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By Graeme Ogston
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image captionThe new exhibition features a socially-distanced silent disco
With big nights-out currently feeling like a relic, it s maybe fitting that the history of club culture is being celebrated at the newly-reopened V&A Dundee.
Certainly, the irony of being able to visit an exhibition on nightclubs, but not set foot in one itself is not lost.
But as the museum s director Leonie Bell points out, Night Fever was planned pre-Covid and now packs an added emotional punch. It is an exhibition that there is a sense of excitement and anticipation around, because it takes people back to pre-Covid life, she said.
Last dance? Not likely as new V&A exhibition highlights how club culture is and always has been so important to Scots
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New exhibition celebrating nightclub culture to mark V&A Dundee s reopening
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The walkway will be in William Gardiner Square, next to The Overgate Centre.
Dundee Music Hall of Fame is the idea of Jake McDonough, chairman of Dundee Music History Group, a collective of passionate music lovers based in the city.
Jake’s proposals for the land at William Gardiner Square include paving slabs inscribed with the names of Dundee’s musical greats.
This music-themed pavement will lead visitors on a journey into a specially designed seating area where a Musical Heritage experience, accessed via a digital interactive app, will inform and entertain.
Talks are also under way with Bonnie Dundee. A music-themed floral and planting scheme is one of the ideas being considered.
Updated: January 22, 2021, 8:26 am
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A group of revellers at an under-18s night at Club Feet in 1982.
Dundee nightclub tycoon Tony Cochrane has unearthed forgotten video footage of legendary 1980s venue Club Feet. Gayle Ritchie looks back at the club’s legacy and shares some old photos.
It was one of Dundee’s coolest nightclubs – a hang-out for mods, rockers, New Romantics and punks in the 1980s.
Running from 1982 to 1984 at the former Tay Hotel, Club Feet attracted music lovers and misfits of all ages as well as a fair few celebrities.
Former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne hung out at the club’s heavy rock night and Elton John popped his head in after a gig at the Caird Hall.