Talk:Blitz Kids

Moved from the article
COMMENT ON THE ABOVE ENTRY & THE WIKIPEDIA ETHOS: As somebody who was at the Blitz, I can asssure readers that the above entry is substantially misguided, and though it is unsigned, the names checked betray the bias of its writer and the fact that he or she was a late follower of the influential Blitz scene. As an example, here's one error of fact: Leigh Bowery had not even landed in Britain from Australia by the time the Blitz closed. So Wikipedia becomes rather self-defeating if entries remain anonymous and unverified. I may return to write a more accurate account of the Blitz, after I've checked out the accuracy of a few other entries on Wiki. There is no point in my changing the wording above, because readers have no way of knowing whether my account is any better. Entries are only as good as the last person to edit them. Have you spotted my own typo? (4 Oct 2004)

I've removed Leigh Bowery from the list. --90.203.17.163 (talk) 17:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

The Blitz Relaunch
We need to add the recent relaunch of The Blitz club in London's east end. Someone please help!! --78.86.147.3 (talk) 21:55, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

A reunion clubnight was held on 25 Sept 2008 at the Tabernacle, well short of the 30th anniversary, billed as follows: Bolongaro Trevor, Rusty Egan and Steve Strange bring the fabled Blitz club night back in the build up to it's 30th anniversary. Dj's : Rusty Egan (Blitz 79-81, Club for Heroes) Drew McConnell (Babyshambles). 8pm - 2 am Cube@ The Tabernacle, 55 - 61 Tabernacle St, Shoreditch. Probably 70 people turned out, of which about a dozen were Blitz diehards such as myself, Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet and Robert Pereno, but the cutest touch was that it was the junior Neo Romantics who'd made the effort to come dressed weird. As this event lasted one night only, it hardly constitutes a re-launch! - 23 March 2009, 217.155.200.241—Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.200.241 (talk) 02:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Bias against straight talk
Who is 79.214.115.54 and on what authority has he/she removed my comment from the article, as below? The editing process on Wikipedia seems massively biased against ordinary folk who are not geeky enough to beat the gobbledegook but who do have something of worth to say...

{ * COMMENT ADDED 9 DEC 2008 - THIS ENTRY is pitifully inadequate since the Blitz was one of Britain's two most important clubs, along with the Cavern Liverpool, in terms of its subcultural influence on the pop and fashion scenes which the world associates with the Swinging Londons of both the 1960s and 1980s. It lacks insight, it lacks the names of at least 30 truly regular Blitz Kids and fails to identify the central trio whose creativity inspired the rest, while some mentioned remain wrongly spelt.

{ At least Leigh Bowery's name was eventually removed - after all, Sue Tilley's biog reported a decade ago that he landed in Britain in the very month the Blitz closed (the year of which even she gets wrong, Sue, 1981, really?!) saying on page 20 that Leigh "was too scared to go to the Blitz as he thought he might not get in".

{ As somebody who was actually there, I can't see any point in participating in the Wikipedia ethos when Sugarfish, the originator of the first entry in 2003 - a woefully ill-informed ex-pat who clearly still hasn't read Sue's 1997 book - is now a Wikipedia administrator! None of your contributors can even provide the opening and closing dates for the club that in fact proved a deal more significant than the Cavern. Entries can be only as accurate as the last person to touch the page. }

23 March 2009

Daft amendments
To suggest Isabella Blow was a Blitz Kid is pure fantasy, whatever her other distinguished achievements in fashion journalism. A picture of her was added by somebody who clearly knows nothing of the New Romantic style. Equally daft was to insert full points into "Eg" which is the name of a performer and not a grammatical abbreviation. Capslockoff (talk) 03:07, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

a Who's Who of nothing
While I'm not about to shoot down the relevance of the Blitz club as part of early 80s pop culture, the endless names on this article about who was or wasn't a "Blitz kid" is getting quite ridiculous. Despite how relatively shortlived the club was, this article should focus on the club itself rather than an endless list of patrons (half of whom nobody has heard of). Obviously, prominent regulars who are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles can be named (Steve Strange, Boy George, Marilyn, etc) but the Blitz is only notable for its part in the New Romantic scene and so perhaps the article should be merged into that one. 94.4.195.168 (talk) 12:40, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree. Thanks.--  SabreBD  (talk ) 15:21, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

+ Agree that a list of Blitz "footsoldiers" could stretch to infinity, but disagree about a merger with the ill-informed Wiki entry on New Romantics, penned substantially from American sources (what IS the point?). To dismiss the Blitz as being "only notable for its part in the New Romantic scene" is to underestimate its catalytic role in the UK's revolution in music and fashion that transformed the 1980s. In 1979 London boasted only one influential nightclub in any given season and the revolution that set youth culture ablaze came indisputably out of the Blitz and was spread through the UK's clubland, not the rock circuit, nor the record industry. This entry on the single most important nightclub since the 1960s itself deserves to be better written up, fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.200.241 (talk) 03:14, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree that the New Romantic article has certainly had its problems over the years, often perpetuating the myth that it was a musical genre and that anyone who had a synth in the early 80s was automatically part of it. But I don't think a separate article on "people who went to a certain nightclub at a certain time" is particularly ingenious either. Perhaps this article could be changed to be about the club itself rather than an endless list of irrelevant pseudo-celebs who frequented it. 88.104.9.185 (talk) 04:34, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Totally agree with the last comment. Why was this Wiki article given the heading BLITZ KIDS, rather than the title of the venue itself BLITZ CLUB? The true movers and shakers who attracted the media and pioneered its ethos of "one look lasts a day" numbered no more than about 60. Right now Facebook is awash with "foot-soldiers" claiming to have been there when in fact the youthquake that erupted was driven by a focussed collaboration between a very small group of talented and ambitious fashionistas. Music was only one part of the chemistry. 217.155.200.241 (talk) 13:45, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

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Attention Wikipedia Admins
As was suggested ages ago: Why was this Wiki article given the heading BLITZ KIDS, rather than the title of the venue itself BLITZ CLUB? The true movers and shakers who attracted the media and pioneered its ethos of "one look lasts a day" numbered no more than about 60. Within the past month the user 90.241.132.72 deleted three of the most prominent Blitz Kid names because they are uncited here at Wikipedia. To say they are "unsourced" is untrue. They are certainly named in the definitive Smith/Sullivan book mentioned here, along with other regular movers and shakers at the club. It's a major oversight that their 2011 book We Can Be Heroes: London Clubland 1976-1984 remains unfeatured here in its own right. 217.155.200.241 (talk) 12:52, 7 December 2022 (UTC)