Life After Dark : a lively history of British nightclubs and music venues from earliest days through to rock n' roll, Northern Soul and rave culture to the present day

Nightclubs And Music Venues Are Often The Source Of A Lifetime's Music Taste, Best Friends And Vivid Memories. They Can Define A Town, A City Or A Generation, And Breed Scenes And Bands That Change Music History. In Life After Dark Dave Haslam Reveals And Celebrates A Definitive History Of Significant Venues And Great Nights Out. Writing With Passion And Authority, He Takes Us From Vice-ridden Victorian Dance Halls To Acid House And Beyond; Through The Jazz Decades Of Luxurious Ballrooms To Mods In Basement Dives And The Venues That Nurtured The Beatles, The Stones, Northern Soul And The Sex Pistols; From Psychedelic Light Shows To High Street Discos; From The Roxy To The Hacienda; From The Krays To The Slits; And From Reggae Sound Systems To Rave Nights In Stoke. In A Journey To Dozens Of Towns And Cities, Taking In Hundreds Of Unforgettable Stories On The Way, Haslam Explores The Sleaziness, The Changing Fashions, The Moral Panics And The Cultural And Commercial History Of Nightlife. He Interviews Clubbers And Venue Owners, As Well As Djs And Musicians; He Meets One Of The Gangsters Who Nearly Destroyed Manchester's Nightlife And Discusses Goth Clubs In Leeds With David Peace.--publisher Description. Wonderballs, Gold Dust, Discos Become Tescoes -- Bare-necked Ladies, Shaggy-looking Germans, Everyone Is Drunk -- Dream Palaces, Degenerative Boys, Jazz-mad Dancing Girls -- Bare Room With Lightbulbs, Raves, What Happened Next -- Merseybeat, Flashing Eyes, A Leg-over -- Pills, Thrills, Not Keeping Music Live -- Cosmonauts, Light Shows, Clapton Takes Acid -- Soul Power, Big Julie, 'you Make Me Feel (mighty Real)' -- Secret Gigs, Home-butchered Hair, Love Action At The Roxy -- Posers, The Krays, A Tribe Called 'goths' -- Tape Machines, Modern Drugs, Unknown Pleasures -- Wild Bunch, Headless Pigeons, A Track With No Name -- Police Raids, The Prodigy In A Bingo Hall, An Mc In A Cupboard -- Celebrities, More Ecstasy, Music In Life -- Outro. Michael Stipe's Shoe, The Cocktail From Hull, Worlds Emerge. Dave Haslam. Alively history of British nightclubs and music venues, from earliest days through to rock n' roll, Northern Soul and rave culture to the present day