by Dave Haslam
‘You weren’t intimidated, you felt comfortable’; Lisa Loud in Garratt, p.109.
‘There were these fresh-faced people completely mashed on drugs’; Mark Moore, quoted in Sean Bidder, Pump Up the Volume (Channel 4 Books, 2001), p.102.
‘That first night was the defining, life-changing moment of my life’; Helena Marsh, quoted in Garratt, p.114.
‘The sound was very much a very heavy black sound’; Ashley Beedle quote here: http://blog.scottsmenswear.com/rip-parties-at-clink-st/.
‘A packed club, everyone going absolutely crazy, but it was only like half past nine or something’; Graeme Park in an interview with Raili Haslam.
Terry Farley talking about Graham Ball in Bidder, p.103.
‘It wasn’t like anything you’d ever experienced in a club before’; John McCready, quoted in the Observer, 20 April 2008.
‘In one night, everything that went before it was gone, redundant’; Norman Jay, quoted in Garratt, p.122. Later Norman Jay was a prime mover in the ‘High on Hope’ night. On one occasion he put on En Vogue, who played for free as long as it was unannounced. ‘Hold On’ was just about to break. When they performed, the crowd went berserk. Thankfully Norman had hired extra security. En Vogue had to be smuggled out of the back door.
Paul Staines recalls his first E in Matthew Collin, Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House (Serpent’s Tail, 2009), p.105. Staines now runs the Guido Fawkes blog site.
‘You won’t find any girls in Dolcis cream stilettoes at an acid house party’; Linda Duff, Daily Mirror, 29 June 1989.
‘Idiosyncratic reaction’; quote from the coroner reported in the Daily Mail, 9 December 1989.
Quote from Mike Pickering about an acid tab and Darren Partington describing the area around the Thunderdome as ‘rough-arsed’ both from Clash magazine, September 2008.
‘When we started up the club, we had no idea that these were the sort of people we would have to deal with’; Tony Wilson, quoted in NME, 9 February 1991.
Chapter Twelve
‘There was no need to wear a tie on a Friday, and trainers were quite acceptable’; Mr Matthews, quoted in the Evening Sentinel, 19 June 1992.
For more on the history of DJing and the rise of the ‘superstar DJs’ see: Ulf Poschardt, DJ Culture (Quartet, 1998); Dave Haslam, Adventures on the Wheels of Steel: the Rise of the Superstar DJs (Fourth Estate, 2001); and Dom Phillips, Superstar DJs Here We Go! (Ebury, 2009).
The quotes by Stuart Reid in this chapter are from an interview on the http://www.kmag.co.uk website.
‘Reprobates’ and other Kath McDermott quotes are from the ‘Queer Noise’ section of the website www.mdmarchive.co.uk.
Fabio and Storm quotes about Rage from http://www.djmag.com/node/7168.
James Ballie’s Venus on Stanford Street was housed in a venue formerly known by other names, including the Dungeon, and – during a phase as a gay club – Shades. As Baillie later said, ‘Venus was the place that bridged the gap between the North/South divide and brought the whole Balearic network together’ (interview here: http://dalstonsuperstore.com).
The Megadog review in Melody Maker, 11 December 1993, credits two reviewers: Zane and Push.
‘Substance-fuelled’; Andrew Weatherall an onstage conversation with the author at Beacons festival, August 2014.
‘Drugs are cool, that is the problem. At least they are when you are twenty-one and feel indestructible’; Phillips, p.315.
‘It became more and more a drug-dealer’s paradise’; Darren Hughes, quoted in Phillips, p.234.
Chapter Thirteen
‘The acid house recession’; Dom Phillips, Superstar DJs Here We Go! (Edbury, 2009), p.353.
‘The era of the superstar DJ and so-called superclub has come to a dramatic end’; Evening Standard, 7 November 2002.
Keith Reilly talking about Fabric and recounting the story of Talvin Singh’s watch from an interview in Jockey Slut in October 2000. Later, Fabric’s owners opened a second venue, a 2,600-capacity music venue, Matter, located at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, but Matter ran into financial trouble and caused a hiccup at Fabric, which was placed in administration for a short while in 2010.
Alex Needham here: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/the-london-dubstep-scene/#_.
‘Andrew was the most incredibly hideous dancer’; Virginia Roberts in diary extracts published on http://radaronline.com/.
‘The question perhaps, shouldn’t be, did Anna Chapman get to meet a prince’; Olivia Cole writing on the http://www.thedailybeast.com site.
‘He did not callously use me for sex’; Sally Anderson, quoted in the Guardian, 19 February 2014.
‘Officers have been on the site and the gathering is good humoured though very noisy’; quote from Sussex Police, reported in the Mirror, 26 May 2014.
‘It doesn’t bother me one bit’; Daily Telegraph, 26 May 2014.
After the raids on Garlands, the Lomax and Republik, Chief Superintendent Jon Ward, from Merseyside Police, said the raids and closures were linked, all part of ‘An investigation targeting irresponsible licensed premises where violence and contributory factors, such as drugs and excess alcohol, have caused issues.’
Mr Bagnall explaining the closure of the Music Box, Manchester Evening News, 28 April 2010.
Luke Unabomber’s ‘dark corridors with stained walls’ quote is from an interview posted on www.skiddle.com on 24 October 2012.
‘The early Club Suicide nights at John Willie Lees reasserted a DIY, John Peel-esque spirit in Manchester’; Bill Campbell quote from www.skiddle.com (posted 13 July 2013).
The full champagne list at Annabel’s is here: http://www.annabels.co.uk/sites/default/files/food-and-drinks/champagne-menu.pdf.
Abigail Ward quote from Strange Trees (Switchflicker, 2009), p.2.
Outro
The last act to play the Hammersmith Palais were Groove Armada, some six weeks after the Fall.
‘We may not have the glossiest leaflets, or the biggest marketing budget’; see the Adelphi website: http://www.theadelphi.com/.
‘You just do it any way you can’; Chris Chinchilla quote is from an interview posted on www.wired.com, August 2004.
‘Edinburgh’s nightlife has suffered significantly since the millennium’; Kris Walker in The List, 28 February 2012.
Ian Cape confesses to liberating a chair from Le Phonographique in Leeds on the club’s Facebook page.
‘For one of its iconic and historic venues to be demolished to make way for a budget hotel is, quite simply, appalling’; James Ketchell, quoted on the website http://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/, 3 August 2012.
‘We’re facing a war on culture, fuelled by consumerism’; Alan McGee, quoted in NME, 9 February 2015.
‘Just a few years ago the Baltic Triangle’; http://independent-liverpool.co.uk/blogs/a-moment-with-baltic-creative/.
‘The Club That Changed The World’; Melody Maker, 18 March 1995.
The words of Councillor Norma Austin Hart reported here: http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk (25 November 2014). Subsequently Kris Walker told me the outlook for grassroots culture has improved: ‘Edinburgh, whilst hardly Berlin, has really improved since The List article’; (email to the author, January 2015).
The top tip for surviving a night at Jesters (Southampton) is in a review carried on the website www.omgmad.com.
‘Piled-up passions were exploded on a Saturday night’; Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (W.H. Allen, 1958), p.9.
‘Numbers of people staggering and seeing others lying in the gutter’; Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845: Panther, 1969), p.157.
Mick Farren wrote that ‘stumbling into Indica was like a ticket to the magic kingdom’; Give The Anarchist a Cigarette (Jonathan Cape, 2001), p.84.
INDEX
(venues whose names begin with figures are placed as if spelled out)
A Certain Ratio, ref1, ref2
Abadi brothers, ref1, ref2, r
ef3, ref4
Abbott, Myra, ref1
ABC (formerly Vice Versa, q.v.), ref1, ref2, ref3
Abigail’s, Birmingham, ref1
AC/DC, ref1
Ace of Clubs, Leeds, ref1
Ad Lib, London, ref1, ref2
Adamski, ref1
Adamson, Barry, ref1
Adamson, Stuart, ref1
Adelphi, Hull, ref1
Adelphi, Leeds, ref1
Adelphi, West Bromwich, ref1
Adventures in Lust, Hanley, ref1
Advert, Gaye, ref1
Adverts, ref1
Afghan Whigs, ref1
Africa Centre, London, ref1, ref2, ref3
Aitken, Matt, ref1
Ajanta, Derby, ref1
Akins, George Jr, ref1
Akins, George Sr, ref1
Alan Price Set, ref1
Albarn, Damon, ref1
Albert Hall, London, see Royal Albert Hall
Albert Hall, Manchester, ref1
Albertine, Viv, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Alex Harvey and His Beat Band, ref1
Alexander, Scott, ref1
Alexandra, Manchester, ref1
Alexandra Music Hall, Canterbury, ref1
Alexandra Music Hall, Sheffield, ref1
Alexandra Palace, London, ref1
Alhambra, Nelson, ref1
Ali, Muhammad, ref1, ref2
Alibi, London, ref1
Alien Sex Fiend, ref1
All Caribbean Steel Band, ref1
All Saints Hall, London, ref1
Allan, Stu, ref1, ref2
Allen, Fiona, ref1
Allen, Trevor, ref1
Almond, Marc, ref1, ref2, ref3
Altern ref1, ref2
Ambrose, Bert, ref1
AMM, ref1
Amnesia House, Longton, ref1
Amnesia, Ibiza, ref1
Anderson, Ian A., ref1
Anderson, Paul ‘Trouble’, ref1, ref2
Andrews, Phil, ref1
Androids, ref1
Angels, Burnley, ref1, ref2, ref3
Animals, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Annabel’s, London, ref1, ref2
Anokha, London, ref1
Aphex Twin, ref1
Apocalypse Now, London, ref1
Arch, Brighton, ref1
Archway, Manchester, ref1
Arctic Monkeys, ref1, ref2
Argent, ref1
Argyll Rooms, London, ref1
Art Brut, ref1
Artery, ref1
Ashby-De-La-Soul, ref1
Ashfield, Tony, ref1
Ashworth, Joe, ref1
Asprilla, Tino, ref1
Associates, ref1
Astley, Rick, ref1
Astoria, London, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Astoria (aka the Rainbow), Finsbury Park, ref1
Au Pairs, ref1
Audio, Brighton, ref1
Azena Ballroom, Sheffield, ref1
B-52s, ref1
Back to Basics, Leeds, ref1
Back to the Future, London, ref1
Back to Hell, Manchester, ref1
Backhouse, Dave, ref1, ref2
Bagley’s, London, ref1
Bagnall, Billy, ref1
Bagnall, John, ref1
Bailey, James, ref1
Bailey, Paul, ref1, ref2
Baker, Arthur, ref1
Baker, Chet, ref1, ref2
Baldry, Long John, ref1
Ball, Graham, ref1
Balmbra’s, Newcastle, ref1
Bamboo, Bristol, ref1, ref2
Bananarama, ref1, ref2
Banco De Gaia, ref1
Band of Joy, ref1
Band on the Wall, Manchester, ref1, ref2
Bang, London, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bannerman’s Edinburgh, ref1
Bannister, Freddy, ref1, ref2
Barbarella’s, Birmingham, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Barber, Chris, ref1
Bargeld, Blixa, ref1
Barker, Ronnie, ref1, ref2
Barker, Simon, ref1
Barmy Barry, ref1, ref2, ref3
Barnum, P.T., ref1
Barratt, Richard, see Parrot
Barrel Organ, Digbeth, ref1
Barrett, Jeff, ref1
Barrett, Syd, ref1 (see also Pink Floyd)
Barrie, Jack, ref1
Barron Knights, ref1
Barrowland, Glasgow, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Barton, James, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 passim, ref1
Batcave, London, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Batchelor, Kid, ref1
Batt, Fred, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bay Hotel, Sunderland, ref1
Beach Boys, ref1
Beach Club, Manchester, ref1, ref2
Beastie Boys, ref1, ref2, ref3
Beat, ref1, ref2
Beatles (formerly Quarry Men, q.v.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
beatniks, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Beckett, Steve, ref1
Bed, Leeds, ref1
Bed, Sheffield, ref1
Bee Gee, Leeds, ref1
Beedle, Ashley, ref1
Beer, Dave, ref1
Bell, Patti, ref1, ref2, ref3
Beloved, ref1, ref2
Beltram, Joey, ref1
Benson, Ivy, ref1
Berkmann, Justin, ref1
Berlin, ref1
Berlin, Manchester, ref1
Bermuda, Birmingham, ref1, ref2
Berrow, Michael, ref1, ref2
Berrow, Paul, ref1, ref2
Berrow, Ray, ref1
Berry, Andrew, ref1
Berry, Chuck, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Berry, Dave, ref1
Best, George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Best, Mona, ref1, ref2, ref3
Best, Pete, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bestival, ref1
Betesh, Danny, ref1, ref2
Better Books, ref1
Betts, Leah, ref1
Bez, ref1
Big in Japan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Big Three, ref1, ref2
Big Youth, ref1
Bilk, Acker, ref1
Billy’s, London, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Bin Lid, Dewsbury, ref1
Bingley Hall, ref1
Biology, London, ref1
Birdcage, Portsmouth, ref1
Birley, Mark, ref1
Birmingham Odeon, ref1
Birmingham Sound Reproducers, ref1, ref2
Birthday Party, ref1, ref2
Björk, ref1
Black Bee Soul Club, ref1, ref2
Black Cat Club, Sheffield, ref1
Black Market, ref1
Black Sabbath, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Black Swan, Sheffield, ref1, ref2, ref3
Black & White Milk Bar, London, ref1
The Black and White Minstrel Show, ref1
Blackpool Mecca, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Blake, Cyril, ref1
Blake, George ‘Happy’, ref1
Bland, Bobby, ref1
Blarney Club, London, ref1
Blast, Chester, ref1
Bleasdale, Paul, ref1
Blind Tiger, Brighton, ref1
Blitz, London, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Blodwyn Pig, ref1
Blondie, ref1, ref2
Bloom, John, ref1
Blue Bell, Hull, ref1
Blue Lantern, London, ref1
Blue Moon, Cheltenham, ref1
Blue Note, London, ref1, ref2
Blue Note, Manchester, ref1
Blue Rondo à la Turk, ref1
Blues Incorporated, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bluesbreakers, ref1, ref2
Boardwalk, Manchester, ref1, ref2
Boardwalk, She
ffield, ref1
Boat Club, Nottingham, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bob Marley and the Wailers, ref1, ref2
Boileroom, Guildford, ref1
Boland, Derek, ref1
Bollox, Manchester, ref1, ref2
Bolton Palais, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bond, Graham, ref1
Bond’s, Birmingham, ref1
Bongo, Edinburgh, ref1, ref2
Bonham, John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 (see also Led Zeppelin)
Bono, ref1, ref2
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, ref1
Boodle’s, London, ref1
Boogie’s, Birmingham, ref1
Book Shop, Edinburgh, ref1
Boon, Clint, ref1
Boon, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Booth, Dave, ref1
Bootleg Beatles, ref1
Borderline Club, London, ref1
Boujis, London, ref1
Bounce, Nottingham, ref1
Bow Wow Wow, ref1, ref2
Bowery, Leigh, ref1
Bowie, Angie, ref1, ref2
Bowie, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Boy George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Boyd, Joe, ref1, ref2
Boyle, Mark, ref1
Braceland, Jack, ref1
Bradley, Shanne, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brain, London, ref1
Brannigans, Leeds, ref1
Bread Basket, London, ref1
Brick, Chris, ref1
Brighton Essoldo, ref1
Britannia Panopticon, Glasgow, ref1
British Queen, London, ref1
Bromley Contingent, ref1, ref2
Brooker, Gary, ref1
Broudie, Ian, ref1, ref2
Brown, Chris, ref1
Brown, James, ref1, ref2
Brown, Joe, ref1
Brown, Louis, ref1
Brown, Miquel, ref1
Brown, Pete, ref1, ref2
Browne, David, ref1
Bruce, Lenny, ref1
Bryant, Bill, ref1
Budgie, see Clarke, Peter ‘Budgie’
Bukem, LTJ, ref1
Bullimore, Lalel, ref1
Bullimore, Tony, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bungalow Bar, Paisley, ref1
Bunn, Thomas, ref1
Burdon, Eric, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 (see also Animals)
Burgess, Guy, ref1
Burke, Solomon, ref1
Burn, Colin, ref1
Burnell, Bern, ref1
Burns, Pete, ref1, ref2
Burra, Edward, ref1
Burroughs, William, ref1, ref2
Burton, Chris, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Burton, Peter, ref1
Buster, Prince, ref1
Buxbaum, Chris, ref1
Buzzcocks, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12