Club Culture

Club Culture started in New York City in the late 1980's, a group that would be known as Club Kids was formed which involved crazy parties, excessive drug taking and elaborate costumes. 

The term Club Kids began from Michael Alig who is one of the most well known club kids of his generation. Along with original club kid James St James the pair would start something explosive which eventually lead to a historical murder. This would become written about in a book by James St James himself and also a film would be made based on this book.          

"It is easy to draw comparisons between the club scene of the 1920's and the rave scene that exploded over 60 years later. They both had riotous musical beats, totemic deaths, obligatory media panics, moral outrage and resultant knee jerk legislation. Both scenes were viewed as direct challenges to the sanctity of public order and both revealed the deep-seated suspicion authorities hold about pleasure itself. The clubs of the 1920's and 1960's shared a similar inventiveness when it came to generating sensual spaces that intensified it's social and experiential potential and drew together creative mavericks, who were determined to banish the mundane conformity of the everyday world from the dark and sweaty spaces of the night."