The Red Bulletin September 2019 (UK)

Shoom, London, May 1988
It seems amazing now that [singer] Sacha Souter wore this straw hat
without those strands blinding half the people around her – most of
whom were surely a bit smitten. What a look! It’s like something out
of Tess of the D’Urbervilles. I only noticed her that morning because
the house lights were switched on around 5am and everything was
illuminated in their fluorescent glare. People danced on, but everybody
was out by 6am, heading off to RIP on Clink Street to carry on.
Shoom, London, April 1988
In a sports studio off Southwark Street, with mirrored walls, strobes,
dry ice and around 300 people squeezed in, [club founder] Danny
Rampling played amazing acid and gospel house like The Night
Writers’ Let The Music (Use You) and Joe Smooth’s Promised
Land. Amid this maelstrom was [Shoom regular] Andrew Newman,
who treated acid house as an opportunity to dress in style, proudly
sporting a Stephen Sprouse jacket and getting utterly lost in music.
Ku, Ibiza, June 1989
Now called Privilege, this was a superclub
long before British people had dreamt of
such a thing. The club held 7,000 and had
an enormous roof, but it was still partially
open-air in 1989. So when a violent electrical
storm blew in at around 4am, most sensible
people – including the likes of Boy George,
Fat Tony, MC Kinky and Adamski – ran for
cover. Fortunately, there were a few Brits
who carried on regardless, dancing in the
downpour as Lil Louis’ orgiastic track French
Kiss throbbed to a climax for the third time
that night. And when we came out into the
sunshine at 7am, there were about five of the
trendy little Suzuki jeeps in the car park, all
full to the brim and looking like warm baths.
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