The UK has the best club culture in the world. That might sound biased, considering I'm from the UK and grew up on speaker stacks and squat, stocky men eyeballing my fake ID and 45-year-old divorcee pillheads losing half their body water in sweat at drum-and-bass parties... But it's true. Germany might have Berlin and the States might have Miami, but the UK's got London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, and, if you're into really gabber and/or not paying very much for alcohol, Glasgow.
Tomorrow, London's theprintspace are launching Lost in Music, an exhibition that charts the history of dance music and club culture with a collection of 500 images. They're kicking everything off with a party at Shoreditch's Village Underground, which is completely free; all you need to do to get in is register for tickets here, or just turn up after 9 PM for one-out, one-in.
The exhibition will span a number of countries—basically anywhere a culture has developed around clubbing, but theprintspace kindly sent us the photos below that show the many eras of British nightlife over the past 40 years.
A Northern Soul dancer, Wigan Casino, Wigan, 1976 © Red Saunders
Shades Disco, Manor House, London, 1978 © Jill Furmanovsky/PYMCA
Eric's, Liverpool, 1978 © Kevin Cummins
Mod girls, London, 1980 © Peter Anderson/PYMCA
Three skinheads drinking, with one showing his "Kill Mods" tattoo, 1980s © Peter Anderson/PYMCA
London, 1980s © Ted Polhemus/PYMCA
A group of breakdancers, London, 1983 © Clare Muller/PYMCA
Fordham Park free festival, London, 1983 © Martyn Goodacre
Fordham Park free festival, London, 1983 © Martyn Goodacre
New Romantics outside Alice in Wonderland, London, 1984 © Hartnett/PYMCA
Dynamite 3 MCs at Brixton Fridge, London, 1985 © Normski/PYMCA
Hacienda, Manchester, 1988 © Kevin Cummins
Ravers outside "The Trip," Astoria, London, 1988 © Marcus Graham/PYMCA
Hacienda, Manchester, 1989 © Peter J Walsh/PYMCA
A B-boy, Bournemouth, 1990 © Guy Isherwood
Goldie at Metalheadz, London, 1994 © Eddie Otchere
Pushca white ball party in a warehouse, West London, 1995 © Daniel Newman
Freedom at Bagleys, London, 1998 © Dave Swindells
Northern Soul fans at Mousetrap Club, London, 1998 © Rebecca Lewis/PYMCA
Gatecrasher's seventh birthday, 2001 © Tristan O'Neill
Cameos Nightclub, Peckham, London, 2003 © David Titlow
The BBC Asian Network tent at the London Mela, mid-2000s © Jocelyn Bain Hogg/VII
MC Tempo at Once Upon a Grime's fifth birthday, 2015 © Wot Do You Call It
The "Lost in Music" show opens on Friday the December 4 and runs until Wednesday, February 17 at theprintspace gallery, 74 Kingsland Rd, which is open from 9 AM to 7 PM, Monday to Friday.
At the Village Underground party in Shoreditch this Friday, there will be DJ sets from photographer Dean Chalkley, World Dance's Simon Kurrage, photographer Gavin Mills, the Balearic Queen Nancy Noise, acid house pioneer Danny Rampling, and Ministry of Sound's Shea Burke, along with performances throughout the night from special guest Shovell, The Drum Warrior.
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