I live in Canada now but I’m from Halifax and it still holds a special place in my heart! I saw a clip from this on Insta and had to watch, the clip didn’t do it it justice, so good! Made me chuckle. I was always more of a zoo bar girl though, maybe you could do one on that next and the police raids that shut it down 😅
Thank you, this brought back some amazing memories of such a great stage of my life. As an 18 year old I moved to Halifax (sowerby bridge actually) in 1985 to play Rugby and came back for the next few winters. We spent many nights, mainly mid week, at the Acca. Halifax was a fantastic, fun town for us young Aussie blokes.
Omg the nostalgia! Fond fond memories of this place; the carpet, the manky toilets, the queue! And if you're a genuine Haligonian, you're guaranteed to know someone who was kicked down the Acca stairs by the bouncers 😂
As someone who was born and bred in Halifax this video was very nostalgic. Lived in boothtown to be specific, if you’ve never heard of boothtown it’s a lovely place (not). Halifax is a unique place. The people are wild and weird and your spot on about the architecture been stunning but also run down buildings. Spent many time in the market or in the piece hall with my mates over the years. Everyone has an opinion on the Acca. Sticky floors and underage drinkers are often mentioned. I’ve had loads of quality nights out at the Acca and honestly one of the best nightclubs I’ve been to. The atmosphere, the cheap drinks and usually it’s like a high school reunion every time I go in. I haven’t been to the Acca for several years and not very big on drinking now but watching this makes me want to round up the lads and have a nostalgic night out. Favourite part of the video was talking to the classy folk of Halifax 😂 I now live in Bradford which isn’t much different to Halifax expect the curry is better over here but the nightlife is definitely far better in fax. Oh and your filmmaking is quality. Mine is awful would love to upload more but oh well 😂
I'm from Huddersfield originally and I used to go to a record shop in the Piece Hall years ago. Lovely place. Saw the League Of Gentleman on tour at the theatre too.
Nice storytelling and format mate. I can see where you’re going with this in terms of you evolution in the types of work you like doing these days especially with integration of humor - kinda combining your old and new styles/approaches. Love the music choice, bought back old memories of my clubbing days too. Well done and sorry to hear about your shingles!
Thanks man appreciate you taking the time to watch it, cheers for your thoughts! It’s certainly different to some of the things we’ve done in the recent past in Bali & Thailand This is more aligned to the kinds of videos I made when I first started filmmaking but integrating some new things learned over the past few years at the same time 🎭 Shooting a few more in Thailand now so let’s see where this goes! Cheers man
Super little creation with plenty of wit and quality stuff all mixed together. Never got to the Acapulco myself as my nightclub was Oakwood Hall in Bingley. Interesting that people mentioned the bouncers and the term violent, i used to know one of these lads years ago and he was a bodybuilder called Paul but better known by his nickname of Plug and by all accounts a bit useful if you were in a spot of trouble. He used to love Acapulco's with a vengeance.
Brilliantly made documentary and great story. I'm happy that the club still exists today as unfortunately most town centres have lost their "Acca", but it was classic everyone outside saying about its a shithole, sticky carpets and dodgy bouncers, but soon as they are in, they have a whale of a time. (And people of all ages as well). I hope you do more documentaries like this, especially around subjects like this in Britain. It was also nice to see a brief overview of Halifax, unfortunately ive never been, and the closet I got was beating them in Football Manager when I was a kid!
Marco, this is absolutely fantastic. The humour you've incorporated is legendary. I especially love how you managed to source all the best lookers in fax and their intelligence just oozed throughout. It's also heartwarming to see how the owners blatantly lie haha. Honestly this has brightened up my day, you really should take a bow 🙇♂️. I'm sure you're utterly devastated for your trip back to good old fax is now over. Legend in your own right Marco 🤣
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “A cinematic masterpiece on the cutting edge of investigative journalism” Great watch this mate, phantom 💩’r was star of the show for me, the man’s living his passion 👏👏👏 In the wise words of that old bloke from the last samurai “we cannot forget who we are or where we come from”. Nice to have an insight into what happens in a similar northern town just ont tother side of the Pennines
Loved it! Felt like I went on a night out in the Acca. Years have gone by and it will never change. They’re reopening Maine street again too so I’m tempted to do the old crawl one last time
Cheers mate! Haha yeah man get ya sen to acca and Maine street for a nostalgic night out, see if it lives up to the past. Keep eyes peeled for the Dancefloor Dropper 👀
Takes me back to my days working on the doors there about 20 years ago. A living legend of a place where you'd wipe your feet on the way out. And yes i did launch a few down the stairs. A good video btw, gives a good impression of what life is like in a northern town in England.
Truly fabulous stuff Marko. You've managed to show off every part of Halifax perfectly - particularly the mental part! Best bit was being able to see how the acca still is without having to go in! Staff sticking up for the bouncers who are definitely still hoying people down them stairs is abit of a shitter though! Good stuff mate - really well put together 🤌
Used to go years back, a load of us getting a taxi from Bradford. It was 50p a drink all night on Thursday’s. Feet stuck to the floor, stank of sweat, happy days 😂
Brilliant mate. Not just for the memories and nostalgia but the way you did it. Wasn’t expecting to be interested but you’ve done it in such a fantastic way. Shame it’s TH-cam and not tv
This was a joy to watch, thank you so much. I moved to Halifax in the mid 90s I was more a tram shed /zoo bar type. The nightlife in Halifax was brilliant, so good to see it’s still going. The phantom shitter was an urban legend back then.
Great video, I went just about every night it was open from about 1983 onwards for nearly 20 years and never saw anyone pushed down the steps. Bouncers were fair and tough
Love how the staff still protect the bouncers 😂 They literally chuck you down the stairs and then when ask for cctv for proof it magically gets deleted 🤣
Tearing up watching that. My home town, a regular at the Acca for a few years in the early 80s. God bless the Acca, God bless Halifax and God bless all its wonderful people. ❤️
Aw haha this was fab. Playing down the bouncers though. They throw people down the stairs for fun. I still have a police investigation open about it and a dodgy coccyx!!
The bouncer thing. I had the opposite experience. I did once fall up the stairs but lucky for me, one of the bouncers caught me before I fell flat on my face!
Brilliant! I remember one summer i had a vest on and the bouncers wouldnt let me in - so i went to a local takeaway and they gave me a t-shirt which i wore inside out - and they still wouldnt let me in haha!
Cracking work Marko, this was a brilliant video with loads of good content paired with top quality editing and format. keep up the good work an you will be a superstar in no time
Not that I cared much about the history of a nightclub somewhere in England but at least I got to know something more. Awesome editing and cinematics by the way. A masterpiece. (Looking forward to the story about the lesbian capital of uk)
"how many times have you dropped a load in the Acapuaco?" "how many cups of tea have you had?" What a great film on an obscure subject to most. Comedy, history, culture all intertwined with great story telling throughout. A classic and a very enjoyable watch.
Start at barum top, go to acca, get to liquid (now atik?) before last entry, pop to cash machine few times speak exchange a few handshakes then go on til 6 at Twilight 🤣🤣🤣 Wonder why am mash up after making this a weekly routine
My former route too mate! Exactly my brains mush now, especially coupled with radioactive mcat. We’ll be be both at same nursing home with altzheimers by time we 40, see ya there soon pal 😂
@@markorandelovic I think my partner has tried to send a photo over of him to you on instagram. He’s a good mate of mine but r lass’s best mate he’s a great guy with a heart of gold. He deserves a bit of recognition it was ace to see him in a spectacle like you produced mate. Well done it was a great watch you had us in stitches
My family come from Halifax my mum moved to London in 1948 I used to go to Halifax 3 times a year until I was 14 in 1972 I’ve not been or seen my family there since then (any of the Grady family on here?) I need to go back to the home of my mother at least one time and take my son to where his gran came from and of course visit the Acca!
I grew up in Halifax but live in another town now..... Wow, the ACCA is still going? . . . I preferred the Tram Shed myself as I'm not a cheesy/pop fan ..... More an old school Raver .. But still 75p a drink !!!!..... I need to get over there :)
Love the fact that you don't even live there anymore and you're still free and able to stick the boot into Burnley - I'm from Fax and although I live in Sydney now I'm still happy to tell the stories of Huddersfield's awfulness. Went to the Acca twice - threw up once and got thrown out, got punched second time around. I was a Coliseum guy.
Used to work with Danny Kavanagh who on at 31.00 , and his sister Shelly (I think? Sorry it's a long time ago) at Club Nemesis and the old Bailey's/Cats Bar around 2002/3. The 2 brothers Dave n Noel Gaunt were the bosses/ owners , good people to work for and with . We all had to leave because the building had been condemned. . . Loved working there. Danny used to DJ there at time , Pete Monsoon used to do Nemisis downstairs. Sarah Tomo .
I ended up with a very poor choice of companion in a bedsit in Gibbet Street after a rugby night out in the Acca in the late 90s. Better than the Colliseum though lol.
My favourite bit is 35''09. I've been telling people for years that it's in the by-laws that Halifax people drive around backwards on the weekends but no-one believes me!
Nevermind Barbie or Oppenheimer this is 2023s cinematic masterpiece.
From Halifax Hebden Bridge, and this randomly showed up on my recommended, im 42 and left there when i was young. Small world 😆
I live in Canada now but I’m from
Halifax and it still holds a special place in my heart! I saw a clip from this on Insta and had to watch, the clip didn’t do it it justice, so good! Made me chuckle. I was always more of a zoo bar girl though, maybe you could do one on that next and the police raids that shut it down 😅
Thank you, this brought back some amazing memories of such a great stage of my life. As an 18 year old I moved to Halifax (sowerby bridge actually) in 1985 to play Rugby and came back for the next few winters. We spent many nights, mainly mid week, at the Acca. Halifax was a fantastic, fun town for us young Aussie blokes.
Omg the nostalgia! Fond fond memories of this place; the carpet, the manky toilets, the queue! And if you're a genuine Haligonian, you're guaranteed to know someone who was kicked down the Acca stairs by the bouncers 😂
Im from Huddersfield, and I have heard several such tales! 😂😂
As someone who was born and bred in Halifax this video was very nostalgic.
Lived in boothtown to be specific, if you’ve never heard of boothtown it’s a lovely place (not).
Halifax is a unique place. The people are wild and weird and your spot on about the architecture been stunning but also run down buildings. Spent many time in the market or in the piece hall with my mates over the years.
Everyone has an opinion on the Acca. Sticky floors and underage drinkers are often mentioned. I’ve had loads of quality nights out at the Acca and honestly one of the best nightclubs I’ve been to. The atmosphere, the cheap drinks and usually it’s like a high school reunion every time I go in.
I haven’t been to the Acca for several years and not very big on drinking now but watching this makes me want to round up the lads and have a nostalgic night out.
Favourite part of the video was talking to the classy folk of Halifax 😂
I now live in Bradford which isn’t much different to Halifax expect the curry is better over here but the nightlife is definitely far better in fax.
Oh and your filmmaking is quality. Mine is awful would love to upload more but oh well 😂
I'm from Huddersfield originally and I used to go to a record shop in the Piece Hall years ago. Lovely place. Saw the League Of Gentleman on tour at the theatre too.
Stumbled on this doc, throughly enjoyed that, excellent documentary and great people 👍🏻 😀 👏
Very good documentary made me laugh I am 62 put in the 70 80 years we had a good time up there xxxx
This is so good
Hahaha ohh the nights i've had in this place. I've done it all in Acca! great video Marko
Classic effort! Girls look better than I remember them. And I'm sober....
Seeing a video about Halifax is somet you don’t see everyday
Nice storytelling and format mate. I can see where you’re going with this in terms of you evolution in the types of work you like doing these days especially with integration of humor - kinda combining your old and new styles/approaches. Love the music choice, bought back old memories of my clubbing days too. Well done and sorry to hear about your shingles!
Thanks man appreciate you taking the time to watch it, cheers for your thoughts! It’s certainly different to some of the things we’ve done in the recent past in Bali & Thailand This is more aligned to the kinds of videos I made when I first started filmmaking but integrating some new things learned over the past few years at the same time 🎭
Shooting a few more in Thailand now so let’s see where this goes! Cheers man
The standard of this is mad. Love it :)
Super little creation with plenty of wit and quality stuff all mixed together. Never got to the Acapulco myself as my nightclub was Oakwood Hall in Bingley. Interesting that people mentioned the bouncers and the term violent, i used to know one of these lads years ago and he was a bodybuilder called Paul but better known by his nickname of Plug and by all accounts a bit useful if you were in a spot of trouble. He used to love Acapulco's with a vengeance.
Thanks for taking time to watch the video and appreciate your insights from the past. Last time I went out in Bingley few years back had a right do! 🍻
The pigeon guy floored me 😆 Can we get a doc on him please?
Currently in talks to arrange a spinoff and create the Acapuclo Cinematic Universe
he once tried to sell me and my mates a slow cooker in the old cock
He’s not all there, infamous.
@@markorandelovicdo that and I'm paying for the Patreon 😆
Cannes film festival aren’t ready for this
Brilliantly made documentary and great story.
I'm happy that the club still exists today as unfortunately most town centres have lost their "Acca", but it was classic everyone outside saying about its a shithole, sticky carpets and dodgy bouncers, but soon as they are in, they have a whale of a time. (And people of all ages as well).
I hope you do more documentaries like this, especially around subjects like this in Britain. It was also nice to see a brief overview of Halifax, unfortunately ive never been, and the closet I got was beating them in Football Manager when I was a kid!
Proper timewarp, its like Halifax never left 90s Yorkshire clubland! Amazing
Worth a visit 😎
Marco, this is absolutely fantastic. The humour you've incorporated is legendary. I especially love how you managed to source all the best lookers in fax and their intelligence just oozed throughout. It's also heartwarming to see how the owners blatantly lie haha. Honestly this has brightened up my day, you really should take a bow 🙇♂️. I'm sure you're utterly devastated for your trip back to good old fax is now over. Legend in your own right Marco 🤣
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“A cinematic masterpiece on the cutting edge of investigative journalism”
Great watch this mate, phantom 💩’r was star of the show for me, the man’s living his passion 👏👏👏
In the wise words of that old bloke from the last samurai “we cannot forget who we are or where we come from”. Nice to have an insight into what happens in a similar northern town just ont tother side of the Pennines
Fantastic video I walked past this lad on my way to work in Halifax near the Piece Hall he was filming..❤
Loved it! Felt like I went on a night out in the Acca. Years have gone by and it will never change. They’re reopening Maine street again too so I’m tempted to do the old crawl one last time
Cheers mate! Haha yeah man get ya sen to acca and Maine street for a nostalgic night out, see if it lives up to the past. Keep eyes peeled for the Dancefloor Dropper 👀
My uncle was a bouncer there and he was known to be less gentle with certain individuals
@@markorandelovicwho?
Takes me back to my days working on the doors there about 20 years ago. A living legend of a place where you'd wipe your feet on the way out. And yes i did launch a few down the stairs. A good video btw, gives a good impression of what life is like in a northern town in England.
Plug is this you
Truly fabulous stuff Marko. You've managed to show off every part of Halifax perfectly - particularly the mental part!
Best bit was being able to see how the acca still is without having to go in! Staff sticking up for the bouncers who are definitely still hoying people down them stairs is abit of a shitter though! Good stuff mate - really well put together 🤌
Cheers mate glad you enjoyed it…then stairs eh must have a mind of their own 👀 What shall I do next time I’m back haha
@@markorandelovic Has to be a trip down to the Shay hasn't it!! The clubs died and come back to life since you've been gone!
This is absolutely unbelievable
Watching a Yorkshireman with a Croat name make a video about a nightclub in Halifax :D ? Enjoyed it mate!
Haha how dare you. That’s like calling a Yorkshire man a Lancastrian. Yorkshire Serb* at your service, glad you enjoyed it mate! 🎉
Used to go years back, a load of us getting a taxi from Bradford. It was 50p a drink all night on Thursday’s. Feet stuck to the floor, stank of sweat, happy days 😂
I went to the Acca over 30 years ago and it was wicked. I am planning on going back see what its like
Brilliant mate. Not just for the memories and nostalgia but the way you did it. Wasn’t expecting to be interested but you’ve done it in such a fantastic way. Shame it’s TH-cam and not tv
Love this! A great glimpse back to my younger years.
An absolute genius piece of filming. Loved it! Back in the day I use to go every night 😎🤦🏽♀️ many, many memories 🕺🏼
Glad you enjoyed it Olinda!
had my fist cigarette in Acca lol that was in 88, loved that plce, great video brought back memories :)
‘Always liked to time it with the drop’ 🤣
This was a joy to watch, thank you so much. I moved to Halifax in the mid 90s I was more a tram shed /zoo bar type. The nightlife in Halifax was brilliant, so good to see it’s still going. The phantom shitter was an urban legend back then.
such a good video
Great video, I went just about every night it was open from about 1983 onwards for nearly 20 years and never saw anyone pushed down the steps. Bouncers were fair and tough
@jordansmith3914 I'd have known him by sight, there was a bouncer called Francis there had it all under control, quite bloke until he had to get busy
I’m holwing ! What a place got to love it
Glad I watched this random recommended video. Great job, Marko. 😊
Love how the staff still protect the bouncers 😂
They literally chuck you down the stairs and then when ask for cctv for proof it magically gets deleted 🤣
I don't know how I stumbled across this, but what an utterly brilliant documentary
Tearing up watching that. My home town, a regular at the Acca for a few years in the early 80s. God bless the Acca, God bless Halifax and God bless all its wonderful people. ❤️
Here here 🙌🏻
This was ace. Do more like this bro
On it mate, keep ya eyes peeled 🫡
Aw haha this was fab. Playing down the bouncers though. They throw people down the stairs for fun. I still have a police investigation open about it and a dodgy coccyx!!
Mate this is class. And the phantom shitter also happens to be one of coolest cats going.
The bouncer thing. I had the opposite experience. I did once fall up the stairs but lucky for me, one of the bouncers caught me before I fell flat on my face!
Brilliant! I remember one summer i had a vest on and the bouncers wouldnt let me in - so i went to a local takeaway and they gave me a t-shirt which i wore inside out - and they still wouldnt let me in haha!
17:03 he definitely said "pedestool" there! Underrated!
Marko this is gold 😂 seen you throw some shapes in here before I’m sure of it 😂😂
Cracking work Marko, this was a brilliant video with loads of good content paired with top quality editing and format. keep up the good work an you will be a superstar in no time
This is acca-tually a really put together documentary even tho it’s about the acca 😂🕺🏼
It’s the 8th wonder of the world, had to do it justice didn’t a
Not that I cared much about the history of a nightclub somewhere in England but at least I got to know something more.
Awesome editing and cinematics by the way. A masterpiece.
(Looking forward to the story about the lesbian capital of uk)
Great docu this fella..... A potted history of HappyFax too :)
Genuinly want to visit it now. Reminds me of cafe benidorm...
This is brilliant! 👏🏻👏🏻 7:29
Brilliant Marko!
Fantastic video!!! Brought back memories of the last time I was in the Acca 28 years ago on my hen night. Divorced him and remarried since then!! 🎉
When i was contracting at Dean clough Mill I went to the Acca many times!
Brilliant watch 👍🏼 brought some nostalgia back & some memories
Absolutely awesome job Marko lad
"how many times have you dropped a load in the Acapuaco?"
"how many cups of tea have you had?"
What a great film on an obscure subject to most. Comedy, history, culture all intertwined with great story telling throughout. A classic and a very enjoyable watch.
Thanks for this, it is a cracking video (y)
This the greatest documentary I’ve ever seen. Props to you!
Start at barum top, go to acca, get to liquid (now atik?) before last entry, pop to cash machine few times speak exchange a few handshakes then go on til 6 at Twilight 🤣🤣🤣 Wonder why am mash up after making this a weekly routine
My former route too mate! Exactly my brains mush now, especially coupled with radioactive mcat. We’ll be be both at same nursing home with altzheimers by time we 40, see ya there soon pal 😂
Well done Marko 👌👌 I laughed so much at parts of this! Best of luck for the future 🙂
Thank you!
Brilliant video - after watching that I wanna go - not been for about 20 years😅
Absolutely brilliant this mate
best youtube video i've ever seen
Wounded that Gordon isn’t still around to make his big appearance 😢😢😢
Cinematic gold bro 😆👏👏 Well worth the wait!
Great video. Always tell my work colleagues to go
I have never been to Halifax, probably never gonna travel there, but that was fun to watch. Manchester cool city as well
masterpiece, if im ever in halifax for some reason ill go acca
Dance floor dropper.
Nice bit of Apache in their mucker!
I was there in the 70s what a great time
Amazing
Loved watching this documentary on the Acapulco, I’m sat here with the best interviewee you had on it mate. How can I upload a photo or video of us??
Haha who would that be? Send me it on Instagram @markorandelovic
@@markorandelovic I think my partner has tried to send a photo over of him to you on instagram. He’s a good mate of mine but r lass’s best mate he’s a great guy with a heart of gold. He deserves a bit of recognition it was ace to see him in a spectacle like you produced mate. Well done it was a great watch you had us in stitches
This is class🤣
me and brooke giving it a peace out ahahahah
This is incredible.
This is quality 😂 well done mate
My family come from Halifax my mum moved to London in 1948 I used to go to Halifax 3 times a year until I was 14 in 1972 I’ve not been or seen my family there since then (any of the Grady family on here?) I need to go back to the home of my mother at least one time and take my son to where his gran came from and of course visit the Acca!
I grew up in Halifax but live in another town now..... Wow, the ACCA is still going? . . . I preferred the Tram Shed myself as I'm not a cheesy/pop fan ..... More an old school Raver .. But still 75p a drink !!!!..... I need to get over there :)
Working at acca was always quite fun 😂
Love the fact that you don't even live there anymore and you're still free and able to stick the boot into Burnley - I'm from Fax and although I live in Sydney now I'm still happy to tell the stories of Huddersfield's awfulness. Went to the Acca twice - threw up once and got thrown out, got punched second time around. I was a Coliseum guy.
Used to work with Danny Kavanagh who on at 31.00 , and his sister Shelly (I think? Sorry it's a long time ago) at Club Nemesis and the old Bailey's/Cats Bar around 2002/3. The 2 brothers Dave n Noel Gaunt were the bosses/ owners , good people to work for and with . We all had to leave because the building had been condemned. . . Loved working there. Danny used to DJ there at time , Pete Monsoon used to do Nemisis downstairs. Sarah Tomo .
I ended up with a very poor choice of companion in a bedsit in Gibbet Street after a rugby night out in the Acca in the late 90s. Better than the Colliseum though lol.
Deary me. Bedsit and Gibbetstreet, red flags a plenty 🥹
@@markorandelovic what can I say mate? I was young and stupid. And she was bigger than me so I just went along with it :)
@@overlook237I salute you sir, must’ve been quite the illuminating expedition 🫡
Hahaha class this bro
Marko is a handsome chap💪. You should come to Liverpool to see the nightlife some great clubs there.
Brilliant
Phantom Shitter part has to be a parody.
Me? Parodies? Never.
That was fucking brilliant!😂
28.45 is that the bloke from tesco in the tgfbro videos?
Nice bro 👌
A pint of champagne 🤣 go on lad.
I missed your FB about stories in that ACCA. I would posted my mum gave birth to me right on the dance floor next to the poo.
Brilliant 😂
My favourite bit is 35''09. I've been telling people for years that it's in the by-laws that Halifax people drive around backwards on the weekends but no-one believes me!
What a british nightlife masterpiece 🎉🎉😂😂