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This form of entertainment, in its turn, fell out of public favour, and the venue closed in 1982. Entrances at the side of the auditorium could also be flooded, and used for the entry of boats. The Odeon Leicester Square was built in 1937 on the site of the Alhambra and adjoining Turkish baths. The Bell (257259 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross) [6]. The police also shut down most of the venues in the local area. Terms of Service apply. This is about art-school fashion; weve got incredible designers like John Galliano, who was just starting his career, but also Vivienne Westwood, who was absolutely radical throughout the 80. See all the dresses, some on theme and some, well, not so much - honoring Karl Lagerfeld at the Met Gala. That was also the year of the first commercially available 12-inch single, perfect timing for a night such as Bang, offering improved audio quality and extended track length for a bigger and better dancing environment. 1724 Mother Clap's Molly House, closed 1726 (Holborn). Crowded beach scene of people and automobiles - Jacksonville, Florida, 1973. The latest Leicester City news as the two goalkeepers were reunited following the 2-2 draw against Everton at the King Power Stadium. The Dome Washington, D.C. . It appealed to all sorts of queens leather queens, clones, twirlers and trolley dollies, whod come back from New York and tell us what the hot tracks were. Talullah went from Bang to residencies at Napoleons in Bond Street and Scandals in Soho, which also featured a lit-up dancefloor and can be seen in the video for Ant Music by Adam And The Ants. [11], It was used in the 2006 music video for "I Think We're Alone Now" by Girls Aloud. With each new club night, new style tribes emerged, and the exhibition celebrates the extreme styles of 80s London subcultures like Fetish, goth, Rave, New Romantics, and High Camp. Prepare for a trip down memory lane, although if you can't remember, we forgive you - drinks were much cheaper in those days, after all Palais de Danse was once one of the city's most popular dance halls, hosting big names including Engelbert Humperdinck. Hippodrome is an archaic word referring to places that host horse races and other forms of equestrian entertainment. We spoke with Wilcox about how the beautiful and grotesque aspects of Londons dingy clubs were crucial to 80s mainstream fashion. All rights reserved. Toward the end of the decade you have increasing [amounts of] body-con, clothes become much more clingy with plenty of Lycra, and then our latest outfit, from Rifat zbeks 1990 White collection, is somewhere between Rave and New Age. The Hippodrome hosted the first official jazz gig in the United Kingdom, by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, in 1919.[5]. It featured appearances by many of the popular artistes of the time,[6] including Diana Ross & The Supremes, Judy Garland,[7] Eartha Kitt, Shirley Bassey,[8] The Temptations,[9] Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Sammy Davis Jr., Lena Horne, Sergio Franchi, Sophie Tucker, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dusty Springfield, Val Doonican, Lonnie Donegan, The Carpenters, John Denver, Ella Fitzgerald, Liza Minnelli, Tom Jones, Cleo Laine, The Jackson 5, Buddy Rich, Lulu, Danny La Rue, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Paul Anka, Glen Campbell, Anne Murray, Sandie Shaw, Johnnie Ray, Matt Monro, The Andrews Sisters, Dolores Gray, Frankie Vaughan, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Channing Pollock (magician), Dionne Warwick, Raphael, The Seekers, Stevie Wonder, Sacha Distel and Neil Sedaka. Caf de Paris first opened in 1924 and subsequently featured such performers as Dorothy Dandridge, Marlene Dietrich, Harry Gold, Harry Roy, Ken Snakehips Johnson and Maxine Cooper Gomberg. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. It was this moment where designers were straddling two worlds and bringing the anything-goes vitality of the club scene and melding it with skills learned at fashion colleges. [citation needed]. 1 of 7 Palais De Danse - now The building on Humberstone. 0. . Click on the nightclub's name to view a NightGuide profile of the property. [5][6] The victims included the 26-year-old bandleader Ken "Snakehips" Johnson,[7] his saxophonist Dave "Baba" Williams,[8][9] other band members, staff and diners. The Matcham Room at the Hippodrome Casino is currently the home of Magic Mike Live London[13] (created and produced by Channing Tatum). Later on, hosting scene locations for films including Absolute Beginners and The Krays. Rave was about dressing to sweat, but as one of the New Romantics told me, for them it wasnt about dancing: They just jigged around as they didnt want to ruin their extravagant costumes. We wanted to show how what people wore to these places had an influence well beyond the club basement. Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: As part of your account, youll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. changed its name to G-A-Y, expanded from two nights a week to four,and moved from the LA2 to the London Astoria. [5], On 8 March 1941, soon after the start of a performance, two bombs fell down a ventilation shaft into the basement ballroom and exploded in front of the stage. Suggest a change to this record. It was designed by Frank Matcham for Moss Empires chaired by Edward Moss and built for 250,000 as a hippodrome for circus and variety performances. Vauxhall became the locus of gay clubs from 2000. Great live music. Jeremy Norman, chairman of historical high-society guide Burkes Peerage, was inspired to open The Embassy after numerous trips to New York clubs, where the openness and designer drug-fuelled lifestyle of the citys flourishing gay life contrasted with Londons parochial feel (you could still get banned in some venues for sniffing poppers). By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. 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In 2009, the lease on the Hippodrome was acquired by Leicester-born father and son entrepreneurs Jimmy and Simon Thomas, who began an extensive restoration programme taking the Hippodrome back to Matcham's original designs for use as a casino and entertainment venue. The key figure on the decks was Ian Levine, who as resident DJ at the Blackpool Mecca had been at the heart of the Northern Soul scene, broadening its remit to embrace disco after witnessing New York gay clubs on trips Stateside hunting rare soul. DJ's Night Club Colorado Springs, CO early to late 80's. Live Heavy Metal, local and national music scene. Chaguaramas on Neal Street later to be The Roxy, a seminal live venue for the emerging punk scene had a soul and disco music policy, with DJ Norman Scott at the helm. Then came French Huguenots, Greeks, Italians including the painter Canaletto and Casanova who settled on Greek Street in 1764. Now its best-known regular has turned it into a musical. The Queen visited Leicester in 1958, visiting factories and Universities. Click on the nightclub's name to view a NightGuide profile of the property. All rights reserved. The O2 Arena was once a massive nightclub (Image: Wikimedia Commons) Before the Millenium Dome became the O2 Arena we know today it was home to a couple of nightclub's. First there was Matter and then there was Proud2. Weve got five outfits from the New Romantics, who were only around from 1979 to 1980, and theyre all utterly different. Big perms and mullets, ripped jeans and leg . Baileys nightclub in the Haymarket Centre in Leicester in April 1980. There is also a passing reference to the cafe in the 5th episode of the 6th season of Downton Abbey. During the planning stage, the adjacent Cranbourn Mansions building became available and plans were redrafted to incorporate this former gentlemen's apartment block into the design, doubling the eventual floorspace and linked using a new structure sited within the existing light well between the two buildings. The auditorium featured cantilevered galleries, removing the columns that often obstructed views in London theatres, the whole was covered by a painted glass retractable roof, that could be illuminated at night. The 1941 bombing of the Caf de Paris is described in a chapter of The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh. 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Harlequin (Nag's Head Court, Covent Garden), 1810 The White Swan, Vere Street (Vere Street), 1832 Admiral Duncan (54 Old Compton Street, Soho), The Hundred Guineas Club (Portland Place), 1866 The Coleherne, gay from the 1950s?, closed 24 September 2008 (261 Earls Court Road, Earls Court), 1889 19 Cleveland Street, as in the Cleveland Street scandal, 1896 Trocadero Long Bar Shaftesbury Avenue, 1912 The Cave of the Golden Calf (9 Heddon Street, Mayfair), 1910 York Minster, later The French House (49 Dean Street, Soho), Hambone Club aka The Ham Bone (Ham Yard, Soho), 1925 Hotel de France, now the site of Heaven, 1931 The Gateways, closed 1985 (239 King's Road, Chelsea), 1934 The Caravan, opened July 1934 (81 Endell Street, Covent Garden), 1935 Billie's Club (Little Denmark Street), 1935 Careless Stork (Denman Street, Piccadilly), 1935 Shim Sham Club (37 Wardour Street, Soho), Cave of the Golden Calf (Heddon Street, Mayfair), 1941 Arts and Battledress, closed late 1970s (Orange Street, then Rupert Street (as A&B), Soho), 1941 Swiss Hotel, later Comptons (53 Old Compton Street, Soho), 1941 The Crown and Two Chairmen (3132 Dean Street, Soho), 1946 City of Quebec (12 Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch), 1952 A&B, previously Arts and Battledress in Orange Street (Rupert Street, Soho), The Spartan Club (Tachbrook Street, Pimlico), The Carousel Club (Orange Street, then Panton Street), The Castle (later Stonewalls and Two8Six), closed 2012 (286 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham), The Boltons, closed early 1990s (326 Earls Court Road, Earls Court), The Catacombs, closed early 1980s (Finborough Road, Earls Court), The Champion (opening TBC), until 2004 (1 Wellington Terrace, Notting Hill), The Robin Hood (Inverness Terrace, Bayswater), The Waterman's Arms (1 Glenaffric Avenue, Greenwich), 1962 The Black Cap, closed 12 April 2015 (171 Camden High Street, Camden Town), 1962 Gigolo, closed 1970s?
