Venue Stories: Narratives, Memories, and Histories from Britain’s Independent Music Spaces

Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. He has published Screenwriting (Bloomsbury, 2009), Directing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (Routledge, 2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition (2023). He is co-editing the Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2023) and Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2024).

• Table of Contents Foreword Foreword Emma Warren Introduction Fraser Mann, Robert Edgar, Helen Pleasance Chapter 1 Peripheral Dancing: The Jazz Rooms, Brighton, 1984 Helen Pleasance Chapter 2 Finding the Dirt: Nesh at Elektrowerkz  Fraser Mann Chapter 3 Chatting to Jarvis Robert Edgar Chapter 4 Fascinating  Rhythms  Beth Hughes Chapter 5 The Bull and Gate, Kentish Town, London 1987-1989 Polly Hancock Chapter 6 Weapons of Bass Destruction  Kevin Narrainen Chapter 7 Girls with Guitars Vim Renault,Lene Cortina Chapter 8 (Princess) Charlotte and her 1980s Offspring, O’Jays Ruth Miller Chapter 9 The Brewery Arts Centre Peter  Atkinson Chapter 10 ‘Nothing Comes Easy’: Small Venue Concerts with the Wedding Present David Lewis  Gedge,Jon Stewart Chapter 11 In Memory of The Standard: Hard Rock in East London  Anna Maria Barry Chapter 12 The New Breed: 1990s Mod Revival Scene in Leeds Abigail Gaines Chapter 13 Sitting on the Bench in  Leicester’s Charlotte Ed Garland Chapter 14 Kings Cross, Kentish Town and Kensington Gore via Gallowgate: In Search of the Goldilocks Zone Julianne Regan Chapter 15 Spiritual Auras: Jungle Venues in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1993-1997  Penelope Wickson Chapter 16 The Wheat from the Chaff  Matt Colbeck Chapter 17 More than a Club: The Genius Loci of Eric’s  Penny Kiley Chapter 18 Coming of Age at the Warehouse,  Liverpool, 1981 Dawn Amber Harvey Chapter 19 The Rainbow Venues and Swingamajig: Closing the Doors on  the Home of One of Birmingham’s Favourite Festivals Chris Inglis Chapter 20 Sold-out, Locked out, Power out  Tom Hingley Chapter 21 Mothers Club in Erdington Alan G. Smith Chapter 22 Music Spaces and Music  Memory Anna Elias Chapter 23 Glitter, Rubber Ducks, and Dinghies: The Georgian Theatre and the Teesside  Gigging Community in the Early 2010s Amy McCarthy Chapter 24 The Rock Garden: Conversations with My Dad, a Punk-rock DJ Tom Jackson Chapter 25 …for a Girl Tarryn Watkins Conclusion Final Word Mark Davyd

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