24 Years of 24 Hour Party People
Beyond The Music 2026 will open on Tuesday 6th October with a very special 24th anniversary premiere of 24 Hour Party People ahead of the film's 4K rerelease in cinemas nationwide.
The screening will be accompanied by an exclusive keynote conversation with Director Michael Winterbottom and actor Steve Coogan, who played the role of Manchester music pioneer Tony Wilson in the iconic story of Manchester's Factory Records.
Set in 1976 Manchester, 24 Hour Party People is a blackly comic tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Haçienda. Told through the eyes of the one man who was in the centre of it all, Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), 24 Hour Party People graphically documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place to be.
24 Hour Party People was made as a celebration of the spirit and music of Manchester and Factory Records under the chaotic leadership of Tony Wilson. So, Beyond the Music is the perfect place to premiere the re-release of the film, just 24 years after we made it.
24 Hour Party People is the work that is closest to my heart. I haven't seen it for nearly 25 years. It captures the creative spirit of the town I am proud to have grown up in. I feel very sentimental about it all which Tony Wilson would have deplored. Like Anthony HW and all those working class musicians, when it came to tell the story, Michael Winterbottom and Frank Cottrell Boyce made something special. 'A vague plan wrapped in an impossible dream', but it worked.
- Date
- Tuesday 6 October 2026
- Venue
- To be confirmed
- Format
- 4K rerelease
- In conversation
- Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan
Register for the premiere
Register your interest in the global premiere of 24 Hour Party People, the opening night of Beyond The Music 2026 on Tuesday 6 October. We'll be in touch with how to claim your place.
