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Warning: this is another one of my 'wasn't the scene better 15 years ago?'
diary entries :o)
Aren't MP3s great? Well maybe not if you're a musician!
Recently I downloaded some by 2Unlimited and it brought back happy memories of
nights out in Edinburgh circa 1994/5.
There was a small club called Chapps, which was on two levels. Downstairs was
a leather and denim bar, but upstairs there was a dance floor. For a few months,
it became a popular place to go on Fridays and Saturdays due to the great music
and attracted a young crowd who liked to dance.
Well, I've always been a bit of an exhibitionist (you noticed?) and, on occasions,
I used to dress up. Sometimes in army uniform and one time as a builder, with
boots, ripped jeans, vest, checked shirt and hard-hat.
On that particular occasion, Matthew -- the friend I used to go out to Chapps
with -- laughed his head off. However, over the course of the evening, my outfit
attracted so much favourable attention that he finished up grabbing the hard-hat
off my head and wearing it himself for the last half-hour!
In the last ten years, that kind of dressing up -- mainly for fun, rather that
for any sexual fetish -- has largely died out.
There was a time, in the eighties, when people regularly threw private fancy dress
parties and every club and pub was having a Roman toga night. I vividly remember
a V.E. Night at Stuffed Olives bar here in Manchester in 1983 or 84.
Nowadays str8 and gay bars and clubs are starting to look exactly the same and
some even get picky about what you wear (unheard of 15 years ago!).
I would love to see everyone taking it all a little less seriously. Bring back
dressing up I say!
Talking of 2Unlimited, I used to have a major crush on Ray -- the handsome singer.
Their career never seemed to recover after the famous scene in Absolutely Fabulous
where Bubble was seen singing along to No Limit on her Walkman...
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