Rowetta is a well-known face on the Manchester music scene. She famously featured on a number of Happy Mondays’ tracks including Step On and was living at full throttle in the late eighties and early nineties where she could regularly be spotted singing at The Hacienda night club.
She knows The Hacienda like the back of her hand. Which will come in useful for a live performance planned for the 14th September at the legendary venue: The Band On The Wall in Manchester’s funky Northern Quarter. There she will be singing a set of Joy Division songs, including her favourite Atmosphere. Her performance will be woven into the launch of a concept album and script called Mancbeth. As the name suggests it merges two things: The Shakespeare play, The Scottish play Macbeth and the City of Manchester.
It is set around The Hacienda time and combines to create a drama featuring the themes of power, corruption and lots of blood and guts.
David Lemberg, the actor and producer, who wrote the script told us:
“The text for Macbeth and the events surrounding The Hacienda night club back in the nineties gave me the perfect inspiration for Mancbeth”.
Notably it features poisoning in order to gain power and control., so it is particularly appropriate that the event is staged in partnership with the charity Stamp Out Spiking (SOS).
Led by the indefatigable Dawn Dines, the charity and ongoing campaign highlight the horrors of the practice of spiking of drinks and food and other stuff you may innocently put in your body only to discover you have been poisoned.
She said:
“The practice of spiking is pure evil, it is pathetic, and it happens a lot more than you think” Spiking is often done for the truly sinister aim of sexual assault or robbery.
I could show you cases of lives being ruined, and the destruction began with spiking”. She added.
Rowetta is a night-time ambassador for SOS and urges everyone to look out for each other. This line comes from a message of support she has recorded for the charity:
“Come you spirits, eat, drink and be merry responsibly, and look out for each other. The ‘Stamp Out Spiking’ campaign supports the MancBeth launch.”
Should be a good night and tickets are available now. Go to:
https://bandonthewall.org/events/mancbeth-launch-featuring-rowetta-dj-jon-dasilva-maria-uzor-
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