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Episode One: The 1970s and '80s

Presented by SHERELLE, this first episode explores clubs including Bang in London’s West End and The Nightingale in Birmingham, club nights Bootylicious and Sink the Pink.

Presented by SHERELLE, this first episode explores clubs including Bang in London’s West End and The Nightingale in Birmingham, club nights Bootylicious and Sink the Pink and Europe's largest LGBTQIA+ music festival, Mighty Hoopla.

Contributors include DJ, artist, writer and fashion icon, Princess Julia, who was part of the Blitz Kids club scene and who reflects on the superclub Bang, which opened in 1976; Birmingham performance artist Twiggy, who has been involved with The Nightingale for decades and who explains the evolution of the club into the multi-floor venue it is today; promoter Thomas Mutke, who discusses Bootylicious - London’s longest running club night for QTPOC; and Amy Redmond, who joins to talk about co-founding the iconic LGBTQIA+ club collective and club night, Sink The Pink.

Throughout the series, SHERELLE herself also shares her accounts, stories and experiences of QTPOC club nights in south and east London along with the tracks that take her there.

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1 hour

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Mon 15 Jun 202623:00

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