Showaddywaddy

byJo Kendall
October 13, 2022

A muggy night at London’s Kilburn National Ballroom in September 1987, and German industrial-meisters Einstürzende Neubauten are headlining. The support act? 1970s glam rock entertainers Showaddywaddy. As one press report aptly put it, “Say WADD?”

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Jo Kendall

Spillers

byGarth Cartwright

When Spillers opened their doors in Cardiff in 1894, who knew that today they’d be the world’s oldest record shop. To mark Record Store Day on 21 April, we salute the rise and fall and rise of the humble record Emporium…

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Ciccone Youth

byMat Smith

When Ciccone Youth’s genius cover versions of Madonna’s ‘Into The Groove’ and ‘Burnin’ Up’ arrived in 1986, how long did it take to work out Sonic Youth were involved? Word soon got around…

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The Brain, Wardour Street, London

byBen Willmott

Opening in the late 80s, The Brain on London’s Wardour Street championed pretty much an entire generation of DJs and electronic live acts. Co-founder Sean Mclusky tells the club’s incredible tale

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The Haçienda Hair Salon

byPush

There were lots of strange things going on in the dark corners of The Haçienda in the 1980s, but the strangest thing of all was Swing, the hairdressing salon in the basement

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