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1981 ➤ Blue Rondo create a new buzz with Latin sounds and an extreme suited dude look

Posted on 14 May 2009 | Leave a comment

RonSanchBlue Rondo a la Turk was among the first of the Blitzworld’s new image bands to change the musical gear of 1981 towards a tongue-in-cheek collage of carnival rhythms. Fronted by future Wag club host Chris Sullivan, the eccentric seven-piece staged a series of invitation-only tease-dates through the summer of 1981. Their frantic music and their zoot suits were unveiled in the New Romantics’ magazine, New Sounds New Styles …

➢➢ Click here to read the first feature published about Rondo: “He thinks he’s Geronimo”

➢➢ VIEW ♫ fine Northern Soul footwork in the video for Klacto Vee Sedstein here:

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1981 ➤ Fourratt’s six golden rules for the hottest club of all

Posted on 7 May 2009 | Leave a comment

After New York’s notorious club Studio 54 closed amid scandal and jail for its frontmen, it reopened in September 1981 under new ownership and hosted by club entrepreneurs Jim Fouratt and Rudolf Pieper. Early in Fouratt’s hyperactive life as a shaper of culture and politics, he assessed the prevailing musical trends and set out his six golden rules for running a successful nightspot.

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Rudolf and Fourratt: promoters who breathed new life into the Studio. Picture © by Shapersofthe80s

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1983 ➤ Who’s who in the New London Weekend

Posted on 15 Apr 2009 | Leave a comment

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

Posted on 13 Apr 2009 | Leave a comment

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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1983 ➤ Hockney discovers a truer way of seeing, with help from Proust

Posted on 5 Apr 2009 | Leave a comment
David Hockney, 1983, photo joiners, cubism, Proust, interview, Picture © by Shapersofthe80s

Hockney at his London studio, Jul 3,1983: after a pause of two years, new canvases indicate the urgency with which has resumed painting. Picture © by Shapersofthe80s

“Have you been to the cubism exhibition at the Tate?” David Hockney enthuses during a trip to London. “I’ve been seven times!” An impromptu tutorial ensues in which the painter tests his new ideas

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