First published in Over21, January 1981
The satire boom of the Sixties chose as its targets politicians, church, unions. The world has moved on, and in 1980 so-called “alternative cabaret” is gunning for rock entrepreneurs, media manipulators and a pre-packaged youth culture inherited at second hand . . .
Airline disaster movie: Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson as The Outer Limits at the Comic Strip, Nov 1980. Photographed © by Shapersofthe80s
➢1980 ➤ Rik and pals detonate a timebomb beneath another kind of strip for Soho
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