by Dave Haslam
Wild Bunch, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Wilde, Marty, ref1
Wilkinson, Tony, ref1
Williams, Allan, ref1, ref2
Williams, Claude, ref1
Williams, Guy, ref1
Williams, Larry, ref1
Williams, Mark ‘Wigan’, ref1
Williams, Steve, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Williamson, Robin, ref1
Williamson, Sonny Boy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Willot, Daz, ref1
Wilson, Delroy, ref1
Wilson, Greg, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Wilson, Jackie, ref1
Wilson, Lindsay, ref1
Wilson, Tony, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Wilton, John, ref1, ref2
Wilton’s, London, ref1, ref2, ref3
Windmill, Birmingham, ref1
Windross, Rose, ref1
Windsor Old Trout, ref1
Winstanley, Russ, ref1
Winter Gardens, Malvern, ref1, ref2, ref3
Wire, ref1, ref2, ref3
Wire and Sonic Youth, ref1
Wisdom, Olli, ref1
Wise, Alan, ref1, ref2
Wobble, Birmingham, ref1
Wobble, Jah, ref1, ref2
Wolf, Patrick, ref1
Wolfe, Tom, ref1
Wonder, Stevie, ref1
Wood, Fred, ref1
Woodliffe, Jonathan, ref1, ref2, ref3
Wooler, Bob, ref1, ref2
Worthington, Frank, ref1, ref2
Worthington, Geoffrey, ref1
Wright, David, ref1, ref2
Wylie, Pete, ref1, ref2, ref3
Wyman, Bill, ref1, ref2, ref3 (see also Rolling Stones)
X-Ray Spex, ref1, ref2
Yard, London, ref1
Yardbirds, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Yellow, Manchester, ref1
Yes, ref1
York, Chris, ref1
Youdan, Thomas, ref1, ref2
Young, Jeff, ref1
Young Marble Giants, ref1
Yours or Mine (‘Sombrero’), London, ref1
Zaher, Yousef, ref1
Zap, Brighton, ref1, ref2
Zappa, Frank, ref1, ref2
Zebra, London, ref1
Ziggy’s, London, ref1
Zodiac, Brighton, ref1
Zukie, Tapper, ref1
List of Illustrations
1. Three thousand people attended this grand ball at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in 1845.
2. Thomas Youdan (centre) built a huge music hall in Sheffield, featuring singers, daft competitions and performing dogs.
3. The Headrow entrance to the City Varieties in Leeds before the recent restoration and refurbishment.
4. Charlie Chaplin and Harry Houdini performed at the City Varieties. It evolved from a music hall founded in 1865.
5. The Ritz, Manchester (c.1925) with a sprung dancefloor. Now, just as well known for its sticky carpet.
6. The Streatham Locarno, 1939. Ruth Ellis worked here briefly (she was the last woman in Britain to be hanged, after killing her lover David Blakely in 1955).
7. A night out at the Dennistoun Palais in Glasgow (converted into a Fine Fare supermarket in 1962).
8. Cy Laurie entertaining dancers at his club in Ham Yard, 1954. He ran all-nighters, which George Melly’s friends called ‘raves’.
9. The Gateways – a lesbian nightclub on King’s Road, London. The club and some of its regulars appear in the 1968 film The Killing of Sister George.
10. The Coventry Locarno, later known as Tiffany’s (now Coventry Central Library); built in 1960 at the heart of a pedestrianised shopping scheme.
11. Roger Eagle’s office at the Twisted Wheel, Brazennose Street, Manchester, June 1964; Roger with John Lee Hooker.
12. Entrance to the Scene Club on Ham Yard, December 1964. Amazing pleasures through that inauspicious doorway . . .
13. The Scene, December 1964. Described as ‘a focal point for the mod movement’ by Pete Townshend of the Who.
14. The Who filming for German TV at the Marquee club in May 1965.
15. Allen Ginsberg reading at the International Poetry Incarnation event at the Albert Hall, London (June 1965).
16. UFO on Tottenham Court Road. On the right, John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, one of the club’s founders.
17. Who’d have thought? Black Sabbath plus DJ Pete Waterman.
18. ‘Shoop Shoop’, a regular Thursday disco at the Golden Eagle, Birmingham, with DJ Mike Horseman (c.1977).
19. Front cover of the first issue of International Times, including news of the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream (Alexandra Palace, 29 April 1967).
20. UFO poster 1967. UFO was based at 31 Tottenham Court Rd, in an Irish club called The Blarney.
21. Poster advertising UFO nights at the Roundhouse, September 1967 (designed by Martin Sharp).
22. Pink Floyd at Mothers, Erdington (Birmingham), April 1969. DJ John Peel later said Mothers was ‘for a few years the best club in Britain’.
23. Northern Soul fans on the dancefloor at Wigan Casino in 1975.
24. Northern Soul – an in-crowd and a movement like no other. Thirty years of Wigan Casino cloth badges.
25. Colin Curtis and Chris Burton on the site of the Golden Torch, Tunstall (Stoke). Photograph from 2013.
26. Membership card for the Timepiece, Liverpool, where DJ Les Spaine played modern soul and heavy funk.
27. The venue now known as the 100 Club has presented live music since 1942. The Sex Pistols had a residency there in 1976.
28. Previously unseen photograph of Ian Curtis of Joy Division at the Factory/Russell Club, 11 April 1980; the last occasion Joy Division played in Manchester.
29. In the post-punk period the Limit in Sheffield – like Eric’s in Liverpool and several venues nationwide – had great line-ups most weeks.
30. Rhona Mackay centre, Karen to her right, Katie to her left, and two other regulars at the Nite Club, Edinburgh, 1981.
31. Trojan, Nicola Bateman and Leigh Bowery at Bowery’s Taboo club in 1985. To gain entry, ‘Dress as though your life depends on it or don’t bother,’ Leigh Bowery said.
32. A haven for like minds. Sunday afternoon socialising at the Leadmill, Sheffield, 1986.
33. A building with an amazing nightlife history, on the corner of Dean Street and Meard Street in Soho. In 1982, it was trading as Gossips.
34. Mark Manning (a.k.a. Zodiac Mindwarp) and the bass player (and record producer) Youth, at Gossips, 1984.
35. Without the Dug Out, would we have had Massive Attack? Milo and Daddy G of the Wild Bunch DJing at the Dug Out, Bristol, 1984.
36. Bristol – home to many bass-heavy reggae sound systems in the 1980s especially, including the Enterprise Sound System (here, at St Paul’s Carnival in 1986).
37. The Haçienda, ‘Hot’ night (Wednesdays), 1988. Acid house had arrived.
38. Laurent Garnier in the Haçienda DJ box, 1988. He picked up his love of techno and his first ever DJ gigs at the Manchester club.
39. Patrick Lilley (foreground) at ‘Discotheque’ at Busbys, in 1988, with DJ Ben Wolff, one half of the Boilerhouse Boys.
40. Julie Stewart on the dancefloor at ‘Jive Turkey’ in Sheffield, late 1980s.
41. James Barton, Andy Carroll and Darren Hughes, the founders of Cream 1992.
42. Eclipse, Coventry, flyer from August 1991. Guest DJs that month included Carl Cox, Stu Allan, Joey Beltram and Top Buzz.
43. A gathering of ravers and New Age travellers at a free festival at Castlemorton in May 1992 precipitated the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
44. DJs Kemistry & Storm. Drum and bass pioneers. Kemistry (left) was killed in a road accident in the early morning of 25 April 1999.
45. The Rollins Band live at the Duchess of York in Leeds, August 1990.
46. January 1992. The early days of ‘Trade’, founded by Laurence Malice. It opened from 4 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Sundays at Turnmills, C
lerkenwell Road, London.
47. ‘Return to the Source’, a mid-1990s Goa-trance club that reunited in August 2014 for a 21st Anniversary Party at Electric, Brixton (formerly the Fridge).
48. Chloë Sevigny visited the Smiths/Morrissey disco at the Star & Garter in Manchester while she was filming in the city, August 2011.
49. Two customers entwined at Spiders, Hull, 2005.
50. Manchester’s Twisted Wheel/Legends club just after it had closed, with demolition imminent.
51. Hammersmith Palais opened in 1919 featuring an in-house band that proclaimed themselves ‘musical anarchists’. It closed in 2007.
52. One of the great venues in contemporary Manchester – Albert Hall (converted from a Methodist hall built in 1910).
1. Three thousand people attended this grand ball at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in 1845.
2. Thomas Youdan (centre) built a huge music hall in Sheffield, featuring singers, daft competitions and performing dogs.
3. The Headrow entrance to the City Varieties in Leeds before the recent restoration and refurbishment.
4. Charlie Chaplin and Harry Houdini performed at the City Varieties. It evolved from a music hall founded in 1865.
5. The Ritz, Manchester (c.1925) with a sprung dancefloor. Now, just as well known for its sticky carpet.
6. The Streatham Locarno, 1939. Ruth Ellis worked here briefly (she was the last woman in Britain to be hanged, after killing her lover David Blakely in 1955).
7. A night out at the Dennistoun Palais in Glasgow (converted into a Fine Fare supermarket in 1962).
8. Cy Laurie entertaining dancers at his club in Ham Yard, 1954. He ran all-nighters, which George Melly’s friends called ‘raves’.
9. The Gateways – a lesbian nightclub on King’s Road, London. The club and some of its regulars appear in the 1968 film The Killing of Sister George.
10. The Coventry Locarno, later known as Tiffany’s (now Coventry Central Library); built in 1960 at the heart of a pedestrianised shopping scheme.
11. Roger Eagle’s office at the Twisted Wheel, Brazennose Street, Manchester, June 1964; Roger with John Lee Hooker.
12. Entrance to the Scene Club on Ham Yard, December 1964. Amazing pleasures through that inauspicious doorway . . .
13. The Scene, December 1964. Described as ‘a focal point for the mod movement’ by Pete Townshend of the Who.
14. The Who filming for German TV at the Marquee club in May 1965.
15. Allen Ginsberg reading at the International Poetry Incarnation event at the Albert Hall, London (June 1965).
16. UFO on Tottenham Court Road. On the right, John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, one of the club’s founders.
17. Who’d have thought? Black Sabbath plus DJ Pete Waterman.
18. ‘Shoop Shoop’, a regular Thursday disco at the Golden Eagle, Birmingham, with DJ Mike Horseman (c.1977).
19. Front cover of the first issue of International Times, including news of the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream (Alexandra Palace, 29 April 1967).
20. UFO poster 1967. UFO was based at 31 Tottenham Court Rd, in an Irish club called The Blarney.
21. Poster advertising UFO nights at the Roundhouse, September 1967 (designed by Martin Sharp).
22. Pink Floyd at Mothers, Erdington (Birmingham), April 1969. DJ John Peel later said Mothers was ‘for a few years the best club in Britain’.
23. Northern Soul fans on the dancefloor at Wigan Casino in 1975.
24. Northern Soul – an in-crowd and a movement like no other. Thirty years of Wigan Casino cloth badges.
25. Colin Curtis and Chris Burton on the site of the Golden Torch, Tunstall (Stoke). Photograph from 2013.
26. Membership card for the Timepiece, Liverpool, where DJ Les Spaine played modern soul and heavy funk.
27. The venue now known as the 100 Club has presented live music since 1942. The Sex Pistols had a residency there in 1976.
28. Previously unseen photograph of Ian Curtis of Joy Division at the Factory/Russell Club, 11 April 1980; the last occasion Joy Division played in Manchester.
29. In the post-punk period the Limit in Sheffield – like Eric’s in Liverpool and several venues nationwide – had great line-ups most weeks.
30. Rhona Mackay centre, Karen to her right, Katie to her left, and two other regulars at the Nite Club, Edinburgh, 1981.
31. Trojan, Nicola Bateman and Leigh Bowery at Bowery’s Taboo club in 1985. To gain entry, ‘Dress as though your life depends on it or don’t bother,’ Leigh Bowery said.
32. A haven for like minds. Sunday afternoon socialising at the Leadmill, Sheffield, 1986.
33. A building with an amazing nightlife history, on the corner of Dean Street and Meard Street in Soho. In 1982, it was trading as Gossips.
34. Mark Manning (a.k.a. Zodiac Mindwarp) and the bass player (and record producer) Youth, at Gossips, 1984.
35. Without the Dug Out, would we have had Massive Attack? Milo and Daddy G of the Wild Bunch DJing at the Dug Out, Bristol, 1984.
36. Bristol – home to many bass-heavy reggae sound systems in the 1980s especially, including the Enterprise Sound System (here, at St Paul’s Carnival in 1986).
37. The Haçienda, ‘Hot’ night (Wednesdays), 1988. Acid house had arrived.
38. Laurent Garnier in the Haçienda DJ box, 1988. He picked up his love of techno and his first ever DJ gigs at the Manchester club.
39. Patrick Lilley (foreground) at ‘Discotheque’ at Busbys, in 1988, with DJ Ben Wolff, one half of the Boilerhouse Boys.
40. Julie Stewart on the dancefloor at ‘Jive Turkey’ in Sheffield, late 1980s.
41. James Barton, Andy Carroll and Darren Hughes, the founders of Cream 1992.
42. Eclipse, Coventry, flyer from August 1991. Guest DJs that month included Carl Cox, Stu Allan, Joey Beltram and Top Buzz.
43. A gathering of ravers and New Age travellers at a free festival at Castlemorton in May 1992 precipitated the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
44. DJs Kemistry & Storm. Drum and bass pioneers. Kemistry (left) was killed in a road accident in the early morning of 25 April 1999.
45. The Rollins Band live at the Duchess of York in Leeds, August 1990.
46. January 1992. The early days of ‘Trade’, founded by Laurence Malice. It opened from 4 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Sundays at Turnmills, Clerkenwell Road, London.
47. ‘Return to the Source’, a mid-1990s Goa-trance club that reunited in August 2014 for a 21st Anniversary Party at Electric, Brixton (formerly the Fridge).
48. Chloë Sevigny visited the Smiths/Morrissey disco at the Star & Garter in Manchester while she was filming in the city, August 2011.
49. Two customers entwined at Spiders, Hull, 2005.
50. Manchester’s Twisted Wheel/Legends club just after it had closed, with demolition imminent.
51. Hammersmith Palais opened in 1919 featuring an in-house band that proclaimed themselves ‘musical anarchists’. It closed in 2007.
52. One of the great venues in contemporary Manchester – Albert Hall (converted from a Methodist hall built in 1910).