biggest single influence of my life and I wanted to make a film that gave an honest testament to that time. I felt that although Blackburn was just one chapter of acid house, it best summed up the spirit and ethos that made it so special.”
What were you doing in 1989-91? Did you have any experience of the rave scene?
PS: “I grew up in south Manchester and the Hacienda was the club we used to go to. In 1987 I was at college in Wales and became good friends with the only other English guy on my course, a lad from Windsor called Sasha.
“Each weekend we would go back to Manchester and always to the Hacienda. Back in Wales we started putting on a few nights DJing together at Bangor University under the name Partners In Crime. In the summer of 1988 when I finished college I moved back to Manchester and Sasha came too.