Present/past/future: searching for the spirit of the Blitz club
When I blogged about the new romantics last year, I made a mental note to pop down to the location of the Blitz club sometime. Why I'd want to do that, as such, I'm not quite sure. Was it some kind of morbid curiosity? Actually, it was probably just the photo on Wikipedia, a photo which appears to have been subject to a little computerised stylisation. This one: It looks kind of interesting, no? Anyway, earlier this week I did indeed go down to Great Queen Street, off Kingsway near Holborn tube (it's not really Covent Garden). And here's what the location of Steve Strange and Rusty Egan's former hangout looks like now: The Blitz: gone but not forgotten (not quite) Hmm, quite miserable. Meanwhile, here's the building (part of it) back in its glory days, with Strange & co lining up rather moodily for a group photo out on the pavement: Steve Strange and his Blitz bouncers (pic Sheila Rock) Spot the difference. To state the obvious, the main difference is the...
