Manc Sound, The

Manc Sound, The The “Manc Sound”—based in Manchester, England—grew out of the onslaught of rave culture. Its audience—drawn from postdisco regulars, soccer thugs, and hippies—was most likely to congregate at the Factory Records–run Hacienda Club. Ecstasy constituted the drug of choice. The performers—most notably The Farm, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, the Soup Dragons, and Stone Roses (whose eponymous debut, Silvertone #1184; 1989, was called “a contender for album of the decade” by British…