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Smashing, London, UK (with Martin Green)

2020/7/22
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Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs, and LGBTQ+ Parties

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Smashing was a club night that found itself at the epicentre of the Britpop scene, and though it wasn’t a queer night, had what my guest and co-founder Martin Green calls a queer sensibility. 

With regulars including Blur, Oasis, Pulp and Leigh Bowery, it was a club night that quickly became the place to be seen, and was thriving between 1991-1996 in various venues across London.

To help promote his new compilation 'Martin Green Presents: Super Sonics – 40 Junkshop Britpop Greats', I caught up with Martin to find out about the club's origins, Oasis' first time there, touring with Pulp, and I embarrassingly fan-girl about the band Shampoo for about five minutes!

Find out more about Martin:

https://www.martingreensound.com/)

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/super-sonics-available-to-pre-order-now-is-martin-green-presentssuper-sonics-40-junk-shop-britpop-greats-find-out-more/)