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Nightclubs, you say? Is the Sub Club reopening? Not yet. There is no word on when nightclubs can reopen from the Scottish Government so far. The summer perhaps. But the V&A in Dundee will reopen its doors with a new exhibition entitled Night Fever: Designing Club Culture, which looks at everything from nightclub architecture, to fashion, lighting and club culture, while taking in the likes of Studio 54 in New York in the 1970s and Manchester’s Hacienda in the 1980s and early 1990s. Oh, and the Sub Club and Dundee’s own Fat Sam’s also feature. No mention of The Grange where all the s...

Xmas In The 80s, stay right on tune. After the past year, the peppy nostalgia is welcome – even for those fan too young to have known these tracks the first time. Roy says: “It was kind of like a ray of sunshine in a rubbish year. “Even if the joy of it was just me playing my favourite songs and then really annoying (bandmates) Greg (Churchouse) and Pete (Rowlands)!” Bringing ‘ray of sunshine’ to Scotland’s sunniest city “Ray of sunshine” is right. And though they don’t believe Dundee is the sunniest city in Scotland until Google settles the debate (it is), the boys are r...

It might just be a quirk of historical symmetry combined with a dash of wishful thinking but there is a school of thought which says the 2020s are going to roar as loudly as the 1920s did. The comparisons between then and now are certainly appealing: a century ago the world emerged from an economic downturn and a pandemic to an era of modernisation and progress shaped by technology and a sense of optimism. It gave us Futurism, fridges, television and the Jazz Age. If the forecasters are right, it may be about to happen all over again and if it does the Bright Young Things of the New Roari...

© G Jennings The exterior of Rick's Disco in Blackscroft in July 1984 which was recently more commonly known as The Reading Rooms. It was recently announced that the venue would soon be opening once more following major renovation works. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up It has been over a year since punters could boogie on the dancefloor of Dundee’s nightclubs. While the wait may soon finally be over we thought it was the p...

Scots stripclub boss says industry 'in limbo' with no idea when venues can reopen During a brief period of reopening strippers wore face masks and performed social distancing in clubs Fat Sam's Dundee (Image: Google) Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more a...