Return to the Blitz 2011 - London Tonight reports
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- 17 Jan 2011 - ITV's six o'clock news magazine London Tonight reports on Saturday night's RETURN TO THE BLITZ party hosted by Steve Strange & Rusty Egan. They're celebrating the launch of their official website www.theblitzclub.com and a load of nostalgic New Romantics from 1979 find themselves mingling with Neo Romantics from 2011.
ITV's intrepid entertainment correspondent Lucrezia Millarini dives into the scrum and Shapersofthe80s topped and tailed her report - all content is © itv.com ... Includes three classic Blitz photographs of Boy George and Spandau Ballet by Derek Ridgers, plus one by yours truly of George and Stephen Linard
For more about the birth of the Blitz Kids and the New Romantics visit my website Shapersofthe80s...
I went to Blitz . Spring time 1980 . Met Steve .He was outside at the door . He invited me to enter Blitz . I went in through the front door with his permission . My life changed . Many thanks to Steve Strange and Rusty Egan .
Had the privilege of knowing him for a few years and it was hard not to like him....RIP Steve
Bring back the80s. Tears come to my eyes when i see that. Steve strange. i cried when e died
thank you Steve it was thanks to you I became a new romantic in the 80s. wish I was back there love u genius . rip xx
It was a fantastic night (I'm the blonde with the white contacts at 3.25 !!!)
Love the era, the music & the fashion in those days, it was a great time to be around!
Same it's really cool.
That was one of my favourite memories x Now nearly 60 years old thank god I don’t wear twin sets ! But now just wellies & riding boots lol ! But this was one of the best times of my life 👌
Wish I could’ve been here for this night at least. Unfortunately i was like 9-10 years old. I drive an 80’s car, listen to 80’s music, like 80’s fashion and unfortunately that’s all that’s left now. All the legends are aging or have passed and all the memories are lost in time. Shame I’ll never get to experience that magic ever. I met someone who had known Steve and said that he would’ve let me into the Blitz for sure and it made my night that day
these times these decades were fabulous In london underground clubs scene, thanks god I have been to so many legendary clubs which are all closed now, the creativity was exceptional, people were outrageously fabulous 💙
Dylan Jones' book is a remarkable document of 1975 to 1985. I have been into eighties music continuously since 1980 ( coincidentally!) An amazing coming together of self described misfits, dreamers and creatively minded people from the suburbs and small towns lit the spark that revolutionised music as a new decade dawned and changed it forever. The eighties is still with us- it never went away and never will. The aforementioned book is so good, it made me wish I was there as an active participant in the scene as it sounds so exciting. Eighties music has been the dominant influence of my life but to have been at the epicentre of it all would have been even better!
Try my website for my own eye-witness history of the Blitz Kids and New Romantics!
@@Shapersofthe80s I have read around your excellent website a few times and will continue to do so. It is very well curated. I do not share Dominic Sandbrook's politics but have seen some of his programmes which focus on the eighties. He is right to credit the website for its incisive contribution to analysis of the eighties ( I paraphrase).
Blitz was a tiny, tiny club. There is a limit to how many people you can actually have in your establishment before it becomes dangerous in case of a fire.
Ofcourse, when the papers interviewed him about it at the time - he said "Well, his clothes sense wasn't exactly going to get him in"
He knew how to get PR, that's for sure. Love Steve.
I went to the blitz many years ago ! But the first club to bring this was Barbarellas in Birmingham fab place and the first of the New Romantics x
RIP Steve x x x x
I miss steve strange. Great personality & fab singer
Marc Almond!
Wonderful Memorabilia! 🎶💜🎹
Brilliant . RIP steve strange
Ahhh!! RIP steve strange
I wish I was alive in the 80's
@Amy it truly was a fabulous time and everything you have heard about the bright colours,big hair,etc is very true. The music then was and is top notch and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
bring back the 80s R.I.P stev
Great times, thanks for uploading.
Those were the days!!! Happy days
he seems so absolutely sugary sweet.
I was a Jazz Funker but my girlfriend at the time was into Bowie and I went there twice then it closed Le Beat Route,Wag Club,Padded Cell,Mud Club,Camden Palace followed then I got old 23 and ended up dancing at Dance Works off oxford St then the wife arrived and that was that.God I love those swanky modes dresses.
danceandshakeyour Fuck me! The Wag Club - hadn't heard that in 30+ years....thanks
Also like DirtBox
very kool!!! ..it'z gr8 2 have lived tha 80'z ...not 2 mention thee 70'z!;-)
Thanks very much!
Its the one thing the first flush of youth doesn't prepare you for, middle and old age!
This needs to come back its project x blitz x
Why does no one mention Pete Burns
Pete came along a bit later he wasn't ass,opiates with camden palace which was london based pete was based in Liverpool at the time in 1980. The blitz kids were in london.By 1984 when Pete had his hit. Spin me around I think camden palace was past its peak with Steve strange
A little heartbreaking that so few people dressed properly (and just as much that they weren't properly turned away) but it's hard to pull off in middle age. News to me though that there's enough people like me to merit the term "Neo Romantics" though, aside from a handful of Glam folks and the usual goths, I've only met one other person like me in my city.
Rip steve
This is the most "fabulous" newscasting I've ever seen, it could only happen in England
Guy in the wig at the end is Robbie williams
2:06 simple minds someone somewhere in summertime
@explodingfruit1 At the time Jagger meant nothing to that generation, Bowie was their inspiration. It's really as simple as that
And Siouxsie Sioux
Saw both in the early years 🇬🇧 but after seeing Britain’s fab music history some when things were changing saw Spain as the next market ! Ibiza was born x good for 🇬🇧 bad for 🇪🇸 😂
RUSTY EGAN WITH STEVE STRANGE WAS A MEMBER OF VISAGE
Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, by Simple Minds....;-)
Great track..and it was a great night, too......!
@explodingfruit1 - A naked flame could have ignited Jagger's breath. Bang.
Superb. Now on to the Kit Kat club for desert
Pleasure..!
RIP always
@2:12
would be a shame if Martin could get a word in “yeah but”
yes -thats true
God why can't I be around 45 to 55 years old, man??!!! :((
ARE YOU OKAY?
I agree, being 32 in this day in ages is HELL. What do you have? Doof Doof House crap and auto tune
Who cares, Mick Jagger isn't that special anyway. He ain't no Bowie
TheNouveauxdecadence Bowie was so overated
@mr trump musically he was very overrated.
Can you go there and meet Steve Strange?? In person? He is so amazing!
Kids look so dull today. Whatever happened to the innovation of British street culture ?
At 0:10 and 3:25 is my "Facebook friend," Peter Godwin! :)
which music plays between 2:29 - 2:39min.? thanks
Sorry! Bit late...but "Cry" by Godley and Creme
any idea which track plays while Martin Kemps is interviewed. Thanks for any help...
Someone Somewhere in the Summertime by Simple Minds
thanks for the info
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@juliajoppien - Wilkommen Julia, glucklich zu sehen!
what is the song playing in the background when martin kemp is speaking?
Simple Minds
@TheNouveauxdecadence - Ouch! Back in the knife drawer, Nouveaux! You've got to remember that we old folk are 30 years the worse for wear and most of us had come in "civvies". The more eye-catching Neo Romantics only turned up towards the end after the TV people had left.
The Studio 54 of London, but kinda better?
Does anyone remember the other club, Crazy Larry's, on 533 King’s Road in the late 80s? The Blitz, however, was open for a split second on Great Queen Street and was the size of a small convenience store. However that didn't mean that any of us didn't get any the less twatted on booze and whatnot. The male toilets truly had more hairspray going on than the ladies, as well as more sexual activity. I think Steve Strange fancied himself as London's Steve Rubell from Studio 54 fame!
Of the US, NYC Elite?
For sure. Studio 54 would have some starlet on a horse, horse gets in, starlet cries off home into a pillow. The Blitz, on the other hand, had more going on the cloakroom than the dancefloor. NYC nightlife battered London during the 80s......more so in terms of irreverent hedonism and booga sugar.
@jrmetmoi - Sheesh, J ! Your profile says you're 32. Just wish I could be 32 again so think yourself lucky!
@TheNouveauxdecadence
I have to say that if I was able to go I would have been VERY dissapointed with the lack of creativity dress wise...
And believe me I am talking about most of the younger looking people there, they look young and so dull, terrible... It's good to know that some dressed up people came along after the cameras came.
Just for oneday no bring it back for good
Studio 21
@dirkbogarde44 Exactly!
@explodingfruit1 Translation: mick jagger was an old fart and he just wasnt cool enough for them
Yeah well, once you start getting up in age, you can get away with a lot less before you just look ridiculous. There's something to be said for 'Aging gracefully.'
they talk funny
1:32 пенкин бля 3:14 и моисеев
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I have to say that I am NOT very impressed with the crowd. They look as DULL as ever. If I could have got there last weekend I would have dressed to the utter extreme.
Comparing to the early footage compared to now is just NO comparison!
He was sort of a knock off too, he wrote Cars in 5 seconds, he said it himself.......Are Friends Electric is good though