Time Out

The feature articles in this edition of the weekly Time Out listings magazine refer to the emergence of the New Romantic Movement that came to dominate London's music, club and fashion scene in the 1980s. The magazine refers to the Blitz Club hosted by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan at the Covent Garden wine bar, Great Queen Street venue every Tuesday from 1979. The club attracted young art and fashion students and musicians disllusioned with punk. Entry to the club was strictly limited to those who shared the same distinctive flamboyant style and image defined by Steve Strange as 'creative-minded pioneers there who looked like a walking piece of art.' As the Blitz club came to the attention of London's media, newspaper and magazine reporters attached definitions to this new post-punk style including the terms 'New Movement' and 'Blitz Kids' as referred to in this edition of Time Out. Many club regulars who became identified as Blitz Kids were working class Londoners, including members of the band Spandau Ballet and Boy George who originally worked in the club's cloakroom.