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The magnificent new exhibition Night Fever is a nostalgic lament for an industry long in decline – and it does have a silent disco
30 April 2021 • 12:01am
Sub Club SoundSystem at BAaD, Glasgow
Credit: Brian Sweeney
Think of it as the antidote to lockdown gloom. With parts of the world still crushed by coronavirus, V&A Dundee’s new exhibition, about the post-war evolution of the modern nightclub, focuses on a different sort of “fever” altogether: the ecstatic delirium of nocturnal revelry and release. There’s even a silent disco – though, with headphones on wires, any impromptu, peacocking dance routines, a la John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, may prove ambitious.