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GTA Madchester is a project to build a free, open-source mod for GTA 5 (with a view to completing it on GTA 6).

Just as GTA Vice City took the feeling, the vibe, the music and folklore of early / mid 80s Miami (or at least the media portrayal of it) and shoe-horned it into a GTA game, we're trying to do the same with late 80s / very early 90s Manchester.

Whilst this has been an idea as old as Vice City itself, it was seeing what Team FOLON did with Fallout London that made Glenn realise that with the right planning and the right team, the community could collaboratively turn out high quality content, and this drove him to turn decades of loose notes (many written on paper) into a cohesive plan.

The mod leans heavily on both the fictional GTA universe and fictionalising the real, imagined, misremembered, misreported and plainly made up events of the Madchester Music scene.

Events that inspired it

• The Blackburn Warehouse Raves
• The Rise and Fall of Factory Records and The Hacienda
• The football gang violence of the time
• The inner city gang violence of the time (Moss Side, Hulme)
• The Second Summer of Love
• Ecstasy
• The Strangeways Riot
• TWOCing as a youth sport
• The tagging epidemic
• The rise of the Madchester (Baggy) Music Scene
• The Bus Wars and the Magic "Party" Bus
• The tech / hacking scene of the time (AoHP / Ocean)
• The BBC Manchester / Granada Studios output

If you are and experience mod developer, a survivor of the Madchester era, or just feel you have something to contribute, reach out to [email protected]