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Help in our Aquarius quest and party at the reunion!
Fans of Chesterfield’s legendary Aquarius nightspot are being asked to help create a lasting legacy to the venue as part of our forthcoming book. The Sheffield Road venue first opened in the early 1970s as a cabaret club and played host to some of the biggest stars of the era. It was the venue that […]
Heaven 17 star leads a trio truly #InspiredBySheffield
One of Sheffield’s most successful cultural exports returns to his childhood haunt to lead its inaugural #InspiredBySheffield day in October. Human League founder and Heaven 17 star Martyn Ware – who will be signing copies of our forthcoming ‘Dirty Stop Out’s Guide to 1980s Sheffield – The Limit Edition’ at the event – still remembers […]
10 things you didn’t know about the 1970s
It’s an era that has long been dismissed as a car crash of bad fashion and industrial strife. But do the 1970s get a raw deal? Do we conveniently forget there were seismic differences in social norms five decades ago as the era dawned? Are we maybe a bit hasty consigning great swathes of the […]
The story of 2 Tone back in print to celebrate a movement in the spotlight
A best-selling book that charts the rise of Coventry’s 2 Tone movement in the 1970s is back in print to mark the genre’s 40thanniversary and a new album from the city’s own Specials. Ruth Cherrington’s ‘Dirty Stop Out’s Guide to 1970s Coventry’ tells the story of the 2 Tone revolution rising from the ashes of […]
Hofbrauhaus security of the ’70s become unlikely cover stars
Few parties were bigger than the nightly ones thrown by the Hofbrauhaus in ’70s Sheffield – and they needed a security line-up to match! Now a chance photo find has seen the burly gents becoming the cover stars of the newly re-published ‘Dirty Stop Out’s Guide to 1970s Sheffield‘. Are you in the photo? What […]
Being sent to seventies’ Coventry was a blessing in disguise
Our new book about Coventry celebrates the city’s vibrant, varied and full-on nightlife of 1970s. The decade may have an image problem because of industrial strife, strikes and racial tensions but this new book explains how Coventry’s music and entertainment scene provided something for everyone, from start to finish, and helped bring people together. In […]
November 2nd – launch night – the people of Barnsley are ready to party like it’s 1970!
To celebrate the release of the Dirty Stop Out’s Guide to 1970s Barnsley, author Nik Farah, and Dirty Stop Out creator Neil Anderson are inviting you to step back in time, with a ‘Club Ba-Ba re-creation’ launch night party at New Lodge WMC. And the event, on November 2, has a jam-packed line-up, with the […]
Can you write our next best seller?
Do you share our passion for retro nightlife, fashion and music? Can you write? We’re expanding our best-selling ‘Dirty Stop Out’s Guide’ series and we urgently need authors who can write about the nightlife of their own particular town or city. Writers need to be able to truly capture the vibe of a decade through […]
Barnsley photo find is star of new book
A series of decades-old photos uncovered by a local photographer feature in our new book about Barnsley life during the 1970s. The Dirty Stop Outs Guide to 1970s Barnsley feature the photographs, taken by the father and son team, Stan Plus Stan Two, throughout the decade of glam. The rare images show wild nights at […]
Coventry’s Dirty Stop Outs of yesteryear invited to re-live their youth
Coventry’s partygoers of the 1970s and 1980s are being invited to celebrate the era dominated by venues like the Locarno Ballroom and the Lanch in a few week’s time. Ruth Cherrington, author of the sell-out ‘Dirty Stop Out’s Guide to 1970s Coventry’ which came out just a few weeks ago, is hosting a free afternoon […]