#blitzkids

[bobbybones23]

In the early 80s, I briefly stayed with Judith Frankland @judithfrankland in London, a fantastic designer who made outfits for Steve Strange and appeared in David Bowie’s “Ashes To Ashes” video alongside Bowie himself with other “Blitz Kids” and fashion luminaries, Steve Strange, Darla Jane Gilroy and Elise Brazier. She told me tales of the Blitz Club and of her days of designing for Steve Strange and using him as her model. The Blitz Club was in Covent Garden, London from 1979 - 80 and was home to the “Blitz Kids” who were nightclubbers there on Tuesday nights. The club was located between two art colleges (St. Martins and Central School). As a result of its proximity to the art colleges, it attracted many students who were aspiring fashion designers there. The hosts were Steve Strange and Rusty Egan @rustyegan of Visage and the club was responsible for launching the New Romantic movement in London. Many notable fashionistas and dandies who later became big stars, were regulars there. A dress code of the “the weird and wonderful” was strictly enforced at the door, a policy that was put in place by Steve Strange. This was not an elitist system like Studio 54 in NYC, but rather for the protection of the nightclubbing guests against homophobic thugs. The hosts had previously done “Roxy Music and David Bowie nights” on Tuesdays at Billy’s club in Soho and later took over at the Blitz wine bar which gained much better success as an iconic club. David Bowie, gender-bending, cutting edge fashion and a desire to express it with rebellious fervor, were the common themes and passions of the Blitz Kids and the New Romantics. Some other noteworthy attendees aside from the aforementioned included Boy George, Marilyn, Siobhan Fahey, Sade, Spandau Ballet, Midge Ure, Philip Sallon, Stephen Linard, Stephen Jones, Princess Julia, Martin Degville, Scarlet Cannon, i-D magazine co-editor Perry Haines, and many others. Derek Ridgers @derekridgers, Andrew Holligan and Terry Smith were responsible for most of the photos… 📷 1/10: Sheila Rock @sheila_rock_photographer 👨🏻‍🎤⚡️🖤⚜️👩🏻‍🎤 🔲 🔳 🔲 #BlitzClub #BlitzKids #NewRomantic #NewRomantics #SteveStrange #RustyEgan #PostPunk (at Covent Garden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoEZGFgukl5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"...SEEN HERE STRUTTING HER STUFF AT THE BLITZ CLUB."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on then fashion student Wendy Tiger Pearson dancing at the Blitz Club, Covent Garden, London, England c. February 1980. 📸: Homer Sykes.

BACKGROUND INFO: The Blitz Kids at the Blitz Club were a group of people who frequented the Tuesday club-night in Covent Garden from 1979-80. They are credited with launching the New Romantic subcultural movement. There was an emphasis on style that was ensured by enforcing a strict dress code at the door. Crucially, the Blitz lay between two art colleges (St. Martin's School and Central School) and it became a testbed for student fashion designers who set London ablaze during the 1980s. The club was decked out in Second World War posters and thus the Clubs name.

PART II: "Fashion student Wendy Tiger Pearson worked at Granny Takes a Trip in the Kings Road, Chelsea. She was also a dancer at the Embassy nightclub in Bond Street, seen here strutting her stuff at the Blitz Club. Many years later Wendy can be found at a London university working in administration or on Saturday nights at the Chelsea Arts Club and still strutting her stuff."

-- HOMER SYKES (Canadian-born/British photographer)

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6560111/amp.

[missingsince1979]

Pietari wearing Eye-leen.

Picture: Tatu Vuolteenaho

[ashyslashyy]

some of my favorite album covers <3

[paulstanleysthong]

Okay dude wtf 😂😂😂(please carve out my heart)

[hesawifebeaterdanusethegun]

Movie: Hellraiser (1987)

Song: Hellraiser - Blitzkid

Edit by me! :D

[vintagerockgod]

Argyle Goolsby performing with Blitzkid, ca. 2010s.

[bloodvampyr]

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[guerrilla-operator]

BLITZKID

[funerarydirgeofaviolinist]

Some even more very very very old Blitzkid pics I dug up. I want everyone to direct their attention to the second photo btw. Vibes as immaculate as a public restroom floor fr!!

[manriah]

Gore-geous heart-shaped 10” Blitzkid split with Zombina & the Skeletones. Each one comes with a custom Valentine’s Day Card with artwork by Eric Blair of Moon Rock Collective and features a ZATS cover of the Blitzkid song “Love Like Blood” and the Blitzkid cover of ZATS “Tomb of the Blind Date”. 💘⚰️💘 source

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

The music I associate with Nathan my oc Nathan tends to be like emo and bedroom pop type stuff but the music Nate listens to is like very basic on the radio pop and Bauhaus

[ashyslashyy]

quiet seems loud today and i beg for one last kiss now misery's so misplaced and it has to be like this you were my one true end now i sit here in disgrace MY WOUNDS SHALL BLEED AGAIN !!!! AND THIS FLESH WILL BEARRRR YOUURRRR NAMEEEEEEE

[lonelyvomit]

MORE HORROR PUNK BANGERS DROPPING?!?

1818 by Darker Days ft. TB Monstrosity from Blitzkid

[sh0cktreatment]