The Face No. 34
The Making of Club Culture — 69 Dean Street / Batcave at the Gargoyle
February 1983 issue of The Face, No. 34, built around 'The Making of Club Culture' and a Derek Ridgers photograph from the Batcave at the Gargoyle, 69 Dean Street, Soho. The contents place the club-culture feature alongside Marc Almond, Grandmaster Flash, Eddy Grant, Nigel Planer, George Clinton and an early Sade Adu feature, with a full-page Sade portrait by Mike Laye on the rear cover.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Very Good−
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- February 1983
Catalogue note
February 1983 issue of The Face, No. 34, built around 'The Making of Club Culture' and a Derek Ridgers photograph from the Batcave at the Gargoyle, 69 Dean Street, Soho. The contents place the club-culture feature alongside Marc Almond, Grandmaster Flash, Eddy Grant, Nigel Planer, George Clinton and an early Sade Adu feature, with a full-page Sade portrait by Mike Laye on the rear cover. The issue is a concentrated primary document of early-1980s London nightlife, post-punk and emerging goth culture, while also connecting that scene to hip-hop, funk, pop, comedy and The Face's increasingly distinctive Neville Brody-era editorial design.
Why this object matters
Ridgers’s Batcave image and the concentrated club-culture feature preserve an early original account of the Soho post-punk/goth milieu. The associated funk, hip-hop and early Sade material strengthen Gold status at 9.2 across TMR’s nightlife holdings.
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Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.2 / 10 · Gold Star.
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