Those interesting / stange / weird people you see ( or used to in my case) regularly in clubs BUT never anywhere else ( especially never seen down the Asda)
Nottingham - The ‘Phantom’ as we called him
Tall pale bloke with long thinning hair - Always at every night ( Venus / Kool Kat era) on his own & never seen speaking to anyone or dancing. Apparently a photographer but he never had a camera
Sheffield - Emmanuelle aka Cameo Man
Cameo man as he had the flat top / thick mohawk hair like he was in Cameo
He was one of the dancers for hitman & her & then released a record on Global Village
One night at Occasions Hitman & Her was downstairs at Kikis or across road at Barry Nobles Roxy ( Is that Allright Fyuz) . He brought Wiggy & other dancers in whilst Dino was playing Mariah’s Emotions & we all seemed to be dancing in a line formation ( I deffo remember this)
Disco John, would always be in Tudors in Wealdstone any time you went there. Had a signature move of throwing a hacky sack ball high in the air, doing a spin and then catching it.
one for @spider and the SW heads. Do you remember an old-ish guy in Exeter, in early 1990s in a tshirt with wispy white hair who used to turn up at Volts, Boxes, Warehouse and dance alone with earplugs, usually completely out of sync with the music but still giving it his all? Didn’t really interact with anyone. Somebody I haven’t thought about in 30 years
There were 2 great drag queens that we used to see out in Manchester all the time in the '90s. The funny thing was I think I only really ever saw them in sketchy out of hours places long after the Hacienda had shut for the night and at that point when things had started to go a bit west. They always looked amazing and a bit incongruous in the seedy places we’d all ended up in.
I know one of them was called Coco as I have a vivid memory of being in the toilets where she was doing her lipstick. After she told me her name she turned away from the mirror to me and went “you know, as in Chanel?”
I loved them. I think they were nocturnal and must have been out every night - no way were they holding down a 9-5 at Faceless Megacorp.
In Caoe Town there was a guy who was always right in front of the booth facing the crowd, in silver shiny palazzo pants, a tight tshirt, pixie ears and sunglasses sucking on a lollipop giving it his all. Really great dancer and a cool vibe. Never really talked to anyone and was always one of the first to arrive and the last to leave. Never knew his name, but he smiled at everyone but like I said, was always there alone and had no intention of holding down conversations. Always handed out bottles of water as well. Found out years later that he was sober the whole time. We all think he worked at a shipping company but nobody was certain. They were a lot of attempts to get a backstory for the enigma. He was there for four years and then promptly disappeared. Probably moved overseas.
There was a famous guy here in São Paulo at a famous club called Trackers that is no more, who would, by the end of the night, have stripped completely naked. He didn’t bother anyone, no one ever bothered him either, but he was always there. I had a monthly residency there and the first few times it caught me totally off guard, then I just got used to it.
Same club had a guy who made popcorn that was really good (or maybe it was the drugs/alcohol that made it taste that way) and sold it to everyone, who unfortunately died of an asthma attack (not at the club, though).
Yep, remember Angel and Coco from Saturday nights at the Paradise Factory around maybe 92 or 93. Proper mad night that used to be, all sorts of shenanigans going on
Someone should turn this into a sitcom
2 world weary, seen it all before, cynical, piss taking bouncers on the nightclub door every episode & each week a different one of the barred characters turns up trying to get into the club to no avail, reacting in different ways to the rejection.
Hilarity ensues.
Think Mike Leigh meets Max & Paddy.
(Sorry i’m bored, waiting in a kids playground as my daughter has fun on the slides & swings )
Or he even goes to the desperate measures of buying a THIRD suit to try & fool the bouncers into thinking he’s someone else only to get rumbled at the last minute.
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