Blitz Kids - Wikipedia
WEBBlitz Kids. The former home of Blitz nightclub (1979), 4 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2. The Blitz Kids were a group of people who frequented the Tuesday club-night at Blitz in Covent Garden, London in 1979–1980, and are credited with launching the New Romantic subcultural movement. [1]
Blitz Club, London, 1980 | Photographs by Andrew Holligan
WEBJan 29, 2022 · Nestled in Covent Garden, the Blitz Club emerged as a crucible of New Romantic fashions, groundbreaking music, and a thriving subculture that would leave an indelible mark on the decade.
A brief history of London’s most legendary nightclubs - Luxury London
WEBJul 19, 2021 · This former gin distillery was home to one of London’s all time greatest club nights: Trade. Its hours ran from 3am to 1pm on a Sunday afternoon, handily catering to the predominantly gay crowd who wanted to carry on partying …
1980 Unseen photos inside the Blitz Club, exclusively at Shapers …
WEBMay 21, 2018 · Shapers of the 80s today showcases the first of four batches of Terry’s pictures capturing the Blitz in colour, while a selling exhibition of his black-and-white images is preparing to open on 7 June in St Leonards-on-Sea.
Blitz Club - Steve Strange
WEBBlitz Club. The Blitz Club was founded by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan. Steve was invited to London by Billy Idol. His first job was designing artwork for Malcolm MacClaren and The Sex Pistols. Rusty was the drummer in punk /new wavers 'The Rich Kids'. They met on the Kings Road in 1978.
The story behind this unseen image of the Blitz Kids | Dazed
WEBJan 25, 2016 · One of the congregational centres for these non-conformist youths was the Blitz club – also known as the home of the New Romantic subculture movement – set up by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan and frequented by 80s icons like Boy George, John Galliano and Stephen Jones.
Remembering Rusty Egan's Blitz Club: where the New
WEBJun 24, 2024 · Remembering Rusty Egan's Blitz Club: a place to 'avoid the mob and the homophobes', where the New Romantics were born. As he releases new vinyl boxset, 'Blitzed!', Wallpaper* meets DJ Rusty Egan to talk about London's scene-building Blitz club – the antidote to the late 70s punk scene and a hot-bed of experimental fashion.
Blitz Club, London, 1980 | Andrew Holligan - British Culture Archive
WEBJan 22, 2022 · Photographs of the Blitz Club in London's Covent Garden. Taken by our featured photographer Andrew Holligan.
dunhill revisit The Blitz Club, home of London’s New Romantics
WEBAug 4, 2020 · During Britain’s bleak years of economic depression in the late 70s and early 80s, when rising inflation and unemployment brought strikes and fractious unrest, The Blitz Club belonged to a unique period in London’s club scene that offered an unparalleled sense of …
The Blitz kids: How the New Romantics made London swing again
WEBSteve Strange's brilliant idea of colonising a failing club for a night, filling it with a like-minded group of people and providing them with something exclusively their own, would re-draw the...
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