TROPHY MAGAZINE

What would you say is your main intention every time you put on a Nice
Mover night?
I want to make a space for people like us, we are the next generation and I just
thought that if I don’t do it someone else will and I want to be a part of it and try to
have ab hand in directive the creative future. Bringing people together in a space
where they can showcase their art, meet new people and most importantly just
have a good time, It’s so important, and I enjoy being able to play a part in peoples
lives like that.
Some of my best teenage memories were actually thanks to Vogue Fabrics, at
an 80’s night called Burning Down The House, which was started by my friend
Daniella Shreir who’s also the editor of Another Gaze (www.anothergaze.com)- an
online feminist film journal.
How important is a space like Vogue Fabrics Dalston to you and London
nightlife culture in general?
I think spaces which can act as a blank canvas, which allow you to take over and
do whatever you want to do are scarce and invaluable in London. When you’ve got
virtually no budget it’s impossible to put a night like Nice Mover on anywhere else
than VFD.
It’s a sweaty basement club, and proud. I can’t imagine draping fabric all over the
walls or staging a Vogue ball in a quote on quote ‘fancier’ venue, it would be too
restrictive. The most important aspect is SPACE - that’s all there is to it. If you want
to throw a party all you need is that space then you work up from there.
VFD is an amazing venue because it’s blank, and that allows you to decorate it as
if it were your own club for the night, which is what makes Nice Mover for me.
If you could put on a Nice Mover night with no financial or spatial restrictionswhat
would you do?
Oh god, I think about this every night before I go to sleep. I won’t go into too much
detail because I don’t want any rich kids to steal my ideas; but I would just hire
a labyrinth style club with loads of different rooms which would all be decorated
differently, there would be a Hellenistic room, Caravaggio shrine, a room with a
non-stop Medieval feast, a room full of clouds, a beach. There would be different
music styles in each, and maybe an exhibition in one and films in another.
There would be a huge smoking area, and no mirrors in the toilets, and I’d get
Boney M to play live, do you think they would?
Obviously there would be free booze, and a really good sound system, that goes
without saying. Oh my god! A proper dance floor like in Saturday Night Fever and
lights, that makes all the difference, honestly. I guess I should probably have a
Gina X Performance mural too. I want to own a club one day so this is all probably
going to happen, but I need to think about it more, it will be way better.