David Bowie, Duran Duran, Blondie, Japan, Soft Cell, Human League, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, New Order, Depeche Mode, Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sparks, Smiths, Pixies, Joy Division, Psychedelic Furs, Prince, Guns N' Roses, Adam and the Ants, Specials, Jam, Iggy Pop, KLF, Echo and the Bunnymen, Fall, Sisters Of Mercy, Cult, A-Ha, Erasure, OMD, Donna Summer, Gang Of Four, Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine, Wire, Talking Heads, Grandmaster Flash, Kraftwerk, Roxy Music, Associates, Go-Betweens, Replacements, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Orange Juice, Simple Minds, Talk Talk, Visage, ABC, Chic, Altered Images, Primitives, Magazine, Mel & Kim, Human League, XTC, Elvis Costello, Oingo Boingo, B-52's, Tin Tin, Jesus & Mary Chain, Violent Femmes, Style Council, Bow Wow Wow, and many more
Movies
Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Better Off Dead, Some Kind Of Wonderfull, The Lost Boys, The Sure Thing, Say Anything, St. Elmo's Fire, Back To The Future trilogy, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Breakin', Can't Buy Me Love, Class, Desperately Seeking Susan, Dirty Dancing, Dream A Little Dream, Earth Girls Are Easy, Electric Dreams, The Fabulous Stains, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flashdance, Fletch, Footloose, Gleaming The Cube, Goonies, Gregory's Girl, Hairspray, Heathers, Just One Of The Guys, Legend Of Billy Jean, Less Than Zero, Light Of Day, Modern Girls, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Purple Rain, Revenge Of The Nerds, Something Wild, Stop Making Sense, Suburbia, Valley Girl, Weird Science, Xanadu
Television
Square Pegs, 21 Jumpstreet, The A-Team, Charlie's Angels, Charles in Charge, CHiPs, Diff'rent Strokes, Fact Of Life , Family Ties
Books
The Encyclopaedia of Classic 80's Pop by Daniel Blythe, Guinness Book of Hits of the 80's by Tim Rice, The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80's Music by Colin Larkin, 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave by Henrik Bech Poulsen, Up Yours!: A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave and Early Post Punk by Vernon Joynson, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie and New Wave (Virgin Encyclopedias of Popular Music Series) by Colin Larkin and Colin Larkin, This Ain't No Disco by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-punk History for the Post-punk World by Clinton Heylin, No Wave by Marc Masters and Rob Young, The New Wave Pop Music of the Early 80's (Life, Times & Music) by Timothy Frew, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk, 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds, Stand and Deliver: The Autobiography by Adam Ant, Straight by "Boy George", "Depeche Mode": Stripped by Jonathan Miller
About me: PRETTY IN PINK is a retro club night in central London at The Fly on New Oxford Street..on the 3rd FRIDAY of each month from 10pm-2am
We play the best bits of the late 70s and the 80s, plus occasional surprises from other years, on two floors. Both floors are quite different, but you'll probably hear certain 'new wave' bands upstairsanddownstairs, e.g.
DAVID BOWIE, SMITHS, CURE, BLONDIE, PSYCHEDELIC FURS, SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, IGGY POP, JOY DIVISION / NEW ORDER, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, SISTERS OF MERCY, SIMPLE MINDS, TALKING HEADS, PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED, ALTERED IMAGES, ASSOCIATES, etc
Downstairs in the basement, we mix these up with the best alternative/glam-friendly new romanticism, pop, dance and rock, such as...
DURAN DURAN, HUMAN LEAGUE, JAPAN, DEPECHE MODE, PET SHOP BOYS, MADONNA, PRINCE, SOFT CELL, CULT, GUNS N' ROSES, ADAM & THE ANTS, SPECIALS, SPARKS, DONNA SUMMER, CHIC, ABC, JAM, TRANSVISION VAMP, A-HA, VISAGE, OMD, BAUHAUS, ROXY MUSIC, etc
(Notice the deliberate lack of cheese!)
And upstairs on the ground floor, we throw in more alternative, indie, punk and post-punk, including the likes of...
PIXIES, FALL, MAGAZINE, RAMONES, SONIC YOUTH, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, WIRE, WEDDING PRESENT, ORANGE JUICE, GANG OF FOUR, PATTI SMITH, TELEVISION, GO-BETWEENS, DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS, REPLACEMENTS, NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, DEVO, etc
Next date:
FRIDAY 21st March 10pm-2am
Admission: FREE before 11pm ; £5 after 11
DJs: Nick Nyro
Alicat / plus guests
address: The Fly, 36-38 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1EP
nearest tubes:
Tottenham Court Road, Holborn
dress:
downstairs, glam/punk/new romantic/alternative 80s or late 70s styles are very much preferred - please dress up rather than down, and wear pink if possible!
upstairs, just make an effort not to look like you just came from a 'ruck' with the Eton Rifles...
Hi there! We're holding a competition at SUPERSWEET and you could win an exhibition at Beyond Retro as part of their East End Lights series + a month’s worth of exposure on our digital Art Gallery in Feb 2010. Click on the banners if you're interested in finding out more!
Tmrw Fri 27th Nov is FREE at The George Tavern, Whitechapel.. SAAR & SKY on stage just before MIDNIGHT + other bands + DJ's
Plus, SAAR & SKY are on stage 8.30pm next Wed 2nd Dec supporting upcoming laptop-popstress GEORGE PRINGLE @ Bardens Boudoir, 36-44 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 7XJ - DON'T MISS!!
Dear Friend, finally it is out! The LONG expected release of our EP "Interrupted (Triptych I)" !!!
"you wonder why get interrupted / was life too fast / the nights too long / you give a fuck / get interrupted / you want no break / keep speeding on..."
Watch the music video, created by the young & wild Japanese video artist Yukihiro Taguchi. Be Surprised! You will also find some wicked REMIXES on Youtube and iTunes ;-)
Learn more about our current project "Triptych I-III" on our MySpace site...
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