The Medusa Fora

From The Guardian:

In 1982 former public school boy Simon Parkes bought a rundown cinema in London for £1. Over a glorious decade he turned it into a stronghold for reggae, rock, hip-hop and dance music. In his hilarious new memoir he recalls the often hairy balancing act of managing musicians, promoters, local gangsters and the police. Here, he talks through some of the Academy's finest moments

"Looking back over my years at the Academy, I must have seen it all in terms of debauched partying… But I can say with absolute certainty that when it came to a pure riotous, drunken melee, there was nothing more visceral and hardcore than the Pogues"

http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2014/jan/24/london-brixton-academy-first-decade-in-pictures#/?picture=427859565&index=7

Some more great (non-Pogues) pics if you follow the link.

firehazard wrote:From The Guardian:

In 1982 former public school boy Simon Parkes bought a rundown cinema in London for £1. Over a glorious decade he turned it into a stronghold for reggae, rock, hip-hop and dance music. In his hilarious new memoir he recalls the often hairy balancing act of managing musicians, promoters, local gangsters and the police. Here, he talks through some of the Academy's finest moments

"Looking back over my years at the Academy, I must have seen it all in terms of debauched partying… But I can say with absolute certainty that when it came to a pure riotous, drunken melee, there was nothing more visceral and hardcore than the Pogues"

http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2014/jan/24/london-brixton-academy-first-decade-in-pictures#/?picture=427859565&index=7

Some more great (non-Pogues) pics if you follow the link.

Stole that quote and posted on Facebook, thanks FH

At the gig on 20 dec there was a man sitting next to me who told me he grew up in brixton. He remembered going to the movies there with his mother and told me a couple of stories about it. For example when he saw snow white, there where 'little people' running around..