"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." A long winter
“Down at the Blitz club they were swinging their jodhpurs and “listening to Marvin all night long“. In the North we were hunkering down for a long winter. The contradictions were what made the Eighties so drunkenly fabulous. For Peter York, they were a semiotic free-for-all of brick-sized mobile phones. Sloanes in Hermès scarves and Beaujolais Nouveau. But it was also The Fall‘s dyspectic clatter, the Bunnymen‘s druggy aloofness, the chilly futuristic disco of the Human League and New Order. The Hacienda was the only nightclub I know that was too cold. You could see your breath in front of you on the dance floor. Perfect.”
Stuart Maconie on ‘The Eighties’ in the February issue of ‘Word’ magazine.
