Clubs

Miss Red
DJ and co-host The Beautiful & Damned
‘Dickon Edwards and I were asked to put on a themed night at the Boogalooat the beginning of the year by Gerry O’Boyle. I’m passionate about anything vintage but I’ve never stuck to any particular era or scene – it’s too restricting. I was worried that I would be greeted by people who were there to listen to music from the years 1921-’27, and that just wouldn’t be me. We decided we wouldn’t tie it down to a particular style, and asked people to come wearing their own take on timeless glamour, allowing for rockabilly kids and mods, to flapper and land girls.
‘The first few were full of people from the London circuit who lived and breathed the era, everyone stood around posing and looking fabulous.
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Dickon knew a lot of them and I felt a bit left out and self-conscious in my borrowed outfit. Over the months, our night has grown. We now have silent movies playing in the background and created more dancing room. I kinda like the fact I’m not that decadent myself. Dickon poses beautifully, drinking cocktails through straws, while I’m more the damned one, drinking too many cider ’n’ blacks, trampling all over my records with my mascara halfway down my face!

‘Maybe vintage will fade out like other fads and we can enjoy it as an underground scene again but I think we’ll definitely be dragging more people with us!’

The Beautiful & Damned is on Thursday 21.

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