Haçienda Records / Essential Music are pleased to announce the

long awaited full physical and online release of the debut Freebass

album,"It’s A Beautiful Life" out now.

The collaborative project between the celebrated Mancunian bassists Peter “Hooky” Hook (Joy Division / New Order), Gary “Mani” Mounfield (The Stone Roses / Primal Scream), Andy “Rourkie” Rourke (The Smith) and lead singer Gary Briggs (Haven / Strays), the Freebass album finally arrives some fiv

Thank Faç Its Friday – to celebrate the Haçienda August Bank Holiday special

at Sankeys, mixes by Haçienda DJs will be posted every Friday.

With the Sankeys Haçienda party only seven days away, here's the final mix in the series contributed by our very own Scottish musical maestro Graeme Park who will grace the night with his sublime and silky skills. An hour long special mix of the finest soulful house recorded by Graeme in late July of this year.

Three years to the day, on Friday 10 August 2007, the great city of Manchester was hit by two earthquakes. The first, around noon, rattled a few windows and that was about it. A more significant seismic shock to Manchester, its creative industries and the media world wide was to come in the early evening with the premature and untimely passing of Factory Records, Granada TV, the Haçienda and In The City mainstay, Anthony H Wilson.