Tag Archives: Soho

1980 ➤ For an angry new decade a new breed of comedy puts trendiness itself within its sights

First published in Over21, January 1981

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 . . .

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alternative cabaret,comedy, Soho, Comic Strip,Nigel Planer , Peter Richardson, The Outer Limits, 1980

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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1983 ➤ Who’s who in the New London Weekend

By the summer of ’83, a new pop establishment ruled the mainstream music charts while a new executive ruled London’s burgeoning clubbing scene after dark. Meet the jacks and jokers who fronted the capital’s hottest nightclubs

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Wag club, White Trash, Mud Club, Tasty Tim, Dirtbox,The Face magazine, Swinging 80s,Camden Palace,Batcave

First published under the monthly Nightlife tag in The Face, July 1983

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1983 ➤ 69 Dean Street and the making of UK club culture

69 Dean Street, Soho, nightlife,one-nighters,club culture, Bowie Night, Batcave, Gargoyle club, Gossip's club,The Face magazine, Billy's club, David Tennant, Gaz Mayall,

FACE-clubcult69 Dean Street is an address implanted somewhere in the folk memory of every Face reader. During the four years when the launchpad for musical experiment shifted from traditional rock gigs to the dancefloor, one Soho building became a factory farm that has fattened each passing cult en route to today’s richly flavoured mainstream…

➢➢ Click here to read The making of club culture, published in The Face, February 1983

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