Graeme Park, the Aberdeen-born, Nottingham-schooled DJ who partnered Mike Pickering on the Haçienda’s Friday nights from 1988, has one confirmed 2026 Ibiza date: FAC51: The Haçienda, a one-off at Amnesia on Saturday 19 September marking ten years of Haçienda Classical, with David Morales, Todd Terry, Inner City and DJ Paulette. General admission from €60, 23:00–06:00.
2026 Ibiza dates
No residency this season. Graeme Park is booked as a guest. Line-ups are the full bill for the room, not a support order.
| Date | Where | Line-up |
|---|---|---|
| Sat 19 Sep | Amnesia — FAC51: The Haçienda | Haçienda Classical Orchestra, David Morales, Inner City (Live), Todd Terry, Graeme Park, Mike Pickering, DJ Paulette |
One night at Amnesia: ten years of Haçienda Classical
Park’s only confirmed 2026 Ibiza booking is a one-off. FAC51: The Haçienda takes over Amnesia on Saturday 19 September, running 23:00 to 06:00. The bill pairs Park with Mike Pickering, his old Haçienda tag-team partner, alongside David Morales, Todd Terry, Inner City performing live and DJ Paulette, with the Haçienda Classical Orchestra playing across the night and a special guest vocal slot from Alison Limerick. General admission starts at €60, with a €90 balcony tier.
The date is billed by ticketing partners as marking ten years of Haçienda Classical, the orchestral reworking of Haçienda-era house records that Park co-created with Pickering, Peter Hook and the Manchester Camerata, which first played Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in February 2016. It is the only Ibiza date on Park’s own gig list, which runs through mid-2027 and shows him back on a full UK touring schedule after cancelling a run of autumn shows in 2025 for throat surgery.
Selectadisc to the Haçienda: eight years on Mike Pickering’s Friday night
Park’s route to Manchester ran through a Nottingham record shop. In the early 1980s he worked the singles counter at Selectadisc on Bridlesmith Gate, where he first heard house records arriving from Chicago and Detroit. When the shop’s owner, Brian Selby, bought Nottingham’s Ad Lib club and renamed it the Garage, he put Park behind the decks, by Park’s own account, largely because Selby told him his job at the record shop depended on it. Park had no DJing background beyond school discos; the Garage, from 1983–84, was his only credential when acid house reached Britain.
Park met Mike Pickering at an i-D magazine photoshoot in late 1987. When Pickering needed cover for his Friday night at the Haçienda in 1988, Park filled in and stayed on. “When Mike came back from holiday I was asked to stay and ended up DJing there for eight glorious years,” Park has said; his own SoundCloud biography gives the same figure, “resident DJ at Manchester’s Haçienda for 8 years.” The Friday night the pair ran, Nude, is credited with establishing the Haçienda as the centre of the Madchester and acid house scene; the club itself closed in June 1997.
The residency made Park’s reputation nationally: he was runner-up to Danny Rampling in DJ Mag’s first journalist-voted DJ of the Year poll in 1991, a year before the magazine’s staff rankings formalised into the Top 100 DJs list it still runs.
Ten years and a number one: Haçienda Classical’s dance-chart chart-topper
Haçienda Classical, Park and Pickering’s Haçienda-era DJ sets reworked live by the Manchester Camerata orchestra, with Peter Hook as executive producer and Tim Crooks arranging and conducting, first played the Bridgewater Hall in February 2016. It expanded quickly to the Royal Albert Hall, Castlefield Bowl and a slot opening Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage day in 2017, the same year Manchester Camerata won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Best Ensemble award for the project, judges praising an orchestra that had “blazed a brilliant trail for what a 21st century orchestra can do.”
The studio album, Haçienda Classiçal (Sony Classical, 2016), reached number one on the Official Dance Albums Chart and number 14 on the main Official Albums Chart in the first week of November 2016, according to the Official Charts Company, a rare crossover for a live orchestral house record. Park’s most recent release under his own name, the compilation Long Live House (Volume 01: 1980s), came out on Rhino in December 2018.
Discography
| Year | Release | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Haçienda Classiçal | Sony Classical |
| 2018 | Long Live House (Volume 01: 1980s) | Rhino Records |
What the night is actually like
The Amnesia booking is a one-off, not a residency, and worth treating as one: seven hours across a live orchestra and six other credited acts means the Haçienda Classical portion is unlikely to fill the whole night. Expect an orchestral segment early on before the room reverts to a straight club night for Morales, Terry and Park. At €60 general admission it undercuts most Amnesia headline nights, though the €90 balcony tier and the venue’s separately priced Above sky-lounge option push the real cost up for anyone wanting a clear view of the stage.
Park’s health is worth noting for anyone booking early: he cancelled a run of UK shows in October and November 2025 after surgery to remove a throat tumour. His own gig listing, current through mid-2027, shows him back on a full schedule since, including this Amnesia date, so there is no public indication the booking is at risk, but it is recent enough that it belongs in the record.