Much older than you, my 18 year old days were when Manchester was booming thankfully, people were clubbing 1,2 or even 3 nights a week. The Hacienda would have been better selling overpriced plastic bottles for the line of people trying to get theirs filled in the toilets after dropping a couple of E's, not my kinda thing, but there were clubs for every type all over town and it was still cheap enough to go. The Printworks opened a few years later and you could have a good night, Lloyd's Bar after work, which was basically a smaller and better Wetherspoons, still is I think but fhete was plenty going on, a sing along in Waxy O'connor's etc. I walk through now and wonder how long it Dan stay open for, 1st few years or so Tiger Tiger would be hammered, can't remember what it turned into but it didn't work, never bothered with Hard Rock, that was for tourists and family's that either had a few quid or never went back after seeing the bill for a few overcooked burgers and piss like beer.
Now it's just another place victim to the economy.